School Daze was released in 1988 by Spike Lee, starring Laurence Fishburne. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 1 minute.
"Learn to articulate, you juvenile delinquent!"
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.
Genre: Comedy
Do The Right Thing was released in 1989 by Spike Lee, starring Danny Aiello. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 0 minutes. The movie generated a return of $30,795,445.
"You wanna boycott someone? You ought to start with the goddamn barber that fucked up your head."
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.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $6,500,000
Revenue: $37,295,445
Mo' Better Blues was released in 1990 by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 9 minutes. The movie generated a return of $6,153,593.
"I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night."
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 aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $10,000,000
Revenue: $16,153,593
Jungle Fever was released in 1991 by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 12 minutes. The movie generated a return of $18,482,682.
"I'd like to kill you, but I don't hate you."
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.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $14,000,000
Revenue: $32,482,682
Malcolm X was released in 1992 by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington. The movie has a runtime of 3 hours and 22 minutes. The movie generated a return of $14,169,908.
"That's too much power for one man to have."
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.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $34,000,000
Revenue: $48,169,908
Crooklyn was released in 1994 by Spike Lee, starring Alfre Woodard. The movie has a runtime of 1 hour and 55 minutes.
"That's what I've always done. The problem is your music's not bringing anything into the house but music."
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.
Genre: Comedy
Budget: $14,000,000
Clockers was released in 1995 by Spike Lee, starring Harvey Keitel. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 8 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-11,928,482.
"Don't you want to go some place you've never been before? I mean, you love trains, but you've only ridden the subway."
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.
Genre: Mystery
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $13,071,518
Girl 6 was released in 1996 by Spike Lee, starring Theresa Randle. The movie has a runtime of 1 hour and 48 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-7,060,061.
"How can a slut be beautiful? The Mona Lisa is beautiful, the Statue of Liberty is beautiful, the Grand Canyon, the first day of spring, a new fallen snow-that's beauty, but a slut is just slutty, right?"
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Genre: Comedy
Budget: $12,000,000
Revenue: $4,939,939
Get On The Bus was released in 1996 by Spike Lee, starring Ossie Davis. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 0 minutes. The movie generated a return of $3,331,103.
"And here comes my mama, marching across the field with a big leather belt in her hands. This belt was so wide couldn't nobody even wear it; this belt was made for whoopin' ass."
Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters. All make the trek discussing issues surrounding the march, including manhood, religion, politics, and race.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $2,400,000
Revenue: $5,731,103
He Got Game was released in 1998 by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 16 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-3,432,147.
"Basketball is like poetry in motion, cross the guy to the left, take him back to the right, he's fallin' back, then just J right in his face. Then you look at him and say, "What?""
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $25,000,000
Revenue: $21,567,853
Summer Of Sam was released in 1999 by Spike Lee, starring John Leguizamo. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 22 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-2,711,870.
"Divorce is fuckin' evil, Ritchie. You got some fuckin' really bad advice."
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.
Genre: Thriller
Budget: $22,000,000
Revenue: $19,288,130
Bamboozled was released in 2000 by Spike Lee, starring Damon Wayans. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 16 minutes.
"Remember, son, always keep 'em laughing. Keep 'em laughing."
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.
Genre: Comedy
25th Hour was released in 2002 by Spike Lee, starring Edward Norton. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes. The movie generated a return of $19,000,000.
"Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends."
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.
Genre: Crime
Budget: $5,000,000
Revenue: $24,000,000
She Hate Me was released in 2004 by Spike Lee, starring Anthony Mackie. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 19 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-6,534,866.
"You are a money-making chicken."
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
Genre: Comedy
Budget: $8,000,000
Revenue: $1,465,134
Inside Man was released in 2006 by Spike Lee, starring Denzel Washington. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 9 minutes. The movie generated a return of $141,003,591.
"I did it for the money. But it's not worth much if you can't face yourself in the mirror. Respect is the ultimate currency. I was stealing from a man who traded his away for a few dollars. And then he tried to wash away his guilt. Drown it in a lifetime of good deeds and a sea of respectability. It almost worked, too. But inevitably, the further you run from your sins, the more exhausted you are when they catch up to you."
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.
Genre: Crime
Budget: $45,000,000
Revenue: $186,003,591
Miracle At St. Anna was released in 2008 by Spike Lee, starring Derek Luke. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 40 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-35,676,167.
"Safety is the greatest risk of all, because safety leaves no room for miracles and miracles are the only sure thing in life."
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.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $45,000,000
Revenue: $9,323,833
Red Hook Summer was released in 2012 by Spike Lee, starring Clarke Peters. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 5 minutes.
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 from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand preacher, is bent on getting him to accept Jesus Christ as his personal savior. Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, provides a diversion from the drudgery.
Genre: Drama
Oldboy was released in 2013 by Spike Lee, starring Josh Brolin. The movie has a runtime of 1 hour and 44 minutes. The movie generated a return of $-24,813,233.
"Heaven make me free of it. The rest is silence."
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.
Genre: Drama
Budget: $30,000,000
Revenue: $5,186,767
Da Sweet Blood Of Jesus was released in 2014 by Spike Lee, starring Stephen Tyrone Williams. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 3 minutes.
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.
Genre: Romance
Budget: $1,420,000
Chi-Raq was released in 2015 by Spike Lee, starring Teyonah Parris. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 7 minutes.
"I'm going to talk about a life today. An important life in our community. A life that ends life. The life of a gun."
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Genre: Drama
Blackkklansman was released in 2018 by Spike Lee, starring John David Washington. The movie has a runtime of 2 hours and 15 minutes. The movie generated a return of $78,400,823.
"You know the way to sell hate? Affirmative action, immigration, crime, tax reform."
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.
Genre: Comedy
Budget: $15,000,000
Revenue: $93,400,823
Spike Lee is an American movie director known for his unique style of filmmaking. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1957, Lee graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He has directed numerous movies, including the critically acclaimed Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and Blackkklansman, which earned him an Academy Award. His work has had a significant impact and continues to inspire filmmakers worldwide.