The launch of Paramount Plus arrives with a strong emphasis on television, with the new service combining the archives of CBS, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, and Smithsonian Channel. But the service is also built on the foundation of Paramount Pictures, a Hollywood mainstay. Unlike a Netflix or an Amazon, Paramount Plus won’t have to rely as much on licensing great movies to fill out the service — the studio’s been making them since 1912.
But what good movies are on Paramount Plus at launch? Like everything in the streaming wars, it’s never as easy as “every film Paramount has ever made.” Users get the studio’s franchise staples like