Movies: Monty Ross

1992
Malcolm X (1992)
Malcolm X
7.51992HD
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a lega...
1989
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Do the Right Thing
7.71989HD
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 neighborh...
1988
School Daze (1988)
School Daze
5.91988HD
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend....
1991
Jungle Fever (1991)
Jungle Fever
6.41991HD
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse....
1990
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Mo' Better Blues
6.51990HD
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile...
1994
Crooklyn (1994)
Crooklyn
6.81994HD
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....
1986
She's Gotta Have It (1986)
She's Gotta Have It
6.71986HD
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....
1983
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
5.81983HD
Zack Homer takes over managing the barbershop after Joe is killed for trying to rip off his "investor", Mr. Lovejoy. All Zack wants to do is run a traditional barbershop giving traditional haircuts, but modern styles have passed him by and business i...
2019
1 Angry Black Man (2019)
1 Angry Black Man
32019HD
Mike Anderson is a senior at the quintessential New-England liberal arts school, Frost College. And Mike is eight weeks away from graduation. On this particular day he has his African-American Literature class with his favorite professor. But today, ...
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later (2009)
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
72009HD
In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a twentieth-anniversary screening of the film....
2019
The Opera Game (2019)
The Opera Game
02019HD
The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined....