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The Best Movies by Paramount Pictures
List of Paramount Pictures movies, ranked from best to worst, including trailers, genres, and release dates. Paramount Pictures produced and/or distributed these films, which are listed in alphabetical order and sortable by any column. This is a list of all notable and most famous Paramount Pictures films, including movie posters when available. It answers the questions, "What movies did Paramount Pictures produce?" and "What films did Paramount Pictures distribute?" The Long Duel and War and Peace are only the beginning of the movies on this list. This best Paramount Pictures movies list displays shorts as well as feature films made by Paramount Pictures, including theatrical releases, limited releases, and made-for-TV Paramount Pictures movies. You can also manipulate this list of movies by this production company. (706 Movies)
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1Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan- Released: 1972
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo's novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone ...more- 2Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
The compelling sequel to "The Godfather," contrasting the life of Corleone father and son. Traces the problems of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in 1958 and that of a young immigrant Vito Corleone ...more - 3Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Slow-witted Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) has never thought of himself as disadvantaged, and thanks to his supportive mother (Sally Field), he leads anything but a restricted life. Whether dominating on ...more - 4Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
- Released: 1960
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a ...more ![Apocalypse Now]()
5Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall- Released: 1979
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
In Vietnam in 1970, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) takes a perilous and increasingly hallucinatory journey upriver to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who ...more- 6Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Mel Gibson
Tells the story of the legendary thirteenth century Scottish hero named William Wallace (Mel Gibson). Wallace rallies the Scottish against the English monarch and Edward I (Peter Hanly) after he ...more - 7James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
- Released: 1958
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Hitchcock's romantic story of obsession, manipulation and fear. A detective is forced to retire after his fear of heights causes the death of a fellow officer and the girl he was hired to follow. He ...more ![Chinatown]()
8Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Roman Polanski
When Los Angeles private eye J.J. "Jake" Gittes (Jack Nicholson) is hired by Evelyn Mulwray to investigate her husband's activities, he believes it's a routine infidelity case. Jake's investigation ...more- 9Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Roman Polanski
A young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a New York City apartment ...more ![Once Upon a Time in the West]()
10Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson- Released: 1969
- Directed by: Sergio Leone
There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman ...more- 11Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro
- Released: 1987
- Directed by: Brian De Palma
After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone (Robert De Niro) rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition agent Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) attempts to take ...more ![Top Gun]()
12Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Tony Scott
The Top Gun Naval Fighter Weapons School is where the best of the best train to refine their elite flying skills. When hotshot fighter pilot Maverick (Tom Cruise) is sent to the school, his reckless ...more![48 Hrs.]()
13Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole- Released: 1982
- Directed by: Walter Hill
Renegade cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) pulls bank robber Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) from a federal prison on a 48-hour leave to help him capture Hammond's old partner, Albert Ganz (James Remar). ...more![Iron Man]()
14Robert Downey, Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow- Released: 2008
- Directed by: Jon Favreau
A billionaire industrialist and genius inventor, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), is conducting weapons tests overseas, but terrorists kidnap him to force him to build a devastating weapon. Instead, ...more![The Hunt for Red October]()
15Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn- Released: 1990
- Directed by: John McTiernan
Based on the popular Tom Clancy novel, this suspenseful movie tracks Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) as he abandons his orders and heads for the east coast of the United States. ...more![Shutter Island]()
16Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley- Released: 2010
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
The implausible escape of a brilliant murderess brings U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) to Ashecliffe Hospital, a fortress-like insane asylum located ...more![Star Trek]()
17Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy- Released: 2009
- Directed by: J.J. Abrams
Aboard the USS Enterprise, the most-sophisticated starship ever built, a novice crew embarks on its maiden voyage. Their path takes them on a collision course with Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan ...more![Saturday Night Fever]()
18John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller- Released: 1977
- Directed by: John Badham
Tony Manero (John Travolta) doesn't have much going for him during the weekdays. He still lives at home and works as a paint store clerk in his Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood. But he lives for the ...more![Coming to America]()
19Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos- Released: 1988
- Directed by: John Landis
Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy) is the prince of a wealthy African country and wants for nothing, except a wife who will love him in spite of his title. To escape an arranged marriage, Akeem flees to ...more- 20Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: John Hughes
Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, "borrows" a Ferrari, ...more ![Patriot Games]()
21Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin- Released: 1992
- Directed by: Phillip Noyce
When former CIA agent Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) hampers an IRA terrorist attack in London, he kills one of the terrorists. The dead man's brother, another member of the group named Sean Miller (Sean ...more![Zodiac]()
22Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey- Released: 2007
- Directed by: David Fincher
In the late 1960s and 1970s, fear grips the city of San Francisco as a serial killer called Zodiac stalks its residents. Investigators (Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards) and reporters (Jake Gyllenhaal, ...more- 23Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Peter Graves
- Released: 1980
- Directed by: Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker
This spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the 70s. When the passengers and crew of a jet are incapacitated due to food poisoning, a rogue pilot with a ...more ![Major League]()
24Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen- Released: 1989
- Directed by: David S. Ward
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians, former showgirl Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), has a sweetheart deal to move the team to Miami. But to break the lease with the city of Cleveland, ticket ...more![The Conversation]()
25Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Frederic Forrest- Released: 1974
- Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
Surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide (Harrison Ford) to tail a young couple, Mark (Frederic Forrest) and Ann (Cindy Williams). Tracking the ...more
