Since its debut in 2021, Paramount+ has quickly risen to become one of the greatest subscription-based streaming platforms you can currently find online. Combining a range of properties from CBS, Paramount, Nickelodeon, and Comedy Central, it boasts a rich library of beloved movies, TV series, and documentaries.
Like all the most noteworthy streaming platforms, Paramount+ also has a ton of exclusive content at its disposal, such as Star Trek: Picard, 1883, and The Good Fight.
Along with those exclusive titles,the plat also has a dense catalog of movies streaming on the service, from newer films like The Social Network and Snowpiercer to classics like The Breakfast Club and Saving Private Ryan.
Here are some of the best movies you can find playing on Paramount+ right now.
Updated: December 23.
Drama: The Breakfast Club
The most iconic movie of the 1980s and easily the best teen movie of all time, nobody exits high school without watching The Breakfast Club at least once. At the time, director John Hughes did something no one else had ever done before: discussing the feelings and inner conflict of his young characters, treating them with utmost sincerity and sensitivity.
Spending the day serving a Saturday detention, five teens from different social cliques (an “athlete, a brain, a princess, a criminal, and a basket case”) spend time getting to know each other, realizing they have more in common than they originally thought.
Certain scenes from The Breakfast Club are forever ingrained in audience members’ minds — perhaps most famously that final image of Bender (Judd Nelson) raising his fist in triumph as he stalks across the football field. But the whole movie is one unforgettable sequence after another, giving validity to its protagonist’s emotions and showing how confusing high school can be for kids simply trying to live for themselves.
Action: Mission: Impossible III
With how fantastic the more recent entries in the Mission: Impossible series have been, the first three movies seem almost superfluous by comparison. As below average as the first two movies in the franchise are, Mission: Impossible III marks a turning point in the series, setting the stage for the heights of Ghost Protocol onwards.
On his final mission for IMF, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) faces his most dangerous enemy yet: a sociopathic arms dealer (Philip Seymour Hoffman) targeting his fiancee (Michelle Monaghan).
As is the case with everything before Ghost Protocol, Mission: Impossible III is far from the best Mission: Impossible movie. However, between its thrilling action, performances, and Hoffman’s lead villain, it was a definite step up from the franchise lows of Mission: Impossible II, showing a glimmer of hope for the series’ future.
Crime: Bad Santa
Bad Santa might not rank as highly a holiday movie as A Christmas Story or Home Alone. But if you’re ever in the mood for an outside-the-box Christmas movie to enjoy, we earnestly suggest this 2003 dark comedy in lieu of It’s A Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street.
Veteran con man Willie (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner Marcus (Tony Cox) run a tight operation. Every Christmas, the two get a job posing as Santa and his elf, robbing the malls they work at on Christmas Eve. This Christmas, however, their plan is complicated when Willie meets a lonely young boy (Bret Kelly) obsessed with Santa.
Led by a hilarious deadpanning Thornton, Bad Santa isn’t a Christmas movie for everyone, with those holding the holiday on a sentimental pedestal likely not falling for any of the movie’s mean-spirited jokes or unlikable characters. But if you’re the kind of person who enjoys Die Hard or Black Christmas whenever the holiday season rolls around, you’re unlikely to be disappointed by Bad Santa.
Comedy: Scrooged
Continuing off the above point, if you’re one who holds Christmas near and dear to your heart, you might not enjoy the 1998 holiday cult classic, Scrooged. However, if you’re open to watching slightly darker, more cynical takes on the Christmas spirit, Scrooged is the movie for you.
As he oversees a televised production of A Christmas Carol, a miserly TV executive (Bill Murray) is haunted by three ghosts who try to get him to see the error of his ways.
A modern spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Scrooged is also an effective satirization on corporate America, the television industry, and shallow yuppie businessmen in general. One of Murray’s finer performances, its clever approach to its age-old source material is enough to set it apart from the dozens of other Christmas Carol adaptations that came before and after it.
Sci-Fi: Snowpiercer
Before he was an Oscar-winning director, Bong Joon-ho produced several incredible films, including the Seven-esque murder mystery film, Memories of Murder, the monster movie, The Host, and the 2013 post-apocalyptic thriller, Snowpiercer.
In a nightmarish far future, Earth has been ravaged by a second ice age, decimating almost all life on the planet. The few survivors live on board a high-speed intercontinental bullet train, where each train car has been separated into different social classes.
An ingenious action film in itself, Snowpiercer combines an all-star cast (Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, and Song Kang-ho, among others) with nonstop thrills and inventive fight sequences. It’s a dystopian film with a message, showing that, no matter the state of the world, class divides will almost always manifest themselves between people.
Biopic: The Social Network
If there were such a thing as a perfect movie, The Social Network might be it. Alongside other strong contenders like Back to the Future or Jaws, it captures and holds your attention from the opening scene until the closing credits.
With his social media platform, The Facebook, skyrocketing in popularity, Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) faces intense legal challenges from his former employers (Armie Hammer) and ex-best friend (Andrew Garfield).
Over a decade later, and The Social Network is still just as relevant now as it was upon its release in 2010. With all the headlines made by tech billionaires as the years unfold, it’s as enlightening a movie about how ruthless and cutthroat these moguls are as you can get.
Horror: Midsommar
Folk horror is a very niche, not altogether very popular subgenre of horror. However, it’s hard to refute that this little-known genre hasn’t produced some of the most terrifying movies ever made, including The Wicker Man, Witchfinder General, and Ari Aster’s 2019 film, Midsommar.
After a personal tragedy upends her life, a distraught young woman (Florence Pugh), her boyfriend (Jack Reynor), and their friends are invited to a remote area of Sweden to partake in the pagan festival occurring there.
Following up the acclaim of Hereditary, Midsommar is just as dark, disturbing, and unsettling as Aster’s debut film. Florence Pugh single-handedly earns her prestigious place in the film industry with her portrayal in this movie, with Reynor, William Jackson Harper, and Will Poulter similarly handing in commendable performances.
War: Saving Private Ryan
Compared to every World War II that came before it, few movies are as horrifyingly accurate in its depiction of war as Saving Private Ryan. One of the absolute greatest films ever directed by Steven Spielberg, he holds nothing back when it comes to his illustration of WW2 battles, giving life and personality to every soldier who appears on the screen (something few directors could ever effectively pull off).
Shortly after the invasion of Nazi-occupied France, a squad of US Army Rangers receive orders to locate a missing paratrooper, notify him that his brothers (fellow soldiers, all) have been killed in combat, and escort him to safety.
The premise of Saving Private Ryan may be fictional, but the movie’s focus on the Normandy invasion is worthy of note. The lengthy D-Day sequence that opens the film, in particular, is filled with brutal imagery you’re not likely to forget, leaving you with a renewed appreciation for all the veterans who saw combat as horrible as this.
Romance: Sleepless in Seattle
On the other end of the spectrum opposite Saving Private Ryan is Sleepless in Seattle, the second of three collaborations between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (the other two being Joe Versus the Volcano and You’ve Got Mail).
Wanting to find his widowed father (Tom Hanks) a new partner, eight-year-old Jonah (Ross Malinger) convinces his dad to go on a public radio show and tell his story. When he does, he wins over the heart of a Baltimore writer (Meg Ryan) who finds his story fascinating enough for a story.
You’ve Got Mail is the most popular of Hanks and Ryan’s films together, but Sleepless in Seattle is arguably just as good (and in some ways better) than their 1998 Thanksgiving classic. Possessing a lighter tone and beat after beat of humorous lines, it's the ideal movie for any date night, sure to make anyone laugh, “aw,” and perhaps even tear up the appropriate number of times.
Underrated: Shaolin Soccer
If you’re unfamiliar with Hong Kong filmmaker Stephen Chow’s work, we recommend going ahead and watching his side-splittingly funny 2004 masterpiece, Kung Fu Hustle. However, Chow’s previous movies — like the 2001 sports/martial arts comedy, Shaolin Soccer — are definitely nothing to scoff at either.
Wanting to promote the numerous benefits that come with kung fu, a martial artist (Chow) reunites his Shaolin monk brothers to compete in a soccer tournament.
As seen here, the joy of Chow’s movies is his irreverent and unique approach to his subject matter. In the case of Shaolin Soccer, the movie essentially is a live-action Looney Tunes movie, complete with cartoon physics, ceaselessly silly characters, and a generally over-the-top story. Like a classic Monty Python skit or a Mel Brooks movie, watching it, you’re guaranteed to have a good time.
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