Concrete Cowboy

Concrete Cowboy (2020) is a drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Ricky Staub and starring Idris Elba alongside Caleb McLaughlin. Cole is fifteen, freshly expelled from school in Detroit. His mother drives him to Philadelphia in the middle of the night, drops him at a door and leaves. Inside lives his estranged father. Inside the house, there is also a horse.

The Fletcher Street stables have existed in North Philadelphia for generations — a tight community of Black urban cowboys who keep horses in a neighbourhood that the rest of the city would rather forget. Cole has no interest in any of it. Neither does the old friend played by Jharrel Jerome, who has a different plan for Cole's summer. Elba plays the father with a quietness that earns its weight — a man of almost no words and a very specific kind of stubborn dignity.

What makes the film land differently from a typical coming-of-age story is that many of the riders on screen are real Fletcher Street horsemen, not actors. That texture shows. Stream Concrete Cowboy (2020) online on iFILM.