3 Underrated Prime Video Movies You Need to Watch in April 2026
While Amazon Prime Video is a one-stop shop for some of the biggest award winners and hottest blockbusters, it also has plenty of hidden gems, too.
From forgotten classics to under-appreciated oddities, you can find something a little different on Prime Video if that's what you're in the mood for.
In April 2026, Watch With Us has selected three movies we think you might otherwise overlook.
Our first choice is Smiley Face, a fantastic stoner comedy starring Anna Faris as a perpetual pothead who embarks on an unintentionally chaotic odyssey.
‘Smiley Face' (2007)
Jane (Faris) is an unmotivated TV commercial actress based in LA who is frequently stoned, and one day (while stoned), she unknowingly eats a plate of her roommate's cupcakes that are laced with marijuana. Thus begins a chaotic day of misadventures for the now extremely high Jane, as she begins to recall several important errands she needs to complete while now being wildly intoxicated. These errands include paying her electric bill, attending an audition and paying off debts to her drug dealer. Of course, all of this would be a lot easier if she weren't stoned out of her mind.
Smile Face is a highly underrated stoner comedy directed by Gregg Araki, and features an ensemble cast of familiar faces like Adam Brody, John Krasinski and Jane Lynch. Faris genuinely gives the stoned performance of a lifetime, totally committed to her character's utter ineptitude in a completely sincere and even affectionate way. Ultimately, Smiley Face succeeds as one of the very few stoner comedies for girls, an equal parts hilarious and delirious pastiche of absurdity and madcap antics that authentically replicates the feeling of being under the influence.
‘The Wailing' (2016)
In a remote South Korean village, a mysterious Japanese man (Jun Kunimura) arrives, and shortly after, a series of bizarre incidents occur. Otherwise, normal citizens start becoming mindless and bloodthirsty, turning on their families and killing them. Dimwitted police officer Jong-goo (Kwak Do-won) suddenly finds his quiet existence thrown into turmoil as he is tasked with investigating the strange circumstances surrounding the violent deaths that keep piling up. But when his young daughter, Hyo-jin (Kim Hwan-hee), becomes "infected" with this derangement too, his investigation takes him to increasingly dark and paranormal places.
The Wailing is masterful slow-burn folk horror that is suspenseful, unsettling and shrouded in mystery. This embrace of ambiguity only enhances the overall unnerving feeling of the film, which is cloaked in a rich, haunting atmosphere that trades jump scares for intense and pervasive dread. The film does an excellent job at blending depictions of traditional South Korean shamanism with modern horror tropes of possession, all while contemplating philosophical themes pertaining to xenophobia, the nature of faith and the dangerous power of suspicion.
‘Movie 43' (2013)
Widely considered to be one of the worst movies of all time (it bears a striking 5 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes), we feel that Movie 43 actually deserves a second look. The film consists of various comedy sketches bound by a loose uniting plot thread concerning a washed-up producer (Greg Kinnear) becoming increasingly desperate as he tries to pitch a series of movie ideas. Such ideas include a woman (Kate Winslet) going on a date with a famous actor (Hugh Jackman) who has testicles on his neck; a homeschooled boy (Jeremy Allen White) who receives a disturbingly accurate replicated experience of public high school by his parents (Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts); and a woman (Elizabeth Banks) who is tortured by her boyfriend's (Josh Duhamel) animated cat.
Is Movie 43 great? No - but it does make you laugh, even if those laughs come cheap. Many of the sketch ideas are legitimately hilarious and often funnier than half the comedy stuff that Hollywood spits out these days. Plus, the A-list actors who largely populate the film are impressively committed to their respective bits. Don't go into Movie 43 looking for a cinema masterpiece, or even a movie that's "so bad it's good." Instead, maybe go in a little inebriated, and just meet it on its own terms.
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This story was originally published April 29, 2026 at 2:10 AM.