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- She's Gotta Have It. This is the one that started it all. Released in 1986 and produced on a paltry $175,000 budget, She's Gotta Have It is Spike Lee's first feature film, and watching it, it's no surprise that he became a household name.
- School Daze. School Daze is a college sex comedy. It's a musical. Set at Mission College, a historically black college in Atlanta Georgia, School Daze brings tensions over imperialism, class, and prejudice within the black community to the forefront.
- Do the Right Thing. This is it. This is the big one. While She's Gotta Have It and School Daze put Spike Lee on the map, it was Do the Right Thing that marked him as a directorial superstar.
- Malcolm X. Spike Lee's Malcolm X shouldn't have happened. In fact, it almost didn't. It had been sitting around in script form for over 20 years. Originally, a different (and white) director was attached.
Feb 6, 2024 · Find out which Spike Lee directed movies are currently streaming on Netflix US, and which ones have been removed. See the titles, ratings, genres and release dates of Spike Lee's films on Netflix.
Jul 21, 2020 · Ahead of the release of Netflix's 'Da 5 Bloods,' you can stream 19 of Spike Lee's best movies, documentaries, and shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, and Hulu.
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Watch Da 5 Bloods | Netflix Official Site. Four Black veterans return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader's remains — and a stash of buried gold. From Spike Lee. Watch trailers & learn more.
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- She's Gotta Have It
- Do The Right Thing
- Malcolm X
- Clockers
- 4 Little Girls (1997) — Documentary
- He Got Game
- 25th Hour
- When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) — Documentary
- Inside Man
- Blackkklansman
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Streaming on Netflix Starring: Spike Lee, Joie Lee, Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell Lee burst onto the scene in 1986 with She's Gotta Have It, his first feature-length film, which he wrote, produced, edited, directed, and starred in, all on a shoe-string budget. Shot in black-and-white, the film follows three men pursu...
Available to rent on iTunes and Amazonstarting at $3.99 Starring: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Rosie Perez, Giancarlo Esposito, John Turturro A mirror to what's happening today in America, Do the Right Thing tackles issues of race, inclusivity, and discrimination. The story follows an Italian-American pizzeria owner who gets confronted by a local (Espo...
Streaming on Netflix Starring: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo Lee scored a blockbuster cast in 1992's Malcolm X, a biopic about the outspoken human rights activist of the '50s and '60s, up and until he was assassinated in 1965. Lee's film was yet again shut out of the Oscars after scoring nominations for Best Actor (Wash...
Available to rent on iTunes and Amazonstarting at $3.99. Starring: Mekhi Phifer, John Turturro, Spike Lee, Delroy Lindo, Harvey Keitel This crime drama follows Phifer in his film debut as a "clocker," a drug-dealer tasked by his boss (Lindo) with killing a shady accomplice (played by Steve White). A murder takes place, but not in the way you might ...
Streaming on HBO Max. After Clockers, Lee made an HBO documentary about the bombing of an Alabama church by members of the Ku Klux Klan on Sunday, September 15, 1963. The film focuses on four girls who died that day while attending Sunday school. The doc was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 1998 Academy Awards. More on 4 Little Girls: ...
Streaming on HBO Max. Starring: Denzel Washington, Rosario Dawson, NBA star Ray Allen, Bill Nunn (Do the Right Thing) Spike Lee's entry into the sports drama genre centers around Washington as Jake Shuttlesworth, a man locked up for murdering his wife. That is until the governer gives him one-week parole. Why? His son, Jesus Shuttlesworth (NBA star...
Available to rent on Youtube and Amazon starting at $2.99. Starring: Ed Norton, Rosario Dawson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Anna Paquin, Brian Cox Similar to Inside Man, a movie that appears later on this list, 25th Hour pits its characters against a running clock. The film follows Ed Norton's Monty Brogan as he prepares for a seven-year ...
Streaming on HBO Max. Lee's 2006 four-part documentary came in the midst of the ongoing rebuild in New Orleans after Hurrican Katrina devastated the city in August 2005. EW critic Alynda Wheat wrote at the time: "It is really something to say that Spike Lee’s documentary of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is quite possibly his best wor...
Streaming on Netflix. Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Willem Dafoe Washington collaborates with Lee again in this heist thriller about an overnight bank robbery on Wall Street. Washington plays a hostage negotiator in a battle of wits against Clive Owen's master thief Dalton Russell. The...
Streaming on HBO Max. Starring: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace A black detective infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s in this loose adaptation of a 2014 memoir. For the lead character, Ron Stallworth, Lee tapped Denzel Washington's real-life son, John David Washington, in his first big-screen starring role. The...
A guide to 10 of Spike Lee's notable works, including Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and BlackKklansman. Find out where to watch them online, from Netflix to HBO Max, and what makes them stand out.
Mar 18, 2024 · These are the best Spike Lee movies, from biopics like Malcolm X and BlacKkKlansman to heist films like Inside Man, and where to watch them.
Fiercely independent Brooklyn artist Nola Darling tries to remain true to herself while hooking up with three wildly different men. From Spike Lee. Watch trailers & learn more.
