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Spike Lee

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She's Gotta Have ItShe's Gotta Have It (1986) Aro Favourite
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 DazeSchool 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 ThingDo the Right Thing (1989) Aro Favourite
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 AmericaLonely 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 BluesMo' Better Blues (1990) Recommended
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 FeverJungle 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 XMalcolm 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…
CrooklynCrooklyn (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…
ClockersClockers (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 6Girl 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 BusGet On the Bus (1996) Recommended
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 GameHe 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 SamSummer of Sam (1999) Recommended
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 StoryA Huey P. Newton Story (2000) Recommended
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…
BamboozledBamboozled (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, TheOriginal 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 Hour25th Hour (2002) Recommended
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 MeShe 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 CitySucker 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 ManInside Man (2006) Recommended
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 ActsWhen the Levees Broke - A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) Recommended
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. AnnaMiracle 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 BoyOld 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-RaqChi-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…
BlacKkKlansmanBlacKkKlansman (Black Klansman) (2018) Recommended
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 UtopiaDavid Byrne's American Utopia (American Utopia) (2020) Recommended
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…

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