Screenplay: Spike Lee

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Spike Lee. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (TV)

2006 · Documentary · 240 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Plot This intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction tells the personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of...

Max

7.4

279 votes

7.4

279 votes

Do the Right Thing

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Plot It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria....

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

Malcolm X

1992 · Movie · 193 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Angela Bassett · Albert Hall · Al Freeman Jr.

Plot Spike Lee brings the life of African-American leader Malcolm X (an intense Denzel Washington in an Oscar-nominated performance) to the big screen in this sprawling, epic biographical drama. Born Malcolm...

6.9

10K votes

6.9

10K votes

4 Little Girls

1997 · Documentary · 102 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Plot This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street...

Max

6.8

78 votes

6.8

78 votes

Clockers

1995 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Harvey Keitel · John Turturro · Delroy Lindo · Mekhi Phifer

Plot Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, the film focuses on Strike (newcomer Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious "clocker"--or drug dealer--who works the streets of his New York...

6.8

6K votes

6.8

6K votes

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet

2002 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Wim Wenders · Víctor Erice · Werner Herzog · Chen Kaige

Cast Chloë Sevigny · Amber Tamblyn · Ana Sofía Liaño · Pelayo Suárez

Plot Unique in the history of cinema about the most universal of all subjects: Time. Each of the 15 directors has been given exactly ten minutes on the screen for their...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

He Got Game

1998 · Movie · 130 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Ray Allen · Milla Jovovich · Rosario Dawson

Plot Tells the story of Jesus Shuttlesworth, the most sought after high school basketball prospect in the nation. Jesus and his dream to make it to the big ranks in professional...

6.6

6K votes

6.6

6K votes

Mo' Better Blues

1990 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Denzel Washington · Spike Lee · Wesley Snipes · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot Opens with Bleek as a child learning to play the trumpet, his friends want him to come out and play but mother insists he finish his lessons. Bleek grows into...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Jungle Fever

1991 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Annabella Sciorra · Wesley Snipes · Spike Lee · Debi Mazar

Plot 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...

6.6

7K votes

6.6

7K votes

She's Gotta Have It (TV Series)

2017 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast DeWanda Wise · Cleo Anthony · Lyriq Bent · Chyna Layne

Plot TV Series (2017-2019). 2 Seasons. 19 Episodes. The story of one woman and her three lovers. TV series based on the film by Spike Lee.

6.6

428 votes

6.6

428 votes

Summer of Sam

1999 · Movie · 136 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast John Leguizamo · Adrien Brody · Mira Sorvino · Jennifer Esposito

Plot 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...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

BlacKkKlansman

2018 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast John David Washington · Adam Driver · Topher Grace · Laura Harrier

Plot The story of Ron Stallworth, a detective in Colorado, who dared to challenge the Ku Klux Klan and thwart its attempts to take over the city.

6.5

20K votes

6.5

20K votes

Kobe Doin' Work (TV)

2009 · Documentary · 84 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Kobe Bryant

Plot A documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day of the 2008 NBA playoffs.

6.4

789 votes

6.4

789 votes

Crooklyn

1993 · Movie · 132 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Alfre Woodard · Delroy Lindo · David Patrick Kelly · Zelda Harris

Plot 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.

6.4

911 votes

6.4

911 votes

She's Gotta Have It

1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Tracy Camilla Johns · Tommy Redmond Hicks · John Canada Terrell · Ray Dowell

Plot 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...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Bamboozled

2000 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

5.9

677 votes

5.9

677 votes

Chi-Raq

2015 · Movie · 127 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Nick Cannon · Wesley Snipes · Teyonah Parris · Jennifer Hudson

Plot A drama centered on the growing violence in Chicago. Chi-Raq is a modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” by Aristophanes. After the murder of a child by...

5.8

610 votes

5.8

610 votes

Da 5 Bloods

2020 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Delroy Lindo · Clarke Peters · Norm Lewis · Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Plot Four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) — return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad...

5.3

3K votes

5.3

3K votes

Red Hook Summer

2012 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Clarke Peters · Jules Brown · Toni Lysaith · Nate Parker

Plot A boy from Atlanta lands in Brooklyn to spend the summer with his grandfather, who he's never seen before.

5.2

56 votes

5.2

56 votes

She Hate Me

2004 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Anthony Mackie · Kerry Washington · John Turturro · Ellen Barkin

Plot One heterosexual male. 18 lesbians. His fee 10,000 dollars... each. Harvard educated biotech executive Jack Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their...

5.1

599 votes

5.1

599 votes