Direction: Barry Jenkins
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Barry Jenkins. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Moonlight
2016 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Trevante Rhodes · Naomie Harris · Mahershala Ali · Ashton Sanders
Plot Moonlight tells the story of Chiron, a young man who comes of age during the War on Drugs era in Miami. Set in three different time periods as Chiron battles...
6.8
29K votes
6.8
29K votes
The Underground Railroad (TV Miniseries)
2021 · Series · 60 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Thuso Mbedu · Joel Edgerton · Chase W. Dillon · Aaron Pierre
Plot The story is told in the third person, focusing mainly on Cora. Scattered single chapters also focus on Cora's mother Mabel, the slavecatcher Ridgeway, a reluctant slave sympathizer named Ethel,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Dear White People (TV Series)
2017 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Justin Simien · Tina Mabry · Barry Jenkins · Charlie McDowell
Cast Logan Browning · Antoinette Robertson · Brandon Bell · John Patrick Amedori
Plot At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a diverse group of students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 · Movie · 119 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast KiKi Layne · Stephan James · Regina King · Diego Luna
Plot Based on the novel by James Baldwin, “If Beale Street Could Talk” follows Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover’s innocence while...
6.3
4K votes
6.3
4K votes
Medicine for Melancholy
2008 · Movie · 88 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Wyatt Cenac · Tracey Heggins · Elizabeth Acker · Melissa Bisagni
Plot A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with the conundrum of being a minority in a rapidly gentrifying San Francisco.
6.3
139 votes
6.3
139 votes
My Josephine (S)
2003 · Movie · 9 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Basel Hamdan · Saba Shariat · Marc Levi
Plot Aadid tells us his life in seven minutes. He's an Arabic-speaking young man working the night shift at a laundromat and dry cleaners somewhere in the United States. In the...
5.9
26 votes
5.9
26 votes
Tall Enough (S)
2009 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Crystal Cotton · Stephen Lin
Plot In this day-in-the-life piece, a young, interracial couple explore their relationship on a quiet Saturday in Brooklyn.
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The Gaze
2021 · Documentary · 52 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Mychal-Bella Bowman · Frank Oakley III
Plot 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 distilled. This...
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One Shot (S)
2009 · Movie · 7 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Griffin Anglin · Sophia Goldfarb · David Marangwanda · Lhamo Sakpo
Plot Its single hand-held shot lends both immediacy of viewpoint and a floating unreality to a young woman's visit to a Seattle convenience store, seemingly fraught with menacing purpose.
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Little Brown Boy (S)
2003 · Movie · 8 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast DeQynn Gibson · Luis Jimenez · Jonathan Bent · Ernest Jones
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Chlorophyl (S)
2011 · Movie · 17 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Cast Ana Laura Treviño · Sasha Vaziri · Taryn Devreux
Plot The story of a young girl and her fleeting relationship with a scoundrel. From Vimeo.com: Chlorophyl (yes, with one "L" at the end) was commissioned for Borscht 7 in 2011....
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Mufasa: The Lion King
2024 · Movie · min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins
Plot “Mufasa” tells the origin story of Mufasa, Simba's father, exploring his childhood growing up with his brother Scar. Release: December 2024
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King's Gym (S)
2012 · Documentary · 3 min. · United States
Direction Barry Jenkins · Mike Jacobs
Plot Oakland, California's "boxing gym of champions" is showcased here, its historic walls lined with posters for matches boasting past regulars from George Foreman and Joe Frazier to Gina Guidi. Though...
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