{"id":213048,"date":"2026-03-31T14:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213048\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:24:09","slug":"the-best-movies-you-can-only-see-in-miami-in-april-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213048\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Movies You Can Only See in Miami in April 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old favorites, new classics, and a film festival<\/a> \u2014 oh my! No, we\u2019re not in Kansas; we\u2019re in Miami for one of the best months to be a cinephile<\/a> in South Florida. Take a look below to find what we\u2019re seeing in Miami this April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miroirs No. 3 at Coral Gables Art Cinema<\/p>\n

The latest chamber drama from leading German auteur Christian Petzold debuts at Coral Gables Art Cinema on Friday, April 3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Take: Not everything is as it seems in Miroirs No. 3. When a conservatory piano student (Paula Beer) survives a horrific car accident in rural Germany, a local woman (Barbara Auer) offers her home as a place to recuperate. The two soon develop a perhaps-too-close relationship, but family secrets revealed by the woman\u2019s estranged husband (Matthias Brandt) and son (Enno Trebs) threaten to upend the dynamic. With a jaw-dropping third act twist and an incredible Frankie Valli needle drop, Petzold\u2019s latest once again proves he\u2019s one of current cinema\u2019s most effective dramatists, dissecting contemporary concerns and portraying human perversities with an empathetic eye. Opens Friday, April 3 at Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 786-472-2249; gablescinema.com<\/a>. Tickets cost $12.75.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly at Cosford Cinema<\/p>\n

Carve out a few hours of your Saturday to watch the epic conclusion to Sergio Leone\u2019s Dollars Trilogy at UM\u2019s Cosford Cinema this weekend. Widely considered one of the greatest westerns of all time, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly pits three gunslingers \u2014 Clint Eastwood\u2019s Man With No Name (The Good), Lee Van Cleef\u2019s amoral Angel Eyes (The Bad), and Eli Wallach\u2019s wily Tuco Ramirez (The Ugly) \u2014 against each other in a hunt for buried gold. The final confrontation, an unbearably tense standoff in a lonesome cemetery soundtracked by Ennio Morricone\u2019s soaring score, is the very definition of iconic. 3 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Bill Cosford Cinema, 5030 Brunson Dr., Ste. 255, Coral Gables; 305-284-9838; cosfordcinema.com<\/a>. Admission is free.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Destroy All Monsters at Main Library<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a monster-sized ending for AV Club\u2019s \u201cGolden Age of Japanese Cinema\u201d series with a screening of one of Godzilla\u2019s greatest adventures, 1968\u2019s Destroy All Monsters. As the title suggests, every one of the kaiju king\u2019s former foes (except King Kong) will join forces to defend planet Earth against a new, villainous force from outer space and its secret weapon: A resurgent King Ghidorah! 2 p.m. Saturday, April 4, at Main Library, 101 W. Flagler St., Miami; 305-375-2665; mdpls.org<\/a>. Admission is free.<\/p>\n

\"filmMaddie\u2019s Secret screens as part of the Miami Film Festival this month.<\/p>\n

Miami Film Festival<\/p>\n

Taking over venues citywide, the Miami Film Festival is back again this month from Thursday, April 9, through Wednesday, April 22. Along with special events such as a live orchestral screening of Whiplash and an 80th birthday celebration for the Pope of Trash himself, John Waters, plenty of great movies are screening that might not be seen again in Miami theaters. We\u2019ve rounded up some of our favorites below.<\/p>\n

Erupcja<\/p>\n

Charli XCX\u2019s adventures in movie acting continue with this romantic comedy from new director Pete Ohs. The 365 party girl plays a British tourist on a bad vacation in Warsaw with a boyfriend (Will Madden) she\u2019s less than crazy about. She quickly ditches the guy to track down a long-lost friend (Lena G\u00f3ra) and live it up in the Polish capital, but complications soon emerge. Shot in secret during the pop star\u2019s 2024 tour, this could be the long-lost slice of Brat Summer we\u2019ve all been hoping for. 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 10, at Silverspot Cinema, 300 SE Third St., Miami; 305-536-5000; silverspot.net<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Christophers<\/p>\n

Steven Soderbergh is a director who should send any self-respecting cinephile rushing to the theater, and while his upcoming film\u00a0The Christophers\u00a0isn\u2019t exactly far away from a wide release, this sneak preview is still a worthy way to spend an evening. Set in the art world, the film follows a down-and-out painter (Michaela Coel) hired to infiltrate the home of a much more famous artist (Ian McKellen) and forge a copy of his secret, unreleased masterpiece. 6:15 p.m. Friday, April 10, at Silverspot Cinema, 300 SE Third St., Miami; 305-536-5000; silverspot.net<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Everyone Is Lying to You For Money<\/p>\n

Once an actor and cast member of the hit mid-2000s teen drama The O.C., Ben McKenzie has reinvented himself as a sworn enemy of cryptocurrency, literally writing the book on the shadowy subject with his nonfiction volume Easy Money. Now comes the documentary version, the aptly-titled Everyone is Lying to You For Money. With Miami having been something of an epicenter of the crypto craze in recent years, it seems fitting that McKenzie should make an appearance at MFF, giving a Q&A moderated by fellow documentarian Billy Corben. 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 11, at the Olympia Theater, 174 E. Flagler St., Miami; 305-443-2424; preservingolympia.org<\/a>. Tickets cost $27.81 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"stillRomer\u00eda heads from Cannes to the Miami Film Festival this month.<\/p>\n

Romer\u00eda<\/p>\n

Spanish director Carla Simon\u2019s latest is a nostalgic early-2000s period piece that screened in competition at Cannes and earned six Goya Award nominations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Take: A sun-dappled vacation visiting long-lost family in the northeastern Spanish city of Vigo forms the backdrop for teenager Marina\u2019s (Ll\u00facia Garcia) exploration into her Gen X parents\u2019 wild lives and untimely deaths. Dramatizing events in her own life, Sim\u00f3n elegantly pays tribute to the post-Franco generation\u2019s reckless embrace of freedom and the difficulties of never having known one\u2019s family. Think of it as a Spanish answer to Aftersun. 6 p.m Sunday, April 12, at the Koubek Center, 2705 SW Third St., Miami; 305-237-7750;\u00a0koubekcenter.org<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I Want Your Sex<\/p>\n

Hot on the heels of a long-awaited career revival, \u201890s indie provocateur Gregg Araki returned to Sundance earlier this year with his first film in 12 years. Depicting a wild romance between a libertine artist (Olivia Wilde) and her younger assistant (Cooper Hoffman), critics have called the film Araki\u2019s message to a neurotic, repressed younger generation \u2014 that message, specifically, is \u201cPlease get over yourselves and have sex, you fucking losers.\u201d 9 p.m. Monday, April 13, at Silverspot Cinema, 300 SE Third St., Miami; 305-536-5000; silverspot.net<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"stillDirector Sophy Romvari\u2019s semi-autobiographical Blue Heron screens at MFF in April.<\/p>\n

Blue Heron<\/p>\n

An award-winner at Locarno and Toronto, Canadian director Sophy Romvari\u2019s semi-autobiographical first feature has earned considerable acclaim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our Take: Trouble lurks in the background of Sasha\u2019s (Eylul Guven) childhood memories of an idyllic Vancouver Island summer as the mental illness of her teenage half-brother Jeremy (Edik Beddoes) threatens the safety and serenity of their Hungarian immigrant family. Years after their parents make an unbearable, perhaps unforgivable choice about the boy\u2019s fate, Sasha continues to look for answers as to what went wrong. Both a lyrical period piece and a film that plays with audience expectations and perspectives, Blue Heron is as affecting as it is disturbing. 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Coral Gables Art Cinema, 260 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables; 786-472-2249; gablescinema.com<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Maddie\u2019s Secret<\/p>\n

The premise of this film sounds like a pretty amusing, if dark, joke: Per IMDb, \u201cA food influencer struggles with bulimia.\u201d It sounds like a sketch-comedy bit, but imagine it stretched out for an entire movie. Directed by and starring\u00a0Stress Positions\u00a0breakout John Early as the titular foodie,\u00a0Maddie\u2019s Secret\u00a0features a cast of contemporary comedy leading lights, including Kate Berlant, Eric Rahill, and king of insane, malevolent parody TikToks, Connor O\u2019Malley. 6:30 p.m. Friday, April 17, at O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 786-471-3269; o-cinema.org<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Silent Friend<\/p>\n

There is one actor on earth that can make any film a must-see simply by being in it, and it\u2019s not Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. Legendary Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai\u2019s presence may be the primary draw of Hungarian director Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi\u2019s latest film, Silent Friend, but the premise, following a single Ginkgo tree across three distinct eras, sounds intriguing all on its own. The film is pitched as a follow-up to Enyedi\u2019s Golden Bear-winning film On Body and Soul from 2017 and also stars the great L\u00e9a Seydoux. 2:45 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at O Cinema South Beach, 1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 786-471-3269; o-cinema.org<\/a>. Tickets cost $18.03 via miamifilmfestival.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Old favorites, new classics, and a film festival \u2014 oh my! No, we\u2019re not in Kansas; we\u2019re in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[684,1943,123,69196,125,124],"class_list":["post-213048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-miami","tag-miami-film-festival","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}