| | Do the Right Thing (1989)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 91 | Earnings: $27.55M Lead Role: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, | Director: Spike Lee, On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. |
| | Inside Man (2006)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $88.50M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, | Director: Spike Lee, A police detective, a bank robber, and a high-power broker enter high-stakes negotiations after the criminal's brilliant heist spirals into a hostage situation. |
| | BlacKkKlansman (2018)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $48.27M Lead Role: John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Topher Grace, | Director: Spike Lee, Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, CO, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events. |
| | Malcolm X (1992)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $48.17M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo, Spike Lee, | Director: Spike Lee, Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam. |
| | 25th Hour (2002)| Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $13.06M Lead Role: Edward Norton, Barry Pepper, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson, | Director: Spike Lee, Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term. |
| | She's Gotta Have It (1986)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 79 | Earnings: $7.14M Lead Role: Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks, John Canada Terrell, Spike Lee, | Director: Spike Lee, Story of a woman and her three lovers. |
| | Clockers (1995)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 71 | Earnings: $13.04M Lead Role: Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, | Director: Spike Lee, Young drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them. |
| | He Got Game (1998)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $21.55M Lead Role: Denzel Washington, Milla Jovovich, Ray Allen, Rosario Dawson, | Director: Spike Lee, A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence. |
| | Summer of Sam (1999)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 67 | Earnings: $19.28M Lead Role: John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, | Director: Spike Lee, 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 in fear and distrust of one another. |
| | Chi-Raq (2015)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 77 | Earnings: $2.65M Lead Role: Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, | Director: Spike Lee, A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. |
| | Rodney King (2017)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: null Lead Role: | Director: Spike Lee, Roger Guenveur Smith performs his one man show focusing on the life and times of Rodney King. |
| | Crooklyn (1994)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 65 | Earnings: $13.64M Lead Role: Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, David Patrick Kelly, Zelda Harris, | Director: Spike Lee, Spike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973. |
| | Bamboozled (2000)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 50 | Earnings: $2.19M Lead Role: Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Michael Rapaport, | Director: Spike Lee, A frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin it becomes a hit. |
| | Old Boy (2013)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Olsen, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharlto Copley, | Director: Spike Lee, Obsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason. |
| | School Daze (1988)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 49 | Earnings: $14.55M Lead Role: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Kyme, | Director: Spike Lee, A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college. |
| | Red Hook Summer (2012)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 48 | Earnings: $0.34M Lead Role: Jules Brown, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Toni Lysaith, Limary Agosto, | Director: Spike Lee, A middle-class boy from Atlanta finds his worldview changed as he spends the summer with his deeply religious grandfather in the housing projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. |
| | Miracle at St. Anna (2008)| Imdb: 6 | Metascore: 37 | Earnings: $7.92M Lead Role: Derek Luke, Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso, Omar Benson Miller, | Director: Spike Lee, Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII. |
| | Girl 6 (1996)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 44 | Earnings: $4.90M Lead Role: Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Spike Lee, Jenifer Lewis, | Director: Spike Lee, This Spike Lee film examines the life of an aspiring actress in New York. She is upset by the treatment of women in the movie industry during one of her screen tests with 'QT'. Out of work ... |
| | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)| Imdb: 4 | Metascore: 52 | Earnings: null Lead Role: Stephen Tyrone Williams, Zaraah Abrahams, Rami Malek, Elvis Nolasco, | Director: Spike Lee, Dr. Hess Green becomes cursed by a mysterious ancient African artifact and is overwhelmed with a newfound thirst for blood. He however is not a vampire. Soon after his transformation he ... |
| | She Hate Me (2004)| Imdb: 5 | Metascore: 28 | Earnings: $0.37M Lead Role: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, | Director: Spike Lee, Fired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit. |
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