Amazon Prime Film/TV Series Recommendations

The other thread has improved a fair bit lately as the content available has. Ocassionally someone still has regional questions but it's not as bad as it used to be.

whatever76 wrote: »

Theres alot on it and UI not as good as netflix - recommend scrolling as you be surprised what you find !

Yep, it's a well known fact the interface is awful. Often you have to search for a film by director, or and actor in it, and even then it'll be the third or fourth option available. I think that's why some people think there's very little worth watching on it.

So, is this now officially the Prime Video recommendations thread, for film and TV? The other thread just being for people who can't get their fire stick into their parcel motel or whatever?

I just don't want to be following two threads if one will do.

Sad Professor wrote: »

What's the other thread?

It's in the TV forum https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057771671

It was started to keep Amazon recs out of the Netflix thread, but then it became almost entirely about work arounds for different regions and after a brief recent spell of actual recommendations seems to have gone off on technical stuff again

Film - My Brother the Devil was added today.

From Rotten Tomatoes - "A masterful debut from one of England's boldest and brightest new talents, Sally El Hosaini's MY BROTHER THE DEVIL stars James Floyd as Rashid, a young man from a traditional Arab family who runs with a gang that rules the streets of Hackney, one of London's most ethnically-mixed and historically volatile neighborhoods. Rashid's younger brother, Mo, (Fadi Elsayed) idolizes his handsome, charismatic older brother and dreams of following in his footsteps, but Rashid envisions a different life for Mo and insists that he stay away from gang life and stick to his studies. When Rashid forms a bond with Sayyid (Said Taghmaoui), an older man of similar background who is now a successful photographer, he is introduced to a world he never knew existed. But, just as he decides he wants out of his dead-end life on the streets, Mo decides he wants in, and starts doing drug runs behind Rashid's back. Headed on a collision course of conflicting desires, each young man is forced to face himself and confront the brother he thought he knew."

I watched it a few years ago and really enjoyed it. There is a bit of your standard London gangs kind of thing and plenty of slang thrown around but it's essentially about the relationship between the two brothers and it's more character driven than anything similar that I've seen. Worth a watch.

Little Fires Everywhere was added. Haven't watched it yet but it aired on Hulu in the US earlier this year. Starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Homecoming season 2 added tonight as well.

Do you need to have watched S1, I wonder?

S.M.B. wrote: »

I did not know you can filter a watch list on letterboxd by all streaming platforms you have access to, I've been going into individual movies to get this info which is clearly not efficient.

Gamechanger!

Didn't realise Dogville was on prime (in the uk anyway).

Yeah, it's very handy. You can pick which streaming sites you have access to in your settings and then they're the only options that appear in the filter menu. It's particularly useful for Prime in relation to what we were discussing, their interface being borderline unusable.