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Films with screenplays by Spike Lee

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BlacKkKlansman
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
Malcolm X
1992 film by Spike Lee
Do the Right Thing
1989 film directed by Spike Lee
Jungle Fever
1991 film directed by Spike Lee
Da 5 Bloods
2020 film directed by Spike Lee
He Got Game
1998 film directed by Spike Lee
Mo' Better Blues
1990 film by Spike Lee
Summer of Sam
1999 film directed by Spike Lee
Clockers
1995 film directed by Spike Lee
Bamboozled
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.
She Hate Me
2004 film by Spike Lee
Chiraq
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.
She's Gotta Have It
1986 film by Spike Lee
School Daze
1988 film by Spike Lee
Crooklyn
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).
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2014 film directed by Spike Lee
Red Hook Summer
2012 film directed by Spike Lee
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983 film by Spike Lee