What to Watch on Paramount+ 2026
Explore Paramount+ picks — Django Unchained to School of Rock, plus Smile and The Cut; see ratings, star casts, and where to stream each title now.
If you’re asking what to watch on paramount plus, start with a handful of titles that showcase the service’s range and quality. Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained delivers an unforgettable western drama full of intensity and bold performances, while School of Rock serves up comedy and music that still gets cheers. For something newer, The Cut (2024) offers gripping contemporary storytelling, and Smile (2022) brings a polished psychological scare. This mix of classics, fresh releases, TV nostalgia and documentaries proves the platform can satisfy drama lovers, thrill-seekers and anyone who enjoys a great soundtrack.
Table of Contents
- Django Unchained
- School of Rock
- The Cut
- Smile
- Love Means Zero
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Real World/Road Rules Challenge
- American Dream/American Knightmare
- Glory
- End of Sentence
- Rio
- Blue Eyed Girl
- Sid & Judy
- Legends of the Hidden Temple
- The Comeback Trail
- Black Lotus
- Nacho Libre
- Ridiculousness
- The Sum of All Fears
1. Django Unchained
Year: 2012 | Rating: 8.5/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: drama, western
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Available on: Starz, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson
2. School of Rock
Year: 2003 | Rating: 7.2/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: comedy, music
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his students the finer points of rock 'n' roll. The school's hard-nosed principal is rightly suspicious of Finn's activities. But Finn's roommate remains in the dark about what he's doing.
Available on: Starz, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Richard Linklater
Cast: Jack Black, Adam Pascal, Lucas Papaelias, Chris Stack, Sarah Silverman
3. The Cut
Year: 2024 | Rating: 5.5/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: thriller
A retired boxer intends to return to the ring for one last shot at the title, but first he must make the weight. Holed up in a room in Las Vegas with an unscrupulous trainer, he embarks on an intensive and illegal weight-cutting program.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Sean Ellis
Cast: Orlando Bloom, John Turturro, Caitríona Balfe, Clare Dunne, Ed Kear
4. Smile
Year: 2022 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: horror, mystery, thriller
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
Available on: Hulu, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Parker Finn
Cast: Sosie Bacon, Kyle Gallner, Jessie T. Usher, Robin Weigert, Caitlin Stasey
5. Love Means Zero
Year: 2017 | Rating: 7.1/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: documentary
An in-depth look at famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri. No other coach has matched his success, his dominance or his fame. His greatness, though, came at a terrible price.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Jason Kohn
Cast: Dee Graham
6. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Year: 2014 | Rating: 6.2/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: action, drama, thriller
Jack Ryan, as a young covert CIA analyst, uncovers a Russian plot to crash the U.S. economy with a terrorist attack.
Available on: Starz, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Chris Pine, Keira Knightley, Kevin Costner, Kenneth Branagh, Lenn Kudrjawizki
7. Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Year: 1996 | Rating: 6.7/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: action, adventure, comedy, drama, family, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, sci-fi
On her sixteenth birthday, Sabrina Spellman discovers she has magical powers. She lives with her 600-year-old aunts Hilda and Zelda as well as talking cat Salem in the fictional town of Westbridge, Massachusetts.
Available on: Hulu, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Gary Halvorson, Kenneth R. Koch, Brian K. Roberts, Linda Day, Peter Baldwin
Cast: Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Bakay, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert
8. Real World/Road Rules Challenge
Year: 1998 | Rating: 8.2/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: action & adventure, reality tv
Alumni from reality TV and other forms of entertainment and first time cast members live together and compete against one another in physical and mental challenges for cash prizes.
Available on: Hulu, Paramount Plus
9. American Dream/American Knightmare
Year: 2018 | Rating: 6.1/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: documentary
Documentary that delves deep into the life and storied exploits of the iconic Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight, as well as the volatile and highly influential era in gangsta rap he presided over. Through a series of interviewers face to face with director Antoine Fuqua, Knight reveals exactly how it all happened and why it all fell apart. Knight is currently in jail pending trial on murder, attempted-murder and hit-and-run charges.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
10. Glory
Year: 1989 | Rating: 7.8/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: biography, drama, history, war
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Available on: Hulu, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman, Jihmi Kennedy
11. End of Sentence
Year: 2019 | Rating: 6.6/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: adventure, drama
Newly widowed Frank Fogle embarks on a journey to Ireland to scatter his late wife’s ashes. His estranged son, Sean, recently released from prison, agrees to join only when his father promises that they’ll never see each other again following the trip. After revelations surface about an old flame of Frank’s wife and a charming hitchhiker with plans of her own intervenes, father and son find themselves drawn together in unexpected ways.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Elfar Adalsteins
Cast: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger, Andrea Irvine, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
12. Rio
Year: 2011 | Rating: 6.9/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: animation, adventure, comedy, family, music, romance
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Available on: Hulu, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: Karen Disher, Jason Fricchione, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, Leslie Mann, Kelly Keaton
13. Blue Eyed Girl
Year: 2025 | Rating: 5.4/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: comedy, drama, romance
Fortysomething Jane Messina is forced to re-evaluate her life after returning home to visit her two sisters and her sick father, making her wonder what could have been with her first love.
Available on: Paramount Plus, Freevee
Directed by: J. Mills Goodloe
Cast: Marisa Coughlan, Sam Trammell, LisaGay Hamilton, Eliza Coupe, Bridey Elliott
14. Sid & Judy
Year: 2019 | Rating: 7.4/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: documentary, biography, history
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entertainer Judy Garland through rare concert footage, never-heard-before voice recordings and personal photos.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Stephen Kijak
Cast: Rob Dodd, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh
15. Legends of the Hidden Temple
Year: 2016 | Rating: 5.7/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: adventure, family
Three siblings who break away from a lackluster temple tour in a jungle finds themselves immersed in a real-life mission comprised of obstacles that they must complete in order to escape alive.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Joe Menendez
Cast: Isabela Merced, Colin Critchley, Jet Jurgensmeyer, Kirk Fogg, Daniel Cudmore
16. The Comeback Trail
Year: 2020 | Rating: 5.7/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: comedy, crime
Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: George Gallo
Cast: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch
17. Black Lotus
Year: 2023 | Rating: 4.4/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: action, drama, thriller
An ex-special forces operative wages a one man war through the streets of Amsterdam to rescue his friend's daughter from the local crime syndicate.
Available on: Paramount Plus
Directed by: Todor Chapkanov
Cast: Rico Verhoeven, Frank Grillo, Marie Dompnier, Peter Franzén, Pippi Casey
18. Nacho Libre
Year: 2006 | Rating: 5.9/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: comedy, family, sport
Ignacio, a disrespected cook at a Mexican monastery, can barely afford to feed the orphans who live there. Inspired by a local wrestling hero, he decides to moonlight as the not-so-famous Luchador "Nacho Libre" to earn money for the monastery -- not to mention the admiration of beautiful nun Sister Encarnación.
Available on: Starz, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Jared Hess
Cast: Jack Black, Ana de la Reguera, Héctor Jiménez, Darius Rose, Moises Arias
19. Ridiculousness
Year: 2011 | Rating: 6.2/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: comedy, reality-tv
Rob Dyrdek takes the funniest amateur internet videos and builds them into an episode of edgy, funny, and most importantly, timeless television.
Available on: Netflix, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Michael Simon, Marco Mancini
Cast: Rob Dyrdek, Marc Outbreak, Maddy Smith, Zane Jabbia, Ed Taylor
20. The Sum of All Fears
Year: 2002 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: action, drama, thriller, war
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Available on: Starz, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt, James Cromwell, Ken Jenkins, Bruce McGill
Wrapping Up
Across drama, westerns, comedies, music-driven films and thrillers, there’s a curated pick for every taste and mood. The list highlights fan favorites like Django Unchained and School of Rock, buzzy newer arrivals such as The Cut, cult television from Sabrina the Teenage Witch and competitive reality like Real World/Road Rules Challenge. Bookmark this page and check back regularly — titles rotate and new exclusives appear often. We refresh recommendations frequently to reflect fresh releases and critical response, so you can find well-rated, cast-driven options quickly whenever you log in.
Last updated: July 26, 2026