Paramount Plus Today Adds 136 New Movies – Here Are the 10 to Watch

By Phillip Swann
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Paramount Plus today (November 1, 2025) has added 136 new shows and movies to its streaming lineup. Here are the 10 to watch, in my humble opinion:

Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Director Adam McKay’s hilarious send-up of the NASCAR circuit starring Will Ferrell as a witless but winning driver. Sacha Baron Cohen is Peter Sellers-like funny as a French driver and rival to Ferrell’s Ricky Bobby and the rest of the supporting cast includes Amy Adams, John C. Reilly and Leslie Bibb. Rev your engines and prepare to laugh.

The Big Short (2015)
The Big Short chronicles how the real estate bubble and Wall Street shenanigans triggered the U.S. financial crisis in 2008. The fantastic ensemble cast includes Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt and Jeremy Strong. Adam McKay directs and was the co-writer. Sharp, insightful and damn funny.

When Harry Met Sally (1989) 
Okay, director Rob Reiner may have cribbed a bit from Woody Allen’s Annie Hall, but When Harry Met Sally is still a funny and sweet comedy about the frailties and fickleness of falling in love. Billy Crystal (arguably his best role ever) and Meg Ryan are charming and comedic pitch perfect as the leads and Carrie Fisher and Bruno Kirby are a delight in support.

There Will Be Blood (2007) – (Pictured Above)
Daniel Day-Lewis puts on an actor’s master class as Daniel Plainview, a 19th Century oilman who will stop at nothing to achieve wealth and power. The film, directed with perfection by Paul Thomas Anderson, is a snapshot of our nation as it begins its transition from a frontier land to a highly developed capitalist empire. And what a snapshot it is. PTA’s use of the camera is characteristically magnificent with some of the most beautiful and gripping shots you’ll ever see. Great acting. Great direction. Great movie

Chinatown (1974)
Jack Nicholson stars in this Roman Polanski-directed neo noir classic about a private detective who gets more he can handle when he investigates the transfer of water in 1930s Los Angeles. Nicholson cements his status as one of Hollywood’s greatest as the cool but vulnerable detective J.J. Gittes and the supporting cast is exceptional, particularly Faye Dunaway as a powerful widow with a host of skeletons in the closet. But the real star here is Polanski who was just five years removed from the graphic slaying of his wife, Sharon Tate, by the Manson Family. Scene after scene in Chinatown offer subtle reminders of that grisly event but Polanski bravely taps his personal experience to tell a haunting tale.

Saving Private Ryan (1998) 
Directed by Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan stars Tom Hanks as the captain of a World War II unit which must find a single soldier (Matt Damon) while navigating the horrors of war. There’s never been a better film on the sacrifice and unselfishness of America’s military and Hanks is especially good in lead. And the first 15 minutes, which depicts the D-Day invasion, immerses the viewer in battle unlike any scene before or since

The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II (1972 and 1974 respectively)
Arguably the two greatest films ever, not just among those recently added to Paramount+. Director (and co-writer with Mario Puzo) Francis Ford Coppola paints a cinematic masterpiece in each film, chronicling the rise of the Corleone crime family from its early immigrant roots at the turn of the 20th Century to its powerful reign in 1950s and 60s America. The cast is one to die for, pun intended, with Marlon Brando somehow even eclipsing his greatest roles in the 1950s (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire) as family head Vito Corleone and a here-to-then unknown named Al Pacino as his son, Michael Corleone, who’s corrupted by family loyalties and power. And there’s the supporting crew. James Caan. Robert Duvall. Diane Keaton. John Cazale. Sterling Hayden. Robert DeNiro (!). My goodness, I can talk about these movies all day long.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has become the American cinema’s best coming-of-age comedy ever thanks to the perfect performance by Matthew Broderick as the wisecracking and charismatic Ferris. The film, which features Ferris playing hooky from school, serves up everything you want from a comedy and more. And let’s not forget the great supporting work from Alan Buck as Ferris’ put-upon pal. Fun film! If you’ve never seen it, please do. And if you have, it’s immensely rewatchable and just as funny the second or 12th time.

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is a cinematic masterpiece that still holds up nearly 50 years later. Blending action, adventure, and even archaeology, the film is a cinematic simulation of riding a rollercoaster. Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford as the iconic Indiana Jones, the film takes audiences on a breathtaking journey across the globe in search of the elusive Ark of the Covenant.

New Movies & Shows Added Today to Paramount Plus

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
21 Jump Street
40 Days and 40 Nights
48 Hrs.
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
A Beautiful Mind (2002)
Alfie (2004)
All I Want For Christmas
American Beauty
American Made
An Officer and a Gentleman
Another 48 Hrs.
Assassin Club
Big Daddy
Big Night
Blades of Glory
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Catch Me If You Can
Chinatown
Chocolat
Cujo
Days of Thunder
Dean*
Deck The Halls
Defiance
Dinner For Schmucks
Doubt
Dreamgirls
Enemy at the Gates
Faster
Fatman
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Flags of Our Fathers
Flight
Friendsgiving
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Gasoline Alley
Geostorm
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Ghost
Hamburger Hill
Happy Christmas
Home For The Holidays
I Love You, Man
Indecent Proposal
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Instant Family
Jersey Girl
Joe Dirt
Juice
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Last Holiday (2006)
Leaving Las Vegas
Love, Rosie
Loving
Mansfield Park (1999)
Morning Glory
Mousehunt
No Strings Attached
Noah (2014)
Old School
Only the Brave Pain & Gain
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pretty In Pink
Punch-Drunk Love
Rango
Reindeer Games
Rescue Dawn
Revolutionary Road
Rules of Engagement
Runaway Bride
Santa Stole Our Dog!
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scrooge (1970)
Scrooged
Shakespeare in Love
She’s All That
She’s Out of My League
Sherlock Gnomes
Shooter
Snow Day
Some Kind of Wonderful
Starship Troopers
Staying Alive
Stop-Loss
Superstar
Surviving Christmas
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
The Big Short
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Cut*
The Darkest Hour
The Duchess
The Fighting Temptations
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
The Mechanic (2011)
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Perfect Score
The Score
The Terminal
The Terminator (1984)
The Usual Suspects
The Words
There Will Be Blood
Titanic
Tommy Boy
Total Recall (1990)
Trading Places
Uncommon Valor
Up In The Air
Urban Cowboy
Valkyrie
Varsity Blues
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2
We Were Soldiers
What Women Want
When Harry Met Sally
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
World Trade Center
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)

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