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What Paramount+ Brings to Film Streaming
Paramount+ is the most underestimated streaming service for film. While Netflix and Max get more attention, Paramount+ carries one of Hollywood's oldest and deepest studio archives — Paramount Pictures, founded in 1912, with a library spanning over a century of cinema. That means everything from silent-era classics to 1970s New Hollywood masterpieces to modern blockbusters, all in one place.
Since adding Showtime content to the service, Paramount+ also has a prestige film and television layer similar to what HBO brings to Max. The combination of archive depth and contemporary prestige makes it a genuinely broad service — if you know where to look.
The Paramount archive
Paramount's library includes The Godfather trilogy, the original Star Trek films, the Indiana Jones series, the Mission: Impossible franchise, Chinatown, Sunset Boulevard, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Forrest Gump, Braveheart, and hundreds of others. For anyone interested in classic Hollywood and film history, Paramount+ is one of the most valuable services available — most of this catalogue is available and rarely highlighted in the platform's own marketing.
Getting the most from Paramount+
- Classic Hollywood: The Paramount archive goes back over 100 years — use decade filters (30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s) to explore genuinely historic cinema
- New Hollywood era: The 1970s Paramount catalogue is exceptional — Chinatown, The Godfather, Serpico, and other era-defining films are here
- Mission: Impossible franchise: The complete MI series is on Paramount+, making it easy to catch up before new entries
- Showtime films: The Paramount+ with Showtime tier adds prestige drama and documentary content that significantly raises the quality ceiling
Paramount+ Essentials and Paramount+ with Showtime have different content libraries — some films require the Showtime tier. The roulette uses TMDB's general Paramount+ availability data for US users; specific tier restrictions may apply for some titles.
A century of Paramount — and why it matters
Paramount Pictures was founded in 1912, making it one of the oldest surviving Hollywood studios. That history is now on Paramount+ — a library spanning silent film, screwball comedies, film noir, New Hollywood classics, and a continuous run of major releases through to today. Hitchcock made 7 films at Paramount. Francis Ford Coppola made The Godfather there. Roman Polanski made Chinatown. Billy Wilder made Sunset Boulevard. These aren't obscure films — they're among the most acclaimed in cinema history, and they sit on a service that most subscribers use primarily for NFL games and Yellowstone.
The Star Trek library is another significant asset. Every feature film in the Trek franchise is on Paramount+, along with all the series. For anyone who grew up with the franchise, or wants to start from the beginning, this is the only place to watch the complete canonical catalogue without hunting across multiple services.
Mission Impossible, Top Gun, and the action archive
Paramount's action catalogue is among the deepest in streaming. The complete Mission Impossible series, both Top Gun films, the Transformers franchise, multiple Indiana Jones entries (shared with Disney+), Jack Reacher, and a broad back-catalogue of 1980s and 1990s action spanning Beverly Hills Cop, the original 48 Hrs., and dozens of others. If you're in the mood for action and want genre variety — spy thriller, military action, heist, sci-fi action — Paramount+ covers a remarkable range of the genre's history.
Getting the most from Paramount+ with Movie Roulette
Select Paramount+ in Power Filters. Action is the strongest genre for this platform — combine it with the Decade filters (70s, 80s, 90s) to surface specific eras of the Paramount action catalogue. Drama returns strong results from the prestige film section: Golden Age Hollywood, 1970s New Hollywood, and more recent awards-circuit releases. Thriller and Crime are also well-represented, particularly if you explore the 1970s and 1980s layers of the catalogue. For a mixed group, the No Bad Movies toggle with the Action genre on Paramount+ reliably surfaces franchise films that have broad appeal without requiring genre knowledge to enjoy.