The Best Things Coming to Prime Video in April

Coming April 12

The Zone of Interest (2022, PG-13)

Jonathan Glazer’s disturbing yet riveting film is a cinematic representation of Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil.” The Zone of Interest enters the seemingly ordinary home of the Nazi commandant who runs the Auschwitz concentration camp next door; the audience must bear witness to how easily he, his wife and their children shut out the horrors transpiring just beyond their garden walls. The film deservedly won two Oscars, including one for its unsettling sound design.

Coming April 15

Balls Up (2026, R)

Peter Farrelly, 69, whose 2018 drama Green Book won five Academy Awards (including best picture), returns to the crass, R-rated comedy style with which he made his name in the ’90s, directing films like Dumb and Dumber and There’s Something About Mary. Mark Wahlberg, 54, and Paul Walter Hauser star as American marketing execs promoting a new condom that covers all of the male genital region. After landing an improbable sponsorship deal with the head of the World Cup soccer championships (Benjamin Bratt, 62), they head to Brazil — where they accidentally create an international incident in front of a worldwide audience. Not-appropriate-for-work hijinks ensue.

Sarah’s Oil (2025, PG)

In this faith- and fact-based drama, Sarah Rector (Naya Desir-Johnson), the Black grandchild of Creek Indians, is bequeathed 160 acres of undeveloped land in Oklahoma in 1913. She’s convinced the land holds oil — and so are several predatory moguls who try to swindle and threaten her and her family. Sarah finds an unlikely ally in a quick-talking wildcatter (Zachary Levi) who develops a conscience despite his roguish instincts. This is an old-fashioned feel-good David vs. Goliath drama.

Coming April 16

Jerry West: The Logo (2026)

In his 14 seasons in the NBA, Jerry West (who passed away in 2024) became such a legend that the league based its logo on the silhouette of him dribbling a basketball. Now the star of the 1960s and ’70s L.A. Lakers is getting a feature documentary. The film delves into West’s on-court artistry and subsequent work as a coach or consultant for the Lakers and the Golden State Warriors, as well as his private battles with depression and a home life where his obsession with winning took an enormous toll. The film includes commentary from his family as well as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 78, Magic Johnson, 66, and Michael Jordan, 63.

Coming April 17

​American Gladiators, Season 1

This re-reboot may get you off the couch and into the gym. The physical competition series — which first aired from 1989 to 1996 and then had a two-season reboot in 2008 — returns to the arena with a new set of amateur athletes facing off against 16 ultrafit pros with backgrounds in wrestling, powerlifting and the like. Mike “The Miz” Mizanin and Rocsi Diaz host the show, which will feature classic events like Joust and Hang Tough as well as new challenges like the Ring and Collision.

Coming April 20

Kevin, Season 1

In this new animated series cocreated by The White Lotus’ Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzman voices the titular house cat who’s so rattled by the sudden break-up of his human owners that he decides to dump them. He heads to a pet rescue center in the New York City neighborhood of Astoria, Queens, where he meets a misfit band of abandoned animals (voiced by stars like Plaza, Whoopi Goldberg, 70, John Waters, 79, and Amy Sedaris, 64).

Coming April 29

The House of the Spirits, Season 1

When Chilean American author Isabel Allende, now 83, learned that her 100-year-old grandfather was dying, she wrote him a letter that evolved into her beloved 1982 novel, The House of the Spirits — the basis for this eight-part limited series that blends loose history and magical realism. The story centers on three generations of women in an unnamed conservative South American country riven by political upheaval, class struggle and ongoing violence against women. (AARP cover star Eva Longoria, 51, is an executive producer.)