11 movies to check out on Prime Video this March

Got Road House? This month Amazon’s Prime Video has two versions of the action movie: the 1989 original starring Patrick Swayze at peak Swayze-ness and the 2024 Doug Liman-directed remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a UFC middleweight fighter working as a bouncer at a roadhouse in the Florida Keys. Other new arrivals in the Prime Video library this March include the recent horror blockbuster Five Nights At Freddy’s, based on the video game series of the same name, Neil Jordan’s neo-noir crime thriller Marlowe starring Liam Neeson and Jessica Lange, the Peter Farrelly comedy Ricky Stanicky starring Zac Efron and John Cena, the new documentary Frida, about Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, plus catalog titles such as Desperately Seeking Susan, What Lies Beneath, Sleepy Hollow, Waterworld, and more.

Desperately Seeking Susan (1985, available March 1)

As Madonna crisscrosses the globe on her Celebration Tour performing her greatest hits, check out the Material Girl in her first major film role in the comedy-drama . Madonna essentially plays herself in the Susan Seidelman-directed movie as a street-smart bohemian New Yorker whose life becomes entangled with a bored housewife (Rosanna Arquette) via the personals section of a newspaper. The hit movie includes one of Madonna’s best songs: “Into The Groove.”