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Spike Lee

Director · 142 credits · 64 in highly-rated films

Best known for Inside Man (2006)

Frequent collaborators: Martin Scorsese, Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Branford Marsalis

Directed movies (72 total, ranked by score)

  1. School Daze

    1988 · ★ 5.7 (116 votes)

    Comedy, Drama, Music

    31

  2. Chi-Raq

    2015 · ★ 5.7 (231 votes)

    Drama, Crime, Comedy

    32

  3. Sucker Free City

    2004 · ★ 5.9 (26 votes)

    Drama, TV Movie, Crime

    33

  4. Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at the Apollo

    2014

    Documentary, Music

    34

  5. Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store

    2014 · ★ 6.3 (10 votes)

    Comedy, TV Movie

    35

  6. Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo

    1999 · ★ 8.0 (3 votes)

    Music

    36

  7. John Leguizamo: Freak

    1998 · ★ 5.8 (23 votes)

    Comedy

    37

  8. Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads

    1983 · ★ 5.8 (5 votes)

    Drama

    38

  9. Jesus Children of America

    2005 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Drama

    39

  10. The Making of 'Bamboozled'

    2001 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    40

  11. Pass Over

    2018 · ★ 5.8 (18 votes)

    Drama

    41

  12. Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection

    1992 · ★ 7.2 (4 votes)

    Music

    42

  13. Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife

    2014 · ★ 6.3 (19 votes)

    TV Movie, Comedy

    43

  14. She Hate Me

    2004 · ★ 5.2 (124 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    44

  15. The Concert for New York City

    2001 · ★ 5.1 (16 votes)

    Music, Documentary, TV Movie

    45

  16. Jim Brown: All-American

    2002 · ★ 5.0 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    46

  17. Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later

    2009 · ★ 7.0 (3 votes)

    Documentary

    47

  18. New York New York

    2020 · ★ 7.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    48

  19. Passing Strange

    2009 · ★ 4.9 (12 votes)

    Music

    49

  20. 2 Fists Up

    2016

    Documentary, TV Movie

    50

  21. Horn of Plenty

    1986 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, Comedy, Music

    51

  22. Girl 6

    1996 · ★ 5.1 (124 votes)

    Comedy, Drama

    52

  23. Red Hook Summer

    2012 · ★ 5.4 (26 votes)

    Drama

    53

  24. A Huey P. Newton Story

    2001 · ★ 5.1 (9 votes)

    Documentary, Drama, Comedy

    54

  25. The Answer

    1980 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, Comedy

    55

  26. Sarah

    1981 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    56

  27. Rodney King

    2017 · ★ 5.1 (15 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    57

  28. Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte

    2000 · ★ 3.0 (1 votes)

    Comedy

    58

  29. Da Sweet Blood of Jesus

    2015 · ★ 4.8 (68 votes)

    Drama, Horror, Romance

    59

  30. I Can't Breathe

    2014

    Documentary

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.