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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
Friday, September 5, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: How to Train Your Dragon
at Parque De Los Ninos (in Bronx River Parkway), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations.......
Free!
Kids
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Movie Under the Stars: Monsters University
at Main Garden Area (in Amersfort Park), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Mike and Sulley attend Monsters University and develop a heated rivalry that puts their education in danger.
Free!
Kids
Movies Under The Stars: Lilo & Stitch
at Loreto Playground, Bronx 
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching....
Free!
Kids
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024)
at West 59th St Lawn (in Gertrude Ederle Recreation Center), Manhattan
12:00 a.m.–12:00 a.m.
When Harold is living within the confines of his book, anything he touches with his purple crayon can come to life
Free!
Kids
Friday, September 12, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Top Gun: Maverick
at Field (in Frederick Douglass Playground), Manhattan
7:15 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is where he belongs.
Free!
Movies Under The Stars: Thunderbolts
at Gil Scott-Heron Amphitheater (in St. Mary's Park), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A world without Avengers doesn't mean there's not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they're called........
Free!
Kids
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Megamind (2010)
at Samuel Seabury Playground, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A less-than-threatening supervillain known as Megamind finally manages to bring Metro City to its knees and defeat his archriva...
Free!
Kids
Movies Under The Stars
at Entrance - Metcalf Avenue and Seward Avenue (in Soundview Park), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A world without Avengers doesn't mean there's not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they're called the......
Free!
Kids
Friday, September 19, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Thunderbolts* (2025)
at Wilson Avenue and Weirfield Street (in Irving Square Park), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A world without Avengers doesn't mean there's not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they're called the Thunderbolts.
Free!
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Movies Under The Stars: Lilo and Stitch
at Basketball Courts (in Saw Mill Playground), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching.....
Free!
Kids
Friday, September 26, 2025
Movies Under The Stars: Lilo & Stitch
at Entrance - University Ave and Wagner Avenue (in Devoe Park), Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A live-action reimagining of Disney’s 2002 animated classic, “Lilo & Stitch” is the wildly funny and touching story of a lonely Hawaiian girl......
Free!
Kids
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Movies Under the Stars: Crooklyn (1994)
at 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!
Movies Under The Stars: Thunderbolts
at St. James Park, Bronx
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A world without Avengers doesn't mean there's not a group of superheroes. There is a group and they're called the......
Free!
Kids
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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