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 platform also has a dense catalog of movies streaming on the service, from newer films like Devotion and Dog to classics like True Grit and Serpico.
Here are some of the best movies you can find playing on Paramount+ right now.
Updated: January 18.
War: Devotion
A movie along the same lines as Top Gun: Maverick (with one of the same stars), Devotion is the second-best aviation movie that saw a release in 2022. In fact, in some crucial ways, it makes for an even better story than Maverick, taking advantage of its historical basis in reality.
In 1950, US Navy officers Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors) and Tom Hudner (Glen Powell) become close friends in spite of their racial differences, both of them going on to become the most important pilots during the Korean War.
Between its dramatic storyline, exciting action, and ensemble cast, Devotion is a fascinating and heart-rending true story about friendship and camaraderie amidst the dangers of war. Just as in real life, Devotion’s Brown and Hudner share a profound relationship that carries them through the war, helping them get through the most difficult and horrifying of times (whether it’s on the battlefield or in the systemically racist American homefront at the time).
Comedy: Dog
It’s incredible to think of how versatile an actor Channing Tatum can be. All at once, he’s able to play a goofier, slapstick comedic character expertly employed in movies like 21 Jump Street. But with a movie like Dog, he’s also able to embody a more nuanced kind of character, one that’s profoundly human, relatable, and easy to empathize with in more ways than one.
Following the death of his best friend, a former Army Ranger suffering from PTSD (Tatum) reluctantly agrees to escort his friend’s unruly dog from Washington to Arizona, unexpectedly developing a close bond with the canine along the way.
With Tatum serving as both the star and co-director, Dog is an enjoyable enough debut for an actor who shows incredible talent as a filmmaker. Balancing his dual roles behind the camera and in front of it, Tatum presents a movie that’s equally heartwarming, heartbreaking, and somehow conversely lighthearted.
Drama: Silence
It’s not often Martin Scorsese leaves his go-to crime genre behind and delves into historical stories. But when he does, the resulting film can prove just as breathtaking as any one of his crime epics, an example of this being found with his 2016 film, Silence.
In the early 17th century, two Jesuit missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) are sent to Japan to locate their former mentor (Liam Neeson) and spread Christianity in the country — even as Japan begins a hostile campaign to stop their populace from converting to the religion.
In some ways, Silence feels like the ideal second-part to Scorsese’s The Last Temptation of Christ. In the movie, Driver and Garfield expertly portray the roles of men out of their element, desperately trying to cling to their religion and find answers behind their mentor’s disappearance. It’s a brilliant, underrated movie from Scorsese, the sort of historical epic we’d love to see more of in the future.
Fantasy: The Green Knight
A modern-day retelling of the legend of Arthurian knight Gawain and his fateful battle with the Green Knight, The Green Knight is more than a simple fantasy movie. Rather, it’s an examination of life and death, of destiny and controlling your own future, and of where the line falls between bravery and outright stupidity.
One year after striking a bargain with the enigmatic Green Knight (Ralph Ineson), the stubborn knight Gawain (Dev Patel) journeys across the kingdom to meet his adversary and complete his end of their deal.
Visually striking and chock full of wondrous performances, The Green Knight is just one more fantastic movie from indie film powerhouse, A24. Acting as a postmodern riff on the original tale of Gawain, it dissects the themes found within the medieval text, analyzing everything from masculinity and youthful arrogance to manifestations of death and the unknown.
Horror: A Quiet Place
One of the most original horror movies of the past decade, A Quiet Place was a movie unlike anything else that had come before it. As grim as any other post-apocalyptic movie, its use of sound was unparalleled, helping immerse you in a strange world where the slightest bit of noise could give way to the greatest terrors you can imagine.
In a nightmarish near future when hostile aliens have taken over Earth, using noise as their primary method to hunt humans, a rural family does their best to survive and adjust to their new soundless environment.
It’s hard to believe actors can convey so much emotion with such a limited reliance on sound. The same, too, can be said about the slowly budding sense of dread experienced by the characters, the movie portraying a real feeling of suspense where even a pin drop could mean sudden and grisly death.
Crime: Serpico
When he decides to come clean about the rampant corruption sweeping the New York Police Department, the honest and forthright Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) becomes a recurring target of his fellow police officers.
In the 1970s, Al Pacino was the Adam Driver of his day. Fresh off the success of one movie, Pacino would pop up again starring in another, equally fantastic movie, dominating the ‘70s with some of the decade’s best acting.
Case in point with Serpico, Pacino’s second film after his career-making performance in The Godfather. Embodying a far more humane character than the cold-blooded Michael Corleone, Pacino is genuinely delightful as the anxiety-riddled Serpico, infecting the audience with a profound sense of humanity and idealism that Serpico carries throughout the movie.
Thriller: The Hurt Locker
When it came to theaters in 2008, The Hurt Locker was instantly recognized as one of the best movies of the year, attracting pretty much every major award recognition in existence (the Academy Award, the BAFTA, the Golden Globe).
As their tour in the Iraq War unfolds, the members of an Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit experience mounting levels of stress and anxiety as a direct result of their settings, wartime service, and routinely dangerous duties.
Director Kathryn Bigelow has always been a director of immense talent, making her name with such overlooked genre pieces as Near Dark and Strange Days in earlier decades. With The Hurt Locker, Bigelow zones in on the Iraq War with documentary-like precision, depicting the splintered psyche and emotional upheaval soldiers feel in the heat of battle. It's a tense movie, more thriller than it is strictly a war movie, and one that truly makes you feel like you’re on the battlefield next to the Ordnance team.
Sci-Fi: Star Trek Into Darkness
The 2009 reboot of Star Trek was a memorably great reintroduction to the hit space opera series. Building off the momentum established in the previous film, its immediate sequel, Into Darkness, was an ideal tie-in to the initial movie, pushing the story in new directions while paying homage to some of the series’ most famous features.
After a massive attack nearly destroys the entirety of Starfleet, a vendetta-driven Kirk (Chris Pine) chases a rogue Starfleet officer (Benedict Cumberbatch) deep into the neutral territory of space, threatening to trigger a war with the Klingon Empire.
A very loose remake of Wrath of Khan, Into Darkness focuses on its own cohesive narrative rather than relying too heavily on Wrath of Khan’s storyline. Playing on audience expectations, it offers a bizarro version of Khan’s reign of terror on Starfleet, as well as his climactic battle with the crew of USS Enterprise.
Western: True Grit
Looking to avenge her father’s death, a stern teenage girl (Hailee Steinfeld) hires a grizzled US Marshal (Jeff Bridges) and a loquacious Texas Ranger (Matt Damon) to track down and capture her father’s killer (Josh Brolin).
The Coen brothers are experts at two kinds of movies. First, there’s the lighthearted comedy, featuring more openly cartoonish characters and situations (The Big Lebowski, O, Brother Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona); then, there’s the movies that possess a somewhat darker, more sobering tone (Fargo, Barton Fink, Inside Llewyn Davis).
Belonging to this latter category is a movie like True Grit. A remake of the original 1969 John Wayne film, True Grit is a stylistic departure of sorts for the Oscar-winning siblings. Though the movie possesses the same subtle humor as the brothers’ other movies, it utilizes a look and tone that aligns it more closely with No Country for Old Men than the screwball banter of Buster Scruggs.
Underrated: Under The Silver Lake
Director David Robert Mitchell is most assuredly known for his breakout horror film, It Follows. However, Under the Silver Lake, his follow-up to his popular 2014 psychological horror movie, also merits a watch for several different reasons — even if the plot itself is impossible to follow.
When his apartment neighbor (Riley Keough) goes missing, a directionless young man (Andrew Garfield) sets out to solve the mystery behind her disappearance, uncovering a vast conspiracy in the process.
Harking back to the classic noir feel of detective movies in the 1940s, Under the Silver Lake is a bold, visionary, and endlessly confusing movie with several interwoven plot threads, each more complex than the last. While the story is difficult to decipher, it has enough originality and bizarre humor to make you keep watching, acting as a modern successor to other comedic neo-noir movies like The Big Lebowski and Inherent Vice.
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