The 10 best movies on Paramount Plus to watch right now

Matthew McConaughey as Cooper, next to a floating space ship in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.
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Welcome to our brand 🐠new list of the best movies on Paramount Plus! On this page we've selected 10 must-see ⛎movies, all of which are available to watch right now on the streamer.

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10. Gladiator

Russell Crowe and Djimon Hounsou in Gladiator

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Year: 2000
Director: Ridley Scott
Available on: Paramount Plus US

Ridley Scott's historical epic kicked in the doors on a new millennium and revived the sword-and-sandal genre in the process. Russell Crowe is Maximus Decimus Meridius, a loyal Roman general horrified when Emperor Marcus Aurelius is murdered and replaced by his 🐻power-hungry son Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). Sold into slavery by the new Roman ruler, Maximus is forced to fight for his survival. But as his fame grows around the empire as a gladiator, so too does his chance to take revenge...

With visceral fight scenes that put the viewer ri𓆏ght in the action, compelling performan🔯ces from Crowe and Phoenix, and an epic sense of scale, Gladiator is muscular filmmaking that remains impressive today. Gladiator II, the belated and honestly a bit rubbish recent sequel, is also available on the streamer.

9. Mean Girls

The cast of Mean Girls.

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Year: 2004
Director: Mark Waters
Available on: Paramount Plus US/UK

Few films have captured the viciousness of high school life than Mean Girls. Directed by Mark Waters from a script by 30 Rock creator Tina Fey, the comedy follows Lindsay Lohan's Cady as she transfers to high school after years of homeschooling. She quickly makes friends with Janis (Lizzy Caplan) and Damian (Daniel Franzese) and develops a crush on classmate Aaron (Jonathan Bennett), but learns that he is off limits due to being the ex-boyfriend of Regina (Rachel McAdams) – leader of the school's coolest clique, wh﷽o Janis and Damian dub "the P💛lastics." That's enough to spark all-out war...

Fey's script is laugh-out-loud funny an𒁃d shot through with a streak of nastiness – it's called Mean Girls for a reason, with Cady becoming as ruthless as her nemesis. That's, of course, the point, in a smart and sharp movie th꧙at has inspired countless memes, a popular stage musical, and a recent remake.

8. Point Break

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in Point Break

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Year: 1991
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Available on: Paramount Plus US

Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze is a bromance made in movie heaven in Kathryn Bigelow ridiculously fun surfer/crime flick. Reeves plays the incredibly-named rookie FBI Agent Johnny Utah, tasked with infiltrating the surf communi♏ty to track down a gang of bank robbers known as the "Ex-Presidents." Swayze is the leader of said gang, Bodhi. The two quickly strike up a genuine friendship that must eventually turn to betrayal if Utah is to keep his career.

Yes, it's silly, but Point Break is also a hugely exciting movie, Bigelow proving herself a master o🌺f action filmmaking as she would again in 2008's The Hurt Locker. But it's the ꩲgenuine chemistry between Reeves and Swayze that makes this such an endlessly charming movie. That and the surprisingly hilarious bit where Bodhi distracts Utah by throwing a dog at him.

7. Pulp Fiction

John Travolta as Vincent Vega and Samuel L Jackson as Jules Winfield in Pulp Fiction

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Year: 1994
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Available on: Paramount Plus US/UK

Quentin Tarantino followed up Reservoir Dogs with this thrilling and funny crime portmanteau – and became the hottest director of the '90s. Over four intertwined tales, Tarantino pulls together a cast of unforgettable actors and characters: Jo♛hn Travolta and Samuel L Jackson as a pair of smooth hitmen. Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer as lovestruck small time crims. Uma Thurman as Mia Wallace – a mobster's girlfriend who gets entwined with Travolta's character. Bruce Willis as an ageing boxer paid to lose a fight... and more.

Pulp Fiction strutted onto the scene with a bulletproof sense of its own cool and, remarkably𒅌, lived up to all the hype and expectation. Where Tarantino's weaker work can sometimes feel like empty pastiche, Pulp Fiction looked to the past while feeling 🍌perfectly of the moment. It remains iconic to this day.

6. Call Me By Your Name

Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman in Call Me By Your Name

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Year: 2017
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Available on: Paramount Plus US

This dreamy love story elevated Timothée Chalamet's career to 👍another level. Having previously appeared in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, the young Timmy took the lead here as Elio, an introspective musician living with his parents in Northern Italy. When his father invites the handsome Oliver (Armie Hammer) to spend the summer ꧙with the family, the two strike up a connection.

Based on the 2007 coming-of-age novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name is a beautifully shot and tender portrait of youthful desire. It's not an uncomplicated movie – Oliver is olde✅r than Elio by some way – but director Luca Guadagnino (whose own career was also given a significant boost by the film's success) makes it clear that their relationship leaves its scars. A beautiful film an♛d so evocatively shot, you can practically feel the high heat of summer.

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5. Interstellar

Matthew McConaughey as Joseph Cooper during one of the best sci-fi movies, Interstellar.

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Year: 2014
Director: Christopher Nolan
Available on: Paramount Plus US

The Dark Knight trilogy may have changed the face of comic book movies, and Oppenheimer granted director Christopher Nolan serious Oscar respectability, but Interstellar remains his most ambitious film. Set in a future where humanity is experiencing the disastrous effects of climate change, Matthew McConaughey plays former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper. Called back up from a quiet life farming, Coop ♕is tasked with leading a desperate mission to find new habitable planets. It'll be a time, space, and mind-bending journey that will ❀separate him from his young daughter forever, unless Coop can somehow find a way back...

This is science fiction filmmaking on an epic scal🐼e, full of heady concepts – time di💜lation plays a major role – and satisfyingly tactile set pieces. But it's the film's heart that really makes the film so powerful and which gives its ending such tearjerking emotional heft.

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