When we sit down to watch a movie, a lot of our time gets wasted in deciding what to watch. while we scroll through the endless catalog soon enough the excitement and energy we sat down with fade away. So, to make sure that does not happen to you, in this article, find out about the top 10 movies on Paramount Plus that you should binge!
1. Rocketman
If you are a music fanatic, Rocketman is a movie you should check out. This movie is a biopic of one of the most renowned names in music, Elton John. Rocketman shows us young Reginald Dwight who changes his name to Elton John, ideates a collaboration with singer-songwriter Bernie Taupin, and grows to become one of the most renowned names in the music industry.
The movie will take you back to 1970, the breakthrough years of Elton John, and will reveal some unknown things about the music prodigy. The quality of this movie is reflected in the Golden Globe Award, which was won by Taron Egerton as the best actor in 2020.
2. A Quite Place
A Quiet Place is one of the most highly acclaimed dystopian movies ever. This movie takes us to a world that has been taken over by alien creatures who are blind, but highly sensitive to sound. A Quiet Place revolves around a family trying to fight for their survival and the things they have to do to stay alive. This movie might not have won any major awards but it is the perfect package of action and horror that will give you the creeps for sure.
3. Top Gun: Maverick
Set 3o years after the events that took place in the previous Top Gun movie, Tom Cruise returns in the role of Captain Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell. Top Gun Maverick revolves around Maverick returning to the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program where he is given the responsibility of training young pilots for combat.
However, his past haunts him as the son of his former wingman is also one of these pilots. The quality of this movie is presented by its performance at the 2023 Academy Awards where Top Gun: Maverick bagged five awards for Best Sound, Best Picture, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, and Best Adapted Screenplay.
4. Mission: Impossible — Fallout
Mission Impossible Fallout is considered to be one of the best MI movies of all time. The plot of this movie revolves around a weapons dealer named John Lark and a terrorist group named the Apostle who are trying to cause three consecutive nuclear blasts on the Vatican, Jerusalem, and Mecca. Now to stop such a massive threat, Ethan Hunt and the IMF join hands with the CIA assassin August Walker to make sure they stop this threat in time.
This movie is packed with mindblowing action sequences and if Tom Cruise and Henry Cavill share the screen at the same time, you just know that the movie is going to be epic and that is exactly the case with Mission Impossible: Fallout.
5. Gladiator
Gladiator takes us to the Roman era. This movie tells us the tale of Maximus, General of the Emperor of Rome. The emperor’s son was highly envious of Maximus for how much his father favored him. He got his father murdered and took the throne for himself. As soon as he got into power he got the family of Maximus murdered and sold the general into slavery to be a gladiator. However, Maximux wanted revenge for his family and hence began his quest to avenge the death of his loved ones.
Gladiator, to date, is one of the most loved period drama movies which is evidenced by the five Oscars, for Best Actor in Leading Role, Best Visual Effects, Award For Best Sound Mixing, and award for Best Picture bagged by Gladiator in 2001. Also, you can prepare yourself for Gladiator 2, which will be released this year.
6. Annihilation (2018)
Annihilation brings us the tale of Lena, a biologist by profession whose husband had gone missing in a landscape called Area X. She forms a team of five women, herself, an anthropologist, a psychologist, a surveyor, and a linguist and embarks on a quest to find her husband. However, what they discover is beyond what they could have ever thought of, and a simple extraction mission turns into a fight for their survival.
7. Mafia Mamma
This action-comedy movie is truly something that you should give a chance. Mafia Mama revolves around a middle-aged woman whose life is in shambles. On top of that, she receives the news of her grandfather passing away and decides to go to Italy for his funeral. However, in a turn of events, she discovers that her grandfather was the most formidable Mafia Boss of Calabria and his last wish was that his granddaughter take up the throne after his death.
Mafia Mama might not have the best of ratings but when it comes to a watching experience, this movie is really fun if you are looking forward to watching something light and fun. So this weekend give this movie a shot and I am pretty sure that you are not going to regret it.
8. Super 8
Super 8 takes us back to the year 1979, in Ohio. The movie revolves around a group of youngsters who are trying to make a zombie movie using a Super 8 camera. However, in their vicinity, a train crash occurs and they all narrowly escape with their lives. After the train crash, weird things start happening in the town with several disappearances occurring almost every day.
The answer to what is happening and who or what is doing so might lie in the tape of that Super 8 camera. You can say that this was the Stranger Things of 2011 minus the interdimensional element. This movie is overall, a suspense-filled and thrilling experience that you should not miss out on.
9. Smile
Smile revolves around a psychiatrist named Dr. Rose Cotter who faces a traumatic incident with one of her patients. After this, she starts witnessing bizarre and terrifying events that she cannot explain and must face her past to survive what’s happening around her.
Now I don’t want to get into the details of this movie too much to save the thrill and suspense of the movie for you but yes, what I can tell you is that after watching this, for a while you might not like it very much when someone passes you a smile.
10. Arrival
If you think that Arrival is just another alien invasion movie, you are as wrong as one can be. This movie revolves around linguistics professor Louise Banks. When alien ships touchdown on Earth at 12 different locations all over the world, she is called upon to join a team of scientists and the US Army to figure out the language of these extraterrestrial beings before defense forces all over the world wage war on them causing the annihilation of the human race as well.
When I say that Arrival is not your regular alien invasion movie, I mean it. This movie not only excels at storytelling but also is absolutely stunning from a cinematic point of view. You might find the pace of this movie a bit slow but that is also the essence of this movie. That being said, if none of the above movies, sit down this weekend and watch Arrival, you won’t be disappointed.
Aparna Ukil
