This paper focuses on analyzing instances of code-switching between African American Vernacular English and Standard English in the films ‘The Hate U Give’ and ‘Sorry to Bother You’. The first part of the thesis is concerned with code-switching as a product of language contact phenomena, the distinction between code-switching and other language contact phenomena, as well as reasons for employing it and attitudes towards it. What follows is an overview of the evolution of AAVE, its linguistic characteristics and attitudes of its speakers towards code-switching. The crucial part of the paper deals with analyzing instances of codeswitching between AAVE and SE in the films. The first hypothesis that stated that speakers of AAVE strictly speak AAVE in informal settings and Standard English in formal settings turned out to be incorrect because characters in both films switched between the two varieties in informal settings. The second hypothesis was that the variety a person is going to speak depended on their interlocutor. This turned out to be true in the sense that the extent to which a person spoke AAVE and employed its features depended on the extent to which their interlocutor was doing so. The last hypothesis was that the variety choice will be dictated by the theme discussed. The analysis suggests that it was not necessarily the topic in question that dictated the variety, but rather the person’s attitude towards what was being said and the manner in which they expressed their opinion on the topic.