Top 10 Movies To Watch This Week on Paramount Plus | August 31-September 6, 2025
So you’re stuck in scrolling purgatory again, huh? Endlessly thumbing through Paramount Plus, hoping something jumps out. We’ve been there. That’s why we pulled together the Top 10 Movies you would actually want to watch this week—no fluff, no filler. Whether you’re into thrillers, rom-coms, or indie gems, there’s something worth hitting play on. Here’s your movie cheat sheet for August 31-September 6, 2025—because your time is too valuable for another “meh” movie night.
1. Stans (2025)
What does it mean to be a fan…or a stan?
This new doc digs into Eminem’s decades-long relationship with his most passionate (and sometimes unhinged) fans. Directed by Steven Leckart and produced by Em himself alongside longtime manager Paul Rosenberg, it mixes rare archival footage, reenactments, and candid interviews. The result is raw, funny, and a little unsettling—exactly what you’d expect from the man who coined the term.
2. The Friend (2025)
A woman, a dog, and a whole lot of grief.
Naomi Watts stars in this tender adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award winner. When a solitary writer inherits her late friend’s massive Great Dane, she’s forced to confront her loneliness and stalled creativity. With Bill Murray, Constance Wu, and Ann Dowd rounding out the cast, directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel turn what could’ve been a quiet drama into something surprisingly warm and funny.
3. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
The need for speed never dies.
Tom Cruise returns as Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, pulled back to train a new generation of TOPGUN pilots—including Goose’s son, played by Miles Teller—for a near-suicidal mission. Joseph Kosinski directs with breakneck energy, Jerry Bruckheimer produces, and Lady Gaga drops an Oscar-nominated power ballad. With a $1.4 billion box office run and an Academy Award win for Best Sound, this sequel isn’t just nostalgia—it’s a miracle blockbuster.
4. Gasoline Alley (2022)
Hollywood noir with grit under its nails.
Devon Sawa plays a tattoo artist who becomes the main suspect in the murder of three starlets. To clear his name, he teams up with the very detectives chasing him—played by Bruce Willis and Luke Wilson. Edward Drake directs this down-and-dirty L.A. thriller, heavy on shadows, conspiracies, and late-career Willis tough-guy energy.
5. Extract (2009)
Mike Judge does for factories what he did for cubicles.
Jason Bateman stars as the frustrated owner of a flavor-extract plant juggling a checked-out wife (Kristen Wiig), a scammer secretary (Mila Kunis), and terrible legal advice (Ben Affleck, in slacker mode). With J.K. Simmons stealing scenes, Judge’s comedy is dry, messy, and sneakily sharp. If Office Space nailed the cubicle grind, this one skewers small-business burnout.
6. Novocaine (2025)
Can’t feel pain. Can still cause plenty.
Jack Quaid leads this darkly comic action ride as a guy with a rare condition—he literally can’t feel pain—who must use it to his advantage when the girl he’s crushing on is kidnapped. Co-directed by Dan Berk and Robert Olsen, with Amber Midthunder and Ray Nicholson in the mix, it plays like Nobody meets Crank: violent, goofy, and just self-aware enough to be fun.
7. A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Liam Neeson. A gun. A grimace. You know the drill.
Here, he plays ex-cop turned PI Matthew Scudder, hired by a drug trafficker to track down his wife’s killers. Scott Frank directs with icy precision, and the supporting cast—Dan Stevens, David Harbour, Boyd Holbrook—adds depth. It’s more old-school detective noir than action bonanza, and that’s exactly what makes it stand out in Neeson’s “grizzled man with a past” era.
8. South Park: The End of Obesity (2024)
Big Pharma meets Big Cartman.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone aim their satire at the craze for new weight-loss drugs like Ozempic. When Cartman can’t get his hands on them, chaos erupts in South Park. The special skewers healthcare, social media, and everyone in between. Like the other Paramount+ event films (Post COVID, Panderverse), it’s sharp, stupid, and very, very South Park.
9. South Park: Not Suitable for Children (2023)
Influencers, OnlyFans, and Randy Marsh—what could go wrong?
This earlier South Park special finds the town reeling after a teacher is outed for having an OnlyFans page, sending Randy down an internet rabbit hole. Written and directed by Trey Parker, it’s another biting, bawdy “exclusive event” that doubles as social satire and a chance for the creators to roast influencer culture.
10. Mean Girls (2004)
Get in, loser—we’re streaming nostalgia.
Lindsay Lohan stars as Cady Heron, the new girl who infiltrates high school royalty “The Plastics” (Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Lacey Chabert) under Tina Fey’s razor-sharp script. Mark Waters directs a comedy that’s equal parts savage and sweet, and twenty years later, the lines still live rent-free in everyone’s head. It’s a perfect capstone to your Paramount Plus binge.
And That’s a Wrap
From Eminem’s fandom dissected in Stans to Tom Cruise defying gravity in Top Gun: Maverick, Paramount Plus is all over the map this week—in the best way. Want laughs? Extract and Mean Girls deliver. Craving action? Novocaine and A Walk Among the Tombstones bring the heat. Need something ridiculous? South Park has you covered (twice).
Bottom line: Paramount this week makes for a playlist that’ll keep you streaming, snacking, and maybe quoting Regina George under your breath
