01 A childhood friend's return from prison forces a boxing champion to confront buried grudges from his past.
9 Best Tessa Thompson Movies
By Vlad Zakh · January 3, 2026
Drama thought provokingintense
Tessa Thompson has moved fluidly between blockbuster action and quiet independent drama, rarely playing the same type of character twice. In Thor: Ragnarok (2017): A hard-drinking Valkyrie warrior reluctantly joins Thor’s fight to save Asgard from total destruction. Worth seeking out is Creed (2015): A singer-songwriter’s relationship with an up-and-coming boxer complicates both their ambitions.
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02 Two Black childhood friends reconnect as adults, one of whom has been secretly passing as white.
03 A record store owner's daughter and a saxophonist reconnect years after a summer romance in 1950s Harlem.
04 A rookie agent partners with a rogue operative to investigate a mole within the secret organization.
05 A telemarketer's artist girlfriend pushes back against the corporate machine consuming his life.
06 A hard-drinking Valkyrie warrior reluctantly joins Thor's fight to save Asgard from total destruction.
07 A singer-songwriter's relationship with an up-and-coming boxer complicates both their ambitions.
08 Racial tensions boil over at an elite, mostly white university after a blackface party is planned.
09 A dramatization of the pivotal civil rights marches led by Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 Alabama.
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