Crooklyn

May 13, 1994

1h 54m

★ 6.8

A new look at the old neighborhood.

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Production Companies

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

Universal Pictures

Child Hood Productions

Crooklyn Trailers

Cast

Carolyn Carmichael

Alfre Woodard

Woody Carmichael

Delroy Lindo

Tony Eyes / Jim

David Patrick Kelly

Troy Carmichael

Zelda Harris

Clinton Carmichael

Carlton Williams

Wendell Carmichael

Sharif Rashed

Joseph Carmichael

Tse-Mach Washington

Nate Carmichael

Christopher Knowings

Tommy La La

José Zúñiga

Vic Powell

Isaiah Washington

Jessica

Ivelka Reyes

Snuffy

Spike Lee

Quinn, a neurotic man, is diagnosed with a harmless eye condition and soon after his life spirals out of control. He second-guesses his plans to propose to his longtime girlfriend, Devon, after his beautiful coworker, Kelsey, confesses that she has a crush on him. After a conversation with his best friend, Jameson, he clumsily tries to explain his doubts to Devon, but his possible proposal turns into a break-up. When Devon flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to win back "the one."

6.9

Fortress

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6.3

Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Oct 19, 1977

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4.9

Paathshaala

Apr 16, 2010

A new English school teacher ends up leading both teachers and students to revolt against the school management.

6.1

Waking the Dead

Mar 24, 2000

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

6.4

32 Malasana Street

Jan 17, 2020

Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.

9.0

Manic Man

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Shane, battling social anxiety at a party, finds himself dissociating from his own body when social pressure pushes him to the brink, turning a simple gathering into a surreal escape from reality.

6.8

Sam Bahadur

Dec 1, 2023

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6.9

If Beale Street Could Talk

Dec 14, 2018

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.

5.8

Palookaville

Sep 7, 1995

Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.

7.4

Palm Trees in the Snow

Dec 25, 2015

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.

6.7

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Mar 6, 1936

An American boy turns out to be the heir of a wealthy British earl. He is sent to live with the irritable and unsentimental aristocrat, his grandfather.

8.0

I'm Still Here

Sep 19, 2024

In 1971, military dictatorship in Brazil reaches its height. The Paiva family — Rubens, Eunice, and their five children — live in a beachside house in Rio, open to all their friends. One day, Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.

6.4

The Good Teacher

Mar 27, 2024

Julien, a young teacher, is wrongfully accused of sexual misconduct by a teenage girl from his class. As he faces mounting pressures from the girl’s older brother and her classmates, the situation spirals out of control. Allegations spread, the entire school is thrown into turmoil, and the teacher has to fight to clear his name.

7.0

The Devil's Instrument

Sep 23, 1965

A jazz bassist who surveys a beautiful girl at a gig decides to try to get her home. But the devil is getting into the game too.

5.4

Normal

Sep 10, 2007

A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout.

6.9

Policewoman

May 10, 2000

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8.0

Andrei Rublev

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7.8

Do the Right Thing

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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.