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The Best Spike Lee Movies Ranked And Where to Watch them
If you're looking for the best Spike Lee movies of all time then here is a definitive list. We rank every movie directed by Spike Lee based on their popularity score from IMDB from best to worst. Click on the ‘see more’ button to find out where to watch them in Australia covering all streaming services. In November 2025 there are 16 films in this list.
List of the Best Movies Directed by Spike Lee In Order of Popularity
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
- 4 Little Girls
- Inside Man
- 25th Hour
- If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
- BlacKkKlansman
- Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
- He Got Game
- She's Gotta Have It
- She's Gotta Have It
- Summer of Sam
- Da 5 Bloods
- Rodney King
- Pass Over
- Chi-Raq
- Oldboy
Stream the top 16 Movies directed by Spike Lee
1. When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Seasons: 1
Rated:
8.5/10
Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.
Rated:
7.8/10
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
Rated: R
7.6/10
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Rated: R
7.6/10
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.
5. If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Seasons: 1
Rated:
7.6/10
Spike Lee returns to New Orleans five years after Katrina to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City are playing out.
Rated: R
7.5/10
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.
7. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Rated:
7.3/10
Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Spike Lee, this riveting one-man show goes beyond the headlines, behind the scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout.
Rated: R
6.9/10
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
Seasons: 2
Rated: MA15+
6.9/10
Nola Darling struggles to define herself and divide her time among her friends, job and three lovers. A new take on Spike Lee's film, in 10 episodes.
Rated: R
6.8/10
The story of Nola Darling's simultaneous sexual relationships with three different men is told by her and by her partners and other friends. All three men wanted her to commit solely to them; Nola resists being "owned" by a single partner.
Rated: R18+
6.7/10
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.
Rated: MA15+
6.5/10
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
Rated:
6.2/10
25 years ago, four LAPD officers were acquitted in a state court for beating King, sparking three days of rioting that left 53 people dead. Now, around the anniversary, this Spike Lee-produced one-man show (Roger Guenver Smith) will be streaming on Netflix. A complex, semi-tragic figure, King drowned in 2012. His life was rarely smooth, or simple – its telling makes for a sober, moving watch.
Rated: MA15+
6.1/10
Moses and Kitch, two young black men, chat their way through a long, aimless day on a Chicago street corner. Periodically ducking bullets and managing visits from a genial but ominous stranger and an overtly hostile police officer, Moses and Kitch rely on their poetic, funny, at times profane banter to get them through a day that is a hopeless retread of every other day, even as they continue to dream of their deliverance.
Rated: R18+
5.9/10
A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.
Rated: R
5.8/10
An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.