Best new movies and TV series on Amazon Prime Video Australia: April 2025

Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s Australian library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down.

Top picks: TV

The Bondsman: Season 1 (April 3)

Who’s gonna save your Bacon from the eternal grill-pits of Hell? This springy, supernatural crime-thriller casts Kev as a bounty hunter, making his living from rounding up sinners. Then again, “making a living” becomes a charged term, when he dies and gets assigned to demon-hunting duties instead. Aussie Damon Herriman co-stars, in a haunting jaunt that looks pretty similar to shows like Supernatural and Preacher, but with Bacon’s six degrees of star power sweetening the deal.

The Narrow Road To The Deep North: Limited Series (April 18)

In his meteoric rise to fame, Jacob Elordi has been too booked and blessed in British and American shows to play an Australian in any of his major screen roles! Starring in a Richard Flanagan adaptation should shake that up, with the towering national talent cast as a doctor and prisoner-of-war during WWII. Odessa Young plays the love of his life, their deep connection constantly thwarted by the cruelties of wartime life and the trauma that develops.

Étoile: Season 1 (April 24)

This ballet drama comes from the folks behind Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel—in short, they’ve entirely earned our time and attention. Luke Kirby, so hypnotically charming as Lenny Bruce in Mrs Maisel, joins Charlotte Gainsbourg as the staff behind two of the world’s most prominent dance companies. In a bold gambit to save both of their studios, they decide to swap dancers. And probably some saliva. I’m expecting flirtatious workplace tension, very very quick dialogue, and for the whole show to go on for four to five seasons (here’s hoping).

Top picks: Movies

G20 (April 10)

I wonder if this film’s release might’ve felt more impactful if the last US election hadn’t turned out how it did. The great Viola Davis gets her Wick on as the first Black, female POTUS, who also happens to be a John McClane-style vigilante badass. When the titular summit gets swarmed by terrorists (man, I’m intrigued to see which nation/ideology the movie antagonises), it’s up to Madame President to save her family, her staff, the nation and of course the world. The awesomely chilling Antony Starr co-stars.

Terrifier 3 (April 10)

You already know by now whether the Terrifier franchise’s brand of shameless violence and gore is up your alley, or if it very much isn’t. Horror fans are divided, but acolytes of Art the Clown will be working up a major bloodlust for this Christmas-set third entry. I wasn’t into the additional lore and characterisation of the second movie, which pits the sadistic pale-faced killer against a heroic final girl: you can read my full thoughts on that right here. Still, it’s undeniably heartening that director Damian Leone has managed to build such a successful indie horror empire, on shoestring budgets and working beyond the boundaries of the studio system.

Ash (April 24)

Starring Eiza Gonzalez and Aaron Paul, this trippy new sci-fi feature might look like the same lost-in-space schlock we’ve seen many times before. I’m hoping that the fact that Flying Lotus, musician and provocateur extraordinaire, is behind it, will signal something more is afoot.

The director’s first movie Kuso caused some minor film festival sensation when its yucky body horror inspired dozens of walkouts at Sundance, so this galactic follow-up looks a tad more sensible. Still, the neon-drenched visuals and mysterious plot—of a scientist awakening to find everyone else on her spaceship dead—might contain untold depths of weirdness within. You’ve been warned.

All titles arriving on Prime Video Australia in April

April 1

1984
The Amityville Horror (1979)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Dead Man Walking
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Fargo
Hot Pursuit
Hot Tub Time Machine
Hot Tub Time Machine 2
Jumanji: The Next Level
Legally Blonde
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde
Overboard
Rain Man
The Silence of the Lambs
Thelma & Louise