Paramount Plus Just Added 162 New Movies – Here’s the 10 Best

Paramount Plus yesterday (October 1, 2024) added 162 new TV movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the five to watch, 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.

Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
The sexy psychological drama from director Stanley Kubrick stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman as a glamorous couple trying to preserve their marriage amid temptation and deceit. (No, it’s fiction.). The  movie, the great Kubrick’s last, delves into the mysterious and secretive world of masked orgies and hidden desires.

Days of Heaven (1978)
Richard Gere stars in this hypnotic tale of love and deception set on a farm in the Texas Panhandle at the tail end of World War I. But the real star is director Terrence Malick who turns a routine romantic triangle into a glorious cinematic feast for the eyes. While some critics have said over the years that Days of Heaven lacks story, no one will accuse it of lacking beauty. The film, which was shot in Canada near the Montana border, is simply one of the best looking you will ever see.

American Psycho (2000)
The 2000 satirical horror film about a Wall Street broker (Christian Bale) who moonlights as a serial killer is not for all tastes. But if you get the joke, you’ll love this send-up of the young cold mercenaries who sometimes inhabit Manhattan’s financial district. Bale is flawless in the lead and the outstanding supporting cast includes Chloe Sevigny, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto and Willem Dafoe.

Training Day (2001)
Denzel Washington is a force of nature in this Antoine Fuqua-directed movie about a young cop (Ethan Hawke) partnered with a corrupt veteran detective (Washington) on the seedy side of Los Angeles. Washington’s magnetism dominates the screen playing the detective who believes the ends justify the means (particularly when the ends include some grafted cash). Hawke is also effective as the newbie looking to climb the ladder without losing his soul in the process. A powerful film from beginning to end.

Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The 1975 conspiratorial era drama directed by Sydney Pollock stars Robert Redford as a bookish CIA employee whose nondescript New York station crew is mysteriously gunned down by a team of assassins. Redford’s character escapes but is soon hunted by a ‘deep state’ set of rogue government agents so he kidnaps a random (and, of course, beautiful) pedestrian played by Faye Dunaway and holes away in her apartment. Pollock taps into the 70s deep-rooted distrust of all things government to deliver a suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller with strong performances from Redford and Dunaway.

Four Indiana Jones Movies
Harrison Ford stars as the meek professor turned swashbuckling archeologist in this quartet of (The Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Lost Crusade, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) of classic action movies from director Steven Spielberg. You may have watched one, or perhaps all of them, but I guarantee you that they are as rewatchable as ever. Pick one today and you won’t be sorry.

Complete List of New Movies Just Added to Paramount Plus:

• 28 Weeks Later
• 30 Days of Night
• A Simple Plan*
• All About the Benjamins
• All the Wrong Ingredients
• Allegiant
• Almost Famous*
• Along Came a Spider
• American Psycho
• Amistad*
• Antlers
• Arena Wars
• Bad Behaviour
• Best Defense*
• Black Rock
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Buried
• Chaplin*
• Chocolat*
• Cliffhanger
• Coach Carter
• Colombiana
• Days of Heaven*
• Deliver Us from Evil*
• Desperado
• Divergent
• Django Unchained
• Downhill Racer*
• Dying of the Light*
• Eastern Promises
• Eddie Murphy: Raw*
• Elizabethtown*
• Enough
• Escape from Alcatraz*
• Eyes Wide Shut
• Fear (1990)
• Fido
• Finding Neverland*
• Flatliners* (1990)
• Fools Rush In
• Freedom Writers
• Fresh (2022)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Friday the 13th: Part II
• Friday the 13th: Part III
• Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter
• Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
• Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
• Frozen River
• Galaxy Quest
• Gothika
• Hard Eight
• Heat (1995)
• Heaven Can Wait*
• Hell or High Water
• Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth
• Hellraiser IV: Bloodline
• Hellraiser V: Inferno
• Hellraiser VI: Hellseeker
• Hellraiser VII: Deader
• Hellraiser VIII: Hellworld
• Hide and Seek*
• Hugo*
• Hustle & Flow
• Imagine That*
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Insurgent
• Jawbreaker
• Jennifer’s Body
• John Carpenter’s Escape From L.A.*
• John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
• Juice
• Just My Luck
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
• Life
• Little Women (1994)
• Love Story*
• Maggie’s Plan*
• Marathon Man*
• Margin Call*
• Men, Women & Children*
• Mirrors
• Monstrous*
• Mud*
• Obsessed
• Oculus
• Once Upon A Time In Mexico
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• Orphan
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Pride And Glory
• Private Parts*
• Prospect
• Queen of The Damned
• Re: Uniting
• Resident Evil
• Road Trip*
• Runaway Jury
• Scary Movie 3
• Scary Movie 4
• School Ties
• Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders
• Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire
• Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster
• Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers
• Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy
• Scrooged
• Set it Off: Director’s Cut
• Sleepy Hollow
• Smallfoot
• Snakes On a Plane
• Southpaw
• Spanglish
• Spawn
• Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
• Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
• Stephen King’s Thinner
• Stir of Echoes
• Surviving Christmas
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*
• Swingers
• Team America: World Police
• The Belko Experiment
• The Blob
• The Core
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• The Gambler*
• The General’s Daughter
• The Girl in the Pool*
• The Green Inferno
• The Hours*
• The Ladies Man*
• The Legend of Zorro
• The Little Vampire
• The Midnight Meat Train
• The Negotiator
• The Net*
• The Orphanage
• The Running Man*
• The Stepford Wives*
• The Truman Show*
• The Wash*
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• This One’s for the Ladies*
• Three Days of the Condor*
• Training Day
• True Grit (2010)
• Universal Soldier
• Vampire in Brooklyn
• Vantage Point*
• We Own the Night*
• Weird Science
• Wild Eyed and Wicked
• Wild Things
• Willard (2003)

* Denotes that you need the Paramount Plus with Showtime plan.

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