Best sci-fi & fantasy, war, action, & western shows on Paramount+, ranked.
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Paramount+1883
2021–2022 · Series · 1 seasonWestern · Drama
The post-Civil war generation of the Dutton family travels to Texas, and joins a wagon train undertaking the arduous journey west to Oregon, before settling in Montana to establish what would eventually become the Yellowstone Ranch.
Paramount+ - #693#693
Paramount+Battlestar Galactica
2004–2009 · Series · 4 seasonsAction · Drama
3 EmmysWhen an old enemy, the Cylons, resurface and obliterate the 12 colonies, the crew of the aged Galactica protect a small civilian fleet - the last of humanity - as they journey toward the fabled 13th colony, Earth.
Paramount+ - #793#793
Paramount+Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987–1994 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Drama
18 EmmysSet almost 100 years after Captain Kirk's five-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers sets off in the U.S.S. Enterprise-D on its own mission to go where no one has gone before.
Paramount+ - #1291#1291
Paramount+Prime VideoTerminator 2: Judgment Day
1991 · Movie · 2h 17mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
4 OscarsA cyborg from the future, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten-year-old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Paramount+Prime Video - #1690#1690
Paramount+Battlestar Galactica
2003– · Series · 1 seasonAction · Drama
Following the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol by the Cylons, a rag-tag fugitive fleet of the last remnants of mankind flees the pursuing Cylons while simultaneously searching for their true home: Earth.
Paramount+ - #1889#1889
Apple TV+Paramount+Interstellar
2014 · Movie · 2h 49mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Drama
1 OscarWhen Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Apple TV+Paramount+ - #2387#2387
Apple TV+Paramount+Prime VideoMinority Report
2002 · Movie · 2h 25mAction · Crime · Mystery
John works with the PreCrime police which stop crimes before they take place, with the help of three 'PreCogs' who can foresee crimes. Events ensue when John finds himself framed for a future murder.
Apple TV+Paramount+Prime Video - #2786#2786
Paramount+The Dead Zone
1983 · Movie · 1h 43mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama · Thriller
Five years after a traffic accident that left him in a coma, a man awakens to discover that he has the ability to foresee future events and even prevent tragedies from happening. Will these new abilities prove to be a blessing or ...
Paramount+ - #3385#3385
Paramount+Star Trek: Voyager
1995–2001 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Drama
7 EmmysPulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is seventy-five years away at maximum warp speed, the crew of the Starfleet star-ship Voyager must forge a truce with a group of Maquis rebels in order to find a way home.
Paramount+ - #3784#3784
Paramount+The Crow
1994 · Movie · 1h 42mAction · Crime · Drama
The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the mantle of the Crow, a supernatural...
Paramount+ - #3884#3884
Paramount+Galaxy Quest
1999 · Movie · 1h 42mAction · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help. However, they also have to defend both Earth and the alien race from a reptilian warlord.
Paramount+ - #4184#4184
Paramount+Star Trek Into Darkness
2013 · Movie · 2h 12mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.
Paramount+ - #5581#5581
Paramount+Star Trek: Enterprise
2001–2005 · Series · 4 seasonsAction · Drama
4 EmmysA century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.
Paramount+ - #5681#5681
Paramount+MacGyver
1985–1992 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Crime
Follows the adventures of Angus MacGyver, a secret agent for a national security agency, who solves complicated missions with his resourcefulness and knowledge of applied sciences (oh and his ever-present Swiss Army knife).
Paramount+ - #6080#6080
Paramount+Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
1986 · Movie · 1h 59mAction · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
To save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.
Paramount+ - #6180#6180
NetflixParamount+Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
2023 · Movie · 2h 14mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Comedy
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.
NetflixParamount+ - #6380#6380
Paramount+Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991 · Movie · 1h 50mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
Paramount+ - #7479#7479
Paramount+The Spiderwick Chronicles
2008 · Movie · 1h 36mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Action · Drama
Upon moving into the run-down Spiderwick Estate with their mother, twin brothers Jared and Simon Grace, along with their sister Mallory, find themselves pulled into an alternate world full of faeries and other creatures.
Paramount+ - #7578#7578
Paramount+CSI: Vegas
2021–2024 · Series · 3 seasonsAction · Crime
Facing an existential threat that could bring down the Crime Lab, a brilliant team of forensic investigators must welcome back old friends and deploy new techniques to preserve and serve justice in Sin City (aka Las Vegas, Nevada).
Paramount+ - #7878#7878
Paramount+Prime VideoMission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · Movie · 2h 49mAction · Thriller
Hunt and the IMF pursue a dangerous AI called the Entity that's infiltrated global intelligence. With governments and a figure from his past in pursuit, Hunt races to stop it from forever changing the world.
Paramount+Prime Video - #8077#8077
Paramount+Prime VideoSonic the Hedgehog 3
2024 · Movie · 1h 50mAction · Comedy
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails reunite against a powerful new adversary, Shadow, a mysterious villain with powers unlike anything they have faced before. With their abilities outmatched, Team Sonic must seek out an unlikely alliance.
Paramount+Prime Video - #8776#8776
Paramount+PeacockCaprica
2010 · Series · 1 seasonAction · Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Two families, the Graystones and the Adamas, live together on a peaceful planet known as Caprica, where a startling breakthrough in artificial intelligence brings about unforeseen consequences.
Paramount+Peacock - #9075#9075
Paramount+Nickelodeon GUTS
1992–1995 · Series · 1 seasonAction · Family
Three kids dawning the different colors blue, red, and purple compete in relatively cool-looking olympic-style games to achieve as many points as they can. At the end of every episode, they climb a big fake mountain, braving tumbl...
Paramount+ - #9874#9874
Paramount+We Were Soldiers
2002 · Movie · 2h 18mWar · Action · Drama
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news.
Paramount+ - #9974#9974
Paramount+Charlotte's Web
2006 · Movie · 1h 37mAction · Comedy · Family
Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Paramount+ - #10374#10374
Paramount+Battlestar Galactica: The Plan
2009 · Movie · 1h 52mAction · Drama · Romance
When the initial Cylon attack against the Twelve Colonies fails to achieve complete extermination of human life as planned, twin Number Ones (Cavils) embedded on Galactica and Caprica must improvise to destroy the human survivors.
Paramount+ - #10773#10773
Paramount+NCIS: New Orleans
2014–2021 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Comedy
Follows a team of Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Special Agents who investigate criminal cases involving military personnel in New Orleans, Louisiana aka The Big Easy, a city known for its music, entertainment, and de...
Paramount+ - #10972#10972
Disney+Paramount+Prime VideoIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2008 · Movie · 2h 2mAction
In 1957, Indiana Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Disney+Paramount+Prime Video - #11072#11072
Paramount+Godzilla
2014 · Movie · 2h 3mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Following the 1999 Janjira nuclear disaster that claimed his wife Sandra, Joe Brody seeks answers. His Navy officer son Ford accompanies him to Japan, where they discover the devastating truth and see ancient monsters emerge.
Paramount+ - #11472#11472
Paramount+Anthropoid
2016 · Movie · 2hAction · Drama · History
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
Paramount+ - #11772#11772
HuluParamount+Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
1996–2003 · Series · 7 seasonsAction · Comedy
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.
HuluParamount+ - #12770#12770
Paramount+Prime VideoThe Foreigner
2017 · Movie · 1h 53mAction · Crime · Thriller
A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
Paramount+Prime Video - #12870#12870
HuluParamount+CSI: Miami
2002–2012 · Series · 10 seasonsAction · Crime · Drama
2 EmmysCSI spin-off, following an elite group of Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) from the Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), who use advanced forensic science and methods to solve complex crimes in cross-cultural Miami, Florida.
HuluParamount+ - #12969#12969
Paramount+The Challenge: World Championship
2023– · Series · 1 seasonAction · Reality
Follow previous contestants of The Challenge as they compete to win the $500,000 prize. In the end, only the most dominant will conquer the game and prove they are not just the best in their home country, but the best in the world."
Paramount+ - #13169#13169
Paramount+Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
2004 · Movie · 1h 46mAction · Mystery
After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
Paramount+ - #13269#13269
Paramount+Allied
2016 · Movie · 2h 4mAction · Drama · Romance
In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Paramount+ - #13668#13668
Paramount+The Family Business: New Orleans
2025– · SeriesAction · Crime · Drama
The Duncan family's underground New Orleans casino finds itself in a war after a rival boss's brother dies there. Fearing, owner Big Shirley sends her son away, but he travels to NY to seek help from the Duncan crime syndicate ins...
Paramount+ - #13968#13968
Paramount+Defiance
2008 · Movie · 2h 17mAction · Drama · History
Jewish brothers in German-occupied Eastern Europe escape into a Belorussian forest, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non-com...
Paramount+ - #14367#14367
Paramount+NCIS: Sydney
2023– · Series · 3 seasonsAction · Crime
Follows a joint team of American Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) agents and Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers who work together to investigate crimes involving the Navy in and around the Indo-Pacific Ocean in Au...
Paramount+ - #14667#14667
NetflixParamount+Sonic the Hedgehog 2
2022 · Movie · 2h 2mAction · Comedy
When Dr. Robotnik returns with a new partner, Knuckles, in search of an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations, Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, on a journey across the world to find the emerald first.
NetflixParamount+ - #15066#15066
Paramount+Swindle
2014 · Movie · 1h 31mAction · Comedy
When a boy named Ben finds an old baseball card in his house, his friend Griffin tells him to sell it. However when he does he is swindled out of $1.2 million, and Griffin decides to assemble a team in order to get the card back.
Paramount+ - #15166#15166
Paramount+Prime VideoThe Monster Squad
1987 · Movie · 1h 22mAction · Comedy · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A group of 12-year-olds form a Universal Monsters fan club called Monster Squad, and have to attempt to save their hometown from Count Dracula and his monsters when they show up for real.
Paramount+Prime Video - #15566#15566
Paramount+Top Gun
1986 · Movie · 1h 50mAction · Drama
1 OscarThe 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 is sent to the school, his reckless attitude and cocky demeanor put him at odds ...
Paramount+ - #16165#16165
Paramount+Sonic the Hedgehog
2020 · Movie · 1h 39mAction · Comedy
Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil genius Dr. Robotnik. Now it’s super-villain vs. super-sonic in an all-out race across the globe to stop Robotnik from using Sonic’s unique power for world domination.
Paramount+ - #16664#16664
Paramount+Bixler High Private Eye
2019 · Movie · 1h 6mAction · Comedy · Family
Xander is looking for his dad, who went missing 3 months ago. His mom sends him to stay with ex private dick grandpa in Bixler, where the next lead is. He teams up and investigates with his new high school's star reporter, Kenzie.
Paramount+ - #17063#17063
Paramount+Prime VideoThe Silent Planet
2024 · Movie · 1h 35mSci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
Follows two inmates in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
Paramount+Prime Video - #17263#17263
Paramount+Shooter
2007 · Movie · 2h 4mAction · Drama · Thriller
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.
Paramount+ - #17363#17363
Paramount+The Running Man
1987 · Movie · 1h 41mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Thriller
In a future dystopian America, a wrongfully accused and convicted policeman gets his shot at freedom when he's forced to participate in a TV game show where convicts called Runners must battle killers for their freedom.
Paramount+ - #17762#17762
Paramount+The Sum of All Fears
2002 · Movie · 2h 4mAction · Drama · Thriller
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must stop the plans of a Neo-Nazi faction that threatens to incite a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland.
Paramount+ - #18062#18062
Paramount+Splitting Adam
2015 · Movie · 1h 31mAction · Comedy · Family
Adam Baker is the busiest teen ever, but after cloning himself, he will have the best summer ever with Adam 2, Winston, Party Boy, Sensitive, and Perfect. They're hoping to find the girl of his dreams and to crush his archenemy.
Paramount+ - #18462#18462
Paramount+One Mile: Chapter One
2026 · Movie · 1h 26mAction · Drama
An ex-special forces operative goes off-the-grid when his daughter is kidnapped by a violent community. Alone and outnumbered, he's forced to use every skill he has to track them down, take them apart, and bring his daughter home.
Paramount+ - #18561#18561
Paramount+Monster High 2
2023 · Movie · 1h 33mAction · Sci-Fi & Fantasy
As they enter sophomore year at Monster High, Clawdeen Wolf, Draculaura and Frankie Stein face new students, new powers, and an even bigger threat that could not only tear their friendship apart, but could change the world forever.
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