Like the retail website from which Prime Video sprung, Prime Video’s library of films featuring lesbian and bisexual characters is massive, incoherent, and very difficult to ascertain from a casual browse — but Amazon Prime Video subscribers actually have access to a larger and more diverse library of lesbian cinema than any other streamer is currently offering. Luckily, we are here to inform you of the best lesbian and bisexual movies currently available on Prime Video. Prime Video specifically seems to be a home for a lot of (at least 25) super low-budget lesbian films you’ve never heard of, most of which are pretty bad, but if you love Elena Undone or Anatomy of a Love Seen or Heterosexual Jill, I am happy for you although they will not be included here!

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Appropriate Behavior

Year: 2014
Runtime: 1h 26m
Director: Desiree Akhavan

#22 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

Shirin is knee-deep in bisexual chaos after a breakup with the woman she thought she’d spend the rest of her life with. “Writer/director/star Desiree Akhavan is a once-in-a-generation talent and her humor makes this an easy movie to watch even as Shirin is seeped in melancholy and crisis,” writes Drew.

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Addicted to Fresno 

Year: 2015
Runtime: 1h 25m
Director: Jamie Babbitt

Natasha Lyonne plays a lesbian, as usual, in the dark comedy Addicted to Fresno, which also stars Aubrey Plaza and Judy Greer. Shannon (Greer) and Martha (Lyonne) are codependent sisters in a cycle of Martha picking up the pieces for Shannon, the recovering sex addict.

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AWOL

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 22m
Director: Deb Shoval

“Talking about class can be ugly,” wrote Sarah Fonseca in her glowing review of AWOL, a love story set in a rarely-portrayed rural landscape and confronts new conversations issues of class, race and gender. “Yet as AWOL asserts, when you dare to comment, sometimes it frees up room for beauty to unfurl.”

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Birds of Paradise

Amazon Original Movie
Year: 2021
Runtime: 1h 53m
Director: Sarah Adina Smith

“Birds of Paradise is a fine little lesbian diversion for a moody day,” writes Heather of this psychological thriller set at an exclusive ballet academy in Paris, where two top American dancers — a scholarship kid and an ambassador’s daughter — develop one of those tortured homoerotic adolescent bonds that in fact eventually becomes sexual. It’s campy without knowing how campy it is but otherwise is exactly what you might expect from such a film.

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Blush

Year: 2015
Runtime: 1h 24m
Director: Michal Vinik

“This Israeli coming-of-age film draws parallels between protagonist Naama’s burgeoning sexuality and her country’s troublesome politics,” wrote Drew in our Encyclopedia of Cinema. “While she’s having the usual queer teen experiences of first love, first heartbreak, and first post-heartbreak head shave, she’s also forced to deal with her violent home life and racist father. It’s a tale of intolerance across identities that’s affecting even as it follows familiar beats.”

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Bombshell

Year: 2019
Runtime: 1 hr 48 minutes
Director: Jay Roach

Telling the true story of the three women who exposed Fox News CEO Roger Ailes for sexual harassment, this star-studded film is compelling, smart and full of strong performances. On the other hand, it does uncritically celebrate racist bigots like Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly for their perseverance against Ailes, despite their ongoing contribution to the culture that enabled him! A highlight of the film is Kate McKinnon’s character, a liberal lesbian who couldn’t get a job anywhere else. She has a little thing with Kayla Pospisil (Margot Robbie), a fictional composite character of a new anchor on the team.

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Bottoms

Year: 2023
Runtime: 1 hr 30 minutes
Director: Emma Seligman

#9 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

This instant lesbian classic follows two horny teenagers, PJ (Rachel Sennot) and Josie (Ayo Edebiri), who start a fight club at their high school with the goal of getting laid. Kayla writes: “With a score co-composed by Charli XCX, a bold color palette, and more than one actual bomb, Bottoms is a boisterous and biting teen comedy that’s very on-the-nose and over-the-top about high school being a violent hellscape of social hierarchies and skin-tingling horniness.”

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Boy Meets Girl

Year: 2014
Runtime: 1h 39m
Director: Eric Schaeffer

21-year-old bisexual trans woman Ricky is a Kentucky barista dreaming of studying fashion in New York. She spends all her time hanging out with her since-childhood best friend Robby. Her life takes a turn when a friendship with new friend Francesca blossoms into an affair. Mari called it “heartwarming” and “groundbreaking.”

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Boys on the Side

Year: 1995
Runtime: 1h 51m
Director: Herbert Ross

A deeply beloved 90s classic in which Whoopi Goldberg plays a lesbian musician on a post-crime road trip with Mary Louise Parker and Drew Barrymore. The Indigo Girls! Nineties lipstick! Southwestern landscapes! There is so much processing and bonding in this movie, it’s almost like it’ll never end (just like a real lesbian relationship!).

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Carmen y Lola

Year: 2018
Runtime: 1h 43m
Director: Arantxa Echevarria

Arantxa Echevarria’s Carmen & Lola “focuses on two young Romani women who are being pressured into marriage and struggle to be together instead,” writs Drew. “Zaira Romero and Rosy Rodríguez play the titular characters and their chemistry further elevates the film. There is an engagement party dance scene that will burn into your memory forever.”

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The Carmilla Movie

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 34m
Director: Spencer Maybee

Karly declared the film, inspired by the popular lesbian vampire webseries, “everything I’ve ever wished for a movie adaptation of a beloved series.” Queer actors Elise Bauman and Natasha Negovanlis play Laura and Camilla, enlisting the help of their friends to uncover a supernatural threat with connections to Carmilla’s past.

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Circumstance

Year: 2011
Runtime: 1 hr 46m
Director: Maryam Keshavarz

#27 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

Set in Tehran, Circumstace revolves around Atafeh (Nikohl Boosheri), a rebellious teenager from a wealthy family and the romantic relationship she develops with Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), her classmate, in a culture and society where homosexuality is forbidden. “My favorite thing about Circumstance is Keshavarz’s deeply erotic and gorgeous visual approach to the storytelling,” writes Kayla in her review of Circumstance. “The plot brims with darkness and drama.”

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Cloudburst

Year: 2013
Runtime: 1h 33m
Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Lesbian couple Dotty (Brenda Fricker) and Stella (Olympia Dukakis) break free from their nursing home and venture out on a road trip to Canada where they intend to tie the knot. in her review, Vanessa noted that it was fantastic to “see a true honest story about two old women in a real relationship with feelings and nuance and layers and depth.”

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Collette

Year: 2018
Runtime: 1 hr 51 minutes
Director: Wash Westmoreland

This bipoic stars Keira Knightley as Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. “Certainly there’s a hint of salaciousness in the depiction of Colette’s early forays into lady-love,” writes Heather, “but the film treats her relationship with Missy with the utmost respect and tenderness.”

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Drive-Away Dolls

Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 24m
Directors: Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cooke

This raunchy lesbian caper set in 1999 finds Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan), an uptight lesbian, and her best friend Jamie (Margaret Qualley), a serial cheater from Texas, taking a cross-country road trip to Florida (Marian to visit some family, Jamie to get away from her abusive cop ex (Beanie Feldstein) — but things take a turn when they discover a mysterious suitcase in their trunk. “It’s a road trip movie, a crime farce, and a romcom all rolled up into one smart and messy 84 minute package,” writes Drew.

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Gray Matters

Year: 2006
Runtime: 1hr 36m
Director: Sue Kramer

Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Tom Cavanaugh) are codependent adult siblings who decide to solve their romantic woes by finding partners for each other. Sam quickly falls for zoologist Charlie (Bridget Moynahan) — but things get very complicated when Gray falls for her, too.

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The Handmaiden

Year: 2016
Runtime: 2h 25m
Director: Park Chan-wook

#7 on our list of the Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

This intricate, seductive South Korean psychological thriller, inspired by Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith, is set in 1930s Korea and tells the story of Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), a con artist who cons her way into getting hired as a handmaiden to a wealthy Japanese heiress Hideko (Kim Min-hee) who lives in an isolated estate with her uncle, a collector of graphic erotica. But when they fall in love, the con is in peril.

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House of Hummingbird

Year: 2018
Runtime: 2hr 13m
Director: Kim Bora

#86 on our list of The Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

This “remarkable 1994-set coming-of-age debut” follows Eun-hee, a lonely and sensitive kid stumbling through her adolescence in an abusive home. Despite the tragedy and hardship of Eun-hee’s life, Drew writes, “an optimism and hopeful spirit runs deep throughout even its toughest moments.” She continues, “This is a movie for all the queers who ate lunch in a teacher’s room, this is a movie for all the queers who wondered if a future was possible and then, one day, stopped wondering and started to believe.”

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The Feels

Year: 2018
Runtime: 1h 27m
Director: Jenée LaMarque

Andi (Constance Wu) and Lu (Angela Trimbur) go into the woods of California wine country for a pre-wedding co-bachelorette party, where an unexpected confession throws a wrench in the weekend: Lu drunkenly reveals that she’s never had an orgasm. Everybody wants to help, and the conversations snowball from there. “Lesbian mumblecore is practically its own genre at this point,” wrote Heather in her review. “With its boundary-less relationships, improvised dialogue, characters who remind you of your own friends, and those stifled hiccups that give way to just enough drama to make the happy ending rewarding.”

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Jules of Light and Dark

Year: 2019
Runtime: 1h 26m
Director: Daniel Laabs

Winner of the Grand Jury prize for Outstanding American Feature at Outfest 2019, Jules of Light and Dark stars Tallie Medel as Maya, a heartsick lesbian struggling in the aftermath of a car accident. She makes an unlikely connection with a lonely gay man with an estranged daughter, “While a bit underwritten and at times as lost as its characters,” Drew writes, “the film ultimately works because of its central performances and Laabs’ impressive visual style.”

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Kajillionaire

Year: 2020
Runtime: 1h 44m
Director: Miranda July

#63 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

Bisexual writer/director/weirdo Miranda July’s third film is “a careful, long-game-playing meditation on how we can learn to parent ourselves when our own families refuse to do the job.” Starring Evan Rachel Wood, the film is both a “dreamy, golden-hour queer love story set amidst the friendly outlandishness of contemporary Los Angeles” and an “unsettling, fluorescent portrait of familial betrayal.”

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Lizzie

Year: 2018
Runtime: 1h 45m
Director: Craig William Macneill

As a homosexual, the abject badness of this film — which is inspired by the the story of Lizzie Borden who killed her parents with an axe — was indeed overcome by furtive lesbian barn sex. Chloe Sevigny is Lizzie Borden and Kristen Stewart is her maid, Bridget “Maggie” Sullivan, who forms a close bond with Lizzie to eventually become her accomplice.

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Loving Annabelle

Year: 2006
Runtime: 1h 16m
Director: Katherine Brooks

Rebellious 17-year-old lesbian Annabelle Tillman (Erin Kellyman) is sent to a Catholic boarding school where she finds comfort, inspiration and eventually a clandestine inappropriate homosexual affair with her poetry teacher, Simone (Diane Gaidry). This tale as old as lesbian fictional time was inspired by Mädchen in Uniform.

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Mean Girls

Year: 2024
Runtime: 1h 47m
Director: Samantha Jayne

Queer icon Renee Rapp stars as Regina George in this adaptation of the musical based on the movie with queer actor Auli’i Cravalho playing the canonically queer Janis Ian. “Turning a musical into a movie is hard. So being a movie turned musical turned movie musical, Mean Girls (2024) had a lot of hurdles to overcome,” wrote Valerie. “It gracefully leaps over some and stumbles over others, and that’s what Nic and I are here to discuss today. One thing is for certain though: this is the gayest adaptation of Mean Girls yet.”

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The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Year: 2006
Runtime: 1h 16m
Director: Katherine Brooks

#38 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

“The best adaptations capture the essence of their source material with a new set of tools,” wrote Drew of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. “That’s exactly what Desiree Akhavan’s movie of Emily M. Danforth’s contemporary classic accomplishes. Chloë Grace Moretz playa Cameron as “dykey and angsty and headstrong with that depth of vulnerability always peaking through” in this coming-of-age story that follows our heroine to gay conversion camp in the mid-90s.

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Monster

Year: 2004
Runtime: 1h 48m
Director: Patty Jenkins

#95 our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

A heartbreaking, brutal drama based on the true story of lesbian sex worker Aileen Wournos, who’d suffered a lifetime of abuse and neglect and as an adult, began killing and robbing her clients before eventually earning the moniker of “America’s first female serial killer.” Charlize Theron plays Aileen Wuornos and Christina Ricci plays her lover Selby.

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My Days of Mercy

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1hr 47min
Director: Tali Shalom-Ezer

Elliot Page is Lucy and Kate Mara is Mercy in this film that mixes politics with passion. Lucy and her sister are anti-death-penalty protestors fighting to get their father, Simon, off death row. At a protest in Illinois, Lucy meerts Mercy, the daughter of a cop with dies to the death penalty case being protested. Despite their potential political tensions, a romance begins to grow.

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My Old Ass

Year: 2024
Runtime: 1hr 28 min
Director: Megan Park

A mushroom trip on an 18th birthday transports free-spirited lesbian Ella (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her much older self — played by the incomparable Aubrey Plaza. Their relationship gets tricky when older Elliot starts doling out advice about what her younger self should and shouldn’t do, including her advice to avoid a boy named Chad. Ella of course ignores this advice as soon as she meets him, working on her family’s cranberry farm that summer, and they embark upon a romance that really divided audiences. “Watching Stella and Plaza riff off one another as the same character ages apart was delightful,” writes Gabrielle Grace Hogan. “The humorous chemistry between them is palpable, and enjoyable to watch. However, what begins as a promising tale of exploring love and queerness, and the joy and fear inherent to the passage of time, ultimately falls short of expectation.”

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Petit Mal

Year: 2022
Runtime: 1 hr 25 min
Director: Ruth Caudeli

Queer Colombian auteur Ruth Caudeli cast her real-life girlfriends and past collaborators Silvia Varón and Ana María Otálora as her co-stars in this visually experimental semi-autobiographical film about a throuple figuring out how to begin again. “We are watching these three artists create drama together,” writes Drew in her review. “Which definition of drama is unclear. I assume it’s a little of both. Revealing and not. Exaggerated and not. Truth and not.”

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Princess Cyd

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1 hr 36 min
Director: Stephen Cone

#43 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

Heather called this the most hopeful queer film of 2017, and it made plenty of mainstream magazines’ best-of lists too. It hits all your coming-of-age hotspots about first queer love and sexual discovery. What’s especially refreshing about this one is that there’s no hand-wringing from anyone about their sexuality and every woman with a major part comes away from their summer together more content and connected.

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Professor Marston & the Wonder Women

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 48m
Director: Angela Robinson

#58 on our best Lesbian Movies List

This very sexy and very fun Angela Robinson film tells the story of Harvard psychologist and inventor Dr. William Moulton Marston and his wife, Elizabeth, who together created the Wonder Women character. William hires his student, Olive, as a research assistant, and she becomes part of William and Elizabeth’s relationship. There’s a lot of rope play in this one.

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Reaching for the Moon

Year: 2013
Runtime: 1h 54m
Director: Bruno Barreto

Set in Petrópolis between the years 1951 and 1967, Reaching the Moon tells the story of the love affair between the American poet Elizabeth Bishop and the Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares. “Reaching for the Moon illustrates how creativity and power and passion shape the world through two character’s imagination and strength,” wrote Hansen in her review.

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Seventeen/Siebzhen 

Year: 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m
Director: Monja Art

17-year-old high school student Paula is really into her classmate Charlotte, but Charlotte has a boyfriend, and then there is popular girl Lily, an antagonist of Paula who might actually have a thing for Paula. Also, Charlotte has a boyfriend and then Paula gets a boyfriend ’cause she just wants to be liked. It captures the endless pining and yearning inherent in struggling with your sexuality as a teenager and all the awkward moments that engenders.

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Signature Move

Year: 2021
Runtime: 1h 11m
Director: Fawzia Mirza

#75 on our list of The 100 Best Lesbian Movies of All Time

This late-in-life coming-of-age movie finds a Pakistani-American woman obsessed with Lucha-style Mexican wrestling as an emotional release from her tense relationship with her newly widowed mother. “Fawzia Mirza stars and co-wrote the script,” writes Drew, “and her natural likeability, impeccable comic timing, and chemistry with Sari Sanchez make this movie endlessly endearing. It’s part romcom, part family dramedy, and both threads feel nuanced and real.”

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The World to Come 

Year: 2021
Runtime: 1h 44m
Director: Mona Fastvold

Mona Fastvold’s exquisite skills as a director are on display in this movie which fits most of the lesbian film tropes — 19th century, isolation, white straight cis actresses, lots of longing and period costumes. Two women in bad marriages develop a quick and deep friendship with each other that blossoms into more! In her review of The World to Come, Drew called it “an extraordinary lesbian romance ruined by Casey Affleck.”

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Other lesbian-inclusive movies on Prime Video:

• Along Came Wanda
• A New York Christmas Wedding
• A Perfect Ending
• Becks
• Carmen y Lola
• Carmilla
• Daphne
• Death on theNile
• Elena Undone
• Jules of Light and Dark
• Girl-Girl Scene: The Movie
• The Girl King
• Good Kisser
• Heartland
• The Last Conception
• Late Bloomers
• Let Me Fall
• The Lies We Tell But the Secrets We Keep
• Maybe Someday
• Mercy’s Girl
• My Normal
• Somebody I Used to Know
• Something From Tiffany’s
• Sister My Sister
• The Sleepover
• Spring
• Sunshine Cleaning
• Tru Love