List of the best Spike Lee movies: David Byrne's American Utopia(2020), Do the Right Thing(1989), Bad 25(2012), 4 Little Girls(1997), Malcolm X(1992), Inside Man(2006), 25th Hour(2002), BlacKkKlansman(2018), Brooklyn Boheme(2011), Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet(2002), Crooklyn(1994), The Original Kings of Comedy(2000) ... ...
8.3/10
Musical
USA
2020
135 Minutes
Director
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.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1989
120 Minutes
Producer
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro Rosie Perez Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison
owner brother son sister young boy gutsy intense witty street restaurant brooklyn, n.y. racism violence civil rights community rivalry 1980s
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.
7.9/10
Documentary, Music
USA
2012
130 Minutes
Director
Glen Ballard Justin Bieber Ruben Blades Chris Brown Mariah Carey Sheryl Crow
A documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record Bad.
7.8/10
Documentary
USA
1997
102 Minutes
Director
racist victim preacher mother father young girl somber powerful church birmingham, ala. family home racism terrorism murder violence politics pursuit quest sacrifice 1990s
A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
7.7/10
Biography, Drama, History
USA|Japan
1992
201 Minutes
Director
Denzel Washington Angela Bassett Albert Hall Al Freeman Jr. Delroy Lindo Theresa Randle Kate Vernon Lonette McKee Tommy Hollis James McDaniel
activist gangster love interest criminal inspiring new york city prison inner city brooklyn, n.y. religion racism violence surveillance politics malcolm x discovery rise 20th century
Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
7.6/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2006
129 Minutes
Director
Denzel Washington Clive Owen Jodie Foster Willem Dafoe Chiwetel Ejiofor Kim Director Christopher Plummer Florina Petcu Jay Charan Bernie Rachelle
detective bank robber hostage banker negotiator broker tense suspenseful bank new york city cell heist investigation deception stand-off hostages quest mystery rivalry 2000s
A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation.
7.6/10
Drama
USA
2002
134 Minutes
Director
Edward Norton Philip Seymour Hoffman Barry Pepper Rosario Dawson Anna Paquin Brian Cox Tony Siragusa Levani Outchaneichvili Misha Kuznetsov Isiah Whitlock Jr. Michael Genet
drug dealer girlfriend teacher gangster father dark solemn sad new york city nightclub bar apartment prison family absence drug trade male bonding new york city love transformation
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.
7.5/10
Crime, Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
134 Minutes
Director
John David Washington Adam Driver Laura Harrier Topher Grace Jasper Pääkkönen Corey Hawkins Ryan Eggold Michael Joseph Buscemi Paul Walter Hauser Ashlie Atkinson Alec Baldwin
detective white supremacist partner undercover cop police officer amusing hilarious tense suspenseful thrilling police station secret headquarters office woods house undercover operations ku klux klan police work investigation underdog
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.
7.4/10
Documentary
USA
2011
74 Minutes
Spike Lee Diane Paragas Chris Rock Branford Marsalis Rosie Perez
An intimate portrait of the black arts movement that exploded in Fort Greene from the mid 1980s through the 90s as told by writer, historian and Brooklyn resident Nelson George.
7.2/10
Drama
Spain|UK|Germany|Finland|China|USA|Japan|Canada
2002
91 Minutes
Aki Kaurismäki Werner Herzog Spike Lee Markku Peltola Kati Outinen Marko Haavisto Frédérique Tirmont Ana Sofia Liaño
actress farmer husband elderly person sick person tribesman dense fascinating profound south america florida new york city rural community desert time fate illness scandal delusions humanity
This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1994
112 Minutes
Director
Alfre Woodard Delroy Lindo David Patrick Kelly Zelda Harris Carlton Williams Sharif Rashed Tse-Mach Washington Christopher Knowings Jose Zuniga Isaiah Washington Ivelka Reyes
young girl brother teacher father mother musician emotional moving brooklyn, n.y. apartment american south country house coming of age family youth growing up love transformation 1970s
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
6.9/10
Comedy, Documentary
USA
2000
115 Minutes
Director
comedian audience hilarious fiery north carolina theater stage stand-up comedy culture race relations church relationships family rise 2000s
A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1995
128 Minutes
Director
Harvey Keitel John Turturro Delroy Lindo Mekhi Phifer Isaiah Washington Keith David Pee Wee Love Regina Taylor Tom Byrd Sticky Fingaz Fredro Starr
drug dealer drug lord police detective brother mother gritty bleak intense brooklyn, n.y. housing project church inner-city life drug trade murder investigation police brutality growing up transformation mystery 1990s
Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
6.8/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1996
120 Minutes
Director
Richard Belzer De'aundre Bonds Andre Braugher Thomas Jefferson Byrd Gabriel Casseus Albert Hall Hill Harper Harry Lennix Bernie Mac Wendell Pierce Roger Guenveur Smith
gang member actor cop bus driver charming emotional powerful bus washington, d.c. race relations protest politics quest discovery underdog 20th century
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
6.8/10
Romance
USA
1986
84 Minutes
Screenwriter
Tracy Camilla Johns Tommy Redmond Hicks John Canada Terrell Spike Lee Raye Dowell Bill Lee Cheryl Burr Aaron Dugger
pretty woman suitor nerd model wealthy man amusing fiery brooklyn, n.y. restaurant street courtship love triangle commitment relationships rivalry forbidden love temptation 1980s
Story of a woman and her three lovers.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1999
142 Minutes
Director
John Alberto Leguizamo Adrien Brody Mira Sorvino Jennifer Esposito Anthony LaPaglia Bebe Neuwirth Patti LuPone Ben Gazzara Joe Lisi Michael Badalucco Michael Rispoli
serial killer husband wife punk rocker porn star gritty tense emotional new york city bronx, n.y. serial murders friendship hedonism infidelity city life sex mystery wretched excess fall 1970s
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 Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1990
127 Minutes
Producer
Denzel Washington Spike Lee Wesley Snipes Joie Lee Cynda Williams Giancarlo Esposito Robin Harris Bill Nunn Richard Williams John Turturro Ruben Blades
saxophonist trumpeter manager teacher singer friend cool brooding emotional nightclub new york city backstage street jazz club jazz power struggle love triangle debt friendship music industry
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
6.5/10
Drama, War
USA
2020
155 Minutes
Director
Delroy Lindo Jonathan Majors Clarke Peters Norm Lewis Isiah Whitlock Jr. Mélanie Thierry Paul Walter Hauser Jasper Pääkkönen Jean Reno Chadwick Boseman Nguyen Ngoc Lam
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.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2000
135 Minutes
Director
Damon Wayans Savion Glover Jada Pinkett Smith Tommy Davidson Michael Rapaport Thomas Jefferson Byrd Paul Mooney Sarah Jones Gillian White Susan Batson Yasiin Bey
writer television producer television star assistant brother cheeky creative hysterical quirky gutsy studio new york city office apartment race relations television performance stereotypes unexpected success underdog
A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit.
6.2/10
Musical
USA
2009
136 Minutes
Director
De'Adre Aziza Daniel Breaker Eisa Davis Colman Domingo Chad Goodridge Rebecca Naomi Jones Karen Pittman
teenager band member musician choir director mother woman creative engaging airy spirited los angeles europe amsterdam berlin musicians race relations growing up discovery quest 1980s
Director Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
6.1/10
War, Drama, History
Italy|USA
2008
160 Minutes
Director
Derek Luke Michael Ealy Laz Alonso Omar Benson Miller Pierfrancesco Favino Valentina Cervi Matteo Sciabordi John Turturro Joseph Gordon-Levitt John Alberto Leguizamo Kerry Washington
reporter detective veteran soldier german soldier commander gripping dark tense tuscany, italy new york city village apartment war zone battlefield world war ii behind enemy lines pow/mia investigation racial issues
Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
5.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2018
74 Minutes
Director
Jon Michael Hill Julian Parker Ryan Hallahan Blake DeLong
young man stranger police officer friend homeless person amusing bleak tense offbeat witty spirited chicago street corner street friendship homelessness leaving home police brutality shoot-out adventure
Two young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.
5.7/10
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2013
103 Minutes
Director
Josh Brolin Elizabeth Olsen Sharlto Copley Michael Imperioli Linda Emond James Ransone Max Casella Pom Klementieff Samuel L. Jackson Elvis Nolasco Rami Malek
executive kidnapper prisoner dark creepy gripping suspenseful room city kidnapping revenge painful memories loss of control confinement escape revenge discovery pursuit 2010s
Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
5.7/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
2015
127 Minutes
Director
Nick Cannon Wesley Snipes Teyonah Parris Jennifer Hudson Steve Harris Harry Lennix D.B. Sweeney Angela Bassett John Cusack Samuel L. Jackson David Patrick Kelly
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
5.0/10
Drama
USA
2012
121 Minutes
Director
Clarke Peters Jules Brown Toni Lysaith Nate Parker Thomas Jefferson Byrd Heather Alicia Simms Colman Domingo James Ransone De'Adre Aziza Kimberly Hébert Gregory Stephen McKinley Henderson
A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
4.2/10
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2014
123 Minutes
Director
Stephen Tyrone Williams Zaraah Abrahams Rami Malek Elvis Nolasco Thomas Jefferson Byrd Joie Lee Felicia "Snoop" Pearson Jeni Perillo Katherine Borowitz Donna Dixon
vampire anthropologist creepy dark mansion romance metamorphosis love
An anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
Documentary
2002
129 Minutes
Director
Spike Lee directed this portrait of pro football Hall of Famer, actor and civil rights activist Jim Brown.
Drama
2005
129 Minutes
Rosie Perez Mehdi Charef Ridley Scott Spike Lee Maria Grazia Cucinotta Adama Bila Elysée Rouamba Rodrigue Ouattara Uros Milovanovic
Seven short films revolve around poor and exploited children in Africa, China, Brazil and the United States.
Biography
2001
88 Minutes
Director
A radical (Roger Guenveur Smith) from Oakland, Calif., establishes the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1990
127 Minutes
Producer
Denzel Washington Spike Lee Wesley Snipes Joie Lee Cynda Williams Giancarlo Esposito Robin Harris Bill Nunn Richard Williams John Turturro Ruben Blades
saxophonist trumpeter manager teacher singer friend cool brooding emotional nightclub new york city backstage street jazz club jazz power struggle love triangle debt friendship music industry
Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
6.8/10
Romance
USA
1986
84 Minutes
Screenwriter
Tracy Camilla Johns Tommy Redmond Hicks John Canada Terrell Spike Lee Raye Dowell Bill Lee Cheryl Burr Aaron Dugger
pretty woman suitor nerd model wealthy man amusing fiery brooklyn, n.y. restaurant street courtship love triangle commitment relationships rivalry forbidden love temptation 1980s
Story of a woman and her three lovers.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1989
120 Minutes
Producer
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro Rosie Perez Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison
owner brother son sister young boy gutsy intense witty street restaurant brooklyn, n.y. racism violence civil rights community rivalry 1980s
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.
8.0/10
Documentary
USA
1996
84 Minutes
Muhammad Ali George Foreman Don King B.B. King Mobutu Sese Seko Spike Lee Norman Mailer George Plimpton Thomas Hauser Malick Bowens Wilton Felder
muhammad ali george foreman mobutu sese seko don king boxer promoter confident inspiring powerful kinshasa, zaire boxing ring boxing politics black power movement rivalry quest 1970s
A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in Zaire, "The Rumble in the Jungle," between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali.
4.3/10
Sports & Fitness, Drama
Hong Kong|UK
1994
88 Minutes
Diablo
Cynthia Rothrock Don Niam John Miller Donna Jason Emilie Davazac Hang Yip Yim Sunny David Spike Lee
Kristi Jones (Cynthia Rothrock) avenges her sister's death at the hands of a crazed martial arts rapist.
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1994
112 Minutes
Director
Alfre Woodard Delroy Lindo David Patrick Kelly Zelda Harris Carlton Williams Sharif Rashed Tse-Mach Washington Christopher Knowings Jose Zuniga Isaiah Washington Ivelka Reyes
young girl brother teacher father mother musician emotional moving brooklyn, n.y. apartment american south country house coming of age family youth growing up love transformation 1970s
Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
5.0/10
Drama
USA
2012
121 Minutes
Director
Clarke Peters Jules Brown Toni Lysaith Nate Parker Thomas Jefferson Byrd Heather Alicia Simms Colman Domingo James Ransone De'Adre Aziza Kimberly Hébert Gregory Stephen McKinley Henderson
A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1999
142 Minutes
Director
John Alberto Leguizamo Adrien Brody Mira Sorvino Jennifer Esposito Anthony LaPaglia Bebe Neuwirth Patti LuPone Ben Gazzara Joe Lisi Michael Badalucco Michael Rispoli
serial killer husband wife punk rocker porn star gritty tense emotional new york city bronx, n.y. serial murders friendship hedonism infidelity city life sex mystery wretched excess fall 1970s
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 Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
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