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Fortunately, every Amazon Prime member has access to a plethora of fantastic movies and TV shows available for streaming. While the company is most known for its online store, they have recently branched out and begun producing its own original media content, much like Netflix, Hulu, or any other popular streaming service.

At the moment, Amazon has a surprising number of fantastic films, some of which have gone on to be nominated for Academy Awards. With some great content already under their belt and with more to come, here is our list of the 10 best movies only available on Amazon Prime.

Updated on December 27th, 2022 by Guillermo Kurten: While Amazon's primary field isn't on the cinematic front, the company's relatively new movie studio has spent the past few years padding out its catalog with some impressive entries. From powerful dramas like Sound of Metal to poignant period pieces like Cold War,...

Amazon’s Uncle Frank stars Paul Bettany as Frank Bledsoe, a gay professor of literature living in early ’70s New York City with his partner, Wally (Peter Macdissi). Having left behind a close-knit family in his native Creekville, South Carolina, Frank lives semi-openly as a gay man in New York while keeping the rest of the Bledsoe clan in the dark about his sexuality — that is, until his niece Beth (Sophia Lillis) arrives in the city for college and stumbles upon Frank’s secret life.

When Frank’s father dies suddenly, Beth and Wally persuade him to return to Creekville for ...

Amazon’s Uncle Frank stars Paul Bettany as Frank Bledsoe, a gay professor of literature living in early ’70s New York City with his partner, Wally (Peter Macdissi). Having left behind a close-knit family in his native Creekville, South Carolina, Frank lives semi-openly as a gay man in New York while keeping the rest of the Bledsoe clan in the dark about his sexuality — that is, until his niece Beth (Sophia Lillis) arrives in the city for college and stumbles upon Frank’s secret life.

When Frank’s father dies suddenly, Beth and Wally persuade him to return to Creekville for ...

As of this writing Paul Bettany is the front-runner (with 71/20 odds according to the combined predictions of Gold Derby users) to win Best Movie/Limited Actor at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards for his performance in the Disney+ limited series “WandaVision.” Let’s consider a couple of the important factors that could help him come out on top.

Bettany plays Vision, an android who’s trying to hide his superhero identity by living a happy suburban life in Westview, New Jersey, with Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen). As the couple’s surroundings cycle through different eras of television sitcom tropes, they begin to suspect that something strange is happening to them.

Of this year’s nominees for Best Movie/Limited Actor, Bettany happens to be the only one whose show is up for Best Limited Series. That could help him considerably. After all, the other men in his category each appear to have some disadvantages.

When Paul Bettany was approached for the title role in Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank, he was perhaps as skeptical as he was excited. “I’m a big Alan Ball fan, but also sort of a ‘glass is half empty’ type of fellow, so I went, ‘I’m going to get the one sh*t Alan Ball script,’” the actor joked. “I read it and it wasn’t, of course. But then I had lots of questions about whether I could and should play the part.”

The film written, directed and produced by Ball centers on college professor Frank Bledsoe, who takes his niece Beth (Sophia Lillis) to the South Carolina funeral of family patriarch Daddy Mac (Stephen Root). While visiting family, Frank wrestles with the sexual identity he’s long tried to hide from them, also coming to grips with a traumatic incident from his past.

Amazon Studios has debuted the trailer for Alan Ball’s LGBTQ drama Uncle Frank.

The film, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is both written and directed by the Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty writer. Loosely based on Ball’s life growing up in the South in the 1970s, the film is led by Paul Bettany, who plays Frank Bledsoe, a gay man reckoning with his conservative family.

Frank is bullied and ostracized by his family for reasons his adoring niece Beth (played by It actress Sophia Lillis) doesn’t understand. But when Beth arrives unannounced at the New York ...

Amazon Studios has debuted the trailer for Alan Ball’s LGBTQ drama Uncle Frank.

The film, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, is both written and directed by the Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty writer. Loosely based on Ball’s life growing up in the South in the 1970s, the film is led by Paul Bettany, who plays Frank Bledsoe, a gay man reckoning with his conservative family.

Frank is bullied and ostracized by his family for reasons his adoring niece Beth (played by It actress Sophia Lillis) doesn’t understand. But when Beth arrives unannounced at the New York ...