Best Original Movies on Paramount Plus to watch in 2022

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Today, you can watch many shows and movies on the internet. In our ongoing quest to help you find the best movies to watch, we’ve reached the point where we need to look at Paramount Plus.

We’ve selected some of our favorites from their huge library of films, which includes both old favorites and cutting-edge releases from a wide range of decades. Take a stroll through time as you view the greatest movies ever made.

17 Blocks

In addition to being one of the best documentaries of the past few years, it has also been one of the least watched, so it’s fantastic that a service like Paramount+ can help get the word out about it. A Tale of the Sanfords, a family from the suburbs of northern Washington, DC, is set to premiere at Tribeca in 2019. They have been recording themselves on film for the past two decades. The name came from the family’s closeness to the White House, even though their way of life was very different from that of the current residents.

Genre: Documentary
Creator: Davy Rothbart
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
Stars: Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Brad Pitt, Daniel Radcliffe

American Honey

Even though it’s almost three hours long and was made with unknown actors, this epic look at American youth is still one of the most important and impressive movies of the 2010s. Star, played by Sasha Lane, is a typical adolescent who runs away from home and becomes part of a group of young salespeople that travel throughout the Midwest. She grows romantically attached to the group’s leader, a rebel (Shia LaBeouf) (an unforgettable Riley Keough). There’s a buzzing vitality in this film that doesn’t appear in movies nearly frequently enough.

Genre: Adventure drama, romance
Creator: Andrea Arnold
IMDb Rating: 7.0/10
Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia Beloouf, Riley Keough, Crystal Ice

The Ring

If you see the cursed videotape, you will die within a week. The Ring may be an anachronistic throwback to a bygone era of filmmaking, but it still manages to give viewers goosebumps. The first major Hollywood film to adapt Japanese “J-horror” for an English-speaking audience set a high standard, with emotional stakes that felt grounded but horror that felt other-worldly.

Genre: horror, mystery
Creator: Gore Verbinksi
IMDb Rating: 7.1/10
Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox

Mission Impossible Series

The Mission: Impossible film series, starring Tom Cruise, got off to a great start. Who could forget the scene where Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt dangles from a ceiling and must collect his own sweat to silence an alarm?

John Woo joined the series for the sequel that was unfairly criticized, and the series has since gotten back on track with Rogue Nation and Fallout, both of which were directed by Christopher McQuarrie, who had worked with Cruise on Jack Reacher. All but the third movie (directed by J.J. Abrams, and mainly a mediocre one besides a renowned villain turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman) are available to Paramount Plus subscribers, while the third one is available to Paramount Plus subscribers who have Showtime.

Genre: Action
Creator: Christopher McQuarrie
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

The Conversation

With this stunning story of a surveillance expert who thinks he has found a murder plan, Francis Ford Coppola wrote and directed a drama that is possibly even better in between the first two Godfather films. In a movie about paranoia, privacy, and power, Gene Hackman is the star of a stellar cast. Interestingly enough, The Godfather Part II won Best Picture despite it being nominated.

Genre: Action
Creator: Christopher McQuarrie
IMDb Rating: 7.4/10
Stars: Tom Cruise, Henry Cavill, Ving Rhames

Orphan (2009)

After suffering the loss of their unborn child while she was pregnant, Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard) are inconsolable and make the decision to become parents through adoption. At the orphanage, both of them develop feelings of attachment to Esther, a little girl who is portrayed by Isabelle Fuhrman. As a result, the couple decides to adopt Esther and raise her as their own daughter. But when dangerous things keep happening, Kate starts to worry that the child may be hiding something bad.

Genre: Psychological Horror
Creator: Jaume Collet-Serra
IMDb Rating: 7.0/10
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett

Gladiator

One of the most adored historical action movies ever was the first Best Picture winner of the new millennium. Russell Crowe gives one of his most memorable performances (Joaquin Phoenix) as a Roman general named Maximus who watches his family die and his life fall apart at the hands of a cruel emperor named Commodus. After becoming a slave, Maximus is forced to fight in arenas as a gladiator until he can get back at his enemies in the best way possible.

Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure
Creator: Ridley Scott
IMDb Rating: 8.5/10
Stars: Russell Crowe, Connie, Nielsen, Oliver Reed

Scream (2022)

The movie portrays a young woman named Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), who receives an unexpected phone call from an unknown caller 25 years after the first attack by the Ghostface Killer. The caller wants to know which horror movie is Tara’s all-time favorite. They stabbed her not long after that. Her older sister Samantha (Melissa Barrera) and her boyfriend Ri (Jack) want to put a stop to the killings once and for all.

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Creator: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
IMDb Rating: 6.3/10
Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, David Arquette

Zoolander

Derek Zoolander, played by Ben Stiller, is a vain and cocky male supermodel who loses his position as the most successful male model in the world to Hansel, played by Owen Wilson, who is younger and more attractive. Zoolander, a dimwitted man who is going through a midlife crisis, is tricked into killing the prime minister of Malaysia by Katinka (Jovovich), a mystery woman he meets at a day spa. Zoolander is brainwashed into doing this.

Genre: Comedy
Creator: Ben Stiller
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10
Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor

The Lost City

This film genuinely felt like an aberration in 2022, with overtones of renowned romantic comedies such as The African Queen and Romancing the Stone; despite this, it turned out to be quite a successful hit at the box office. It is already available on streaming services, and if you are searching for something to help you escape reality tonight, you should definitely check it out. Spend some time in the middle of nowhere with Sandra Bullock, who plays a romance novel writer, and Channing Tatum, who plays the cover model of the book and tries to save the day.