3 Underrated Amazon Prime Video Movies to Watch This Weekend (July 18-20)

It’s all about living the sweet life this weekend on Amazon Prime Video.

Watch With Us has selected three underrated movies for you to watch this weekend, which feature such TV stars as Friends’ Jennifer Aniston and Parks and Recreation’s Rob Lowe.

Thriller fans should enjoy the 1980s movie Masquerade and the 2005 suspense flick Derailed, both of which deal with torrid love affairs, blackmail and murder.

In contrast, My One and Only is a real-life dramedy that details a loving yet dysfunctional relationship between a mother and son in 1950s America.

‘Masquerade’ (1988)

Young Olivia Lawrence (Meg Tilly) has it all — money, looks and a killer Southampton spread. The one thing she doesn’t have is true love, but that changes when she meets and falls in love with Tim Whalen (Rob Lowe). Tim appears to be good to be true, though, and soon, Olivia starts suspecting he’s really after her fortune. Is she right? Or is someone else making her doubt Tim so they can grab her money?

Masquerade is all about those benjamins — it flaunts its wealth almost as much as Olivia does. That’s a large part of its appeal, though, as it’s escapist porn at its finest — and sleaziest. Lowe is good as always at playing a pretty boy with a shady past, and Kim Cattrall pops up briefly as one of Tim’s horny older lovers. You can see her most popular role, Samantha Jones, in an embryonic stage in Masquerade, a full decade before Sex and the City debuted on HBO.

Masquerade is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

‘Derailed’ (2005)

Rachel Green in a thriller? Yeah, it happened, and everyone’s forgotten about it. But Derailed is a modest thriller that both works and gives star Jennifer Aniston a role she doesn’t usually play — the femme fatale. When family man Charles (Clive Owen) meets Lucina (Aniston) on a commuter train, he’s instantly intrigued — and in lust. But when they check into a hotel and begin to take off their clothes, a naked intruder storms in, assaults Lucinda and punches Charles. Days later, Charles receives a phone call demanding $10,000 or else his wife will know he almost cheated on her.

And that’s only the beginning as Charles and Lucinda get wrapped up in a blackmail plot that will leave at least one person dead and another in prison. Derailed has a wild plot full of narrative surprises, but it’s mostly kept on track by its two lead stars, who are believable as horny would-be adulterers who are in way over their heads.

Derailed is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

‘My One and Only’ (2009)

15-year-old George (Logan Lerman) loves his mother Anne (Renée Zellweger), even though she’s a complete mess. After she catches her husband with another woman, she takes George and heads out West, with little direction and almost no money. As they travel from St. Louis to Albuquerque, George begins to understand his mother’s need to flee from her past and his own ambition to be better than his dysfunctional family.

Based on journeyman actor George Hamilton’s life story, My One and Only is a fascinating coming-of-age story that focuses on a complex — and often messy — mother/son relationship. Anne doesn’t always make the right choices, but she always wants what’s best for her son. George loves his mother, but he wants to get as far away from her as possible. The movie doesn’t soften the rough edges of their relationship, and that alone makes it worth a watch.

My One and Only is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.