Spike Lee — Director (24)
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Inside Man (2006) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Inside Man
6.5 (6 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Clive Owen …
other title: Infiltrado / Inside Man : L'Homme de l'intérieur …
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 facing.
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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
director: Wim Wenders / Jim Jarmusch … actor: Markku Peltola / Kati Outinen …
Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films entitled The Trumpet and The Cello. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. Fifteen celebrated film-makers were invited to create their own vision of what time means in ten minutes of film.
2002 十分钟年华老去 文艺 欧洲电影 电影
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BlacKkKlansman (2018) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
BlacKkKlansman
8.0 (15 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: John David Washington / Adam Driver …
other title: Black Klansman / BlacKkKlansman: O Infiltrado …
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.
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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.
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25th Hour (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban
25th Hour
director: Spike Lee actor: Edward Norton / Philip Seymour Hoffman …
other title: La 25ª ora / A Última Hora …
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 of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Concert for New York City (2001) [Movie] TMDB
The Concert for New York City
director: Louis J. Horvitz / Spike Lee … actor: Billy Joel / David Bowie …
The Concert for New York City took place on October 20, 2001 at Madison Square Garden. It was a celebration of the strength of New York and a thank-you to the heroic firefighters, police officers and rescue workers who saved tens of thousands of lives on September 11th. More than 6000 firefighters, police officers and rescue workers attended as guests.
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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.
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Lumière & Company (1995) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Lumière et Compagnie
director: Francis Girod / David Lynch … actor: Jeff Alperi / Romane Bohringer …
other title: Lumière et Compagnie / Lumière e Companhia …
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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All the Invisible Children (2005) [Movie] TMDB
Les enfants invisibles
director: Mehdi Charef / Emir Kusturica … actor: Adama Bila / Elysée Rouamba …
other title: Les enfants invisibles / Alle Kinder dieser Welt …
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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Da 5 Bloods (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Da 5 Bloods
director: Spike Lee actor: Delroy Lindo / Jonathan Majors …
other title: Da 5 Bloods - Come fratelli / Da 5 Bloods: Irmãos de Armas …
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.
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Chi-Raq (2015) [Movie] TMDB
Chi-Raq
director: Spike Lee actor: Teyonah Parris / Nick Cannon …
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
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Oldboy (2013) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Oldboy
director: Spike Lee actor: Josh Brolin / Elizabeth Olsen …
other title: Oldboy - Velho Amigo
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.
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) [Movie] TMDB
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
director: Spike Lee actor: Stephen Tyrone Williams / Zaraah Abrahams …
other title: Il sangue di Cristo / The Sweet Blood of Jesus
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 with Ganja Hightower that questions the very nature of love, addiction, sex, and status.
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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.