To refresh your watchlist, we have put together a list of latest movies to check out from drama, thriller and ofcourse some action.
Here are Movies you should be streaming right now:
All Day and a Night
‘All Day and a Night’ is a must-watch slow-burn movie especially if you’re a fan of any Ashton Sanders movie.
Directed by Black Panther co-writer, Joe Robert Cole, the movie also stars Jeffrey Wright along with Sanders as father and son (J.D. and Jahkor).
In the movie, Jahkor Abraham Lincoln struggles to keep his dream of rapping alive amidst a gang war in Oakland, his ill-fated life and real-world responsibilities drive him further and further across the line of right and wrong with tragic consequences.
Landing in prison beside his father, J.D. whom he never wanted to be like, Jahkor embarks on an unlikely journey of self-discovery, exploring the events that unite them, in hopes of helping his newborn son break a cycle that feels unavoidable.
Streaming on: Netflix
Genre: Slow Burn Drama
Coffee & Kareem
If you’re about comedy movies, then Coffee & Kareem is for you!.
The comedy and drama movie stars Taraji P. Henson (Vanessa), Ed Helms (Coffee) and Terrence Little Gardenhigh (Kareem).
Coffee is a cop while dating Vanessa who has a loud mouth and upfront son, Kareem. Twelve-year-old Kareem hires a criminal to scare Coffee to stay away from his mom – but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit’s most ruthless drug kingpin.
Streaming on: Netflix
Genre: Comedy Drama
93 Days
While we’re still in the middle of a pandemic, 93 Days comes a worthy-watch. This Nigerian drama thriller tells the story of the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Nigeria and its successful containment by health workers from a Lagos hospital. It stars Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover and Bimbo Manuel.
Streaming on: Netflix
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Spenser Confidential
Based on the novel Wonderland by Ace Atkins and based on Robert B. Parker’s character Spenser, this comedy-thriller stars Mark Wahlberg as the titular Spenser, an ex-cop fresh from prison, who teams up with his roommate, Hawk (played by Winston Duke), to track down the criminals who murdered two Boston police officers.
The movie follows Spenser (played by Mark Wahlberg) — an ex-cop better known for making trouble than solving it — just got out of prison and is leaving Boston for good. But first he gets roped into helping his old boxing coach and mentor, Henry, with a promising amateur.
Streaming on: Netflix
Genre: Comedy
Bad Education
Inspired by true events, Bad Education stars Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. The story follows Frank Tassone (Jackman) and Pam Gluckin (Janney) who reign over a popular Long Island school district on the verge of the nation’s top spot, spurring record college admissions and soaring property values. But when an embezzlement scheme surfaces that threatens to destroy all they’ve built, Frank is forced to maintain order and secrecy by whatever means necessary.
Streaming on: Showmax
Genre: Comedy Drama
Onward
Animation fans will get to enjoy Disney and Pixar’s latest release Onward.
The movie is directed by Dan Scanlon and stars the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Octavia Spencer.
In the movie, teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley (voices of Tom Holland and Chris Pratt) get a magical opportunity to spend 24 hours with their late father.
Like any good quest, their journey is filled with magic spells, cryptic maps, impossible obstacles and unimaginable discoveries. But when the boys’ fearless mom Laurel (voice of Julia Louis-Dreyfus) realizes her sons are missing, she teams up with a part-lion, part-bat, part-scorpion, former warrior – aka The Manticore (voice of Octavia Spencer) – and heads off to find them. Perilous curses aside, this one magical day could mean more than any of them ever dreamed.
Streaming on: AppleTV
Genre: Animation, Adventure
Extraction
Do watch Extraction if you’re looking for some good jam-packed action
The action-thriller movie stars Chris Hemsworth, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Randeep Hooda, and follows a black ops mercenary who must rescue an Indian drug lord’s kidnapped son in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Streaming on: Netflix
Genre: Action, Thriller
The Banker
Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson star in The Banker, a drama filled movie. The story follows Joe Morris (played by Jackson) and Bernard Garrett (played by Mackie), two of the first African-American bankers in the United States.
Streaming on: AppleTV
Genre: Drama
Crawl
Some watch for the horror fans! Crawl stars Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper as a daughter and father, who along with their dog are hunted by alligators after becoming trapped in their home after a heavy hurricane has hit.
Streaming on: Showmax
Genre: Horror
Rage
Rage is Showmax’s first original horror movie, yes a local horror!
In the movie, Nicole Fortuin stars as Tamsyn, with Jane de Wet and Tristan de Beer as Roxy and Kyle; Carel Nel as Albert; Sihle Mnqwazana as Neo; Shalima Mkongi as Sihle; and David Viviers as Leon.
The story follows a group of school-leavers descend on a tiny coastal town for a celebration of their freedom. Roxy, Sihle, Kyle, Leon, Tamsyn and Neo party on the beach and drink themselves silly every night.
The townsfolk, Hermien and her son Albert, are welcoming – too welcoming. During a psychedelic trip on the beach, the friends witness a disturbing birth ritual, which could be a hallucination, or not. Soon fertility figurines start to appear at random places, and what is supposed to be the best holiday of their lives turns to horror as the teenagers are picked off one by one.
Streaming on: Showmax
Genre: Comedy Drama
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