Best new movies and shows on Amazon Prime Video New Zealand: October 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.

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

Play Dirty (October 1)

Parker is a man of many faces: Lee Marvin, Mel Gibson, Jason Statham and now Marky Mark, with Wahlberg just the latest in a long string of Hollywood stars to play Donald E. Westlake’s fictional anti-hero. A high-profile robber, he’s teamed up with Lakeith Stanfield to rip-off the mafia, army and a billionaire in Shane Black’s action-heist caper. Black is a dab hand at funny, unpredictable crime and heist stories, and if this team-up (Wahlkeith? Lakeberg?) can reach anywhere near the heights of Kilmer x Downey Jr or Crowe x Gosling, we’re in for somethin’ special. Turns out crime does pay!

Harlan Coben’s Lazarus (October 22)

Bloody Harlan Coben! The bloke gets entirely too much screentime, his pulpy thrillers popping up as Netflix series and now this spine-tingling Prime Video thriller. Sam Claflin stars as a son grappling with his father’s suicide (not the lovely Bill Nighy!!), becoming haunted by unsettling and unexplainable visions when he returns to the family home in grief. Could the experiences our guy is having be connected, somehow, to the mysterious murder of his sister decades before? Nahh, surely not. Over six tantalising, edge-of-your-seat episodes, Harlan and Co. will keep you guessing. And probably hoping desperately that Nighy isn’t the killer.

Hedda (October 29)

What do you get the girl that’s got everything? That, to put it extremely stupidly, is the whole thesis of Henrik Ibsen’s modernist theatre masterpiece Hedda Gabbler, and Tessa Thompson is about to set fire to it in this saucy screen adaptation.

Directed by Nia DaCosta, her unhappily married Hedda is torn between the blaze of a former flame and the suffocation of her stuffy, moneyed present. The great play’s action has been moved forwards and compressed, to one calamitous party in 1950s Britain. On the brink of burning down her whole fussy life, Thompson’s anti-heroine is going to drag her husband, closeted lovers and everyone else lucky enough to get an invite down with her as she goes.