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SPIKE LEE'S MOVIES RANKED
iloveblackmovies ranks all of director
Spike Lee's movies from his best to
his worst. Regardless of what you may
think of his movies, Lee is this
generation's most prolific black
filmmaker.
Spike Lee's movies from his best to
his worst. Regardless of what you may
think of his movies, Lee is this
generation's most prolific black
filmmaker.
1. Do the Right Thing (1989)
A Brooklyn pizza parlor proprietor appears to have
good relations with his black neighbors. During a
hot summer day, racial tension rises and his
neighbors trash the store. Spike Lee should have
features Public Enemy’s firestorm of a song
“Fight the Power.”
100 Best Ranking: 1
5 out 5 Popcorn Bags
A Brooklyn pizza parlor proprietor appears to have
good relations with his black neighbors. During a
hot summer day, racial tension rises and his
neighbors trash the store. Spike Lee should have
features Public Enemy’s firestorm of a song
“Fight the Power.”
100 Best Ranking: 1
5 out 5 Popcorn Bags
2. Miracle at St. Anna (2008)
Four African-American soldiers get trapped in a
Tuscan village during World War II. Spike Lee
who called out filmmaker Clint Eastwood for not
having blacks in his two World War II epics
corrects the wrong with this amazing film.
100 Best Ranking: NR
5 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Four African-American soldiers get trapped in a
Tuscan village during World War II. Spike Lee
who called out filmmaker Clint Eastwood for not
having blacks in his two World War II epics
corrects the wrong with this amazing film.
100 Best Ranking: NR
5 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
3. Malcolm X (1992)
Biography of the controversial black leader traces
his rise from street criminal to national figure.
Both Spike Lee and Denzel Washington who
flawlessly portrayed Malcolm X got robbed at
Oscar time.
100 Best Ranking: 4
5 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Biography of the controversial black leader traces
his rise from street criminal to national figure.
Both Spike Lee and Denzel Washington who
flawlessly portrayed Malcolm X got robbed at
Oscar time.
100 Best Ranking: 4
5 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
4. Bamboozled (2000)
An African American television executive
bosses that they produce a show be done
with black actors in blackface. They love the
idea, and the program becomes a national
phenomenon in this biting satire.
Provocative, thought provking and poignant.
“Bamboozled” was all of that and more. It just
wasn't a hit.
100 Best Ranking: 13
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
An African American television executive
bosses that they produce a show be done
with black actors in blackface. They love the
idea, and the program becomes a national
phenomenon in this biting satire.
Provocative, thought provking and poignant.
“Bamboozled” was all of that and more. It just
wasn't a hit.
100 Best Ranking: 13
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
5. She's Gotta Have It (1986)
An erotic, innovative, nuanced character
several sexual relationships. This acclaimed
art-house hit was Spike Lee’s first feature
film and signled the beginning of a new era
of black filmmaking.
100 Best Ranking: 33
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
An erotic, innovative, nuanced character
several sexual relationships. This acclaimed
art-house hit was Spike Lee’s first feature
film and signled the beginning of a new era
of black filmmaking.
100 Best Ranking: 33
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
6. When the Levees Broke: A
Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
Spike Lee's acclaimed documentary examines
the U.S. government's response after Hurricane
Katrina decimated New Orleans . The images are
powerful and moving and startling and
depressing. Combined with riveting testimonies
and Terrence Blanchard’s soul piercing score you
can't help but be moved to tears while watching.
100 Best Ranking: 76
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
Spike Lee's acclaimed documentary examines
the U.S. government's response after Hurricane
Katrina decimated New Orleans . The images are
powerful and moving and startling and
depressing. Combined with riveting testimonies
and Terrence Blanchard’s soul piercing score you
can't help but be moved to tears while watching.
100 Best Ranking: 76
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
7. Jungle Fever (1991)
A married black architect has a brief love affair to
examine their relationship in the context of racism
in America . The subplot involving the architect’s
crack head brother might have hampered the flow
of the movie but it was damn interesting.
100 Best Ranking: 80
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
A married black architect has a brief love affair to
examine their relationship in the context of racism
in America . The subplot involving the architect’s
crack head brother might have hampered the flow
of the movie but it was damn interesting.
100 Best Ranking: 80
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
8. 25th Hour (2002)
One of the most underrated movies ever. A
convicted for drug dealer hits the town with
his buddies intending to make the most of
his final day of freedom before serving a
seven-year jail sentence.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
One of the most underrated movies ever. A
convicted for drug dealer hits the town with
his buddies intending to make the most of
his final day of freedom before serving a
seven-year jail sentence.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
11. Comedy (2000)
Yes, Spike Lee diected this brilliant comedy
concert film but the credit belongs to Bernie
Mac, Cedric Te Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and
Steve Harvey who are at their best live at the
Charlotte Coliseum during their popular tour.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Yes, Spike Lee diected this brilliant comedy
concert film but the credit belongs to Bernie
Mac, Cedric Te Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and
Steve Harvey who are at their best live at the
Charlotte Coliseum during their popular tour.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
12. School Daze (1988)
A fascinating look at the skin complection
debate, the importance of knowing your
heritage and college fraternity life that
happens to be set at a historically black
college in the south.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
A fascinating look at the skin complection
debate, the importance of knowing your
heritage and college fraternity life that
happens to be set at a historically black
college in the south.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
13. Mo' Better Blues (1990)
One of sexiest black films ever made. Spike
Lee help put jazz back on the radar if only
briefly with this seductively cool film about
everything around him including two women
he is seeing at the same time.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
One of sexiest black films ever made. Spike
Lee help put jazz back on the radar if only
briefly with this seductively cool film about
everything around him including two women
he is seeing at the same time.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
14. He Got Game (1998)
Spike Lee shows his love of basketball with
this look at how colleges recruit high school
basketball players as a prisoner is granted
parole on the condition that he get his ace
basketball-playing son to play for the
governor's alma mater.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Spike Lee shows his love of basketball with
this look at how colleges recruit high school
basketball players as a prisoner is granted
parole on the condition that he get his ace
basketball-playing son to play for the
governor's alma mater.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
15. Jim Brown: All American (2002)
An unflinching look at the life of football great,
Hollywood movie star and activist Jim Brown.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
An unflinching look at the life of football great,
Hollywood movie star and activist Jim Brown.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
16. Get on the Bus (1996)
A group of African-American men from Los
Angeles travel across the U.S. to take part in the
Million Man March in Washington D.C. Too many
characters and not enough time to fully develop
any of them. By the end of the trip you just don’t
care.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
A group of African-American men from Los
Angeles travel across the U.S. to take part in the
Million Man March in Washington D.C. Too many
characters and not enough time to fully develop
any of them. By the end of the trip you just don’t
care.
100 Best Ranking: NR
3 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
17. Summer of Sam (1999)
A 1970s Bronx neighborhood is torn apart by
the slayings of serial killer David Berkowitz.
There are a few good moments in this film but
not enough to justify having to sit through this
self-indulgent mixed bag of ideas.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
A 1970s Bronx neighborhood is torn apart by
the slayings of serial killer David Berkowitz.
There are a few good moments in this film but
not enough to justify having to sit through this
self-indulgent mixed bag of ideas.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
18. Crooklyn (1994)
Trying to do his version of the Bill Cosby Show
didn't quite work so well for Spike Lee as a
hard-working schoolteacher and her
unemployed jazz musician husband try to raise
four rambunctious sons and one precocious
daughter in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Trying to do his version of the Bill Cosby Show
didn't quite work so well for Spike Lee as a
hard-working schoolteacher and her
unemployed jazz musician husband try to raise
four rambunctious sons and one precocious
daughter in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
19. Clockers (1995)
A young man with a clean record confesses to a
murder. A veteran New York detective is
convinced the wrong man is behind bars; he
investigates the man's brother, a drug dealer in
the Brooklyn projects. The film which is based on
a great book is just so poorly executed it’s
almost unwatchable.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
A young man with a clean record confesses to a
murder. A veteran New York detective is
convinced the wrong man is behind bars; he
investigates the man's brother, a drug dealer in
the Brooklyn projects. The film which is based on
a great book is just so poorly executed it’s
almost unwatchable.
100 Best Ranking: NR
2 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
20. Girl 6 (1996)
An actress who finds herself out of work when
she won't do nude takes a job as a phone sex
operator and finds more respect than she ever got
in sexist, racist Hollywood. But when she falls for
one of her callers, and gets a bit too engrossed in
her work, she starts to lose her grip on reality as
so does Spike Lee who actually thought he could
pull this stupid premise off as a film.
100 Best Ranking: NR
0 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
An actress who finds herself out of work when
she won't do nude takes a job as a phone sex
operator and finds more respect than she ever got
in sexist, racist Hollywood. But when she falls for
one of her callers, and gets a bit too engrossed in
her work, she starts to lose her grip on reality as
so does Spike Lee who actually thought he could
pull this stupid premise off as a film.
100 Best Ranking: NR
0 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
21. She Hate Me (2004)
After getting fired from his job for exposing
corrupt business practices, a former biotech
executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians
for profit. “She Hate Me” is one of the worst films
of all time. Yes, it’s that bad!
100 Best Ranking: NR
0 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
After getting fired from his job for exposing
corrupt business practices, a former biotech
executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians
for profit. “She Hate Me” is one of the worst films
of all time. Yes, it’s that bad!
100 Best Ranking: NR
0 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
9. Inside Man (2006)
Spike Lee went the commercial route and
delivered a well executed bank heist movie
with just enough of his own touches to make
it uniquely his own.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
Spike Lee went the commercial route and
delivered a well executed bank heist movie
with just enough of his own touches to make
it uniquely his own.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
SPIKE LEE'S BOX OFFICE HITS
1. Inside Man (2006) - $88.5 million
2. Malcolm X (1992) - $48.1 million
3. The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) - $38.1 million
4. Jungle Fever (1991) - $32.4 million
5. Do the Right Thing (1989) - $27.5 million
1. Inside Man (2006) - $88.5 million
2. Malcolm X (1992) - $48.1 million
3. The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) - $38.1 million
4. Jungle Fever (1991) - $32.4 million
5. Do the Right Thing (1989) - $27.5 million
10. Four Little Girls (1997)
An account of the racially motivated bombing
of a church in Birmingham , Alabama in 1963
which resulted in the deaths of four girls. The
crime, its victims and its perpetrators are
examined along with a variety of interviews by
key politicians and activists.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
An account of the racially motivated bombing
of a church in Birmingham , Alabama in 1963
which resulted in the deaths of four girls. The
crime, its victims and its perpetrators are
examined along with a variety of interviews by
key politicians and activists.
100 Best Ranking: NR
4 out of 5 Popcorn Bags
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