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| x Do the Right Thing |
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Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American ensemble film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The film deals with issues of racial conflict in the multi-ethnic community of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, during the...
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| x Jungle Fever |
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Jungle Fever is a 1991 drama film directed by Spike Lee, starring Wesley Snipes and Annabella Sciorra. It was Lee's fifth feature-length film.
The plot centers on the interracial romance between a successfully married African American man, Flipper...
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| x Bamboozled |
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Bamboozled is a 2000 satirical film written and directed by Spike Lee about a modern televised minstrel show featuring black actors donning blackface makeup and the violent fall-out from the show's success. The film was given a limited release by...
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| x Ten Minutes Older |
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Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project resulting in two different films called The Trumpet and The Cello.
The movies are compilations of short films dealing with the basic topic of "Time". Every short was filmed by one of 15 famous directors. Each...
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| x Malcolm X |
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Malcolm X is a 1992 biographical film directed by Spike Lee about the African-American activist and black nationalist Malcolm X. The story is based on The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley. Denzel Washington was nominated for an...
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| x 25th Hour |
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25th Hour is a 2002 Spike Lee film based on David Benioff's novel The 25th Hour. The cast includes Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Brian Cox and Anna Paquin. Norton plays Montgomery "Monty" Brogan, a convicted...
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| x Mo' Better Blues |
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Mo' Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. It follows a period in the life of a fictional jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam (played by Denzel Washington) as a series of bad decisions...
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| x Summer of Sam |
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Summer of Sam is a 1999 crime-drama based around the Son of Sam serial murders. It was directed and produced by Spike Lee.
Writer Jimmy Breslin begins narrating the film; telling the viewer about New York’s current prosperity. However, things were...
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| x Girl 6 |
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Girl 6 is a 1996 film by American director Spike Lee about a phone sex operator. Theresa Randle played the title character, and playwright Suzan-Lori Parks wrote the screenplay. The soundtrack is composed entirely of songs written by Prince. The...
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| x She's Gotta Have It |
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She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 comedy-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee. It was also Lee's first feature-length film. The films stars Tracy Camilla Johns, Tommy Redmond Hicks and John Canada Terrell.
Nola Darling (portrayed by Tracy...
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| x He Got Game |
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He Got Game is a 1998 sports-drama film written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Denzel Washington and current Boston Celtics guard Ray Allen as a father and son trying to reconcile on the eve of the signing day for his son, the #1 prep...
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| x Crooklyn |
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Crooklyn is a 1994 semi-autobiographical film co-written and directed by Spike Lee. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s. Its primary focus is a young girl, Troy (played by Zelda Harris), and her family. Throughout the film,...
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| x School Daze |
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School Daze is a 1988 musical-drama film, written and directed by Spike Lee, and starring Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, and Tisha Campbell-Martin. Based in part on Spike Lee's experiences at Atlanta's Morehouse College, it is a story about...
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| x The Original Kings of Comedy |
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The Original Kings of Comedy is a 2000 stand-up comedy film, directed by Spike Lee, and featuring the comedy routines of Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and Bernie Mac. Filmed in front of an audience in Charlotte, North Carolina,...
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| x She Hate Me |
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She Hate Me is a 2004 LGBT independent comedy-drama film directed by Spike Lee and starring Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, and Ellen Barkin.
The controversial film, as with many of Lee's, touches on comedy, drama, and politics. Unlike many prior...
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| x Inside Man |
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Inside Man is a 2006 crime-drama film directed by Spike Lee. It stars Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Willem Dafoe and Jodie Foster. The film's screenplay was written by Russell Gewirtz and produced by Brian Grazer. It was released in North America...
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| x 4 Little Girls |
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4 Little Girls is a 1997 historical documentary film about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. It was directed by Spike Lee and nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Documentary".
The incident is the subject...
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| x Clockers |
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Clockers is a 1995 crime drama film directed by Spike Lee. The screenplay, written by Lee and Richard Price, is based on Price's novel of the same name. The film stars Mekhi Phifer in his first role and was filmed In Gowanus Projects in Brooklyn,...
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| x Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads |
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Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads is a 1983 independent film that Spike Lee submitted as his master's degree thesis at the Tisch School of the Arts.
The film is set in a Bed-Stuy barbershop where customers come to hang out, discuss various...
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| x Get on the Bus |
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Get on the Bus is a 1996 film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man March. The film was directed by Spike Lee and premiered on the one-year anniversary of the march....
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| x When the Levees Broke |
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana due to the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina. The film runs for 4 hours, and premiered at the...
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| x Sucker Free City |
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Sucker Free City is a 2004 film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at white, black, and Asian gangs in the city of San Francisco and the conflicts they encounter with each other. The film was first released in 2004 at the Toronto Film...
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| x Jim Brown: All-American |
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Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his athletic career, acting and activism....
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| x Freak |
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Freak is a 1998 film directed by Spike Lee. The film is a live performance of John Leguizamo's one man show on Broadway of the same name. Leguizamo's show was semi-autobiographical as he would talk about many aspects of his life. In the routine, he...
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| x A Huey P. Newton Story |
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A Huey P. Newton Story is a 2001 film directed by Spike Lee. It is a filmed performance of Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show of the same name. Smith sits in a chair on a stage and tells about the past, mostly dealing with Huey P. Newton's life and...
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| x All the Invisible Children |
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All the Invisible Children is a 2005 anthology film on the theme of childhood and exploitation. It is a collection of seven short films, each focused on a different child. The film has a total runtime of 116 minutes, averaging 16 minutes each.
It...
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| x Miracle at St. Anna |
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Miracle at St. Anna is a 2008 war film, directed by Spike Lee and written by James McBride, based on McBride's novel of the same name. The film was released on September 26, 2008, and is set during World War II, in fall of 1944 in Tuscany and in the...
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| x Blacksmith Scene |
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Blacksmith Scene (also known as Blacksmith Scene #1 and Blacksmithing Scene) is an 1893 American short black-and-white silent film directed by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture...
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| x Dickson Greeting |
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Dickson Greeting is credited as one of the world's first films. Directed, produced by and starring William Dickson - it simply displays a 3 second clip of him waving. It was filmed on 20 May 1891 in the Photographic Building at Edison's Black Maria...
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| x Dickson Experimental Sound Film |
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The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first example of a motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound...
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| x Monkeyshines, No. 1 |
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Monkeyshines (1889 or 1890) is believed to be the first film shot in the United States. An experimental film made to test the original cylinder Kinetograph format.
Monkeyshines, No. 1 was shot by William K.L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison...
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| x Carmencita |
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Carmencita, is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent documentary film directed and produced by William K.L. Dickson, the Scottish inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison. The film...
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| x Fred Ott's Sneeze |
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Fred Ott's Sneeze (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze) is an 1894 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film shot by William K.L. Dickson and starring Fred Ott. It was the first motion picture to be copyrighted in...
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| x Hamlet |
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Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of...
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Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet. It is set in the 19th century, and uses Blenheim Palace for exterior...
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Hamlet is a 1990 film based on the Shakespearean play of the same name. Mel Gibson has the title role as the young Prince Hamlet, Glenn Close plays his mother, Queen Gertrude, Alan Bates plays his uncle, the now King Claudius, Paul Scofield appears...
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Hamlet, also referred to as Hamlet 2000, is an American film by Michael Almereyda, released in 2000, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare's play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co...
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Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet.
Grigori...
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Hamlet is a 1969 British film adaptation of the play of the same title by Shakespeare, starring Nicol Williamson as Prince Hamlet. It was directed by Tony Richardson and based on his own stage production at the The Roundhouse theatre in London. The...
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Hamlet is a 1920 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name starring Danish silent film actor Asta Nielsen.
In this interpretation, inspired by Dr. Edward P. Vining's book The Mystery of Hamlet, Hamlet is born female and...
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| x Hamlet A.D.D. |
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Hamlet A.D.D., directed by Bobby Ciraldo & Andrew Swant and produced by Special Entertainment, is an 2009 independent feature film which re-imagines Shakespeare’s timeless play as a bizarre and comical tour through the ages.
This version of Hamlet...
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| x Hamlet Goes Business |
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Hamlet Goes Business (Finnish: Hamlet liikemaailmassa) is a 1987 comedy film directed by Aki Kaurismäki and starring Pirkka-Pekka Petelius.
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| x Strange Brew |
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The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew is a 1983 film starring the popular SCTV characters Bob & Doug McKenzie, played by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis, who also served as co-directors. Max von Sydow co-stars. The story is loosely based...
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| x The Bad Sleep Well |
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The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is a 1960 film directed by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company.
The film stars Toshirō Mifune as...
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| x Men of Respect |
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Men of Respect is a 1990 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth starring John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his own boss. Directed by William C. Reilly, this is actually not the...
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| x Maqbool |
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Maqbool (Hindi: मक़बूल, Urdu: مقبُول), a 2004 Indian film directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and starring Pankaj Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tabu and Masumeh Makhija is an adaptation of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare.
The film had its North American premiere at...
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| x Macbeth |
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Macbeth is a 1971 film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Scots Lord who becomes King of Scotland through deceit, treachery, and murder. It features Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis...
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Macbeth (also known as M) is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme. Macbeth was filmed in...
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Macbeth is a silent 1908 film directed by James Stuart Blackton based on the William Shakespeare play of the same name. It is the earliest known film version of that play. It was a black and white silent film that had English intertitles.
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The Third Witch is a novel written by Rebecca Reisert. It was first published in 2001.
The novel retells the story of Macbeth from the perspective of one of the witches, a young girl named Gilly. She has sworn revenge against Macbeth for murdering...
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Macbeth is a 1913 film version of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth, and the fifth film adaptation of that work. It is considered to be a lost film, as no known copies of it exists today. It is a German production and was released on November 17,...
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Macbeth is a French 1915 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was released on December 31, 1915 in France. It is a silent black and white film with French intertitles.
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Macbeth is a black and white 1922 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was the last silent film version of that play produced, and the eighth film adaptation of the play.
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Macbeth is an 1960 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. This, the second Hallmark Hall of Fame series teleplay of Macbeth was, like the 1954 live version, also directed by George Schaefer, and also starred Maurice Evans and Judith...
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Macbeth is an silent Italian 1909 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was the second Macbeth film released that year (released on November 27, 1909), and is the third film version of the play. The film was directed by Mario...
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Macbeth, is a silent 1909 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. It was released on December 3, 1909. It is a silent black and white film with French intertitles.
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Macbeth is an Australian movie filmed in Melbourne, Australia, a modern adaption of the play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare.
Based in present time Melbourne, Australia. Mac Beth involved in an organised crime gang, organises with his wife...
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Macbeth is a 1911 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It is now considered a lost film, as there are no known copies of it in existence today. It is a silent black and white film with English intertitles and runs for 14 minutes.
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Macbeth, directed by Nicholas Paton, is a British 2009 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic, Macbeth. The screenplay will be written by Nicholas Paton and Fergus March, who will also play the title character. Other cast members include...
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Macbeth is a 1948 American film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
In 1947, Orson Welles began promoting the notion of bringing a Shakespeare drama to the motion picture screen. He initially attempted to pique...
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