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- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMichael JacksonGlen BallardJohn BarnesA documentary on Michael Jackson and the legacy of his record "Bad".
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn 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.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMaxine McNairWalter CronkiteChris McNairA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonAngela BassettDelroy LindoBiographical 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 and his eventual assassination.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonClive OwenJodie FosterA 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.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsEdward NortonBarry PepperPhilip Seymour HoffmanCornered 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.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn David WashingtonAdam DriverLaura HarrierRon Stallworth, an African American police officer from Colorado Springs, Colorado, successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch aided by a Jewish surrogate who eventually becomes its leader. Based on actual events.
- DirectorMehdi CharefEmir KusturicaSpike LeeStarsAdama BilaElysée RouambaRodrigue OuattaraThrough the plights of seven different children, seven cruel destinies unfold, as the unknown innocents who share the same sensitivities and desires struggle for survival, understanding--and above all--love, in an apathetic grown-up world.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMichael JacksonJackson 5Berry GordyA look at the life of the late pop star Michael Jackson from his early days at Motown Records to the release of his hit 1979 album, Off the Wall.
- DirectorKaige ChenVíctor EriceWerner HerzogStarsMarkku PeltolaKati OutinenMarko HaavistoThis series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries. Each of the film's seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsRoger Guenveur SmithRahum BrownBrenda LeeThe story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsAlfre WoodardDelroy LindoDavid Patrick KellySpike Lee's vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school teacher, her stubborn jazz musician husband and their five kids living in Brooklyn in 1973.
- DirectorTheodoros AngelopoulosVicente ArandaJohn BoormanStarsPernilla AugustMax von SydowMerzak Allouache40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonMilla JovovichRay AllenA basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter sentence.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsHarvey KeitelJohn TurturroDelroy LindoYoung drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsSteve HarveyD.L. HughleyCedric The EntertainerA concert film featuring four major African American stand up comedians.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJohn LeguizamoAdrien BrodyMira SorvinoSpike 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.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsTracy Camilla JohnsTommy Redmond HicksJohn Canada TerrellStory of a woman and her three lovers.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsOssie DavisCharles S. DuttonAndre BraugherA disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsBen CrowleyKen LeungAnthony MackieSucker-Free City, or S.F.C., revolves around the conflicts among white, black, Latino and Asian street gangs in San Francisco.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDenzel WashingtonSpike LeeWesley SnipesJazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsWesley SnipesAnnabella SciorraSpike LeeFriends and family of a married Black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDamon WayansSavion GloverJada Pinkett SmithA frustrated African-American TV writer proposes a blackface minstrel show in protest, but to his chagrin, it becomes a hit.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsKareem Abdul-JabbarKobe BryantStephen A. SmithA documentary following Kobe Bryant during one day during a game against the San Antonio Spurs.
- DirectorSpike LeeAnnie DorsenStarsStewDe'Adre AzizaEisa DavisDirector Spike Lee's passionate adaptation of the thrilling Broadway musical about a young bohemian who experiences sex, drugs and rock and roll on his journey to selfhood.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDerek LukeMichael EalyLaz AlonsoSet in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsLaurence FishburneGiancarlo EspositoTisha CampbellA not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJosh BrolinElizabeth OlsenSamuel L. JacksonObsessed with vengeance, a man sets out to find out why he was kidnapped and locked into solitary confinement for twenty years without reason.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsNick CannonTeyonah ParrisWesley SnipesA modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago, Illinois.
- DirectorSpike LeeDanya TaymorStarsJon Michael HillJulian ParkerRyan HallahanTwo young men pass the time dreaming of the promised land.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsRoger Guenveur SmithRoger Guenveur Smith performs his one man show focusing on the life and times of Rodney King.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsArt ModellWalter BeachEd WalshAn in-depth portrait of football legend and action movie star Jim Brown, including discussions about his childhood, his unequaled football career, his success in Hollywood, and his brushes with the law in his later years.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsAnthony MackieKerry WashingtonEllen BarkinFired from his job for exposing corrupt business practices, a former biotech executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsTheresa RandleIsaiah WashingtonSpike LeeAn aspiring actress disappointed by her treatment in the movie industry turns to phone sex to make a living.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsJules BrownThomas Jefferson ByrdToni LysaithA 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.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsMonty RossDonna BaileyStuart SmithThe illegal affairs of a recently deceased barbershop owner get passed down to his manager.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsStephen Tyrone WilliamsZaraah AbrahamsRami MalekAn anthropologist awakes with a thirst for blood after an assistant stabs him with a cursed dagger.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsEric ArriolaJoseph BasileClaudeen BenoitPilot for a series loosely based on boxing legend Mike Tyson's youth and exploring a young Black man's life in a supposedly 'post-racist' America.
- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDouglas J. AguirreS. Hamza AhmadJackie BrownAn outspoken public advocate becomes the interim mayor of New York.
- DirectorSpike LeeA documentary which puts light on Brazil's latter political and economical progress on the international scene, as well as the fact that white seem to dominate colored Brazilians.