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Spike Lee Movies

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  • Denzel Washington in He Got Game (1998)

    1. He Got Game

    19982h 16mR64Metascore
    6.9 (53K)
    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
  • Donna Bailey, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Monty Ross, and Stuart Smith in Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)

    2. Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

    19831h
    5.6 (403)
    The illegal affairs of a recently deceased barbershop owner get passed down to his manager.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsMonty RossDonna BaileyStuart Smith
  • Spike Lee, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Tracy Camilla Johns, and John Canada Terrell in She's Gotta Have It (1986)

    3. 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)

    4. School Daze

    19882h 1mR52Metascore
    6.1 (8.4K)
    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)

    5. Do the Right Thing

    19892hR93Metascore
    8.0 (119K)
    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)

    6. 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)

    7. 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)

    8. 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)

    9. 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)

    10. 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)

    11. Girl 6

    19961h 48mR44Metascore
    5.3 (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)

    12. Get on the Bus

    19962hR84Metascore
    6.9 (6.2K)
    A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsOssie DavisCharles S. DuttonAndre Braugher
  • 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
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    14. 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
  • Edward Norton in 25th Hour (2002)

    15. 25th Hour

    20022h 15mR69Metascore
    7.6 (188K)
    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)

    16. She Hate Me

    20042h 18mR30Metascore
    5.3 (8.4K)
    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
  • All the Invisible Children (2005)

    17. All the Invisible Children

    20052h 4m
    7.4 (4.4K)
    Through the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
    DirectorsMehdi CharefEmir KusturicaSpike LeeStarsAdama BilaElysée RouambaRodrigue Ouattara
  • Jodie Foster, Denzel Washington, and Clive Owen in Inside Man (2006)

    18. Inside Man

    20062h 9mR76Metascore
    7.6 (413K)
    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
  • Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

    19. 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
  • Passing Strange (2009)

    20. Passing Strange

    20092h 15mTV-MA
    7.3 (439)
    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.
    DirectorsSpike LeeAnnie DorsenStarsStewDe'Adre AzizaEisa Davis
  • Red Hook Summer (2012)

    21. 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)

    22. 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
  • Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

    23. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

    20142h 3mNot Rated52Metascore
    4.5 (2K)
    An anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsStephen Tyrone WilliamsZaraah AbrahamsRami Malek
  • Chi-Raq (2015)

    24. Chi-Raq

    20152h 7mR77Metascore
    5.9 (11K)
    A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarsNick CannonTeyonah ParrisWesley Snipes
  • Roger Guenveur Smith in Rodney King (2017)

    25. Rodney King

    201752mTV-MATV Special78Metascore
    6.1 (679)
    Roger Guenveur Smith performs his one man show focusing on the life and times of Rodney King.
    DirectorSpike LeeStarRoger Guenveur Smith

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