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Joie Lee is a Actor, Writer and Associate Producer American born on 22 june 1962 at New York City (USA)
Joie Susannah Lee (born June 22, 1962) is an American screenwriter, film producer and actress. She has appeared in many of the films directed by her brother, Spike Lee, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also wrote and produced the film Crooklyn (1994).
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Joie Lee
Joie Susannah Lee (born June 22, 1962) is an American screenwriter, film producer and actress. She has appeared in many of the films directed by her brother, Spike Lee, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), and Mo' Better Blues (1990). She also wrote and produced the film Crooklyn (1994).
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Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015)
, 2h3Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Romantic comedy, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Michael K.Williams, Felicia Pearson, Zaraah Abrahams, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Rami Malek
Roles Nurse Colquitt
Rating45%
The film opens with an unnamed dancer (Charles “Lil Buck” Riley) dancing in various locations around Brooklyn during the credit sequence.
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
, 1h51Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Frank Langella, Lauren Ambrose, Lili Taylor, Adrian Lester, Michael Cumpsty, Joel West
Roles Second Author
Rating68%
Now aging and ailing, one-time celebrated author Leonard Schiller has been forgotten by his readers, literary colleagues, and critics during the decade he has struggled to complete what he knows will be his final novel. When brash, ambitious Brown University graduate student Heather Wolfe approaches him with a request for access to his thoughts and recollections for the Master's thesis she hopes will reintroduce the public to his work, he initially refuses to cooperate. But the young woman is relentless, and he finally agrees to weekly meetings in which he slowly begins to open up to her as he reluctantly recalls his past.
Full Grown Men (2006)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Amy Sedaris, Debbie Harry, Joie Lee
Roles Annie
Rating49%
Alby Cutrera is a pathologically nostalgic guy who, at 35 years of age with a wife and young son, really just wishes he could ride his Schwinn 5 speed around all day on a Cherry Slurpee high.
Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
, 1h35Directed by Jim Jarmusch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Anthology film, Musical
Actors Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop
Roles Good Twin (segment "Twins")
Rating69%
Les interlocuteurs discutent de sujets aussi variés que la caféine, les glaces à l'eau, Abbott et Costello, les théories du complot contre Elvis Presley, l'art de préparer le thé anglais, les inventions de Nikola Tesla, le groupe rock imaginaire Sqürl, le Paris des années 1920 ou l'utilisation de la nicotine comme insecticide.
She Hate Me (2004)
, 2h18Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, Jamel Debbouze, Brian Dennehy
Roles Gloria Reid
Rating52%
John Henry "Jack" Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) is a financially successful and upwardly mobile executive at a biotechnology firm who, following the suicide of a colleague, Dr. Herman Schiller, is falsely accused of securities fraud by his superior, Leland Powell (Woody Harrelson). Armstrong's assets are frozen, and he finds himself unable to maintain his quality of life.
Ash Tuesday (2003)
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about terrorism, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Janeane Garofalo, Giancarlo Esposito, Tony Spiridakis, Nicole Hansen, Tony Goldwyn, Pauley Perrette
Roles Betsy
Rating67%
Summer of Sam (1999)
, 2h22Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Météorologie, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Serial killer films, Musical films
Actors John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody, Mira Sorvino, Jennifer Esposito, Anthony LaPaglia, Michael Rispoli
Roles Bed Stuy Woman Interviewed
Rating66%
It is the summer of 1977 and New York City lives in fear of the serial killer Son of Sam who has shot several women in parked cars. One night, Vinny and his wife Dionna go to a night club, where they dance and have drinks with friends. Dionna's attractive cousin wants to leave, which Vinny volunteers to take her cousin home. He takes her to an undisclosed area and has anal sex with her in the back seat of his car. Moments after Vinny and Dionna's cousin finish and leave the area, the Son of Sam killer arrives and kills two victims that were parked not too far from where Vinny was at.
Girl 6 (1996)
, 1h48Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, Erotic films, Children's films
Actors Theresa Randle, Isaiah Washington, Peter Berg, Madonna, Quentin Tarantino, Ron Silver
Roles Switchboard Operator
Rating52%
Judy (Theresa Randle) is at an audition with Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino reveals that the film Judy is auditioning for is "the greatest romantic, African-American film ever made. Directed by me, of course" and is requested toe remove her blouse so "Q.T." and his assistant can see her breasts. She reluctantly complies, but walks out on the audition.
Get on the Bus (1996)
, 2hDirected by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, LGBT-related films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Belzer, De'Aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Gabriel Casseus, Albert Hall
Roles Jindai
Rating68%
Fifteen disparate African American men board a bus in Los Angeles bound for Washington, D.C., where they plan on attending the Million Man March. Other than their race, destination, and gender, the men have nothing in common: George is the trip organizer; Xavier is an aspiring filmmaker hoping to make a documentary of the March; Flip is an openly racist and sexist actor; Kyle and Randall are a homosexual couple; Gary, a police officer, is the sole biracial man on the bus; Jamal is a former gang banger turned devout Muslim who has evaded prosecution for the rapes and murders he committed; Evan Jr., is a petty criminal who has been permitted to break probation to attend the march on the condition that he remain handcuffed to his father, Evan Sr.
Losing Isaiah (1995)
, 1h51Directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, Kasi Lemmons
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jessica Lange, Halle Berry, David Strathairn, Jacqueline Brookes, Cuba Gooding Jr., Marc John Jefferies
Roles Marie
Rating63%
Khaila Richards (Halle Berry) is a drug addict who is addicted to crack cocaine. The film starts with her breastfeeding her baby in an abandoned squat. As she lays the child down to leave, the other squatters tell her that she can't leave the baby there crying. Khaila takes the child outside and hides him in a box in the trash so that she can go get high. She promises to come back, puts a board over the box, and leaves. The next morning, the trash is being collected and everything is thrown in the garbage truck, but at the last moment the workers see the baby lying in the box and the infant is taken to the hospital.
Crooklyn (1994)
, 1h55Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Hip hop films, Gangster films
Actors Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Zelda Harris, Chris Knowings, David Patrick Kelly, José Zúñiga
Roles Aunt Maxine
Rating69%
In 1973, nine-year-old Troy Carmichael (Zelda Harris) and her brothers Clinton (Carlton Williams), Wendell (Sharif Rashed), Nate (Chris Knowings), and Joseph (Tse-Mach Washington) live in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. The children live with their parents, Woody (Delroy Lindo), a struggling musician, and Carolyn (Alfre Woodard), a schoolteacher.
Fathers and Sons (1992)
, 1h49Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Jeff Goldblum, Rory Cochrane, Rosanna Arquette, Famke Janssen, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Paul Hipp
Roles Lois
Rating49%
A failed, recluse director, Max, moves from New York City to a small seaside town after his wife's death. He struggles with his parental role over his son. Eddie, meanwhile, is becoming increasingly involved in the not-so-underground culture of drugs, promiscuous sex, and gang violence that lies there.
A Kiss Before Dying (1991)
, 1h35Directed by James Dearden, James Dearden
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Matt Dillon, Sean Young, Max von Sydow, Diane Ladd, James Russo, Ad-Rock
Roles Cathy
Rating56%
Sometime in the past, a copper refinery owned by Thor Carlsson (Max von Sydow) has metal shipped out on Carlsson Copper trains that run right behind a young boy's house, who stares out forlornly at the tracks.
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
, 2h9Directed by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films
Actors Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Joie Lee, Bill Nunn
Roles Indigo
Rating66%
The film begins with a scene set in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. A group of four boys walk up to Bleek Gilliam's brownstone and ask him to come out and play baseball with them. Bleek's mother insists that he continue his trumpet lesson, to his chagrin. His father becomes concerned that Bleek will grow up to be a sissy, and a family argument ensues. In the end, Bleek continues playing his trumpet, and his friends go away.
Do the Right Thing (1989)
, 2hDirected by Spike Lee
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about music and musicians, Films about racism, Hip hop films, Musical films, Gangster films
Actors Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito
Roles Jade
Rating78%
Mookie (Spike Lee) is a young black man living in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with his sister, Jade (Joie Lee). He and his girlfriend, Tina (Rosie Perez), have a son. He's a pizza delivery man at the local pizzeria, but lacks ambition. Sal (Danny Aiello), the pizzeria's Italian-American owner, has been in the neighborhood for twenty-five years. His older son Pino (John Turturro) intensely dislikes blacks, and does not get along with Mookie. Pino is at odds with his younger brother, Vito (Richard Edson), who is friendly with Mookie.