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6.3 The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy

The Original Kings of Comedy achieves the seemingly impossible task of capturing the rollicking and sly comedy routines of stand-up and sitcom vets Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac and the magic of experiencing a live concert show. Director Spike Lee and his crew plant a multitude of cameras in a packed stadium and onstage (as well as backstage, as they follow the comedians) to catch the vivid immediacy of the show, which is as much about the audience as it ...

NR
6.3
2000 Comedy 115 min Play
5.9 Oldboy

Oldboy

An everyday 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.

R
5.9
2013 Action 104 min Play
7.2 Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall

Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.

NR
7.2
2016 Documentary 110 min Play
7.1 4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

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.

NR
7.1
1997 Documentary 102 min Play
6.6 Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods

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.

R
6.6
2020 Drama 156 min Play
6.8 She’s Gotta Have It

She’s Gotta Have It

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.

R
6.8
1986 Comedy 84 min Play
7.8 David Byrne’s American Utopia

David Byrne’s American Utopia

A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.

NR
7.8
2020 Documentary 105 min Play
7.8 Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

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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7.8
1989 Drama 120 min Play
6.8 Crooklyn

Crooklyn

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.

PG-13
6.8
1994 Comedy 115 min Play
5.8 Chi-Raq

Chi-Raq

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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5.8
2015 Comedy 127 min Play
6.8 He Got Game

He Got Game

A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.

R
6.8
1998 Drama 136 min Play
6.8 Passing Strange

Passing Strange

A young black artist leaves his Los Angeles digs and travels to Europe to find himself. A theatrical stage production of the original Broadway musical.

NR
6.8
2009 Documentary 135 min Play
6.3 Bamboozled

Bamboozled

TV producer Pierre Delacroix becomes frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea. Hoping to get fired, Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

R
6.3
2000 Comedy 136 min Play
6.4 Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

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.

R
6.4
1991 Drama 132 min Play
6.5 Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

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 South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

R
6.5
1999 Crime 142 min Play
5 Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

Da 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.

NR
5
2014 Drama 123 min Play
7.4 25th Hour

25th Hour

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.

R
7.4
2002 Crime 135 min Play
6.5 Pass Over

Pass Over

Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.

NR
6.5
2018 Drama 74 min Play
7.6 BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman

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.

R
7.6
2018 Comedy 135 min Play
6.1 School Daze

School Daze

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

R
6.1
1988 Comedy 121 min Play
7.5 Malcolm X

Malcolm 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.

PG-13
7.5
1992 Drama 202 min Play
6.9 Clockers

Clockers

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 older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.

R
6.9
1995 Crime 128 min Play
5.3 She Hate Me

She Hate Me

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

R
5.3
2004 Comedy 139 min Play
7.4 Inside Man

Inside Man

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.

R
7.4
2006 Crime 129 min Play