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Bad 25
2012 • Music • Documentary
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 inter…
Matched on: Lee
Mo' Better Blues
1990 • Music • Drama
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 ai…
Matched on: Lee
Girl 6
1996 • Drama • Comedy
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Pretend It's a City
2021 • Comedy • Documentary
Wander the New York City streets and fascinating mind of wry writer, humorist and raconteur Fran Lebowitz as she sits down with Martin Scorsese.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Documentary
Jungle Fever
1991 • Drama • Romance
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 r…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Street Fight
2005 • Documentary
This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman, Cory Booker, attempted to unseat longtime mayor Sharpe James.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
2010 • Documentary
Reggie Miller single-handedly crushed the hearts of Knick fans multiple times. But it was the 1995 Eastern Conference Semifinals that solidified Miller as Public Enemy #1 in New…
Matched on: Lee
She's Gotta Have It
1986 • Romance • Comedy
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 s…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Champs
2015 • Documentary
A documentary about the sport of boxing, as seen through the eyes of champions Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Malcolm X
1992 • Drama • History
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 th…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Do the Right Thing
1989 • Drama
Sal 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.…
Why matched: genres Drama
When We Were Kings
1996 • Music • History • TV Movie
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…
Why matched: genres Music, History
Hoop Dreams
1994 • Documentary
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,…
Why matched: genres Documentary
School Daze
1988 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Kobe Doin' Work
2009 • Documentary
A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Red Hook Summer
2012 • Drama
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh…
Why matched: genres Drama
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016 • Music • Documentary
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.
Matched on: Lee
Crooklyn
1994 • Drama • Comedy
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.
Matched on: Lee
3 A.M.
2001 • Drama • Crime
The feature film directing debut of Spike Lee protege Lee Davis takes the viewer into the world of taxi drivers. Developed in the Sundance Laboratory, this film offers dove-tail…
Matched on: Lee
Summer of Sam
1999 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
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 i…
Matched on: Lee