What’s New on Amazon Prime in October 2022

It makes a little more sense after you’ve watched the trailer. No, Catherine Called Birdy is unlikely to include quite as much explicit nudity as the controversial creator is known to favor. But it does contain some of her favorite themes, following a feisty, headstrong young woman pushing back against a society that would seek to limit her destiny and shove her into a box (not literally, it’s not a sex thing). Personally, I think the mix of period setting and contemporary cheek looks like the second coming of Ever After, and I’m here for it.

On the opposite end of the adaptation spectrum comes The Peripheral (Oct. 21), a slick adaptation of the pre-/post-apocalyptic William Gibson sci-fi thriller of the same name. The trailer does a really good job of streamlining the premise, which took me several hundred brain-numbing pages to puzzle out—a group of gig workers in an economically ravaged near-future America become embroiled in a technological conspiracy involving time travel and alternate universes—but the involvement of Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy suggests it will still be a head-scratching trip.

Here’s everything else coming to Prime (and free-with-ads Freevee) this month, including the streaming debuts of Viking epic The Northman (Oct. 11) and stuffy British upperclass epic Downton Abbey: A New Era (Oct. 28). To save you the google, Bring It On, Ghost (Oct. 6) is a 2016 K-drama and not a weird left turn for the cheerleading movie franchise.

What’s coming to Prime Video in October 2022

Arriving Oct. 1

• 12 Dates of Christmas (2011)
• 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
• 7 Days to Vegas (2019)
• A Christmas In Vermont (2016)
• A Christmas Solo (2017)
• A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
• Ace the Case: Manhattan Mystery (2016)
• Advantageous (2015)
• Another Time (2018)
• Audrey Rose (1977)
• Baby Boom (1987)
• Babymoon (2017)
• Beat Street (1984)
• Big House (2020)
• Bloodrunners (2017)
• Bridesmaids (2011)
• Bridge and Tunnel (2014)
• Buddymoon (2016)
• Burnt Offerings (1976)
• Christmas Crime Story (2016)
• Colewell (2019)
• Colors of Heaven (2017)
• Cosmos (2019)
• Cyrus (2010)
• Dark Crimes (2018)
• Daylight Savings (2012)
• Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
• End of Sentence (2019)
• Falcon Song (2014)
• Fire In The Sky (1993)
• For Colored Girls (2010)
• Get Shorty (1995)
• Going To Brazil (2017)
• Hackers (1995)
• Hal King (2021)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Hearts And Bones (2019)
• Heaven Can Wait (1978)
• Hellbenders (2013)
• Hickey (2016)
• High-Rise (2016)
• Hit By Lightning (2014)
• Hondo (1953)
• Hostel (2006)
• Jennifer’s Body (2009)
• Just Married (2003)
• Land Of The Lost (2009)
• Last Holiday (2006)
• Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1996)
• Love Dot Com (2019)
• Magnum Opus (2017)
• Mags and Julie Go On A Road Trip (2020)
• Man on Fire (2004)
• Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You (2017)
• Murder Bury Win (2020)
• My Bloody Valentine (2009)
• My True Fairytale (2021)
• No Alternative (2018)
• Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
• Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot (2015)
• Panic (2000)
• Patriot Games (1992)
• Piranha 3D (2010)
• Ryde (2017)
• Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
• Seabiscuit (2003)
• Shane (1953)
• Shanghai Knights (2003)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Shuttlecock (2020)
• Snow White And The Huntsman (2012)
• Social Animals (2018)
• Source Code (2011)
• Summer Rental (1985)
• Support the Girls (2018)
• Swing Vote (2008)
• Teen Wolf (1985)
• Teen Wolf Too (1987)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• The Devil Inside (2012)
• The Dictator (2012)
• The Divorce Party (2019)
• The Dustwalker (2020)
• The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)
• The Harimaya Bridge (2010)
• The Hot Chick (2002)
• The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (1996)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
• The Unraveling (2015)
• The Woman in Red (1984)
• Two For Joy (2018)
• Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion (2006)
• Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion – The Play (2002)
• Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012)
• Universal Soldier: The Return (1999)
• Up In The Air (2009)
• Valentin (2004)
• Vanilla Sky (2001)
• Venus and Serena (2013)
• Vice (2015)
• Vincent and Theo (1990)
• Visioneers (2009)
• Wall Street (1987)
• Water in a Broken Glass (2020)
• Winchester (2018)
• Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling (2009)
• You’re in Charge (2013)
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)

Arriving Oct. 6

• Bring It On, Ghost (2016)

Arriving Oct. 7

• Catherine Called Birdy (2022) — Prime Video Original film

Arriving Oct. 9

• Noah (2014)

Arriving Oct. 11

• Family Camp (2022)
• The Northman (2022)

Arriving Oct. 19

• May I Help You (2022)

Arriving Oct. 20

• Torn Hearts (2022)
• American Horror Story S10 (2021)

Arriving Oct. 21

• Modern Love Tokyo (2022) — Prime Video Original anime
• The Peripheral (2022) — Prime Video Original series
• Argentina, 1985 (2022)

Arriving Oct. 22

• Hush Hush (2022) — Prime Video Original series

Arriving Oct. 24

• Blacklight (2022)

Arriving Oct. 28

• The Devil’s Hour (2022) — Prime Video Original series
• Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022)
• Run Sweetheart Run (2022) — Prime Video Original film

Arriving Oct. 31

• Unhuman (2022)

What’s coming to Amazon Freevee in October 2022

Movies

Arriving Oct. 1

• Are We Done Yet? (2007)
• Ashby (2015)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• Case 39 (2009)
• Casino (1995)
• Child’s Play (2019)
• Death Race (2008)
• Death Race 2 (2010)
• Death Race 3 (2013)
• Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
• Don Jon (2013)
• Earth to Echo (2014)
• Eat Pray Love (2010)
• Failure to Launch (2006)
• Get Him to the Greek (2010)
• Horrible Bosses (2011)
• In Bruges (2008)
• Love, Rosie (2014)
• Men, Women & Children (2014)
• Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol (2011)
• Monster House (2006)
• Monster Trucks (2016)
• Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
• Oculus (2013)
• Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Rough Night (2017)
• Starsky & Hutch (2004)
• The Expendables (2010)
• The Expendables 2 (2012)
• The Expendables 3 (2014)
• The Family (2013)
• The King’s Daughter (2022)
• The Kingdom (2007)
• The Perfect Holiday (2007)
• The Prodigy (2019)
• The Shape of Water (2017)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
• Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
• Zoolander (2001)
• Zoolander 2 (2016)

Arriving Oct. 16

• Warm Bodies (2013)

TV series coming to Freevee

Arriving Oct. 1

• The Suze Orman Show (2008-2010)
• Motive Seasons 1-4 (2013)

Arriving Oct. 5

Arriving Oct. 14

• High School Seasons 1 (2022)

Arriving Oct. 31

• UNINTERRUPTED’s Top Class: The Life and Times of the Sierra Canyon Trailblazers Season 3 (2022)