Search results for "Spike Lee"
Bad 25

Bad 25

Bad 25
IMDb: 7.9
131

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson’s Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers,…

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
IMDb: 6.9
54

Rising comedy star Jerrod Carmichael takes to the stage of The Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA where he comically subverts such subjects as poverty, wealth, crime and race and presents…

Genre: Comedy
Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer
IMDb: 5.1
125

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed…

Genre: Drama
When the Levees Broke

When the Levees Broke

When the Levees Broke
TMDb: 7.7
255 min

Spike Lee’s award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise
TMDb: 6.6
120 min

Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.

Status: Ended
Genre: Documentary
She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It
TMDb: 6.6
30 min

Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee’s film, in 10 episodes.

Status: Ended
Genre: Comedy
Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus
IMDb: 6.8
120

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a…

Genre: Drama
David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia
IMDb: 8.2
105

A filmed version of David Byrne’s Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It
IMDb: 6.8
84

The story of Nola Darling’s simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
25th Hour

25th Hour

25th Hour
IMDb: 7.6
135

In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
IMDb: 7.4
110

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq
IMDb: 5.8
127

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
IMDb: 4.2
123

Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. Soon after his transformation he enters into a dangerous romance…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
IMDb: 7.4
90

Mike Tyson’s one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one…

Genre: Comedy
She Hate Me

She Hate Me

She Hate Me
IMDb: 5.3
139

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Oldboy

Oldboy

Oldboy
IMDb: 5.7
104

An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.

Inside Man

Inside Man

Inside Man
IMDb: 7.6
129

When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bamboozled

Bamboozled

Bamboozled
IMDb: 6.6
136

TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam
IMDb: 6.7
142

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…

He Got Game

He Got Game

He Got Game
IMDb: 6.9
136

A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Genre: Drama
Clockers

Clockers

Clockers
IMDb: 6.9
128

Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Crooklyn

Crooklyn

Crooklyn
IMDb: 7
115

From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in ’70s Brooklyn.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
IMDb: 7.7
202

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the ’50s, he became a Black Muslim and…

Genre: Drama, History
Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues
IMDb: 6.6
129

Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into…

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.6
132

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He’s quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship…

Genre: Drama, Romance
School Daze

School Daze

School Daze
IMDb: 6
121

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 8
120

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only…

Genre: Drama
Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods
IMDb: 6.5
156

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of…

Genre: Drama, War
John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak
IMDb: 8.1
90

John Leguizamo’s semi-falsified, one-man stand-up performance as…himself. This is his autobiographical story, about his life growing up, and his journey to try to be accepted by his father. We see…

Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work
IMDb: 6.5
83

A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

Genre: Documentary
Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City
IMDb: 6.6
113

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on…

Pass Over

Pass Over

Pass Over
IMDb: 5.8
74

Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but…

Genre: Drama
BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman
IMDb: 7.5
135

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna
IMDb: 6.1
160

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd “Buffalo Soldier” Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.

Genre: Drama, War
The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy
IMDb: 6.8
115

The Original Kings of Comedy achieves the seemingly impossible task of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer,…

Girl 6

Girl 6

Girl 6
IMDb: 5.2
108

A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.

Genre: Comedy
Passing Strange

Passing Strange

Passing Strange
IMDb: 6.4
135

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.