Search results for "Spike Lee"
David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)

David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)

David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)
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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.

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

Da 5 Bloods (2020)
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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
BlacKkKlansman (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

BlacKkKlansman (2018)
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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.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Pass Over (2018)

Pass Over (2018)

Pass Over (2018)
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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
Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)
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Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.

Chi-Raq (2015)

Chi-Raq (2015)

Chi-Raq (2015)
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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, Music
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)
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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…

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)
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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
Oldboy (2013)

Oldboy (2013)

Oldboy (2013)
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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.

Bad 25 (2012)

Bad 25 (2012)

Bad 25 (2012)
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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,…

Passing Strange (2009)

Passing Strange (2009)

Passing Strange (2009)
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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

Kobe Doin’ Work (2009)

Kobe Doin’ Work (2009)

Kobe Doin’ Work (2009)
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A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

Genre: Documentary
Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
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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
Inside Man (2006)

Inside Man (2006)

Inside Man (2006)
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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
She Hate Me (2004)

She Hate Me (2004)

She Hate Me (2004)
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139

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama
25th Hour (2002)

25th Hour (2002)

25th Hour (2002)
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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
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
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A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man show of the same name. Smith sits…

Bamboozled (2000)

Bamboozled (2000)

Bamboozled (2000)
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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
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
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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,…

Summer of Sam (1999)

Summer of Sam (1999)

Summer of Sam (1999)
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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…

John Leguizamo: Freak (1998)

John Leguizamo: Freak (1998)

John Leguizamo: Freak (1998)
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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…

He Got Game (1998)

He Got Game (1998)

He Got Game (1998)
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A basketball player’s father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

Genre: Drama
4 Little Girls (1997)

4 Little Girls (1997)

4 Little Girls (1997)
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On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the…

Genre: Documentary
HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997)

HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997)

HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997)
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Nearly 2 hours of the short films that made HIStory… Including never before released short films.

Genre: Music
Get on the Bus (1996)

Get on the Bus (1996)

Get on the Bus (1996)
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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
Girl 6 (1996)

Girl 6 (1996)

Girl 6 (1996)
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108

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

Genre: Comedy
Clockers (1995)

Clockers (1995)

Clockers (1995)
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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 (1994)

Crooklyn (1994)

Crooklyn (1994)
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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 (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)
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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
Jungle Fever (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)
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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
Mo’ Better Blues (1990)

Mo’ Better Blues (1990)

Mo’ Better Blues (1990)
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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…

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)
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120

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.

Genre: Drama
School Daze (1988)

School Daze (1988)

School Daze (1988)
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Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
She’s Gotta Have It (1986)

She’s Gotta Have It (1986)

She’s Gotta Have It (1986)
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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