Summer of Sam (
1999) | IMDb:
6.7
During the summer of 1977, a killer known as the Son of Sam keeps all of New York City on edge with a series of brutal murders.
Starring:
John Leguizamo
,
Adrien Brody
,
Mira Sorvino
,
Jennifer Esposito
,
Michael Rispoli
,
Saverio Guerra
Girl 6 (
1996) | IMDb:
5.3
A struggling actress in New York City takes a job as a phone sex operator.
Directed by:
Spike Lee
Clockers (
1995) | IMDb:
6.9
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.
Starring:
Harvey Keitel
,
John Turturro
,
Delroy Lindo
,
Mekhi Phifer
,
Isaiah Washington
,
Keith David
Crooklyn (
1994) | IMDb:
7
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.
Starring:
Alfre Woodard
,
Delroy Lindo
,
David Patrick Kelly
,
Zelda Harris
,
Carlton Williams
,
Sharif Rashed
Malcolm X (
1992) | IMDb:
7.7
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Angela Bassett
,
Albert Hall
,
Al Freeman Jr.
,
Delroy Lindo
,
Spike Lee
Jungle Fever (
1991) | IMDb:
6.6
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.
Starring:
Wesley Snipes
,
Annabella Sciorra
,
Spike Lee
,
Ossie Davis
,
Ruby Dee
,
Samuel L. Jackson
Mo' Better Blues (
1990) | IMDb:
6.7
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Spike Lee
,
Wesley Snipes
,
Giancarlo Esposito
,
John Turturro
,
Charlie Murphy
Do the Right Thing (
1989) | IMDb:
8
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.