Films directed by Spike Lee

BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It also features Harry Belafonte's last performance before his death in April 2023. Set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux

2006 film by Spike Lee

1992 film by Spike Lee

2002 film by Spike Lee

1989 film directed by Spike Lee

2020 film directed by Spike Lee

1991 film directed by Spike Lee

1998 film directed by Spike Lee

2013 film by Spike Lee

1990 film by Spike Lee

1995 anthology film by 41 different directors

1999 film directed by Spike Lee

2008 film directed by Spike Lee

Highest 2 Lowest is a 2025 American crime thriller film directed by Spike Lee from a screenplay by Alan Fox. It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on Ed McBain's 1959 novel King's Ransom. The film stars Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, ASAP Rocky, John Douglas Thompson, Dean Winters, LaChanze, Princess Nokia, and Ice Spice. It is the fifth collaboration between Lee and Washington and the first since Inside Man (2006).

1995 film directed by Spike Lee

Bamboozled is a 2000 American satirical black comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the resulting violent fallout from the show's success. It features an ensemble cast including Damon Wayans, Jada Pinkett Smith, Savion Glover, Tommy Davidson, and Michael Rapaport.

1997 film by Spike Lee

2004 film by Spike Lee

Chi-Raq () is a 2015 American musical crime comedy drama film, directed and produced by Spike Lee and co-written by Lee and Kevin Willmott. Set in Chicago, the film focuses on the gang violence prevalent in neighborhoods on the city's south side, particularly the Englewood neighborhood.

1986 film by Spike Lee

two 2002 anthology films with segments by 15 directors

1996 film by Spike Lee

2012 film by Spike Lee

2005 anthology film directed by Mehdi Charef, Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, Kátia Lund, Jordan Scott & Ridley Scott, Stefano Veneruso and John Woo

Crooklyn is a 1994 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Spike Lee, who wrote it with his siblings Joie and Cinqué. Taking place in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, during the summer of 1973, the film primarily centers on a young girl named Troy Carmichael (played by Zelda Harris in her film debut), and her family. Troy learns life lessons through her rowdy brothers Clinton, Wendell, Nate, and Joseph; her loving but strict mother Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), and her naive, struggling father Woody (Delroy Lindo).

1988 film by Spike Lee

2016 documentary film by Spike Lee

1996 film by Spike Lee

2000 film by Spike Lee

2014 film directed by Spike Lee

2020 film by Spike Lee

2001 film by Spike Lee

2012 film directed by Spike Lee

2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee

1983 film by Spike Lee

2004 television film by Spike Lee

2018 film

2002 film by Spike Lee