Prime Video has movies for all times of the year, and August is the perfect time to catch up on some you may have missed. While you can definitely skip the streamer's much-maligned remake of War of the Worlds with Ice Cube, the following movies that the Watch With Us team has selected are worth watching this weekend. Dads who enjoy Jack Ryan and Reacher will dig the homegrown heroism in Only the Brave, while teens will thrill at the retro zombie fun of The Return of the Living Dead. And if you can't wait until she returns in The Devil Wears Prada 2, watch Meryl Streep wear some "great gowns, beautiful gowns" in Death Becomes Her. 'Only the Brave' (2017) Director Joseph Kosinski just had a big hit with this summer's F1: The Movie starring Brad Pitt, but he wasn't always successful. Eight years ago, he helmed Only the Brave, a biographical drama about the heroic efforts that occurred during the 2013 Yarnell Fire. That movie wasn't a big hit at all, but it deserves to be seen by a more appreciative audience in 2025. What to Watch This Weekend: 11 New Movies on Netflix, Prime Video, HBO Max, and Hulu Only the Brave stars Josh Brolin as Eric Marsh, the superintendent of the Prescott Fire Department in Prescott, Arizona. When a routine fire breaks out in the nearby town of Yarnell, Eric, recovering addict Brendan (Miles Teller) and 17 other firefighters are called out to contain it. But heavy winds cause the fire to intensify and worsen, which endangers everyone in the area, including the firefighters. Can Eric and his crew keep the fire from hurting any more people? Based on a real-life event, Only the Brave has only one ending - tragic. It's no spoiler to reveal that not everyone makes it out alive, and it's a credit to the film that it doesn't overly lionize its fallen heroes. These men are all fallible and flawed, which only highlights the selfless and heroic nature of their actions during the fire. The movie is technically impressive, with Kosinski putting you into the middle of an inferno. It's intense and sometimes brutal, but what else would you expect from a movie about firefighting? Only the Brave is streaming on Prime Video. 'The Return of the Living Dead' (1985) Night of the Living Dead is one of the most important movies of all time. The Return of the Living Dead isn't as groundbreaking or even terrifying, but it's probably one of the most fun nihilistic movies ever made. A spiritual sequel to George A. Romero's 1968 zombie classic, The Return of the Living Dead follows a band of punk teens in Kentucky as they unwittingly awaken the dead by releasing toxic gas from a military canister. These zombies crave only one thing - brains - and they'll do anything to get them hot and fresh. With their numbers multiplying, what chance do some helpless teens and a pair of befuddled mortuary workers have against a growing horde of the undead? Long before Scream, The Return of the Living Dead expertly blended humor and horror without taking away from either. The practical effects are still amazing and - in most cases - appropriately gross, with decomposing bodies crawling and eating their victims with astonishing realism. The movie is also one of the few in the genre to genuinely ask what happens after you die and why these zombies crave human flesh. It's unsettling, scary and laugh-out-loud funny, and it's a great movie to watch on a quiet August weekend. The Return of the Living Dead is streaming on Prime Video. 'Death Becomes Her' (1992) If you want death to be more campy and comedic, try Death Becomes Her. The 1992 comedy didn't receive much love when it was first released but has since become a cult classic and, at the moment, a successful musical on Broadway with Michelle Williams. When fading Hollywood star Madeline Ashton (Meryl Streep) sees her longtime rival Helen Sharp (Goldie Hawn) looking unnaturally young and beautiful, she resorts to desperate measures - she takes a magical potion that grants her eternal life. 10 Most Popular Prime Video Movies and Shows: 'War of the Worlds' and More But Madeline soon experiences the downside to living forever when she's pushed down the stairs by her weak-willed husband, Ernest (Bruce Willis). Dead but still conscious, Madeline discovers Helen was behind her murder and will stop at nothing to get back at her frenemy, even if she has to blow a hole through her stomach to do it. Death Becomes Her uses then-state-of-the-art visual effects to show the many ways Helen and Madeline inflict pain on each other with shotguns, shovels and other lethal instruments. As the two leads, Streep and Hawn tear the scenery to pieces, while Willis shows just how skilled he is as a comedian and a master of the double-take. In a very brief supporting role, famed film director Sydney Pollack appears as a doctor who can't believe the patient he is treating is a walking, talking dead person. The movie is macabre and hilarious, but beware - the ending is one of the worst cop-outs in film his