Under the agreement, Amazon Prime customers can watch titles including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gosford Park and Babe, among others. Amazon Prime now offers about 7,000 TV shows and 2,000 movies.
The deal comes as Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and Google scramble to provide content to stream while each of them market their competing services.
Amazon rebranded its video-on-demand service Amazon Prime in February. Amazon Prime is a membership program that provides free shipping options as well as the streaming video service for $79 per year. Prime competes with Netflix, which recently initiated a price hike for users who both stream and get DVDs delivered. The company this week predicted that the move will hurt growth in the third quarter, but the effect won’t last until the fourth.