Spike Lee’s Essential Films List

J.T. Rockyfeller
J.T. Rockyfeller
86 titles
North by Northwest
Last Tango in Paris
Lawrence of Arabia
West Side Story
Ran
Cool Hand Luke
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
To Kill a Mockingbird
Patton
Zelig
Some Like It Hot
Killer of Sheep
Vertigo
The Battle of Algiers
Thief
Breathless
Bicycle Thieves
Rashomon
The Night of the Hunter
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Singin' in the Rain
Hoop Dreams
The Godfather
Ace in the Hole
Raging Bull
Badlands
Marathon Man
The Young and the Damned
Miracle in Milan
Home of the Brave
Paisan
Dead End
District 9
The Maltese Falcon
Rome, Open City
Blue Collar
M*A*S*H
Midnight Cowboy
Stranger Than Paradise
Days of Heaven
8½
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
An American in Paris
A Face in the Crowd
Yojimbo
Spartacus
The Red Shoes
Is Paris Burning?
The Last Detail
Lust for Life
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Dog Day Afternoon
City of God
Mean Streets
La Dolce Vita
Black Rain
The 400 Blows
Black Orpheus
The Train
Bonnie and Clyde
Boyz n the Hood
Rear Window
Cooley High
Paths of Glory
Mad Max
Raising Arizona
Day for Night
Empire of the Sun
I Am Cuba
Bad Lieutenant
The Wizard of Oz
La Strada
Fat City
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
White Heat
Kung Fu Hustle
Dirty Pretty Things
On the Waterfront
Chinatown
In the Heat of the Night
Mad Max 2
The Godfather Part II
The Conformist
Apocalypto
Touch of Evil
Casablanca