Best new movies and shows on Amazon Prime Video New Zealand: June 2025

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

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.

See also
* All new movies & series on Prime Video
* All new streaming movies & series
* The 50 best movies on Amazon Prime Video Australia

Top picks: TV

We Were Liars: Season 1 (June 18)

Kind of like a combination between I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Summer I Turned Pretty, this juicy mystery-drama sees the sunny season as a total bummer: sunbathing, way too much time off, and companions who aren’t what they seem. It’s based on the best-selling novel by E. Lockhart, and follows the heir to a fabulous New England estate—and her pack of best friends, who paradoxically call themselves ‘the Liars’. Could one of them (gasp!) be lying about the dark events that happened during their fifteenth season together?

Neatly packing away a monster twist for its last few episodes, this secretive series should also just offer a well-needed bit of aspirational glam, considering its Kennedy-esque setting and cashed-up protagonists. You can even watch it in the dead of winter, wishing you were at the end of a sunny dock on a lake with some very…very trusted pals.

Countdown: Season 1 (June 25)

The very handsome Jensen Ackles gets his own absorbing cop thriller, starring as an LAPD detective swooped up into a secret undercover task force. They’re on the trail of a killer, of course, who just claimed the life of the Department of Homeland Security in a shocking broad-daylight slaying. With Eric Dane and Jessica Camacho in the supporting cast, our hunky investigator will certainly uncover deeper and more sinister roots underlying the assassination than anyone could’ve expected. The race against time will be riveting: let the countdown begin.

Top picks: Movies

Babygirl (June 3)

Show ’em who’s boss, Nic. In this twisty and perhaps a tad too sensible erotic drama, Kidman plays a high-powered exec tempted by impetuous young intern Harris Dickinson—he orders her around in the bedroom, she orders him around in the boardroom. Thing is, Our Nic is also married to Antonio Banderas in this film, making her infidelity wildly implausible—girl look what you’ve got goin on at home!! Aussie Sophie Wilde appears as a conniving office underling, and the grunty, primitive original score strikes a sensual chord.

In an exclusive chat with Steve Newall, director Halina Reijn explained that if her film has encouraged even one couple to rediscover their spice, she’s happy, relating a second-hand story from a viewer who “said that they went to the movie and their husband didn’t want to go—they convinced him to go, and then they walked out after and they had sex in the parking lot. I was literally crying, that was just so dumb, but I felt so excited that they were inspired.” Godspeed, car park people.

Deep Cover (June 12)

If you’ve ever hung out with improv fans, you’ll know they are a) lovably annoying and b) willing to do anything, due to that whole ‘yes and’ mantra they live by. Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed play just such a part, in this rollicking action-comedy with a twist. Yanked from their hobby into a dangerous London gangland plot by undercover cop Sean Bean, the trio will have to improv their way through situations that are no joke, for once—and I’m hoping that means a lot of shitty UK accent work.

June 1

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Grimm: Seasons 1-6
Law & Order: SVU: Season 24
Masters of the Universe
Mr Robot: Seasons 1-4
Ned Kelly
Road House

June 3

Babygirl

June 4

The King’s Man
The Twisters

June 5

Two Weeks Notice

June 12

American Thunder: Nascar to Le Mans
Deep Cover

June 15

Terminator: Dark Fate

June 17

Ready Player One

June 18

We Were Liars

June 19

Promising Young Woman

June 20

Ace
Ground Zero

June 24

Beyond After

June 25

Countdown
Heretic

June 27

Marry My Husband: Japan

June 30

The Hunger Games

Available to rent/buy

The Amateur
Last Breath
A Minecraft Movie
The Woman in the Yard