The summer is gradually coming to a close and its exit will usher in a new badge of movies waiting to be released in the second half of 2020. A lot of quarantine movies certainly included watching movies judging from the spike in market profit made by streaming companies. If you’re not one to own an account with one of them, I wrote a list of the best free websites for watching movies.
Now that you’re ready to check out the latest titles with which you can keep yourself entertained, here’s a list of the best movies of 2020 (subject to constant updates)
1. Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on their city.
124 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig
2. The Gentlemen (2019)
An American expatriate tries to sell his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain from him.
113 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
3. Just Mercy (2019)
World-renowned civil rights defence attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free an innocent death row prisoner.
137 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson, Charlie Pye Jr.
4. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020)
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
109 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stars: Margot Robbie, Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett
5. Horse Girl (2020)
Sarah, a socially isolated woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stars: Alison Brie, Molly Shannon, Goldenite, Stella Chestnut
6. Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help him defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on him.
99 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stars: Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter
7. Ordinary Love (2019)
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife’s breast cancer diagnosis.
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Stars: Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi, Melanie Clark Pullen
8. The Call of the Wild (2020)
A sledge dog struggles for survival in the wilds of the Yukon.
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Stars: Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee, Dan Stevens
9. Color Out of Space (2019)
A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.
111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
10. The Invisible Man (2020)
When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
124 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
11. Guns Akimbo (2019)
A guy relies on his newly-acquired gladiator skills to save his ex-girlfriend from kidnappers.
98 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
12. Onward (2020)
Two elven brothers embark on a quest to bring their father back for one day.
102 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Stars: Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer
13. The Way Back (2020)
Jack Cunningham was an HS basketball phenom who walked away from the game, forfeiting his future. Years later, when he reluctantly accepts a coaching job at his alma mater, he may get one last shot at redemption.
108 min | Drama, Sport
Stars: Ben Affleck, Al Madrigal, Janina Gavankar, Michaela Watkins
14. Escape from Pretoria (2020)
Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa.
106 min | Thriller
Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Webber, Ian Hart, Mark Leonard Winter
15. Spenser Confidential (2020)
When two Boston police officers are murdered, ex-cop Spenser teams up with his no-nonsense roommate, Hawk, to take down criminals.
111 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Winston Duke, Alan Arkin, Iliza Shlesinger
16. Lost Girls (2020)
When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Gabriel Byrne, Lola Kirke
17. The Banker (2020)
In the 1960s two African-American entrepreneurs hire a working-class white man to pretend to be the head of their business empire while they pose as a janitor and chauffeur.
120 min | Biography, Drama
Stars: Anthony Mackie, Samuel L. Jackson, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long
18. The Platform (2019)
A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. One only food platform and two minutes per day to feed from up to down. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.
94 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale
19. Coffee & Kareem (2020)
Twelve-year-old Kareem Manning hires a criminal to scare his mom’s new boyfriend -police officer James Coffee – but it backfires, forcing Coffee and Kareem to team up in order to save themselves from Detroit’s most ruthless drug kingpin.
88 min | Action, Comedy
Stars: Ed Helms, Taraji P. Henson, Terrence Little Gardenhigh, Betty Gilpin
20. Trolls World Tour (2020)
When the Queen of the Hard Rock Trolls tries to take over all the Troll kingdoms, Queen Poppy and her friends try different ways to save all the Trolls.
90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong
How many of these movies have you seen? Which movies are you looking forward to in the Winter season? Remember that you can add them to your watchlist.