Spike Lee — Actor (14)
Pretend It's a City (2021) [TV] TMDB
Pretend It's a City
other title: Faz de Conta que Nova Iorque É uma Cidade / Fran Lebowitz : Si c'etait une ville
Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese.
Do the Right Thing (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Do the Right Thing
8.8 (8 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Danny Aiello / Ossie Davis
other title: Fa' la cosa giusta / Não Dês Bronca
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 Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
She's Gotta Have It (1986) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
She's Gotta Have It
director: Spike Lee actor: Tracy Camilla Johns / Tommy Redmond Hicks
other title: Lola Darling / Ude på noget
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.
When We Were Kings (1996) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
When We Were Kings
director: Leon Gast actor: Muhammad Ali / George Foreman
other title: Quando eravamo re / Os Campeões do Boxe
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
Hoop Dreams (1994) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Hoop Dreams
director: Steve James actor: William Gates / Arthur Agee
other title: Basquete Blues / Hoop dreams
Every school day, African-American teenagers William Gates and Arthur Agee travel 90 minutes each way from inner-city Chicago to St. Joseph High School in Westchester, Illinois, a predominately white suburban school well-known for the excellence of its basketball program. Gates and Agee dream of NBA stardom, and with the support of their close-knit families, they battle the social and physical obstacles that stand in their way. This acclaimed documentary was shot over the course of five years.
4 Little Girls (1997) [Movie] TMDB
4 Little Girls
director: Spike Lee actor: Maxine McNair / Chris McNair
other title: Vier kleine Mädchen / Cuatro niñas
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 nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Jungle Fever (1991) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Jungle Fever
director: Spike Lee actor: Wesley Snipes / Annabella Sciorra
other title: A Febre da Selva / Fiebre salvaje
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.
Malcolm X (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Malcolm X
director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Angela Bassett
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 then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Bad 25 (2012) [Movie] TMDB
Bad 25
director: Spike Lee actor: Michael Jackson / Spike Lee
other title: Michael Jackson: Bad 25 / 25 Jahre BAD - Das Phänomen Michael Jackson
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, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.
Summer of Sam (1999) [Movie] TMDB
Summer of Sam
director: Spike Lee actor: John Leguizamo / Adrien Brody
other title: S.O.S. Summer of Sam - Panico a New York / Verão Escaldante
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.
Mo' Better Blues (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData NeoDB
Mo' Better Blues
director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Spike Lee
other title: Cuanto más, mejor
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.
Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
director: John Akomfrah actor: Darrick Harris / Danny Carter
other title: Seven Song for Malcolm X
The Black Audio Film Collective’s seventh film envisioned the death and life of the African American revolutionary as a seven part study in iconography as narrated by novelist Toni Cade Bambara and actor Giancarlo Espesito. The stylized tableaux vivants that memorialise Malcolm’s life referenced the early 20th century funeral photography of James Van der Zee’s The Harlem Book of the Dead and the elemental static cinematography of Sergei Paradjanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates.
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money (1996) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
director: Hermann Vaske actor: Dennis Hopper / David Lynch
other title: Les géants de la pub / Publicidad. El arte de separar a la gente de su dinero
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face stylistic conventions of commercials have influenced feature films and the visual arts. A documentary film talking about art and advertising divided in three parts: 1. Crossing Over - from cinema to ads from ads to cinema 2. Humour - How humour affects us in advertising 3. Shock - The way shock is used to sell
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks (2021) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
director: John Maggio actor: Ava DuVernay / Spike Lee
other title: A Choice of Words: Inspired by Gordon Parks
This documentary chronicles renaissance man Gordon Parks’ stellar career from staff photographer for LIFE magazine, through his artistic development photographing everyday Americans, through his evolution as a novelist and groundbreaking filmmaker.