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

David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia
IMDb: 8.2
105

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.

Pass Over

Pass Over

Pass Over
IMDb: 6.1
75

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: Uncategorized
BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman
IMDb: 7.5
136

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: Comedy, Crime
Rodney King

Rodney King

Rodney King
IMDb: 6.2
52

25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this…

Genre: Crime
Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
IMDb: 7.4
110

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson’s early rise to fame.

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq
IMDb: 5.9
127

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

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
IMDb: 6.4
58

Katt Williams performs in an all-new stand-up special recorded in front of a live audience at the Citizens Bank Arena in Ontario, California. Williams takes the stage and launches into…

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
IMDb: 7
54

Rising comedy star Jerrod Carmichael takes to the stage of The Comedy Store in Hollywood, CA where he comically subverts such subjects as poverty, wealth, crime and race and presents…

Genre: Comedy, TV Movie
Passing Strange

Passing Strange

Passing Strange
IMDb: 7.3
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.

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
IMDb: 4.5
123

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…

Genre: Horror
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
IMDb: 7.3
90

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…

Bad 25

Bad 25

Bad 25
IMDb: 7.9
131

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,…

Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer

Red Hook Summer
IMDb: 5.3
125

When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed…

Genre: Uncategorized
Oldboy

Oldboy

Oldboy
IMDb: 5.8
104

A 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.

Genre: Mystery
Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work

Kobe Doin’ Work
IMDb: 6.6
88

A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

Genre: Documentary
Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna
IMDb: 6.1
160

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: War
Inside Man

Inside Man

Inside Man
IMDb: 7.6
129

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
She Hate Me

She Hate Me

She Hate Me
IMDb: 5.3
139

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

Genre: Comedy
Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City

Sucker Free City
IMDb: 6.7
113

The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on…

Genre: Crime, TV Movie
25th Hour

25th Hour

25th Hour
IMDb: 7.6
135

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
The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy
IMDb: 6.8
115

The house is rockin’ and the laughs are rollin’ as comedians Steve Harvey (The Steve Harvey Show), D.L.Hughley (The Hughleys), Cedric The Entertainer (The Steve Harvey Show) and Bernie Mac…

Bamboozled

Bamboozled

Bamboozled
IMDb: 6.7
136

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show….

Genre: Comedy
John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak

John Leguizamo: Freak
IMDb: 8.1
90

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…

Genre: Comedy
Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam
IMDb: 6.7
142

During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.

Genre: Crime
He Got Game

He Got Game

He Got Game
IMDb: 6.9
136

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

Genre: Uncategorized
4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls
IMDb: 7.8
102

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
Girl 6

Girl 6

Girl 6
IMDb: 5.3
108

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

Genre: Comedy
Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus
IMDb: 6.9
120

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: Uncategorized
Clockers

Clockers

Clockers
IMDb: 6.9
128

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, Mystery
Crooklyn

Crooklyn

Crooklyn
IMDb: 7
115

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
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
IMDb: 7.7
202

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: History
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.6
132

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: Uncategorized
Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues

Mo’ Better Blues
IMDb: 6.7
129

Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of…

Genre: Music
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 8
120

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame exhibits only…

Genre: Uncategorized
School Daze

School Daze

School Daze
IMDb: 6.1
121

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Genre: Comedy, Music
She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It
IMDb: 6.8
84

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
HDDa 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods
HD
IMDb: N/A
156

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: War