Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Drama | Music | Romance
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Robin Harris, Joie Lee
Director: Spike Lee
She Hate Me (2004)
Comedy | Drama
Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Q-Tip, Woody Harrelson
Director: Spike Lee
American Utopia / David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)
Documentary | Music | Musical
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
Starring: David Byrne
Director: Spike Lee
Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Drama | War
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen Squad Leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Starring: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Mélanie Thierry, Paul Walter Hauser, Jasper Pääkkönen
Director: Spike Lee
Bamboozled (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Music
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
Starring: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson, Michael Rapaport, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Director: Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Comedy | Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama
Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
Starring: Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Laura Harrier, Ryan Eggold, Corey Hawkins, John David Washington, Robert John Burke, Jasper Pääkkönen, Paul Walter Hauser, Alec Baldwin
Director: Spike Lee
Pass Over (2018)
Drama
Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.
Starring: Jon Michael Hill, Julian Parker, Ryan Hallahan, Blake DeLong
Director: Spike Lee, Danya Taymor
Malcolm X (1992)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
The life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X, who emerged from the streets to become a powerful voice for the black rights movement in America. The film follows X from his days as a Harlem pusher, through his conversion to Islam in prison, his pilgrimage to Mecca and finally to his assassination.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)
Documentary | Music
A look at the life of the late pop star Michael Jackson from his early days at Motown Records to the release of his hit 1979 album, Off the Wall.
Starring: Michael Jackson
Director: Spike Lee
Chi-Raq (2015)
Drama
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Starring: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack
Director: Spike Lee
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Michael Jackson: Bad 25 / Bad 25 (2012)
Documentary | Music
Chronicles the making of Michael Jackson's iconic, record-breaking Bad album and Michael's first world tour as a solo artist. Spike Lee examines Michael Jackson's creative vision for the album that ended up defining an era. Michael's lasting artistic legacy comes to life thanks to rare and never before seen footage and the vivid recollections of Michael's collaborators and confidants, such as Martin Scorsese who directed the 18-minute short film for the single Bad.
Starring: Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Quincy Jones, Chris Brown, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber
Director: Spike Lee
Crooklyn (1994)
Comedy | Drama
A jazz musician whose career has faded and his wife, a schoolteacher, raise their family and cope with financial hardship in Brooklyn in the 1970s. They have five children: a bright and introspective daughter named Troy and four sons with a habit of causing trouble.
Starring: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Jose Zuniga, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
School Daze (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
A not so popular man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at a historically black college.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn
Director: Spike Lee
25th Hour (2002)
Crime | Drama
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.
Starring: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox
Director: Spike Lee
Summer of Sam / The Son of Sam (1999)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Starring: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Michael Rispoli, Patti LuPone
Director: Spike Lee
Oldboy (2013)
Action | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Josh Brolin, Sharlto Copley, Michael Imperioli, James Ransone
Director: Spike Lee
Clockers (1995)
Crime | Drama | Mystery
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
Starring: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington, Keith David
Director: Spike Lee
He Got Game (1998)
Drama | Romance | Sport
Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional basketball are overshadowed by his father, Jake, who is spending his life in prison for killing Jesus' mother.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Ray Allen, Milla Jovovich, Rosario Dawson, Bill Nunn, Ned Beatty
Director: Spike Lee
Inside Man (2006)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a surgically planned siege, and the 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in an airtight heist. NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell are dispatched to the scene with orders to establish contact with the heist's ringleader, Dalton Russell, and ensure safe release of the hostages. Working alongside Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Captain John Darius, all are hopeful that the situation can be peacefully diffused and that control of the bank and release of those inside can be secured in short order. But Russell proves an unexpectedly canny opponent–clever, calm and totally in command–a puppet master with a meticulous plan to disorient and confuse not only the hostages, but also the authorities. But just what are the robbers after? Why is nothing working to alleviate the standoff? Detecetive Frazier becomes convinced that invisible strings are being pulled and secret negotiations are taking place while the powder keg situation grows more unstable by the moment.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe
Director: Spike Lee
