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.
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
A 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.
Enfrontament entre un dur policia i un intel·ligent atracador durant un tens segrest amb ostatges en un banc de Manhattan. Segons es desenvolupa el perillós joc del gat i el ratolí, hi apareix una tercera persona que ha estat contractada per l'influent propietari del banc. Es tracta de Madaline, una poderosa broker que té una agenda secreta.
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.
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.
Malcolm Little (1925–1965) va néixer a Omaha (Nebraska). El seu pare, ministre baptista, va morir sent ell nen, i la seva mare va acabar en un psiquiàtric quan el Ku Klux Klan va incendiar casa seva. Després de ser rebutjat per l'exèrcit, va caure a la delinqüència i va anar a parar a la presó. Allí es va convertir a l'Islam i va canviar radicalment la seva vida, aviat es va convertir en un carismàtic líder del moviment d'alliberament de la comunitat negra nord-americana.
Un detectiu afroamericà a Colorado Springs, a l'estat de Colorado, s'infiltra en el grup local del Ku Klux Klan i aconsegueix ascendir en les seves files.
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. As hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, things turn anything but dull as people’s conflicting agendas collide.
Monty (Montgomery) Brogan és un venedor de drogues de Manhattan condemnat a set anys de presó, que viu el seu últim dia de llibertat abans d'entrar en la presó. La condemna imposada per la justícia és de 7 llargs anys, als quals Monty no té l'esperança de sobreviure. En 24 hores repassa la seva vida i s'acomiada de tots els privilegis que va aconseguir com a narcotraficant: entrada VIP en discotecas, fama i prosperitat econòmica.
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and interviews with confidants, musicians, choreographers, and such music-world superstars as Kanye West, Sheryl Crow, Cee Lo Green and Mariah Carey.
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.
As two teen prodigies try to master the art of time travel, a tragic police shooting sends them on a series of dangerous trips to the past.
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
Bleek Gilliam, un trompetista, lidera amb el saxofonista Shadow Henderson un quintet de Jazz que actua en un club dels baixos fons. Encara que Shadow gaudeix d'un protagonisme més gran a la banda, a Bleek no li van malament les coses. Tot i això els problemes sorgeixen i es veu obligat a prendre decisions. D'una banda, Bleek ha de sortir en defensa del mànager del grup, un amic de la infància amb problemes de joc que sovint és apallissat pels seus creditors. De l'altra, el trompetista es veu a la cruïlla d'haver d'escollir entre dues dones, una mestra d'escola i una cantant, amb qui manté una relació sentimental paral·lela. Per si no n'hi hagués prou, la seva rivalitat professional amb Shadow amenaça de dividir la banda.
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.
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. Detective 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.
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor.
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.