From theaters to streaming, and perfect for an at-home movie marathon, here’s a curated lineup of films spanning drama, thriller, romance, sci-fi, and everything in between. Whether you’re looking for bold storytelling, character-driven indie gems, or high-concept genre twists, these films spotlight some of the most compelling voices working across film right now.
I Love Boosters (In theaters)
A crew of professional shoplifters targets a cutthroat fashion maven in a chaotic, satirical take on capitalism and survival.
Director: Boots Riley
Writer: Boots Riley
Cast: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Don Cheadle, Demi Moore, Eiza González, Poppy Liu
Is God Is (In theaters)
Twin sisters scarred by a childhood fire are sent on a revenge mission to confront the abusive father responsible for their trauma.
Director: Aleshea Harris
Writer: Aleshea Harris
Cast: Janelle Monáe, Sterling K. Brown, Vivica A. Fox, Erika Alexander, Kara Young, Mallori Johnson
Newborn (In Limited AMC Theaters Only)
After seven years in solitary confinement, a man attempts to rebuild his life and reconnect with his family while confronting the psychological aftermath of incarceration.
Director: Nate Parker
Writer: Nate Parker
Cast: David Oyelowo, Olivia Washington, Barry Pepper, Jimmie Fails
One Spoon of Chocolate (In Limited Theaters)
A wrongly convicted veteran returns home and uncovers a sinister conspiracy involving missing Black men in a small Ohio town.
Director: RZA
Writer: RZA
Cast: Shameik Moore, Paris Jackson, RJ Cyler, Blair Underwood
Selah and the Spades
A high school senior who rules her school’s most powerful faction must find a successor before she graduates, but her chosen protégé may be more dangerous than she anticipated.
Director: Tayarisha Poe
Writer: Tayarisha Poe
Cast: Lovie Simone, Celeste O’Connor, Jharrel Jerome, Jesse Williams
Earth Mama
A pregnant woman in the foster care system fights to reunite her family while navigating the complexities of motherhood, poverty, and systemic barriers.
Director: Savanah Leaf
Writer: Savanah Leaf
Cast: Tia Nomore, Doechii, Keta Price
The Dutchman
A successful Black businessman haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis becomes entangled in a psychological cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious white woman he encounters on the New York City subway. Based on Amiri Baraka’s 1964 play.
Director: Andre Gaines
Writer: Andre Gaines and Qasim Basir
Cast: André Holland, Kate Mara, Zazie Beetz, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Aldis Hodge, Lauren E. Banks
My Father’s Shadow
A semi-autobiographical debut feature set in 1993 Lagos during Nigeria’s national election crisis, following two young brothers who spend one day accompanying their estranged father to the city to collect his delayed salary.
Director: Akinola Davies Jr.
Writer: Akinola Davies Jr. and Wale Davies
Cast: Sope Dirisu, Godwin Egbo, Chibuike Marvellous Egbo
Hard Truths
A middle-aged London woman named Pansy is consumed by rage and anxiety, pushing away everyone around her including her devoted husband and son, while her cheerful younger sister lives a life of warmth and community.
Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Michele Austin, David Webber, Tuwaine Barrett
Master
At an elite New England university built on the site of a Salem-era gallows, the newly appointed first Black master of a dormitory and a Black freshman student begin to experience increasingly terrifying and racially charged events.
Director: Mariama Diallo
Writer: Mariama Diallo
Cast: Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Amber Gray, Talia Ryder, Talia Balsam
The Young Wife
On her wedding day, a young woman spirals into panic as the weight of family expectations and the meaning of the word “wife” begins to overwhelm her.
Director: Tayarisha Poe
Writer: Tayarisha Poe
Cast: Kiersey Clemons, Leon Bridges, Kelly Marie Tran, Michaela Watkins, Aya Cash, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Judith Light, Brandon Micheal Hall
Jinn
A carefree 17-year-old Black girl’s world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam, prompting her to reevaluate her identity while navigating first love with a Muslim classmate.
Director: Nijla Mu’min
Writer: Nijla Mu’min
Cast: Zoe Renee, Simone Missick, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Hisham Tawfiq, Dorian Missick
We Grown Now
In 1992 Chicago, two best friends growing up in Cabrini-Green navigate childhood, friendship, and tragedy as their world begins to fracture around them.
Director: Minhal Baig
Writer: Minhal Baig
Cast: Blake Cameron James, Gian Knight Ramirez, S. Epatha Merkerson, Lil Rel Howery, Jurnee Smollett
On the Count of Three
A darkly comic story about two best friends who make a suicide pact and set out to spend their final day alive tying up loose ends, only for the plan to spiral into violence, emotional truth, and unexpected clarity about life and trauma.
Director: Jerrod Carmichael
Writer: Ari Katcher, Ryan Welch
Cast: Jerrod Carmichael, Christopher Abbott, Tiffany Haddish, J.B. Smoove, Lavell Crawford, Henry Winkler
Sarah’s Oil
Based on the true story of Sarah Rector, an 11-year-old Black girl in early 1900s Oklahoma who becomes one of America’s first Black female millionaires after oil is discovered on her land.
Director: Cyrus Nowrasteh
Writer: Cyrus Nowrasteh, Betsy Giffen Nowrasteh
Cast: Naya Desir-Johnson, Zachary Levi, Sonequa Martin-Green, Garret Dillahunt, Bridget Regan
Love, Brooklyn
Three longtime Brooklyn residents navigate love, friendship, and ambition as their neighborhood rapidly changes around them.
Director: Rachael Abigail Holder
Writer: Paul Zimmerman
Cast: André Holland, Nicole Beharie, DeWanda Wise, Roy Wood Jr., Cassandra Freeman
Stay
A couple on the brink of divorce begins experiencing supernatural forces that threaten their survival and their marriage.
Director: Jas Summers
Cast: Megalyn Echikunwoke, Mo McRae, Dominic Stephens
The Knife
A young Black family’s life is shattered when a stranger enters their home, triggering a tense night that exposes hidden truths and impossible choices.
Director: Nnamdi Asomugha
Writer: Nnamdi Asomugha, Mark Duplass
Cast: Nnamdi Asomugha, Aja Naomi King, Melissa Leo, Manny Jacinto
Young. Wild. Free.
A teenager overwhelmed by family responsibility and expectations finds her life spiraling after meeting a charismatic but dangerous love interest.
Director: Thembi Banks
Writer: Thembi Banks
Cast: Algee Smith, Sanaa Lathan, Sierra Capri
Hedda
A modern reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s classic Hedda Gabler, following a woman trapped between social expectation and personal desire as her carefully controlled life begins to unravel.
Director: Nia DaCosta
Writer: Nia DaCosta (adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play)
Cast: Tessa Thompson, Nina Hoss, Imogen Poots
You, Me and Tuscany
A woman posing as a fiancée in a Tuscan villa unexpectedly falls into real romance when the owner’s cousin arrives.
Director: Kat Coiro
Writer: Ryan Engle
Cast: Halle Bailey, Regé-Jean Page, Marco Calvani
Albany Road
A high-powered executive’s life is disrupted when she is forced to travel with her ex-fiancé’s mother, uncovering a long-buried secret.
Director: Christine Swanson
Writer: Christine Swanson
Cast: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Lynn Whitfield, J. Alphonse Nicholson, Gary Dourdan
40 Acres
In a post-apocalyptic world, a Black and Indigenous farming family fights to protect their land from cannibalistic raiders.
Director: R.T. Thorne
Writer: R.T. Thorne, Glenn Taylor
Cast: Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Greyeyes, Kataem O’Connor
Youngblood
A Black Canadian hockey prodigy navigates racism, pressure, and ambition while chasing his NHL dreams.
Director: Hubert Davis
Writer: Charles Officer, Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout
Cast: Ashton James, Blair Underwood, Shawn Doyle
Love + Wine
A South African romantic comedy where a wealthy heir and his childhood friend swap lives, leading to unexpected love and self-discovery.
Director: Amanda Lane
Cast: Ntobeko Sishi, Masali Baduza, Thandolwethu Zondi, Thando Thabethe
They Will Kill You
A woman working in a mysterious high-rise discovers the building is run by a cult that has marked her as its next sacrifice.
Director: Kirill Sokolov
Writer: Kirill Sokolov, Alex Litvak
Cast: Zazie Beetz, Myha’la, Patricia Arquette, Tom Felton
American Fiction
A frustrated Black novelist tired of the way the publishing industry profits from Black trauma writes a parody novel under a pseudonym, only to watch it become a massive success.
Director: Cord Jefferson
Writer: Cord Jefferson, based on the novel Erasure by Percival Everett
Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae, Erika Alexander
They Cloned Tyrone
A supernatural mystery set in a low-income neighborhood where three unlikely allies uncover a government conspiracy lurking beneath their community.
Director: Juel Taylor
Writer: Juel Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier
Cast: John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, Teyonah Parris
Devotion
A true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pilots during the Korean War whose friendship is tested in the skies as they become part of one of the most dangerous combat missions in American military history.
Director: J.D. Dillard
Writer: Jake Crane, Jonathan A.H. Stewart (based on the book by Adam Makos)
Cast: Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson, Joe Jonas
Chevalier
Inspired by the life of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a gifted Black violinist and composer who rises in French society while navigating race, fame, and forbidden love in pre-revolutionary France.
Director: Stephen Williams
Writer: Stefani Robinson
Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Minnie Driver
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
A decades-spanning story of three lifelong friends whose bond is tested by love, loss, and secrets as they gather regularly at their favorite diner, revisiting the choices that shaped their lives.
Director: Tina Mabry
Writer: Tina Mabry (based on the novel by Edward Kelsey Moore)
Cast: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Sanaa Lathan, Uzo Aduba, Mekhi Phifer, Julianne Moore
Rye Lane
A chance meeting between two young Londoners reeling from bad breakups turns into a day-long adventure through South London, as they help each other process heartbreak and slowly open themselves up to new love.
Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Writer: Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia
Cast: David Jonsson, Vivian Oparah
Rustin
The story of Bayard Rustin, the unsung hero of the Civil Rights Movement and the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.
Director: George C. Wolfe
Writer: Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black
Cast: Colman Domingo, Chris Rock, Glynn Turman, Aml Ameen, CCH Pounder
Cinnamon
Jodi Jackson, a gas station attendant, struggles to get by while chasing her dream of becoming a singer. Her life takes a dangerous turn when a robbery breaks out at her workplace, pulling her into a situation far bigger than she ever expected.
Director: Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
Writer: Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
Cast: Hailey Kilgore, Damon Wayans Jr., David Iacono
The Burial
Based on a true story, a funeral home owner enlists a flamboyant attorney to save his business from a corporate giant in a legal battle that becomes about much more than money.
Director: Maggie Betts
Writer: Maggie Betts
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Tommy Lee Jones, Jurnee Smollett
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A young man attempts to reclaim the Victorian home his grandfather built in San Francisco while grappling with belonging, identity, and the rapidly changing city around him.
Director: Joe Talbot
Writer: Joe Talbot and Rob Richert, story by Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot
Cast: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Danny Glover, Tichina Arnold
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.
A mockumentary following the wife of a disgraced megachurch pastor as she works to help him rebuild his congregation.
Director: Adamma Ebo
Writer: Adamma Ebo
Cast: Regina Hall, Sterling K. Brown, Nicole Beharie
Nickel Boys
Based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film follows two boys at a reform school in Jim Crow era Florida and the lasting impact of their time there.
Director: RaMell Ross
Writer: RaMell Ross, based on the novel by Colson Whitehead
Cast: Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater
Outlaw Johnny Black
A former slave turned vigilante sets out on a mission of revenge after his father is murdered, becoming a wanted man as he brings justice to a corrupt mining town with grit, humor, and spiritual fire.
Director: Michael Jai White
Writer: Michael Jai White, Byron Minns
Cast: Michael Jai White, Anika Noni Rose, Erica Ash, Byron Minns, Chris Browning
Origin
Journalist Isabel Wilkerson investigates the origins of caste systems around the world while processing personal grief, drawing connections between race, caste, and human hierarchy.
Director: Ava DuVernay
Writer: Ava DuVernay, based on the book Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
Cast: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Niecy Nash, Nick Offerman
Luce
A former child soldier adopted by an American couple becomes the star student at his high school, until his teacher raises unsettling questions about who he really is.
Director: Julius Onah
Writer: J.C. Lee and Julius Onah, based on the play by J.C. Lee
Cast: Kelvin Harrison Jr., Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth
Uncorked
A young man torn between his passion for becoming a master sommelier and his father’s expectations that he take over the family BBQ business.
Director: Prentice Penny
Writer: Prentice Penny
Cast: Mamoudou Athie, Courtney B. Vance, Nicole Beharie, Niecy Nash
See You Yesterday
Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies build time machines to try to save the life of one of their brothers after he is killed by a police officer.
Director: Stefon Bristol
Writer: Stefon Bristol and Fredrica Bailey
Cast: Eden Duncan-Smith, Danielle Burgess, Michael J. Fox
Charm City Kings
A teenager in Baltimore is torn between following his brother’s criminal path and pursuing his passion for dirt bikes.
Director: Angel Manuel Soto
Writer: Sherman Payne
Cast: Jahi Di’Allo Winston, Meek Mill, Teyonah Parris, William Catlett, Donielle Hansley Jr.
The Forty-Year-Old Version
A struggling playwright approaching her 40th birthday reinvents herself as a rapper while navigating the compromises of the New York theater world.
Director: Radha Blank
Writer: Radha Blank
Cast: Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin
Burning Cane
A deeply religious woman in rural Louisiana struggles with her faith, her alcoholic son, and the contradictions of the world around her.
Director: Phillip Youmans
Writer: Phillip Youmans
Cast: Wendell Pierce, Karen Kaia Livers, Dominique McClellan
Trouble Man
A former cop turned Atlanta private investigator is hired to find a missing R&B star, uncovering a conspiracy that forces him to confront his past.
Director: Michael Jai White
Writer: Michael Stradford
Cast: Michael Jai White, Method Man, Orlando Jones, La La Anthony, Mike Epps
Night Patrol
An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with local street gangs when he discovers a police task force is harboring a horrific secret that endangers the residents of the housing projects he grew up in.
Director: Ryan Prows
Writer: Ryan Prows, Shaye Ogbonna, Tim Cairo, Jake Gibson
Cast: Jermaine Fowler, Justin Long, Freddie Gibbs, RJ Cyler, YG, Nicki Micheaux, CM Punk, Dermot Mulroney