David Farnor | On 25, Jun 2022

This week sees the launch of Paramount+ in the UK, bringing with it a host of Paramount exclusives and originals, such as Halo, The First Lady and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It also includes a back catalogue of Showtime series, such as Dexter, Billions and Yellowjackets, plus a wealth of Paramount movies.

Paramount boasts that it’s got a slate of more than 8,000 hours of programming and films available, for a price of £6.99 a month or £69.90 per year in the UK. But is any of it any good? That’s where we come in – we’ve gone through the full catalogue of films on Paramount+ UK to round up the best ones:

Addams Family Values

Its title may beat around the Bush, but Barry Sonnenfield’s superior sequel goes straight for the jugular. The Addams Family is also available. Read our full review

Airplane!

For sheer gag-per-minute count, this fast-paced comedy is one of the funniest movies ever made.

Breakfast At Tiffany’s

A young New York socialite takes interest in a man who moves into her apartment building downstairs in this lovely adaptation of Truman Capote’s novel. Audrey Hepburn is a delight.

Cast Away

The ever-charismatic Tom Hanks even conjures up chemistry with a volleyball in this hugely moving tale of a man stranded on an island.

Chinatown

“There’s something black in the green part of your eye.” “Oh, that. It’s a… it’s a flaw in the iris.” This 1974 detective thriller starring Jack Nicholson is a classic, but its achievement is feeling like a classic from 30 years earlier.

Cloverfield

A thoroughly modern monster movie.

Dreamgirls

From the sumptuous visuals to the cracking cast, this adaptation of the Broadway musical is, simply, a whole lot of fun.

Clueless

Perfectly updating Jane Austen for 1990s Beverly Hills, Clueless is an evergreen adaptation. Read our full review

Emma

Costume drama fans may already be very familiar with Douglas McGrath’s 1996 adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic, but from Gwyneth Paltrow’s meddling matchmaker to Jeremy Northam’s broodingly obvious suitor, this is a pitch-perfect rendition of the author’s irony-laden humour.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Matthew Broderick is on iconic form in this comedy about a high-school slacker who skips school for a day in Chicago.

Event Horizon

Paul WS Anderson’s sci-fi horror is far better than its reputation suggests. Read our full reivew

Grease

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John are electrifying in this timeless, showstopping classic. Grease 2 is also available.

Harold and Maude

More than 50 years on, this unconventional odd couple remains one of cinema’s most beloved and subversive love stories.

The Hunt For Red October

Sean Connery is on charismatic form in this entertaining thriller about a submarine gone rogue.

Jackie Brown

Quentin Tarantino’s best film is a mature, music-filled adaptation of an Elmore Leonard classic.

Like Crazy

An anti-rom-com with all the poignancy and power of The Graduate.

Mean Girls

So totally fetch.

Mission Impossible: Fallout

The Mission: Impossible franchise jumps to new heights with a gripping, astonishing piece of action cinema. Ghost Protocol is also available.

Mousehunt

Deranged and hysterical, Gore Verbinski’s underrated debut is a slapstick smash hit.

National Treasure

Nic Cage goes full Indiana Jones for this exciting, interesting, light-hearted and amusing blockbuster.

No Country For Old Men

Brooding, unforgiving and full of portent, No Country for Old Men is a tense noir Western that grips throughout.

Pulp Fiction

“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”

Red Eye

This underrated thriller from Wes Craven is a ruthlessly efficient ride.

Revolutionary Road

Kate and Leo deliver powerful performances in Sam Mendes’ moving domestic drama.

Roman Holiday

A day out on the town with Audrey Hepburn? William Wyler’s romantic comedy, which stars Gregory Peck as a reporter who crosses paths with a runaway princess, is a delightful, charming ride.

Saturday Night Fever

John Travolta struts his stuff in this iconic music hit.

The School Of Rock

Jack Black is on winning form in this film about a failed musician who tricks his way into becoming a supply teacher educating children.

Scream

Wed Craven and Kevin Williamson’s smart, self-aware horror-comedy manages to be funny and genuinely scary at the same time.

Star Trek: First Contact

Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard is at his best in this superb feature-length outing that pits the USS Enterprise against the Borg.

Sunset Blvd.

William Holden’s hack screenwriter writes a role for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity in Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning classic, starring Gloria Swanson as timeless diva Norma Desmond, whose voiceover is to die for.

The Talented Mr Ripley

Matt Damon and Jude Law shine in Anthony Minghella’s sumptuous adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel.

Team America: World Police

Matt. Damon.

There Will Be Blood

Paul Thomas Anderson’s tale of America, ambition and the selfishness of man is free-range cinema of the highest quality.

True Grit (2010)

Hailee Steinfeld goes toe to toe with Jeff Bridges in the Coen brothers’ mature, poetic, gripping Western.

Twilight

This intense teen romance rings with earnest chemistry and classic horror – also, baseball.

Wayne’s World

Mike Myers’ lowbrow 90s comedy is a charmingly sweet romp.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

Richard Burton is superb in this gripping adaptation of the John le Carré thriller.

Young Adult

Charlize Theron is remarkable in this deliciously spiky comedy drama.

Zoolander

Ben Stiller’s sharply written comedy about a male model is really, really, ridiculously funny.

Zulu

Michael Caine stars in this epic war drama retelling the Battle of Rorke’s Drift.

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