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Spike Lee
Writer 69 years old

Spike Lee

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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... Read full bio →

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15 titles
Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

Spike Lee 2020 2h 35m 7.0

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 humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

Spike Lee 2018 2h 16m 7.3

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.

She Hate Me

She Hate Me

Spike Lee 2004 2h 19m 3.0

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

Bamboozled

Bamboozled

Spike Lee 2000 2h 16m 4.0

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. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

Spike Lee 1999 2h 22m 6.7

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 in fear and distrust of one another.

He Got Game

He Got Game

Spike Lee 1998 2h 16m 6.8

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

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

Spike Lee 1997 1h 42m 5.0

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.

Clockers

Clockers

Spike Lee 1995 2h 8m 6.8

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 body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer.

Crooklyn

Crooklyn

Spike Lee 1994 1h 54m

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.

Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Spike Lee 1992 3h 22m 7.4

The biopic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader.

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Spike Lee 1991 2h 12m 6.0

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 even worse.

Mo' Better Blues

Mo' Better Blues

Spike Lee 1990 2h 9m 5.5

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 his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Spike Lee 1989 2h 8.4

Do The Right Thing takes place on a hot summer day in Brooklyn and depicts the racial conflict between an Italian American pizza restaurant owner and his African American customers and how things erupt into a violent outbreak. This Spike Lee Joint touches on themes of segregation and apartheid in the USA.

School Daze

School Daze

Spike Lee 1988 2h 1m 6.0

In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.

She's Gotta Have It

She's Gotta Have It

Spike Lee 1986 1h 24m

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 solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.

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