Paramount Plus Adds 100 Movies Today – Here’s the 4 Best

By Phillip Swann
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Paramount Plus, the streaming service with plans starting at $5.99 a month, today added 100 new movies to its lineup. Here are the four best, in my humble opinion:

Heat (1995)
Michael Mann’s classic heist film pits master thief Robert De Niro against world-weary detective Al Pacino in a battle for the ages. This is the first film the two acting legends appeared in the same scene together, and while they share the screen for less than 10 minutes, it’s like watching Michael Jordan play Kobe Bryant in their primes. The intensity pours off the screen as they attempt (even if not consciously) to outdo the other. Almost lost in the novelty of having De Niro and Pacino in the same film is Mann’s incredible vision and direction of Heat which holds your attention for nearly three hours as if it were three minutes. It’s a whirlwind of a movie and increasingly getting recognition as one of the best ever.

Die Hard (1988)
Bruce Willis plays the smirking New York cop combatting a terrorist takeover of his wife’s office building in Los Angeles on Christmas Eve. The film, directed with perfection by John McTiernan, redefined the action genre and made Willis an A-List star. Alan Rickman nearly steals the picture as the evil, acid-tongued terrorist boss.

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s intense 2012 drama starring Jessica Chastain as a relentless CIA agent who hunts for the masterminds behind the 9/11 attack on America. The film was seen by some as glorifying the extralegal tactics required to obtain leads in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. But it fairly characterizes the pain and zeal felt by the intelligence/military personnel at the time. And Chastain is riveting as a CIA case officer who can’t sit still (literally) until she finds her man.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The drama/thriller starring Jodie Foster as a young FBI agent who’s enlists the help of a psychopathic serial killer (Anthony Hopkins in the role of a lifetime) to catch another psychopathic serial killer.

Complete List of New Movies Added Today to Paramount Plus. (Films with asterisk require the Paramount Plus with Showtime plan.)

A Good Day to Die Hard*
A Perfect Day*
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate
American History X
Apache Junction*

Big Top Pee-Wee
Biker Boyz*
Blades of Glory
Blue Chips
Boyz N’ The Hood*

Caddyshack
Catch the Bullet*
Charlie’s Angels
Charlie’s Angels Full Throttle
Charlotte’s Web

Copycat
Defiance
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star*
Die Hard*
Die Hard 2*

Die Hard with a Vengeance*
Drag Me to Hell
El Dorado
Enemy at the Gates*
Fear

Freedom Writers*
Funny Face
Gone Baby Gone*
Good Mourning*
Grease

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Hamburger Hill
Heat*
Heist*
Identity

Imagine That
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Legends of the Fall*
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

Live Free or Die Hard*
Love The Coopers*
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Miss Sloane*
My Left Foot

Necessary Roughness
New Jack City
Outlaw Posse*
Paid in Full*
Pawn Sacrifice*

Private Parts
Rounders
Rudy*
Rules of Engagement
Rushmore

RV*
Sahara
Set It Off: Director’s Cut
Sexy Beast
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek III: The Search For Spock
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition
Stephen King’s Thinner

Stop-Loss
Summer Rental
Summer School*
Sunset Boulevard
Superstar

Swingers
Terms of Endearment
The Baby-Sitters Club
The Babysitter
The East

The Love Letter
The Mechanic
The Running Man
The Saint*
The Silence of the Lambs*

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The Truman Show
The Yards
Timeline
Tom & Jerry

Top Secret!*
Total Recall
Trainspotting
Uncommon Valor
Universal Soldier*

What Men Want*
Without a Paddle
World Trade Center
Yours, Mine & Ours
Zero Dark Thirty

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