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Movies Like One Night in Miami...

If you liked One Night in Miami... (2020), a drama movie directed by Regina King, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Nickel Boys

    Nickel Boys (2024)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

  2. 2Malcolm X

    Malcolm X (1992)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His…

  3. 3Hallelujah

    Hallelujah (1929)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

  4. 4Bobby

    Bobby (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

  5. 5The Young One

    The Young One (1960)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

  6. 6Moonlight

    Moonlight (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his…

  7. 7Disgrace

    Disgrace (2008)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    Disgrace is the story of a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his good looks, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect…

  8. 8Marshall

    Marshall (2017)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

  9. 9Escape from Pretoria

    Escape from Pretoria (2020)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.

  10. 10A Face in the Crowd

    A Face in the Crowd (1957)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who…

  11. 11The Intruder

    The Intruder (1962)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But what he does is stir up trouble--trouble he soon finds he can't control.

  12. 12All Eyez on Me

    All Eyez on Me (2017)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    All Eyez on Me chronicles the life and legacy of Tupac Shakur, including his rise to superstardom as a hip-hop artist, actor, poet and activist, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row…

  13. 13The Last of the Mohicans

    The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron…

  14. 14Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  15. 15The Testament of Ann Lee

    The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers as the female Christ.

  16. 16The Florida Project

    The Florida Project (2017)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.

  17. 17The Trial of the Chicago 7

    The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

  18. 18Glory

    Glory (1989)

    ★ 7.5/10Also drama

    Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

  19. 19GoodFellas

    GoodFellas (1990)

    ★ 8.5/10Also drama

    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

  20. 20Lord of War

    Lord of War (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include…

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