Spike Lee
Director, Actor
- She's Gotta Have It (1986)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Spike Lee
- Spike Lee's stylish debut accounts the love–lives of Nola Darling, a black siren with three boyfriends all demanding her fidelity. A remarkably…
- School Daze (1988)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn…
- Spike Lee's black high–school musical is perhaps over–ambitious, but the disorder is compensated in sheer exuberance and…
- Do the Right Thing (1989)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, Ossie Davis…
- Spike Lee's tour–de–force of racial friction and personal politics, forged his status as the most important black director in history.…
- Lonely in America (1990)
- Dir. Barry Alexander Brown
Feat. Tirlok Malik, Adelaide Miller, Robert Kessler…
- An ambitious but genial Indian bachelor elusively chases the American dream in New York. A colourful, spicy comedy from Spike Lee's longtime…
- Mo' Better Blues (1990)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- This male flipside to Lee's SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT sees talented musician caught between two women and his passion for jazz. A cinematic feast for the…
- Jungle Fever (1991)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Annabella Sciorra, Wesley Snipes
- Slick account of an inter–racial affair and its affect on family and friends. Annabella Sciorra and Wesley Snipes star with Spike himself, who…
- Malcolm X (1993)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Epic bio of the black–American minister and human rights activist from his beginnings as a Harlem crook to his 1965 assassination. Breezes…
- Crooklyn (1994)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo
- Spike Lee fondly (and not so fondly) remembers some of the sights and sounds of '70s Brooklyn that shaped his distinctive outlook. A labour of love…
- Clockers (1995)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo…
- Spike Lee lights up another joint from Richard Price's fiery urban crime best–seller. In the wake of a drugland murder, detective Harvey Keitel…
- Girl 6 (1996)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Theresa Randle, Madonna, Naomi Campbell…
- Spike Lee's risque fable of the phone sex and role–playing favours glamour over substance, so treat it like a black SHOWGIRLS with phones.…
- Get On the Bus (1996)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Danny Glover, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes
- A highly combustible mixed–bag of black men journey by bus to the Million Man March in Washington DC, a march of affirmation for a troubled…
- Four Little Girls (1997)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- Spike Lee's Oscar–nominated documentary focuses on a quartet of pre–teens killed in the 1963 bombing of a black congregational church in…
- He Got Game (1998)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington
- Those persistent bugbears about race and personal responsibility hold centre–court again for writer–director Spike Lee in this…
- Summer of Sam (1999)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino…
- Getting some distance from his usual street–scene, Spike Lee lets off a real firecracker of a film, set during the heatwave summer of 1977,…
- A Huey P. Newton Story (2000)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Roger Guenveur Smith
- An award–winning stageplay about the co–founder of the Black Panther Party, translated into cinema with considerable verve by dir. Spike…
- Bamboozled (2001)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith…
- Dir. Spike Lee bamboozles with a jaw–dropping satire on the commercialisation of black culture, with Damon Wayans as a writer who is ordered by…
- Original Kings of Comedy, The (2001)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- Suggesting in places the fiery comedy of Richard Pryor, this stand–up comedy revue, one of the most lucrative in US history, has four black…
- 25th Hour (2002)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper…
- Slowburning drama that revolves around the personal tensions of drug–dealer Edward Norton, whose 8–year prison term begins the next…
- She Hate Me (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin…
- Another well–packed 'joint' from Spike Lee, has a corporate whistle–blower (Mackie) fired from his job and recruited to impregnate…
- Sucker Free City (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Ken Leung, Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie
- Originally a pilot, Spike Lee’s little–known excursion into the realm of Cable TV is an ethnically diverse gang drama converging black,…
- Inside Man (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster…
- Proficient, personalised heist thriller from dir. Spike Lee (25TH HOUR) in which a smooth and cold super–crim (Owen) engineers the robbery of…
- When the Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- Powerful, enraging chronicle of this century’s first great natural disaster, and the man–made catastrophe that unfolded post–Hurricane…
- Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Derek Luke, John Turturro, Joseph Gordon-Levitt…
- A messily formed, though nonetheless vital piece of corrective history, with Spike Lee directing this recreation of the feats of the…
- Old Boy (2013)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley…
- Spike Lee remakes Park Chan–wook's devastating revenge film about a man kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for 20 years without…
- Chi-Raq (2015)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Teyonah Parris…
- Brilliant Spike Lee musical transposing the classical Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes into the setting of a Chicago neighbourhood beset by gang…
- BlacKkKlansman (Black Klansman) (2018)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier…
- Celebrated as the best Spike Lee "joint" in years, this astute period satire tells the story of Ron Stallworth, a black police officer in 1970's…
- David Byrne's American Utopia (American Utopia) (2020)
- Dir. Spike Lee
- A Spike Lee directed document of former Talking Heads front man David Byrne's exuberant 2019 Broadway show, based loosely on his album American…