Spike Lee

Spike Lee

March 20, 1957 · 69 years old

Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee received numerous accolades for…

Known For

59 titles
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BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

2018 · 2h 15m · Movie

In this story inspired by true events, Ron Stallworth, an African-American Colorado police officer, successfully infiltrates the local branch of the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white Jewish colleague.

7.8
2
Inside Man

Inside Man

2006 · 2h 9m · Movie

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
3
Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

2020 · 2h 34m · Movie

Four black veterans 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.

6.9
4
25th Hour

25th Hour

2002 · 2h 15m · Movie

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.

7.6
5
Highest 2 Lowest

Highest 2 Lowest

2025 · 2h 13m · Movie

When a titan music mogul is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.

5.5
6
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

1989 · 2h 0m · Movie

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
7
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

1992 · 3h 22m · Movie

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.

7.7
8
Oldboy

Oldboy

2013 · 1h 44m · Movie

Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.

5.8
9
He Got Game

He Got Game

1998 · 2h 16m · Movie

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

6.9
10
Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

1999 · 2h 22m · Movie

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.

6.7
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David Byrne's American Utopia

David Byrne's American Utopia

2020 · 1h 45m · Movie

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.

8.5
12
Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

2015 · 2h 7m · Movie

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

6.3
13
See You Yesterday

See You Yesterday

2019 · 1h 24m · Movie

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

5.5
14
Hoop Dreams

Hoop Dreams

1994 · 2h 50m · Movie

A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.

8.3
15
Love & Basketball

Love & Basketball

2000 · 2h 5m · Movie

Monica and Quincy love and play basketball together through many life challenges from childhood to adulthood.

7.2
16
Clockers

Clockers

1995 · 2h 8m · Movie

Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.

6.9
17
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991 · 2h 12m · Movie

Friends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

6.6
18
Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

2008 · 2h 40m · Movie

Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

6.1
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Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

1990 · 2h 10m · Movie

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.

6.7
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The Best Man

The Best Man

1999 · 2h 0m · Movie

Just before his best friend's wedding, the life of a Chicago writer becomes crazy when his best friend guesses that his new book's story is based on his bride's fervent past.

6.7
21
Bamboozled

Bamboozled

2000 · 2h 15m · Movie

A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.

6.7
22
Crooklyn

Crooklyn

1994 · 1h 55m · Movie

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.

7.0
23
Tales from the Hood

Tales from the Hood

1995 · 1h 38m · Movie

A funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

6.5
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She Hate Me

She Hate Me

2004 · 2h 18m · Movie

Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

5.3
25
School Daze

School Daze

1988 · 2h 1m · Movie

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.

6.1
26
Pariah

Pariah

2011 · 1h 26m · Movie

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

7.2
27
The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy

2000 · 1h 55m · Movie

A concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.

6.8
28
Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace

2018 · 1h 29m · Movie

A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.

7.5
29
She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It

2017 · 30m · TV Show

The story of one woman and her three lovers. TV series based on the film by Spike Lee.

6.9
30
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

2006 · 4h 15m · TV Show

An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.

8.5
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All the Invisible Children

All the Invisible Children

2006 · 2h 4m · Movie

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-...

7.4
32
New Jersey Drive

New Jersey Drive

1995 · 1h 38m · Movie

Jason and Midget are two young, black teenagers living in Newark,New Jersey, the unofficial car theft capital of the world. Their favourite pastime is that of everybody in their neighbourhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trou...

6.6
33
Son of the South

Son of the South

2021 · 1h 45m · Movie

The true story of one young white Southerner in the Summer of 1961, caught in a place and time where he had to choose which side he was on.

5.8
34
Touched with Fire

Touched with Fire

2016 · 1h 46m · Movie

Two bipolar patients meet in a psychiatric hospital and begin a romance that brings out all of the beauty and horror of their condition.

6.2
35
Bad 25

Bad 25

2012 · 2h 11m · Movie

A documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record "Bad".

7.9
36
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

2016 · 1h 33m · Movie

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.

7.4