Prime Video has become a pretty reliable destination for anyone looking for an action thriller. You only need to glance at Prime Video’s action-thriller listings to get your blood pumping. Rami Malek goes from desk-bound CIA analyst to unlikely action hero in The Amateur, while Idris Elba brings the muscle in The Take and Tom Cruise pushes the genre to blockbuster extremes in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Throw in Glen Powell fighting for survival in The Running Man, and the service has no shortage of spies, conspiracies, and high-stakes chases. But Prime Video isn’t just a home for established blockbusters and recognizable franchises. It can also give smaller, underseen action movies a second life by putting them directly in front of a huge streaming audience. One 2025 thriller is getting exactly that kind of boost right now, climbing near the top of Prime Video’s movie chart just days after it was added.

That movie is Icefall, a frozen-lake action thriller starring Joel Kinnaman. The film is currently the No. 2 movie on Prime Video in the U.S., according to FlixPatrol, giving the under-the-radar release a much bigger audience than it found during its initial rollout.

What is Icefall about?

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, Icefall stars Joel Kinnaman as Harlan, an ex-Marine and notorious poacher who discovers a crashed plane loaded with millions of dollars beneath a frozen lake.

Before he can do much with his newfound wealth, Harlan is arrested by Ani, a young Indigenous game warden played by Cara Jade Myers. Their relationship quickly gets more complicated when criminals and corrupt cops come looking for the money, forcing the pair into an uneasy alliance as they try to survive both the people hunting them and the increasingly unstable ice beneath their feet.

It’s basically No Country for Old Men on ice. The movie swaps dusty highways and desert landscapes for snow, ice, and subzero isolation, but keeps the same basic appeal of desperate people circling a pile of money while danger steadily closes in.

Reviews were limited and mixed, with only a small number of critics weighing in on Rotten Tomatoes, but the setup clearly has streaming appeal: a recognizable lead, a simple crime-thriller hook, and a frozen setting that gives the usual chase movie formula a little extra bite.

That may be exactly why Icefall is finding a much bigger audience now than it did during its initial VOD release.