Amazon’s streaming service Prime Video boasts a large selection of movies and TV shows in its library available to subscribers, but much of that content is temporary, with a number of titles leaving each month. Like anything from Amazon, movies and TV shows can become out of stock, even when they’re digital content. However, some of Prime Video’s offerings disappear on a monthly basis on purpose, planned through contracts with film and television distributors. While Amazon produces a lot of original content for Prime Video, the platform licenses most of its movies and shows from other companies, with agreed-upon streaming windows varying in the length of time they’re made available.
In May 2023, 94 movies and TV shows arrived on Prime Video. In the same month, 134 titles leave the streaming service. This only applies to those movies and TV shows expiring for general Prime Video subscribers and does not include titles leaving specific add-on movie channels, such as MGM Plus and Starz. That said, a number of titles expiring at the start of the month are movies and shows temporarily offered to Prime members as promotional samples of other streaming outlets, including Topic and AMC Plus, and were only available for one month. Those will continue to be found via their primary outlet.
May 1
- 2 Days in the Valley (1996)
- Agent Hamilton – Season 1 (2020)
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- American Gangster (2007)
- American Gangster – Unrated Extended Edition (2007)
- Baron Noir – Season 1 (2016)
- The Beautiful Fantastic (2017)
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Better Call Saul Presents: Slippin’ Jimmy – Season 1 (2022)
- Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)
- The Brokenwood Mysteries – Season 1 (2014)
- Can’t Stop the Flop – Season 3 (2022)
- Children in Heaven (1999)
- Cooper’s Bar – Season 1 (2022)
- Courageous (2011)
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
- Dead Man Walking (1996)
- Detroit (2017)
- The Dilemma (2011)
- Double Cross – Season 1 (2020)
- Duck Soup (1933)
- Elizabeth (1999)
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
- Elizabethtown (1999)
- The Expendables (2010)
- The Expendables – Extended Director’s Cut (2010)
- The Expendables 2 (2012)
- The Expendables 3 (2014)
- The Expendables 3 – Extended Cut (2014)
- The Expendables 3 – Unrated (2014)
- Exposed (2016)
- From – Season 1 (2022)
- Four Brothers (2005)
- The Four Feathers (2002)
- G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
- G.I. Joe: Retaliation – Extended Cut (2013)
- The Gallows Act II (2019)
- The Glass Castle (2017)
- Godfather of Harlem – Season 1 (2019)
- Hap and Leonard – Season 1 (2016)
- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- The Holy Land Revealed (2020)
- The Hustle (2019)
- I, Robot (2004)
- Imma Tataranni – Season 1 (2019)
- Intersection (1994)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
- Jim Shockey’s Uncharted – Season 1 (2014)
- Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
- Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013)
- Kevin Hart: Laugh at My Pain (2013)
- The Killing – Season 1 (2007)
- A Kind of Murder (2016)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
- The Loretta Young Show – Season 1 (1953)
- Magellan – Season 1 (2013)
- Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
- Nerdland (2016)
- Nerve (2016)
- Nine Lives (2016)
- The Open Door (2008)
- Ordinary Americans in the Revolution (2021)
- Parkland (2013)
- The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie (2008)
- Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977)
- The Range Rider – Season 1 (1951)
- Rogue Heroes – Season 1 (2022)
- Sarafina! (1992)
- Scary Movie 4 (2006)
- Scent of a Woman (1993)
- Seabiscuit (2003)
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered – Season 1 (2014)
- Slasher: Flesh and Blood – Season 1 (2021)
- Something Wild (1986)
- Soul Surfer (2011)
- Southside with You (2016)
- The Stella Show – Season 1 (2021)
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
- Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
- Tsotsi (2006)
- Underclassmen (2005)
- Vanity Fair (2004)
- VeggieTales: An Easter Carol (2004)
- VeggieTales: Lord of the Beans (2005)
- VeggieTales: Noah’s Ark (2017)
- VeggieTales: ‘Twas the Night Before Easter (2011)
- Weekends with Yankee – Season 1 (2018)
- Without a Paddle: Nature’s Calling (2009)
- Wuthering Heights (1970)
- Your Highness (2011)
- Your Highness – Unrated (2011)
Just as the majority of new movies and TV shows arriving on Prime Video do so at the start of the month, most of the titles leaving Amazon’s streaming service leave on the first of May 2023. Among these 85 departures — plus a few alternate cuts of some of these movies — are classics as old as the Marx Brothers’ comedy Duck Soup and the 1951 Western show The Range Rider. Other acclaimed highlights include Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ, Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich, and the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Don Siegel, which remains on Paramount Plus.
There are also a handful of franchises leaving in substantial measure from Prime Video this month. The first three installments of the Expendables action movie franchise expire, including extended cuts of The Expendables and The Expendables 3 plus an unrated version of the latter. All three movies head to TNT and TBS instead. Meanwhile, both parts of the Cate Blanchette-led Elizabeth I biopic — Elizabeth and Elizabeth: The Golden Age — also say goodbye along with six VeggieTales movies. The Elizabeth films head to Starz. Most VeggieTales movies, excluding The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything, can be found on PureFlix.
May 15
- Bernie the Dolphin 2 (2019)
The family film sequel Bernie the Dolphin 2 leaves Amazon’s Prime Video streaming service midway through May 2023. Viewers can still rent or buy the movie through Amazon alongside the original Bernie the Dolphin, which was not on Prime Video this month.
May 16
- Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me (2012)
- The Girl From Monaco (2009)
- High-Rise (2015)
- I Could Never Be Your Woman (2007)
- The Job (2009)
- Leaning Into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy (2017)
- The Protector 2 (2014)
- Pulse (2005)
- Ragnarok (2013)
- Tag (2018)
The Ben Wheatley movie High-Rise, starring Tom Hiddleston, is one of the more popular titles leaving Prime Video on May 16, 2023. The sci-fi drama is instead available on Hulu and most of the free-streaming platforms, such as Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex, and Crackle. The underrated comedy Tag, featuring a hilarious scene-stealing performance from Jeremy Renner, also can be found on Hulu after it leaves Prime Video.
May 17
Alê Abreu’s Oscar-nominated animated feature Boy & the World expires from Prime Video on May 17, 2023. However, viewers can find the movie streaming on The Criterion Channel and decide if it should have won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature instead of Pixar’s Inside Out.
May 21
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
- Let the Right One In (2008)
- Man on Wire (2008)
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)
Two of the best documentaries of the aughts leave Prime Video on May 21, 2023: Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room is about the titular corrupt energy company, and the film was nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature; James Marsh’s Man on Wire contended in the same category three years later and won the Oscar and is about Philippe Petit, the funambulist famous for his 1974 World Trade Center high-wire stunt.
May 23
- Burden (2017)
- Cézanne et Moi (2016)
- A Chance Encounter (2022)
- The China Hustle (2018)
- Come to Daddy (2020)
- Dirt Music (2020)
- Home Run (2013)
- June Again (2022)
- Lazarus (2021)
- Pusher (1996)
- Rejoice and Shout (2011)
- Sunset Song (2016)
- Terror’s Advocate (2007)
It’s odd that Pusher is leaving Prime Video on May 23, 2023, because the movie’s two sequels don’t expire from the streaming service until the start of the next month. The original Pusher, which didn’t arrive in the U.S. until 1999, marked the first feature film appearance of Mads Mikkelsen and the feature directorial debut of the visionary Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn. He also helmed Pusher II and Pusher III.
May 25
- The Devil Within (2020)
- The Fall of Usher (2021)
- Father of Flies (2021)
- Faye (2021)
- Hollow (2021)
Five small-scale horror movies from the last few years depart Amazon’s streaming service on May 25, 2023. The titles leaving Prime Video on this date are the Edgar Allan Poe adaptation The Fall of Usher, the supernatural feature Father of Flies, Jonathan Zaurin’s Hollow, the grief-based horror flick Faye, and The Devil Within, which is also known as The Corruption of Divine Providence.
May 27
- Army & Coop (2018)
- Decrypted (2021)
- Diamond Soles (2019)
- Hurt by Paradise (2019)
- The Irish Connection (2022)
- Losing Addison (2022)
- Pink (2018)
- Safe Corridor (2019)
- Traitor Within (2018)
- VR Fighter (2021)
- The Yellow Wallpaper (2021)
The most noteworthy title leaving Prime Video in this last crop of May 2023 is Safe Corridor, a.k.a. Shindisi. The film was Georgia’s official submission to the Oscars for Best International Feature in 2020 and depicts the true story of Georgian soldiers ambushed by the Russian military during the two nations’ war in 2008 despite there being a cease-fire at the time.