Public parks across the city offer free outdoor movie screenings most weekends. From noir, romance, action to sci-fi, and comedy, parks has movie screenings for all types of film buffs.
You can check out the locations and film selection here.
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Despicable Me 3
at St. Catherine’s Park, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Come early! Before this screening we will have ice cream, popcorn, face painters, and other activities related to the movie.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Shape of Water
at Richard Rodgers Amphitheater (in Marcus Garvey Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Pride Month Series: Stonewall
at Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Stonewall chronicles a young man’s political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Zootopia
at Hallet’s Cove, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A rabbit cop must solve a missing-persons case in a city inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: West Side Story
at Greenbelt Recreation Center (in Blood Root Valley), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Rival New York street gangs war in Manhattan over turf boundaries while two youths fall in love, but they are from opposing groups.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival 2018: Pacific Rim: Uprising
at Richard Rodgers Amphitheater (in Marcus Garvey Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
When the Kaiju invade Earth again, Jake Pentecost must lead a new team of Jaeger pilots. Aided by Mako Mori, Dr. Gottlieb and Dr. Geiszler, the young pilots must face more advanced monsters to save the world.
Friday, June 15, 2018
CinemaLIC Presents: Moonstruck
at Hunter’s Point South Park, Queens
7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta (Cher) accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny (Danny Aiello), than she finds herself falling for his brother, Ronny (Nicolas Cage).
Friday, June 15, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: MOCA Cinema: The Lego Ninjago Movie
at Columbus Park, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Shunned by everyone for being the son of an evil warlord, a teenager seeks to defeat him with the help of his fellow ninjas. Come early! We will have different games and activities before the movie.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Book of Life
at Playground Ninety XC (in Playground Ninety), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks, Council Member Daniel Dromm, and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Transformers: The Last Knight
at Bedford Avenue and Laconia Avenue (in Midland Field), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A group of humans and Autobots investigate the secret history of the Transformers’ time on Earth in an attempt to end a devastating war between the two species.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Drive-In Movie: Grease
at Parking Lot (in Astoria Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Good girl Sandy and greaser Danny fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they’re now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Friday, June 15, 2018
Films on the Green: The Rules of the Game
at Washington Square Arch (in Washington Square Park), Manhattan
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Over the course of the weekend the haute bourgeoisie acquaintances reveal themselves to be absurdly, almost primitively, cruel and vapid.
Friday, June 15, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Black Panther
at Broadway and Wayne Street (in CPL. Thompson Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A superhero known as Black Panther defends Wakanda, a technologically-advanced country in Africa that has hidden itself away from the rest of the world.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Greatest Showman
at Little Flower Playground, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary…
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Moana
at Electric Playground, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who is inspired to leave the safety and security of her island on a daring journey to save her people.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Ferdinand
at Police Officer Edward Byrne Park, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks, Council Member Karen Koslowitz, and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
at Amersfort Park, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
In this update of the wonderful 1995 adventure, four high school kids discover and that you don’t just play Jumanji – you must survive it.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Black Panther
at Lenevar Avenue and Ionia Avenue (in Bloomingdale Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A superhero known as Black Panther defends Wakanda, a technologically-advanced country in Africa that has hidden itself away from the rest of the world.
Saturday, June 16, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat
at School Road and Bay Street (in Von Briesen Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Live-action version of the kids’ book about a pesky kitty.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Father’s Day Film Screening: Zootopia
at Lewis H Latimer House, Queens
3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
This 2016 Disney animation entertains and offers a tool for parents to start the conversation with children about some serious issues related to racism.
Sunday, June 17, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
at Bill Brown Playground, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:15 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for this free family film!
Monday, June 18, 2018
Bryant Park Movie Nights: The Breakfast Club
at Bryant Park Lawn (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Five high-school students from different cliques spend a day-long detention together, and discover that they have more in common then they ever expected.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Logan
at Wright Brothers Playground, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X, somewhere on the Mexican border…
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
Historic Harlem Parks and Movies Under the Stars: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
at 112th Street and Manhattan Avenue (in Morningside Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Four high school kids discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game’s jungle setting, literally becoming the adult avatars they chose.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Cinema Garden Party Outdoor Film Series: Whose Streets? – A Sneak Preview
at First Quincy Street Community Garden (in ), Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
This is an advance sneak preview of the documentary “Whose Streets?”, directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis, before their POV premiere on PBS on July 30th.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Pride Month Series: God’s Own Country
at Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Thursday, June 21, 2018
School of Rock
at Astoria Park Lawn (in Astoria Park), Queens
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of a strict elementary private school, only to try and turn it into a rock band.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Festival Friday: Hip Hop Film Festival – The Art of the Score
at Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
7:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
The Art Of The Score is a free to the public event held at Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn NY. The one-day event includes a live scoring contest…
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: MOCA Cinema: Pushing Hands
at Columbus Park, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
A Chinese tai-chi master moves to America to live with his son’s family. Come early! We will have a Tai-Chi demonstration before the movie.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Despicable Me 3
at Phil “Scooter” Rizzuto Park, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks, Council Member Karen Koslowitz, and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film. Illumination, who brought audiences…
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Back to the Future
at John Golden Parking Lot (in John Golden Park), Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks, Council Member Paul Vallone, and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out of Water
at Nelson Avenue and Tennyson Drive (in Seaside Wildlife Nature Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
SpongeBob and Plankton form an alliance to recover the secret recipe for Krabby Patties, which has been stolen. Their search eventually leads them to the real world.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Yogi Bear
at Faber Park Entrance (in Faber Pool and Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Yogi Bear (voiced by Dan Aykroyd), Boo Boo, and Ranger Rick must save Jellystone Park from Mayor Brown, who wants to sell the property due to low attendance.
Friday, June 22, 2018
Films on the Green: La Bûche
at WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Will there be a “bûche,” for Christmas? A family of 3 sisters with opposite characters, and their divorced parents will try to settle their old accounts answering this question!
Friday, June 22, 2018
Outdoor Movie Night at Randall’s Island Park: Wonder Woman
at Field 42 (in Randall’s Island Park), Manhattan
8:40 p.m.–10:50 p.m.
Wonder Woman is the story of Diana (Gal Gadot), daughter of Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazonian warrior women, as she sets out on a mission to save the world.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Marshall
at St. Nicholas Park 135 Lawn (in St. Nicholas Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! The story of Thurgood Marshall, lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice…
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Lego Ninjago Movie
at Sean’s Place, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
High-school students moonlight as ninjas, and fight to defend their island of Ninjago.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Despicable Me 3
at Cortelyou Road & E. 17th Street, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for this free family film! In this third rendition of the delightful animated franchise, Gru (Steve…
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Dunkirk
at Detective Russel Timoshenko Soccer Field (in Franklin D. Roosevelt Boardwalk and Beach), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Dunkirk is a WWII thriller about the evacuation of Dunkirk, France, in which 400,000 Allied troops were rescued following a catastrophic defeat.
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
at Bay 8th Street and Independence Avenue (in Dyker Beach Park), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
In this sequel to the animated Disney comedy, Surly and his friends must stop Oakton City’s mayor from destroying their home to make way for a dysfunctional amusement park.
Monday, June 25, 2018
Bryant Park Movie Nights: The Philadelphia Story
at Bryant Park Lawn (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant star in this classic romantic comedy.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Fences
at Moore Playground, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Lion King
at Russell Sage Playground, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A royal lion cub is driven into exile after his uncle murders his father.
Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Jumanji (2017)
at Unisphere (in Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
8:00 a.m.–10:00 p.m.
Four teenagers are sucked into a jungle-themed video game.
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Greatest Showman
at J Hood Wright Park (in J. Hood Wright Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! Celebrates the birth of show business, and tells of a visionary…
Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: The Lion King
at Kelly Park (in Kelly Park Playground), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
This beloved animated Disney classic follows the adventures of Simba, a lion cub crown prince tricked by his treacherous uncle, into thinking he caused his father’s death.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movie Nights in Rockaway – Star Wars: The Last Jedi
at Beach 17th Street and Seagirt Boulevard (in Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk), Queens
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join us for a free movie at the beach! Now playing–Star Wars: The Last Jedi!
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
at Chelsea Park, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and the New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for a free film! Two overly imaginative pranksters named George and Harold hypnotize their principal…
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Pride Month Series: Saturday Church
at Tony Dapolito Recreation Center, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and finds his passion in the process.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Ferdinand
at Conch Playground, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
After Ferdinand, a bull with a big heart, is mistaken for a dangerous beast, he is captured and torn from his home.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Chicago
at Greenbelt Recreation Center (in Blood Root Valley), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
This Best Picture winner is based on the Broadway hit about homicidal femmes fatales during the Jazz Age.
Thursday, June 28, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Power Rangers (2017)
at Pena Herrera Park (in Pena Herrera Playground), Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Five ordinary teens must become something extraordinary when they learn that their small town of Angel Grove – and the world – is on the verge of being obliterated by an alien threat.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Historic Harlem Parks Film Festival 2018
at Richard Rodgers Amphitheater (in Marcus Garvey Park), Manhattan
6:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Join us for a screening of a biopic about the struggles of director Mario Van Peebles’ struggles as he attempts to film and distribute a film widely credited with showing Hollywood that a viable African-American audience existed, and thus influencing the creation of the Blaxploitation genre.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: MOCA Cinema: The Last Dragon
at Columbus Park, Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
In New York City, a young man searches for the “master” to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a corrupted martial arts expert.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Wonder
at Paul Raimonda Playground, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
A 10-year-old boy with a facial deformity attends school for the first time when he begins the fifth grade.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Spider-Man: Homecoming
at Willowbrook Park Archery Range (in Willowbrook Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Spider-Man learns the ropes of being a superhero under the tutelage of Tony Stark, all while juggling his responsibilities as high schooler Peter Parker.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Films on the Green: Garçon!
at WNYC Transmitter Park, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Alex is a head waiter in a popular Parisian bistro. Between his incessant comings and goings from the restaurant’s kitchen to the dining room, Alex dreams of opening an amusement park.
Friday, June 29, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: E.T. the Extra Terrestrial
at McKinley Park, Brooklyn
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Join NYC Parks and New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment for this free family film! This heart-warming 1982 classic tell the story of a young boy, Elliot (Henry…
Friday, June 29, 2018
Arts, Culture & Fun: Celebration of Ingmar Bergman – Movie Screening: Smiles of a Summer Night
at Driggs Avenue and Lorimer Street (in McCarren Park), Brooklyn
9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
After fifteen films that received mostly local acclaim, the 1955 comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (Sommarnattens leende) at last ushered in an international audience for Ingmar Bergman.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Wonder Woman
at Dongan Lawn (in Fort Tryon Park), Manhattan
8:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
When a pilot crashes and tells of conflict in the outside world, Diana, an Amazonian warrior in training, leaves home to fight a war, discovering her full powers and true destiny.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: An American Tail
at Rory Staunton Field, Queens
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Fievel, an immigrant mouse searches for his family in 1800s New York City after they are separated upon their arrival in America.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
at Broadway and Wayne Street (in CPL. Thompson Park), Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.
Saturday, June 30, 2018
Movies Under the Stars: A League of Their Own
at Schmul Park, Staten Island
8:30 p.m.–10:30 p.m.
A look at the first women’s professional baseball league focuses on the rivalry between sisters on the same team, and their washed up, hard-drinking coach.
