Spike Lee — Director (31)

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Bad 25 (2012)
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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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The Concert for New York City (2001)
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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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Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X
★ 8.7 7 ratings
other title: 黑潮 / 马尔科姆 X …
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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Jungle Fever (1991)
Jungle Fever
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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4 Little Girls (1997)
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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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She's Gotta Have It (1986)
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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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25th Hour (2002)
25th Hour
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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Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing
★ 9.1 12 ratings
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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Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
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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.