9 Movies Over 90% on Rotten Tomatoes Streaming on Prime Video in May

Every month, streaming services add dozens of new titles to their libraries and Prime Video is no exception. In addition to all of the great Amazon Originals that premiere on the platform monthly, fan-favorite movies new and old are added to the platform.

How do you even begin to sort through those to find the best of the best?

Easy. You come here, to Decider.

We’ve combed through all of the movies on the platform to find 9 must-watch movies available to subscribers at no extra cost right now. And even better? These are certified great movies, all with over a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Certified Fresh

Director: Chris Noonan

Cast: James Cromwell, Christine Cavanaugh, Miriam Margolyes

What Is It About? Gentle farmer Arthur Hoggett (Cromwell) wins a piglet named Babe (Cavanaugh) at a county fair. Narrowly escaping his fate as Christmas dinner when Farmer Hoggett decides to show him at the next fair, Babe bonds with motherly border collie Fly (Margolyes) and discovers that he too can herd sheep. But will the other farm animals, including Fly’s jealous husband Rex, accept a pig who doesn’t conform to the farm’s social hierarchy?
Her (2014)

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Certified Fresh

Director: Spike Jonze

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson

What Is It About? Left heartbroken after his marriage ends, Theodore (Phoenix) becomes fascinated with a new operating system which reportedly develops into an intuitive and unique entity in its own right. He starts the program and meets “Samantha” (Johansson), whose bright voice reveals a sensitive, playful personality. Though “friends” initially, the relationship soon deepens into love.
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Certified Fresh

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler

What Is It About? It’s the continuing quest of Frodo and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum. Meanwhile, Aragorn, Legolas the Elf and Gimli the Dwarf encounter the besieged kingdom of Rohan.
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94% Certified Fresh

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler

What Is It About? In the conclusion of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic masterpiece, as armies amass for a final battle, a member of the Fellowship of the Ring is revealed as heir to the throne of the Kings of Men. The sole hope for triumph over evil lies with a brave hobbit, Frodo. Accompanied by his loyal friend Sam and the wretched Gollum, he ventures into the dark heart of Mordor on his quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
September 5 (2024) — streaming from May 27

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh

Director: Tim Fehlbaum

Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin

What Is It About? During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes. September 5 is based on a true story.
The Fire Inside (2024) — streaming from May 27

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh

Director: Rachel Morrison

Cast: Ryan Destiny, Brian Tyree Henry, Olunike Adeliyi

What Is It About? The Fire Inside is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. Claressa, a high school Junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing.
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 93% Certified Fresh

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Cast: Michael Douglas, Benecio del Toro, Don Cheadle

What Is It About? Traffic evokes the high stakes and high risks of the drug trade, as seen through a series of interrelated stories.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91%
The first film in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Fellowship of the Ring follows hobbit Frodo and his companions as they travel through Middle-earth in an attempt to destroy the One Ring. As the Fellowship travels towards Mount Doom in Mordor, the only place the ring can be destroyed, they encounter multiple enemies, including creatures sent by the evil Lord Sauron, who desperately wants the One Ring for his own sinister purposes. Fellowship of the Ring ushered in a new era of fantasy filmmaking, and it was handsomely rewarded for its efforts: the film came away with four Oscars and a Best Picture nod at the 2002 awards.

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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 92% Certified Fresh

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler

What Is It About? The future of civilization rests in the fate of the One Ring, which has been lost for centuries. Powerful forces are unrelenting in their search for it. But fate has placed it in the hands of a young Hobbit named Frodo Baggins (Wood), who inherits the Ring and steps into legend. A daunting task lies ahead for Frodo when he becomes the Ringbearer – to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom where it was forged.
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Rotten Tomatoes Score: 91% Certified Fresh

Director: John Landis

Cast: John Belushi, Kevin Bacon, Donald Sutherland

What Is It About? New socially inept college freshmen try their hand at joining a frat at the notoriously rowdy Delta Tau Chi House, and get in. The trouble is, the college dean (John Vernon) has it in for the Deltas. He has put them on “Double Secret Probation” and secretly assigned Omega’s president (James Daughton) the task of having their charter revoked.

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