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Pack up the picnic chair, and watch a flick in the great outdoors! Through Movies Under the Stars, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and NYC Parks bring more than 150 film screenings to parks throughout the five boroughs. Enjoy family-friendly entertainment in the city's parks and playgrounds, ranging from great new movies to all-time classics.
Our movies have chairs reserved for seniors and people with disabilities, so that everyone can enjoy a good movie. Bring some food, find a great spot, and enjoy the show!
Movies Under the Stars Events
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Captain America: Brave New World
at Lawn Area (in Rainey Park), Queens
8:45 p.m.–10:45 p.m.
Anthony Mackie returns as Captain America, caught in a global conspiracy after meeting President Ross, and must uncover the truth before the world spirals into chaos.
Free!
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: A Minecraft Movie
at Multipurpose Hard Top Area (in Pontiac Playground), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on.....
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: A Minecraft Movie
at Multi-Purpose Athletic Field (in Tanahey Playground), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Four misfits are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while emba
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
at Lawn Area (in Harris Brothers Park), Staten Island 
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Adaptation of the first of J.K. Rowling's popular children's novels about Harry Potter, a boy who learns on his eleventh birthday that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards...
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: IF
at Multipurpose Hard Top Area (in Evergreen Park), Queens
8:45 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and what she does with that superpower — as she embarks on a magical adventure.
Free!
Kids
Friday, August 1, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Moana 2 (PG)
at Play Area (in Twenty-Four Sycamores Park), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
“Moana 2” reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers.
Free!
Kids
Monday, August 4, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Mufasa: The Lion King
at Union Turnpike and 196th Street (in Cunningham Park), Queens
8:45 p.m.–10:45 p.m.
Mufasa: The Lion King tells the origin story of Mufasa through Rafiki’s tale to young Kiara, revealing his rise from orphaned cub to legend in a journey of friendship, fate, and danger.
Free!
Kids
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
at Athletic Field (in Peter's Field), Manhattan
7:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
The animated film tells the story of teenage sea kraken Ruby Gillman. Struggling to fit in at her high school Oceanside High, Ruby discovers her ancestral destiny to reign as Warrior Qu
Free!
Kids
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: The Wild Robot
at Wright Brothers Playground, Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned
Free!
Kids
Friday, August 8, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Kung Fu Panda 4
at Play Area (in James Weldon Johnson Playground), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
After three death-defying adventures defeating world-class villains with his unmatched courage and mad martial arts skills, Po, the Dragon Warrior, is called upon by destiny to...give i
Free!
Kids
Movies Under The Stars: The Warriors
at Gil Scott-Heron Amphitheater (in St. Mary's Park), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
The Warriors must fight their way from the Bronx to their home turf ......
Free!
Movies Under the Stars: A Minecraft Movie
at Entrance - 76th Ave & Springfield Blvd (in Alley Pond Park), Queens
8:45 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Four misfits are transported to a wild, blocky world of imagination—and must team up with an expert crafter to find their way home.
Free!
Kids
Saturday, August 9, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: The Warriors
at West 12th St. & Boardwalk (in Coney Island Beach & Boardwalk), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
The Warriors follows a street gang falsely accused of the murder of a respected gang leader. They must fight their way through rival gang territory and return to their home turf on Cone
Free!
Movies Under the Stars: Mufasa: The Lion King
at Lawn Area (in Springfield Park), Queens
8:45 p.m.–10:45 p.m.
Mufasa: The Lion King tells the origin story of Mufasa through Rafiki’s tale to young Kiara, revealing his rise from orphaned cub to legend in a journey of friendship, fate, and danger.
Free!
Kids
Monday, August 11, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Wicked
at Union Turnpike and 196th Street (in Cunningham Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–11:15 p.m.
Wicked stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba and Ariana Grande as Glinda in a dazzling reimagining of Oz’s untold story of power, friendship, and self-discovery.
Free!
Kids
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Transformers One
at Basketball Court (in Bellevue South Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of OPTIMUS PRIME and MEGATRON, better known as sworn enemies, but once were friends bonded like brothers who changed the fate of Cybertron fo
Free!
Kids
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Wicked
at Samuel Seabury Playground, Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Wicked, the untold story of the witches of Oz, stars Emmy, Grammy and Tony winning powerhouse Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba, a young woman, misundersto
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: Captain America: Brave New World
at Unisphere (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America.
Free!
Friday, August 15, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: A Minecraft Movie
at Gymnasium (in Sorrentino Recreation Center), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:15 p.m.
Four misfits are transported to a wild, blocky world of imagination—and must team up with an expert crafter to find their way home.
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: Captain America: Brave New World
at Harlem River Park, Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Anthony Mackie returns as the high-flying hero Sam Wilson, who’s officially taken up the mantle of Captain America. After meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, Sam fi
Free!
Saturday, August 16, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Despicable Me 4
at Play Area (in Carmansville Playground), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Gru faces a new nemesis in Maxime Le Mal and his femme fatale girlfriend Valentina, and the family is forced to go on the run.
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: Mufasa: The Lion King
at Play Area (in Lawrence Virgilio Playground), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Mufasa: The Lion King tells the origin story of Mufasa through Rafiki’s tale to young Kiara, revealing his rise from orphaned cub to legend in a journey of friendship, fate, and danger.
Free!
Kids
Monday, August 18, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: The Wild Robot
at Union Turnpike and 196th Street (in Cunningham Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:15 p.m.
After a shipwreck, a robot named Roz must adapt to life on a remote island—learning to survive, connect with wildlife, and care for an orphaned gosling.
Free!
Kids
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: UP
at Corporal John A Seravalli Playground (in Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A feisty septuagenarian reluctantly teams up with a young explorer in this Oscar-winning Best Animated Feature Film by Pixar. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman who drea
Free!
Kids
Friday, August 22, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: RENT
at Entrance - West 171 Street and Amsterdam Avenue (in Highbridge Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Adaptation of the hit musical about New York bohemians. Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Jesse L. Martin.
Free!
Saturday, August 23, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Kung Fu Panda 4
at Lawn Area
8:15 p.m.–9:45 p.m.
In Kung Fu Panda 4, Po must train a new Dragon Warrior before taking on his unexpected new role as Spiritual Leader.
Free!
Kids
Movies Under the Stars: Moana 2
at Athletic Field (in Corlears Hook Park), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
“Moana 2” reunites Moana and Maui three years later for an expansive new voyage alongside a crew of unlikely seafarers. After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors,
Free!
Kids
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Moonstruck
at Open Area (in Athens Square), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Loretta Castorini, a Bookkeeper from Brooklyn, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry
Free!
Movies Under the Stars: Moonstruck
at Open Area (in Athens Square), Queens
8:00 p.m.–9:45 p.m.
A Brooklyn widow, engaged to a mama's boy, falls in love with her fiancé's brother.
Free!
Kids
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Wish
at Courtney Callender Playground, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A young woman named Asha possesses wild wishes for happiness. After making a wish on a starry night, Asha is surprised when Star, a ball of cosmic energy, comes down to accompany her. A
Free!
Kids
Friday, August 29, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Field of Dreams
at Baseball Field (in Whitey Ford Field), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
In this Capra-esque tale, an Iowa farmer builds a baseball field after hearing a mysterious voice—only to be visited by Shoeless Joe Jackson and other ghostly legends of the game.
Free!
Kids
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Crooklyn (1994)
at Lawn Area (in Herbert Von King Park), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Portrait of a close-knit family living in 1970s Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, through the eyes of the youngest daughter, Troy
Free!
Friday, October 24, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Venom: The Last Dance
at Lawn - along 35th Avenue (in Crocheron Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
In Venom: The Last Dance, Tom Hardy returns as Venom, one of Marvel’s greatest and most complex characters, for the final film in the trilogy.
Free!
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