Amazon Prime Video is a great place to go for mainstream hits and awards darlings, but it also has plenty of hidden gems.
From niche picks that deserve a bigger audience to unsung masterpieces, you can be sure to find something a little different on Prime Video if you’re looking for it.
In April 2026, Watch With Us has chosen three great movies that we think might otherwise get forgotten about.
Our first selection is Beginners, a moving dramedy about a man who learns that his dying father is gay.
In the wake of his mother’s death, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is met with another personal shock: his aging, terminally ill father, Hal (Christopher Plummer), has come out of the closet. After Hal passes away five years later, Oliver turns inward as he struggles with depression and his floundering artistic career, spending more energy ruminating on the time spent with his father. When Oliver meets Anna (Mélanie Laurent), an actress, it seems he’s found an end to his isolation. But their mutual fear of commitment threatens their very real connection.
Beginners succeeds as a tender film that isn’t overly sentimental, and McGregor shines in his nuanced performance as a man navigating grief. Director Mike Mills balances the emotional weight of the narrative with warmth, humor and an optimistic outlook on the multi-faceted nature of love and life. McGregor and Laurent sport naturalistic chemistry together, and their relationship feels deep and authentic. Buoyed by light bursts of humor throughout, Beginners is a movie that sneaks up on you.
‘Mermaids’ (1990)Single mother Rachel (Cher) always moves her and her two daughters, 15-year-old Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and 9-year-old Kate (Christina Ricci), to a different town at any time the moment suits her, which has become increasingly frustrating to Charlotte. When the trio relocates to a small town in Massachusetts and Rachel starts seeing a shopkeeper named Lou (Bob Hoskins), the girls are hopeful that they can finally stay in one place. But things become complicated when Charlotte becomes involved with a much older man (Michael Schoeffling).
Mermaids is a fantastic movie for those of you who like nostalgia that isn’t all roses and sunshine. Cher’s performance as the lively and free-spirited Rachel is a match made in heaven, and nascent roles for Ryder and Ricci prove their acting chops at an early age. The movie does a great job at weaving coming-of-age themes with family drama in a way that feels messy yet very real. Mermaids is both very funny and refreshingly melancholic, a touching look at figuring out who you are while having an unconventional role model.
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In an effort to impress his new employee, Freddy (Thom Mathews), foreman Frank (James Karen) shows Freddy a secret military experiment kept in the warehouse; two drums of a toxic gas called Trioxin. But when the two dunderheads accidentally release the gas into the atmosphere, it reanimates dead bodies into bloodthirsty zombies. As the zombie plague spreads across Louisville, Kentucky, Frank and Freddy join forces with their boss, Burt (Clu Gulager), and a mortician named Ernie (Don Calfa) to try to contain the spread and destroy the unkillable zombified corpses.
The Return of the Living Dead is a gory, silly good time that still holds up. While confusingly titled to seem connected to the Night of the Living Dead movies from George Romero, this is in no way linked to Romero’s more thematically preoccupied horror films. Instead, The Return of the Living Dead is garish, weird and leans fully into how ridiculous it is. This isn’t a slow-burn zombie movie — it’s loud, weird and fully aware of how ridiculous it is. It’s B-movie goofiness at its very finest, with over-the-top performances, a high-energy punk rock soundtrack and laugh-out-loud comedy.
