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2025 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
When a titan music mogul, widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Oldboy
2013 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
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.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
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
Inside Man
2006 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
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 corrupti…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
BlacKkKlansman
2018 • Drama • Crime • Comedy
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
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
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
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
Bamboozled
2000 • Drama • Comedy
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.…
Matched on: Lee
She Hate Me
2004 • Drama • Comedy
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
25th Hour
2002 • Drama • Crime
On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downf…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
He Got Game
1998 • Drama
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Why matched: genres Drama
Da 5 Bloods
2020 • Drama • War
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Clockers
1995 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
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…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
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
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
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
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
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 • Drama • War
Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Why matched: genres Drama, War
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