Saturday morning saw a huge change to streaming services everywhere, revamping lineups and giving subscribers fresh options to check out. The start of a new month always brings turnover to services like Paramount+, and November is no different, as dozens and dozens of films made their way to the streamer’s roster on the morning of November 1st. Among those new additions is one of the greatest crime dramas in history, a film that many consider the greatest noir film of all time.
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Chinatown, Jack Nicholson’s sun-soaked classic from 1974, is one of the best to ever explore noir and detective mysteries. The Paramount release has been absent from the Paramount+ lineup for some time, but finally returned on November 1st, giving subscribers the opportunity to revisit a stone cold classic.
If you’re not familiar, Chinatown is a thrilling detective story about Jake Gittes (Nicholson), a private investigator who gets caught up in a dangerous conspiracy throughout Los Angeles. Unlike most noir films, which are known for their shadowy settings and dark visuals, Chinatown is set against the bright backdrop of Los Angeles in the light of day. The color and brightness not only provides a contrast to the rest of the genre, but creates an uneasy and disorienting vibe for a plot that seriously benefits from it.
We won’t spoil the ending here, but Chinatown is known for its bleak, jaw-dropping finale. The last few moments of the film take Chinatown to a place many don’t expect it to go, leaving you without the resolution you want but delivering the resolution you know the story deserves. To this day, that final line remains one of the best walk-off quotes in the history of cinema: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.”
Last year, Chinatown celebrated its 50th anniversary, which brought with it a brand new, 4K restoration from Paramount. The version that’s streaming on Paramount+ looks great (every version of the film looks good, at least), but it doesn’t compare to physical 4K release. If you’re a lover of physical media, seek it out.
What’s New on Paramount+?
Chinatown might be the best movie that was added to the Paramount+ lineup on November 1st, but it is far from the only new arrival. Dozens of films made their way to the service on Saturday, including Starship Troopers, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and all four of the Steven Spielberg Indiana Jones movies. You can check out the full list of November 1st additions below!
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
21 Jump Street
40 Days and 40 Nights
48 Hrs.
A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
Alfie (2004)
All I Want For Christmas
American Beauty
American Made
An Officer and a Gentleman
Another 48 Hrs.
Assassin Club
Big Daddy
Big Night
Blades of Glory
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones’s Baby
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Catch Me If You Can
Chinatown
Chocolat
Cujo
Days of Thunder
Dean
Deck The Halls
Defiance
Dinner For Schmucks
Doubt
Dreamgirls
Enemy at the Gates
Faster
Fatman
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Flags of Our Fathers
Flight
Friendsgiving
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Gasoline Alley
Geostorm
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Ghost
Hamburger Hill
Happy Christmas
Home For The Holidays
I Love You, Man
Indecent Proposal
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Instant Family
Jersey Girl
Joe Dirt
Juice
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Last Holiday (2006)
Leaving Las Vegas
Love, Rosie
Loving
Mansfield Park (1999)
Morning Glory
Mousehunt
No Strings Attached
Noah (2014)
Old School
Only the Brave
Pain & Gain
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Pretty In Pink
Punch-Drunk Love
Rango
Reindeer Games
Rescue Dawn
Revolutionary Road
Rules of Engagement
Runaway Bride
Santa Stole Our Dog!
Saturday Night Fever
Saving Private Ryan
Scrooge (1970)
Scrooged
Shakespeare in Love
She’s All That
She’s Out of My League
Sherlock Gnomes
Shooter
Snow Day
Some Kind of Wonderful
Starship Troopers
Staying Alive
Stop-Loss
Superstar
Surviving Christmas
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
The Big Short
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Cut
The Darkest Hour
The Duchess
The Fighting Temptations
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990)
The Godfather Part II (1974)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
The Mechanic (2011)
The Other Boleyn Girl
The Perfect Score
The Score
The Terminal
The Terminator (1984)
The Usual Suspects
The Words
There Will Be Blood
Titanic
Tommy Boy
Total Recall (1990)
Trading Places
Uncommon Valor
Up In The Air
Urban Cowboy
Valkyrie
Varsity Blues
Wayne’s World
Wayne’s World 2
We Were Soldiers
What Women Want
When Harry Met Sally
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
World Trade Center
Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)
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