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Spike Lee

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  • Spike Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Tracy Camilla Johns, and John Canada Terrell in She's Gotta Have It (1986)

    1. She's Gotta Have It

    19861h 24mR79Metascore
    6.8 (17K)
    Story of a woman and her three lovers.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsTracy Camilla JohnsTommy Redmond HicksJohn Canada Terrell
  • Laurence Fishburne, Spike Lee, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, and Kyme in School Daze (1988)

    2. School Daze

    19882h 1mR52Metascore
    6.1 (8.5K)
    A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsLaurence FishburneGiancarlo EspositoTisha Campbell
  • Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, John Turturro, Ruby Dee, Giancarlo Esposito, and Bill Nunn in Do the Right Thing (1989)

    3. Do the Right Thing

    19892hR93Metascore
    8.0 (120K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby Dee
  • Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Joie Lee, and Cynda Williams in Mo' Better Blues (1990)

    4. Mo' Better Blues

    19902h 10mR61Metascore
    6.7 (14K)
    Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonSpike LeeWesley Snipes
  • Jungle Fever (1991)

    5. Jungle Fever

    19912h 12mR78Metascore
    6.6 (20K)
    Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsWesley SnipesAnnabella SciorraSpike Lee
  • Malcolm X (1992)

    6. Malcolm X

    19923h 22mPG-1373Metascore
    7.7 (107K)
    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 and his eventual assassination.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonAngela BassettDelroy Lindo
  • Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Alfre Woodard, and Zelda Harris in Crooklyn (1994)

    7. Crooklyn

    19941h 55mPG-1365Metascore
    7.0 (12K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsAlfre WoodardDelroy LindoDavid Patrick Kelly
  • Clockers (1995)

    8. Clockers

    19952h 8mR71Metascore
    6.9 (24K)
    Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsHarvey KeitelJohn TurturroDelroy Lindo
  • Theresa Randle in Girl 6 (1996)

    9. Girl 6

    19961h 48mR44Metascore
    5.4 (6.8K)
    An aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsTheresa RandleIsaiah WashingtonSpike Lee
  • Get on the Bus (1996)

    10. Get on the Bus

    19962hR84Metascore
    6.9 (6.3K)
    A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsOssie DavisCharles S. DuttonAndre Braugher
  • 4 Little Girls (1997)

    11. 4 Little Girls

    19971h 42mTV-1488Metascore
    7.8 (3.8K)
    A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsMaxine McNairWalter CronkiteChris McNair
  • Denzel Washington in He Got Game (1998)

    12. He Got Game

    19982h 16mR64Metascore
    6.9 (54K)
    A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonMilla JovovichRay Allen
  • Summer of Sam (1999)

    13. Summer of Sam

    19992h 22mR67Metascore
    6.7 (43K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn LeguizamoAdrien BrodyMira Sorvino
  • Bernie Mac, Cedric The Entertainer, Steve Harvey, and D.L. Hughley in The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

    14. The Original Kings of Comedy

    20001h 55mR73Metascore
    6.8 (6.3K)
    A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsSteve HarveyD.L. HughleyCedric The Entertainer
  • Promo Poster

    15. Bamboozled

    20002h 15mR56Metascore
    6.7 (13K)
    A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDamon WayansSavion GloverJada Pinkett Smith
  • Jim Brown: All American (2002)

    16. Jim Brown: All American

    20022h 20mTV Movie51Metascore
    6.4 (386)
    An in-depth portrait of football legend and action movie star Jim Brown, including discussions about his childhood, his unequaled football career, his success in Hollywood, and his brushes with the law in his later years.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsArt ModellWalter BeachEd Walsh
  • Edward Norton in 25th Hour (2002)

    17. 25th Hour

    20022h 15mR69Metascore
    7.6 (189K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsEdward NortonBarry PepperPhilip Seymour Hoffman
  • Anthony Mackie in She Hate Me (2004)

    18. She Hate Me

    20042h 18mR30Metascore
    5.3 (8.5K)
    Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsAnthony MackieKerry WashingtonEllen Barkin
  • Sucker Free City (2004)

    19. Sucker Free City

    20041h 53mRTV Movie
    6.7 (1.4K)
    Sucker-Free City, or S.F.C., revolves around the conflicts among white, black, Latino and Asian street gangs in San Francisco.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsBen CrowleyKen LeungAnthony Mackie
  • Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington, and Clive Owen in Inside Man (2006)

    20. Inside Man

    20062h 9mR76Metascore
    7.6 (416K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonClive OwenJodie Foster
  • When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)

    21. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

    2006–20075 epsTV-MATV Mini Series89Metascore
    8.5 (5K)
    An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
    StarsDarleen AsevedoJay AsevedoShelton Shakespear Alexander
  • Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

    22. Miracle at St. Anna

    20082h 40mR37Metascore
    6.1 (19K)
    Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsDerek LukeMichael EalyLaz Alonso
  • If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010)

    23. If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

    20102 epsTV Mini Series72Metascore
    7.6 (606)
    In 2006, director Spike Lee created an astonishing record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his epic award-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans, to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City were playing out. He finds a patchwork of hope and heartache just as a new disaster unfolds. The four-hour documentary is a continuation of the heart-rending story of destruction and rebirth of America's most unique city.
    StarsCalvin MackieMitch LandrieuJacques Morial
  • Red Hook Summer (2012)

    24. Red Hook Summer

    20122h 1mR48Metascore
    5.3 (2K)
    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.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsJules BrownThomas Jefferson ByrdToni Lysaith
  • Josh Brolin in Oldboy (2013)

    25. Oldboy

    20131h 44mR49Metascore
    5.8 (83K)
    Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsJosh BrolinElizabeth OlsenSamuel L. Jackson

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