Barry Jenkins Movies

Mufasa, a cub lost and alone, meets a sympathetic lion named Taka, the heir to a royal bloodline. The chance meeting sets in motion an expansive...

Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England...

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between...

Claressa Shields, a high school junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become...

The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences...

A vast public works project in West Africa. Horn, the construction site manager, and Cal, a young engineer, share lodging behind the double gates of...

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

When Reagan, a fifteen-year-old sex worker, leaves her East Oakland group home, she is forced to redefine the concept of family in an unfamiliar...

Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s...

The story of a young girl and her fleeting relationship with a scoundrel.

An older reclusive woman develops a close relationship with her recently widowed neighbor in an attempt to allow herself to be loved.

Follows the life of singer Ronnie Spector who grew up in Spanish Harlem and started girl group the Ronettes and her tumultuous marriage with producer...

Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and...

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

In all my years of doing press, I've been repeatedly asked about the white gaze. Rarely have I been set upon about the Black gaze; or the gaze...

Upon returning to their countryside cabin one day, Kaya, his wife Helen, and their daughter Naomi are confronted by two suited men: representatives...

Love knows no borders in this stylish snapshot of interracial coupledom. Two Brooklyn photographers (she, African-American; he, Chinese-American)...

Aishe, a Uyghur woman trained by her military father, migrates to New York City where she finds herself laboring in Chinatown’s underground...

Struggling to connect with her grieving family after the sudden death of her stepfather, a teenager sneaks off to shoot guns in rural Florida with...

The life story of acclaimed American choreographer Alvin Ailey.