When it comes to October-friendly movies, Paramount+ is not messed around; There are over 100 new paramount+ movies that are rolled out over the month, which is a lot to get through, I know, but let me help you narrow it down.
In and among typical Halloween -passing films that Scream (1996) and The fly (1986), are action and thriller movies that get some time in the limelight on one of the best streaming services. Start with Jake Gyllenhaals gripping performance in Nightcrawler (2014) there is also coen -brothers’ western thriller No country for old men (2007), who sees Javier Bardem on assuming the role of one of the best film villains.
Not a fan of action or thriller? No worries you can jump directly to the full list of new paramount+ movies below!
Nightcrawler (2014)
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RT -Score: 95%
Age assessment: R.
Runtime: 117 minutes
Director: Dan Gilroy
Arriving on: October 1
Dan Gilroy scored big with his instructor debut and got an overwhelming positive critic and audience response as well as an Oscar nomination for ‘Best Original Manuscript’ – though Nightcrawler lost to Birdman.
Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a thief and hustler in Los Angeles, but when he witnesses a brutal accident and sees men gathering video footage for a local news broadcast, he has a light raising moment and believes this is a career he could excite.
When he acquires a video camera and a police scanner, he runs to the scenes of crashes, fires and robberies to catch footage to a TV station and develop a collaboration with news director Nina Romina (Rene Russo). The station is impressed with his work, but his success causes him to manipulate events to capture the most shocking footage.
District 9 (2009)
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RT -Score: 90%
Age assessment: R.
Runtime: 112 minutes
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Arriving on: October 1
Another instructor debut on our list is Blomkamp’s District 9A movie with Mockumentary style with surveillance camera and fictitious interviews recordings.
In 1982, Johannesburg, a spaceship landed and leaves millions of foreign beings stranded – referred to as ‘shrimp’ when humans discover the foreign population on board, the South African government limits them to a camp called District 9.
Tying later, the government performs a relocation of the alien species to another camp, with the MNU bureaucrat Wilkus (Sharlto Copley) tasks to help the mission. When he is contaminated by a stranger’s liquid, he slowly folks to a shrimp, resulting in him hiding in the camp, but his employers at MNU see him as a useful key to finding a way to serve the advanced weapons of the shrimp.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
RT -Score: 91%
Age assessment: R.
Runtime: 157 minutes
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Arriving on: October 1
After Bigelow became the first woman who won the ‘best instructor’ Oscar with The wounded closetshe came back strongly with Zero dark thirtyA striking political thriller inspired by one of the greatest manhunts of all time.
After the tragic September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden becomes the goal of an international search. CIA operative Maya (Jessica Chastain) is awarded to Pakistan to help find the al-Qaeda leader.
Maya’s driving to track him becomes stronger over the years despite the challenges she faces, which includes a terrorist attack that takes life to her colleagues. Using the most brutal interrogation techniques, she comes closer to clarifying the location of the barn, which ends in a tense last act.
No country for old men (2007)
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RT -Score: 93%
Age assessment: R.
Runtime: 122 minutes
Directors: Ethan Coen & Joel Coen
Arriving on: October 1
Javier Bardem delivers a disturbing, yet powerful performance as a psychotic hitman in Coen Brothers’ Western Crime Thriller.
No country for old men is a chain of violent and intense events set in Texas during the 1980s. While he is out on the hunt, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) stumbles over the cruel demand for a drug exchange that leaves more dealers brutally murdered. Instead of reporting it to the police, Moss decides to escape the stage with the two million dollars left, knowing that someone out there is probably looking for the money.
His path is quickly uncovered by the ruthless murderer Anton Chigurh (Bardem), which triggers a manhunt. When Moss tries to keep one step ahead, Chigurh stops nothing to pick up the cash, even if it means killing everyone who is affiliated with his goal along the way.
Seeking (2018)
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RT -Score: 92%
Age assessment: PG-13
Runtime: 102 minutes
Director: Aneesh Chaganty
Arriving on: October 1
Search is a modern mystery thriller that takes place completely through a portable screen – think Unfriendly (2014), but with much better reviews.
When widowed David (John Cho) finds out that his 16-year-old daughter Margot (Michelle LA) has disappeared, he gets the police to do a search. 37 hours into the search and no progress has been made, so David decides to take the cases in his own hands and look at it somewhere that the police do not have – her laptop.
During his search, he discovers that he actually hardly knew his daughter and is forced to confront her hidden online life. From uncovering suspicious transactions to her absence from class, David continues his hectic search, no matter how painful it is, resulting in a shocking plot twist.
All new at Paramount+ in October 2025
Arriving on October 1
30 days at night
Everything about Benjamins
American gigolo
American Psycho
American Psycho II: Al American Girl
Anthropoid
Beautiful creatures
Beowulf
Breaking in
Chill out, scooby-doo!
Chloe
Cold Mountain
Dad’s home
Death at a funeral
Deep impact
District 9
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Fight Club
Fight or flight
Find Neverland
First blood
Flashdance
Frank Miller’s Sin City
Gangs of New York
Good will hunt
Green room
Adults
Adults 2
Hard home
Heat
Hellboy (2004)
Hostel
Hostel: Part II
Hotel Mumbai
House at the end of the street
Hugo
I see you
Imagine that
In fabric
Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle
Just go with it
King Kong (1976)
Lake Placid
Man without past
Men in black
Men in Black 3
Men in Black II
Night Falling on Manhattan
Nightcrawler
No country for old men
Once Upon A Time in Mexico
Panic room
Prophecy
Proud Mary
Rambo III
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie V.
Scooby-doo and the strangers penetrating
Scooby-doo and the legend of the vampire
Scooby-doo and Loch Ness Monster
SCOOBY-DOO IN WHO IS MUM MUMIE?
SCOOBY-DOO! Curses of the Monster of the Lake
Scream
Scream 2
Scream 3
Search
Selena
Shadow Land
Silence
Single white woman
Spanglish
Swingers
Switchback
Tabloid
Teen Wolf
The babysitter
The core
The craft
The evil died
The first cleansing
The fly
General’s Daughter
They hunted
The last shot match
The machinist
The Manchurian candidate
The menu
The perfect guy
The prince and me
The prophecy
Prophecy 3: The ascent
Prophecy II
The prophecy: abandoned
The prophecy: Uprising
They shallow
Spiderwick Chronicles
Warriors
Urban legend
When the branch breaks
Zero dark thirty
Arriving on October 7
Queen of the desert
Arriving on October 18
Fifty Shades of Black
