Paramount+ Just Started Streaming the Best Crime Thriller of the ’90s

The Paramount+ streaming lineup added a bunch of great titles in the last week, but few are better than an all-time great crime thriller from 1996. After capturing the attention of film fans with a few low-budget hits out of the gate, filmmaking brothers Joel and Ethan Coen took things to a new level in the mid-90s when they transported audiences to the sinister tundra of North Dakota, telling one of the most unexpected stories of the decade in the process.

Fargo was an instant classic when it was released in 1996, and it remains every bit as good today, nearly 30 years later. Luckily, it’s an incredibly accessible movie in the world of streaming, especially after being added to Paramount+ on December 1st.

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If you haven’t seen it before, Fargo is an idiosyncratic crime drama that manages to deliver as many darkly comedic moments as it does genuine thrills. The film follows an aloof car salesman (William H. Macy) who gets caught up in a bizarre criminal scenario with a couple of bumbling but very dangerous hit men (Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare). Consistently standing between them and a successful operation is a pregnant police officer (Frances McDormand) who simply wants to do the right thing and get home to her budding family.

The Fargo film is out of this world, and it may come as a surprise to learn that the TV show based on the movie is almost as good. Creator Noah Hawley brought the concept to FX in 2014 and has delivered five seasons of wacky crime dramedies, with each installment telling a brand new story.

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What’s New on Paramount+?

Fargo is just one of several great movies to arrive on the Paramount+ lineup at the start of December. Other newly added all-timers include Pulp Fiction, Batman Returns, Goodfellas, Interstellar, Django Unchained, Raging Bull, and No Country for Old Men.

You can check out the full list of Paramount+ December 1st additions below.

22 Jump Street
A Christmas Blessing
A Christmas Carol (1984)
A Night At The Roxbury
A Single Man
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
Addams Family Values (1993)
American Hustle
American Renegades
American Sniper
Angel Falls Christmas
Annihilation
Batman (1989)
Batman & Robin (1997)
Batman Forever (1995)
Batman Returns (1992)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)
Boomerang
Braveheart
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Chicago
Christmas Cupid
Christmas on Windmill Way
Coneheads
Disturbia
Django Unchained
Downsizing
Ella Enchanted
Ernest Saves Christmas
Extract
Failure to Launch
Fargo
Father of the Bride (1991)
Fences
Footloose (2011)
Forrest Gump
From Dusk Till Dawn
Get Him Back for Christmas
Gone Baby Gone
GoodFellas
Head of State
Hotel for Dogs
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
Hustle & Flow
I See You
Ida Red
Inglourious Basterds
Interstellar
Jungleland
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Monster Trucks
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
My Little Pony: The Movie
No Country for Old Men
Nobody’s Fool
Norbit
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
Ocean’s Thirteen (2007)
Ocean’s Twelve (2004)
Once Upon a Christmas Wish
Paddington
Peanuts: Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don’t Come Back)
Pulp Fiction
Raging Bull
Rain Man
Rounders
Safe
Save the Last Dance
Scary Movie 2
Selma
Serendipity
Shaft (2000)
She’s the Man
Shutter Island
Smallfoot
Snatch
Something’s Gotta Give
Southside With You
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Addams Family (1991)
The Angry Birds Movie
The Aviator
The Doors
The Equalizer (2014)
The Equalizer 2 (2018)
The Fighter
The Hateful Eight
The Hunt for Red October
The Island
The Italian Job (2003)
The Last Airbender
The Mexican
The Natural
The Ring (2002)
The Romantics
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Truman Show
The Untouchables
The Wolf of Wall Street
This Christmas
Tooth Fairy
True Grit (2010)
Virtuosity
We Are Marshall
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