Crooklyn
May 13, 1994 | IMDB 6.8
114 min Watch NowComedy, Drama
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.
Comedy, Drama
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Very Idea
The Kitchen
Longing
Ratcatcher
Teenage Hitchhikers
By Dawn's Early Light
Bustin' Loose
Office Romance
Making Plans for Lena
Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart
Bloody Mama
Sakura Guardian in the North
Mary of the Movies
Dead Man's Wire
Jurassic Punk
She's Gotta Have It
If These Walls Could Talk 2
Stuart Saves His Family
City Island
Dreamland
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Very Idea
IMDB 4.5 | Sep , 1929
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.The Kitchen
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2019
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.Longing
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2016
A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.Ratcatcher
IMDB 7.1 | Nov , 1999
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.Teenage Hitchhikers
IMDB 5.4 | Aug , 1974
Three girls go on the road and run into trouble with the people who give them rides.By Dawn's Early Light
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 2001
When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, home, the Pacific and redemption.Bustin' Loose
IMDB 6.1 | May , 1981
After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.Office Romance
IMDB 7.9 | Oct , 1977
Anatoly Novoseltsev is a mousy single father and office stumblebum working at a statistics bureau in Moscow. In the hopes of being promoted, he is coaxed into charming his disagreeable and seemingly unfeeling boss, Ludmila Kalugina, or "Meany" as she's otherwise known by her subordinates. Helped by his colleagues Olya and Yura, Anatoly attempts to ease the yoke of Ms. Kalugina, and what follows in the wake of his graceless manoeuvres is completely unforeseen, as he awakens a side to her not yet known, even to herself..Making Plans for Lena
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 2009
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.Next Time I'll Aim for the Heart
IMDB 6 | Nov , 2014
Between 1978 and 1979, the inhabitants of the Oise are in fear of a maniac who kills several hitchhikers and escape the police. He was then dubbed "the killer of the Oise" is actually a shy young policeman who will investigate his own murder, only to lose control of the situation.Bloody Mama
IMDB 5.5 | Mar , 1970
Sexually abused as a young girl, Kate "Ma" Barker grows into a violent and powerful woman by the 1930s. She lovingly dominates her grown sons and grooms them into a pack of tough crooks. The boys include the cruel Herman, who still shares a bed with Ma; Fred, an ex-con who fell in love with a fellow prisoner; and Lloyd, who gets high on whatever's handy. Together they form a deadly, bizarre family of Depression-era bandits.Sakura Guardian in the North
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2018
The film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.Mary of the Movies
IMDB 0 | May , 1923
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, and gets to meet 40 actors, actresses and directors, none of whom tip big enough to enable Mary to earn enough money to pay for an operation. Will Mary become an actress and make some big money?Dead Man's Wire
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
Set in 1977 and based on a true story, Tony Kiritsis, a former real estate developer puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apology.Jurassic Punk
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2021
In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.She's Gotta Have It
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 1986
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.If These Walls Could Talk 2
IMDB 6.5 | Mar , 2000
The stories of three lesbian couples -- who live in the same house at different periods of time -- who are at a crossroads in their lives. In 1961, Edith loses her lover, Abby, to a stroke. Linda and Amy struggle with feminist issues in 1972. And, in 2000, Kal and Fran try to have a baby with the help of sperm donor.Stuart Saves His Family
IMDB 5.2 | Apr , 1995
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.City Island
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 2009
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.Dreamland
IMDB 5.3 | Apr , 2019
On the night of the strangest wedding in cinema history, a grotesque gang boss hires a stonecold killer to bring him the finger of a fading, drug-addicted jazz legend.