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

20 titles
1
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
2
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.

7.5
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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.

6.5
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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
13
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
14
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
15
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
16
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
17
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
18
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
19
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.

5.3
20
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
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