Prime Video's latest original series is a union of top-tier British talent, bringing together actors Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore with superstar writers Harry and Jack Williams (of The Tourist, Boat Story and Baptiste, among others).

The Assassin sees a former hitwoman reconnect with her estranged son at a most inopportune moment, as the two of them quickly end up on the run from a dangerous conspiracy related to her past grisly work.

In our recent The Assassin review, we explain why the show is a "spiritual sequel" to Jamie Dornan's breakout hit The Tourist, with twists and turns coming "thick and fast" and a truly "compelling" dynamic at its core.

The darkly comic thriller follows other recent critical success stories, including raucous university comedy Overcompensating, and gritty crime drama Ballard, which has continued on the Bosch universe.

These authored stories join past original hits The Boys, Invincible and Reacher on Prime Video as well as popular entertainment format LOL: Last One Laughing, with plenty more high-profile additions to come in the following months.

If you need inspiration for navigating Prime Video's vast library, we're here to help, picking the best titles you can find on the streamer and updating this list with new entries every week.

So, without further ado, here are the top titles on Amazon Prime Video for UK viewers.

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  • We Were Liars

    2025

    Mystery

    Romance

    Thriller

    Drama

    15

    Seventeen-year-old rich girl Cady Sinclair Eastman pieces together the truth about the summer she lost her memory after a terrible accident on a private island. Psychological thriller based on the novel by E Lockhart, starring Emily Alyn Lind

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  • Ballard

    2025

    Drama

    Crime/detective

    Thriller

    15

    Detective Renée Ballard plunges into a web of murder and corruption as she hunts a ruthless serial killer and uncovers a sinister police conspiracy that threatens everything she stands for. With her own demons nipping at her heels, Ballard must outwit both criminals and colleagues to bring long-overdue justice to the victims and their families

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  • The Assassin

    2025

    Drama

    Thriller

    Two generations confront ghosts of the past in an action-packed six-part thriller written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams, creators of Angela Black and The Tourist. Journalist Edward Green (Freddie Highmore) has always believed that his estrange mother, Julie (Keeley Hawes), worked as a head hunter so he's shocked to learn she is a retired hit woman with a lot of skeletons in her closet. Julie survives an attempt on her life with consummate ease and has to go on the run with Edward when other assassin materialise to claim the bounty on her head. Working together to survive, mother and son slowly rebuild bridges, except that Julie insists they will not talk about Edward's biological father, whose identity is a mystery. Gina Gershon, Jack Davenport and Alan Dale also star

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  • #1 Happy Family USA

    2025

    Drama

    Animation

    Comedy

    Romance

    Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady are co-creators of an irreverent, adult-oriented animated comedy set in the early 2000s in the aftermath of the worst terrorist attack on American soil. Hussein Hussein (voiced by Youssef) arrives in his new home in September 2001 with wife Sharia (Salma Hindy), daughter Mona (Alia Shawkat), 10-year-old son Rumi (Youssef again) and proud grandparents (Azhar Usman, Randa Jarrar). The Husseins are irrepressibly optimistic and determined to be the most patriotic Muslim family in their neighbourhood at a time when Islamophobia and prejudice are rife. Hussein runs a halal cart to earn his slice of the American dream and set a hard-working example for the children as they struggle to assimilate in a country where the grief and rage are still raw

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  • LOL: Last One Laughing UK

    2025

    Comedy

    Drama

    Entertainment

    15

    Ten top UK comedians face off in Jimmy Carr's challenge: make others laugh while keeping a straight face. They'll try everything to crack their opponents, but must never break themselves.

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  • Nine Perfect Strangers

    2021

    Drama

    Mystery

    Thriller

    15

    Nine stressed city dwellers arrive at a boutique health-and-wellness resort in a drama starring Nicole Kidman, based on the best-selling novel by Liane Moriarty.

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  • Overcompensating

    2025

    Comedy

    Drama

    Lifestyle

    Benito Skinner creates and stars in an eight-part coming-of-age comedy set on a college campus where teenagers careen messily into adulthood. Homecoming king Benny (Skinner) flies the nest and wriggles free of the expectations of his parents John (Kyle MacLachlan) and Kathryn (Connie Britton) to explore who he truly is. He forges an immediate close friendship with Carmen (Wally Baram), who is desperate to fit in at college having been an outsider in high school. Benny's older sister Grace (Mary Beth Barone) and her boyfriend Peter (Adam DiMarco) offer words of wisdom and support as Benny and Carmen explore sex, relationships and their favourite flavour of vodka. In particular, Benny agonises about whether it would be easier to stay in the closet and hide his authentic self

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  • The Handmaid's Tale

    2017

    Drama

    Sci-fi

    Thriller

    15

    Dystopian drama with Elisabeth Moss, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood. It is set during a future American theocracy, in which women are kept as slaves purely for breeding.

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  • Fear

    2025

    Romance

    Thriller

    Drama

    Martin Compston, Anjli Mohindra and Solly McLeod headline a tense three-part psychological thriller adapted by screenwriter Mick Ford from on Dirk Kurbjuweit's book. Martyn (Martin Compston) and Rebecca (Anjli Mohindra) leave behind the turbulence of London for a quieter life in Glasgow with their two young children. The family moves into a beautiful house and meet their neighbour Jan (Solly McLeod), who makes a series of unnerving comments to Rebecca. Thus begins a campaign of intimidation and threat that pushes Martyn and Rebecca to the edge of sanity as they fight to protect their family without any support from the authorities. Justin Chadwick directs all three episodes

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  • Invincible

    2021

    Action

    Drama

    Sci-fi

    Animation

    Fantasy

    Thriller

    18

    An adult animated series based on the Skybound/Image comic about a teenager whose father is the most powerful superhero on the planet.

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  • Cruel Intentions

    2024

    Romance

    Drama

    Thriller

    15

    Scheming step-siblings Caroline and Lucien intend to cling to power by seducing the US Vice President's daughter. Seductive drama starring Zac Burgess, Sarah Catherine Hook, Savannah Lee Smith and Sara Silva

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  • Molly-Mae: Behind It All

    2025

    Entertainment

    Documentary and factual

    Reality TV star and influencer Molly-Mae Hague embraces life and motherhood after her highly publicised break-up from boxer Tommy Fury

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  • The Wheel of Time

    2021

    Action

    Fantasy

    Drama

    15

    The lives of five young villagers change forever when a strange and powerful woman arrives, claiming one of them is the child of an ancient prophecy with the power to tip the balance between Light and Dark forever.

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  • The Boys

    2019

    Fantasy

    Drama

    Action

    Comedy

    Crime/detective

    Sci-fi

    18

    Karl Urban, Jack Quaid and Antony Starr star in a brutal fantasy drama about superheroes who abuse their incredible powers rather than use them for good.

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  • The Rig

    2023

    Drama

    Crime/detective

    Mystery

    Sci-fi

    Thriller

    Action

    15

    Emily Hamphire and iain Glen star in a mystery thriller about a strange fog, which cuts off the crew of the Kinloch Bravo oil rig from the Scottish mainland.

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  • The Grand Tour

    2016

    Lifestyle

    Action

    Comedy

    Sport

    Entertainment

    Reality

    Travel

    PG

    Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel around the globe in new and old automobiles.

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  • Fantasy series chronicling events from the Second Age of Middle-earth's history, thousands of years before the devastating events chronicled in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings.

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  • A Very Royal Scandal

    2024

    Drama

    History

    15

    Released five months after director Philip Martin's behind-the-scenes drama Scoop about The Duke of York's exclusive one-on-one interview with BBC Newsnight journalist Emily Maitlis, this three-part series recounts events through a different lens

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  • Batman: Caped Crusader

    2024

    Action

    Fantasy

    Drama

    Animation

    Crime/detective

    Mystery

    Sci-fi

    Children's

    Family

    The DC Comics superhero faces an uphill battle to wrest Gotham City from the vice-like grasp of deranged criminals in a 10-part animated fantasy created by JJ Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm. In public, Bruce Wayne (voiced by Hamish Linklater) is the epitome of gaudy success and charm as a money-squandering playboy, a hedonic image he cultivates to separate himself from his masked alter ego. Batman rampages through Gotham on a mission to eradicate crime at all costs aided by trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth (Jason Watkins) and this vigilante attracts the attention of Commissioner Jim Gordon (Eric Morgan Stuart). A prime target is screen actor Basil Karlo, whose fateful decision to change his facial features using an experimental serum gives birth to vengeance-seeking villain Clayface. Meanwhile, pampered heiress Selina Kyle (Christina Ricci) finances her lavish lifestyle as Catwoman and brilliant psychiatrist Dr Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung) indulges her dark and depraved desires as the anarchic Harley Quinn

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  • Those About To Die

    2024

    Drama

    History

    Romance

    Action

    15

    Daniel P Mannix's 1958 book Those About To Die provided the creative inspiration for Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning 2000 film Gladiator. The same tome is brought vividly to life in a lavish 10-part sword and sandals epic directed by Roland Emmerich and Marco Kreuzpaintner. In 79 AD Rome, ageing Emperor Vespasian (Sir Anthony Hopkins) makes preparations to hand over this throne to one of his sons, Titus Flavanius (Tom Hughes) and Domitian (Jojo Macari). Sibling rivalry epitomises tensions at the beating heart of the Roman Empire, where chariot races and gladiator fights at Circus Maximus sate the bloodlust of a restless and increasingly violent population. To appease the people, Vespasian presides over the construction of a gargantuan new stadium, the Colosseum, specially designed for gladiatorial and animal combat. Thousands of slave labourers toil to build the behemoth in a city riddled with greed and corruption

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  • My Lady Jane

    2024

    Comedy

    Fantasy

    Drama

    History

    Romance

    15

    Tudor bloodlines are rewritten in a rollicking historical fantasy romance adapted from the book of the same title penned by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand and Jodi Meadows. Contrary to pages from history, King Henry VIII's son Edward does not die of tuberculosis and 16th-century noblewoman Lady Jane Grey (Emily Bader) does not lose her head after nine days as the Queen of England. Instead, she seizes control of herdestiny flanked by scoundrel husband Guildford Dudley (Edward Bluemel). Jane's mother, Lady Frances Grey (Anna Chancellor), and Guildford's father, Lord Dudley (Rob Brydon), are entangled in the machinations and skulduggery along with Jane's uncle, the Duke of Leicester (Jim Broadbent)

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  • Them

    2021

    Horror

    Drama

    Thriller

    18

    Anthology horror series with varying characters and locations by season, featuring different aspects of the horror genre. Starring Deborah Ayorinde, Ashley Thomas and Shahadi Wright Joseph

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  • Smallville

    2001

    Fantasy

    Drama

    Action

    Sci-fi

    12

    Drama based on the DC Comics character Superman, following the adventures of a young Clark Kent in the town of Smallville during the years before he becomes the iconic superhero.

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  • Clarkson's Farm

    2021

    Documentary and factual

    Drama

    Comedy

    Reality

    Food

    Travel

    15

    Follow Jeremy Clarkson as he attempts to run a farm in the countryside.

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