Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Crooklyn
TITLE DETAILS

Crooklyn

1994-05-13 · 114 min · ★ 6.8

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.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Spike Lee
Production companies
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, Universal Pictures, Child Hood Productions
Countries
United States of America
Status
Released
Budget
USD 14,000,000
Revenue
USD 13,640,000

Top Cast

Alfre WoodardAlfre WoodardCarolyn Carmichael
Delroy LindoDelroy LindoWoody Carmichael
David Patrick KellyDavid Patrick KellyTony Eyes / Jim
Zelda HarrisZelda HarrisTroy Carmichael
Carlton WilliamsClinton Carmichael
Sharif RashedSharif RashedWendell Carmichael
Tse-Mach WashingtonTse-Mach WashingtonJoseph Carmichael
Christopher KnowingsChristopher KnowingsNate Carmichael
José ZúñigaJosé ZúñigaTommy La La
Isaiah WashingtonIsaiah WashingtonVic Powell
Ivelka ReyesJessica
Spike LeeSpike LeeSnuffy
Vondie Curtis-HallVondie Curtis-HallUncle Brown
Frances FosterFrances FosterAunt Song
Manny PerezManny PerezHector
RuPaulRuPaulBodega Woman
Keith JohnsonKeith JohnsonCornell
Tiasha ReyesMinnie
Raymond RelifordBarry
Harvey WilliamsDelray

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Rental

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

Purchase

Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

View authorized watch options on TMDb

Recommendations

The Squid and the Whale
★ 7.0
The Squid and the Whale2005Comedy · Drama

Based on the true childhood experiences of Noah Baumbach and his brother, The Squid and the Whale tells the touching story of two young boys dealing with their parents' divorce in Brooklyn in the 1980s.

Wildflower
★ 7.4
Wildflower2023Comedy · Drama

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
★ 6.5
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)2017Comedy · Drama

An estranged family gathers together in New York for an event celebrating the artistic work of their father.

Saturday Night
★ 6.7
Saturday Night2024Comedy · Drama

At 11:30pm on October 11, 1975, a ferocious troupe of young comedians and writers changed television forever. This is the story of what happened behind the scenes in the 90 minutes leading up to the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live.

Diggers
★ 6.0
Diggers2007Comedy · Drama

In 1976, four working-class friends come of age in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers, as were their fathers and their grandfathers before them. They must cope with and learn to face the changing times in both their personal lives and their neighborhood.

Somewhere in Queens
★ 6.3
Somewhere in Queens2023Comedy · Drama

Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
★ 7.2
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete2013Drama

Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.

Igby Goes Down
★ 6.6
Igby Goes Down2002Comedy · Drama

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.

Landline
★ 6.2
Landline2017Comedy · Drama

A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

A Serious Man
★ 6.7
A Serious Man2009Comedy · Drama

It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of nearly every aspect of his life.

Motherless Brooklyn
★ 6.7
Motherless Brooklyn2019Drama

New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.

The Daytrippers
★ 6.6
The Daytrippers1997Comedy · Drama

Eliza D'Amico thinks her marriage to Louis is going great until she finds a mysterious love note to her husband. Concerned, she goes to her mother for advice. Eliza, her parents, her sister Jo, and Jo's boyfriend all pile into the station wagon and go to the city to confront Louis with the letter. On the way, the five explore their relations with each other and meet many interesting people.

25th Hour
★ 7.3
25th Hour2002Drama

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

20th Century Women
★ 7.3
20th Century Women2016Drama

In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

A Thousand and One
★ 6.6
A Thousand and One2023Drama

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

Blood Ties
★ 6.1
Blood Ties2013Drama

Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

Uncut Gems
★ 7.2
Uncut Gems2019Drama

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

10,000 Saints
★ 6.0
10,000 Saints2015Comedy · Drama

A sweeping multigenerational story set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City of the late 1980s; adoption, teen pregnancy, drugs, hardcore punk rock, the unbridled optimism and reckless stupidity of the young—and old—are all major elements in this heart-aching tale of the son of diehard hippies and his strange odyssey through the extremes of late 20th century youth culture.

After Hours
★ 7.5
After Hours1985Comedy · Drama

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

Infinitely Polar Bear
★ 6.6
Infinitely Polar Bear2014Comedy · Drama

A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.

Similar titles

Neighbors
★ 4.5
Neighbors2019Drama

The 43rd edition screens Neighbors, with five segments about the theme “neighbors”: not only about physical proximity, but also about relationships. In Brazil, Olga is a 90-year-old black woman who lost her husband one year ago; her neighbors, who come from different parts of the world, interrupt her grief. In Russia, an employee tries so hard to please his boss that he becomes inconvenient. An Indian woman, with the help of her male friend, decides to learn how to drive, an uncommon practice for women in the country. In China, an elderly, owner of an old and decadent barbershop, argues with his son, who wants to change the business. In South Africa, a group of homeless fights for the right to housing.

The Boat on the Grass
★ 5.1
The Boat on the Grass1971Comedy · Drama

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

Le bahut va craquer
★ 4.2
Le bahut va craquer1981Comedy

The students of a local school unite in mutiny against their headmaster and two teachers.

Pardon Mon Affaire
★ 7.0
Pardon Mon Affaire1976Comedy

On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.

Part-Time Work
★ 6.4
Part-Time Work1980Comedy · Drama

A comedy of everyday life problems of a "temporary" teacher who leads a very "temporary" life. For ten years, he temporarily lives with his married sister in a cramped, one-room apartment in which, his brother's-in-law sister also temporarily lives. He has a diploma, but not a steady job. He's a school teacher for a definite period of time with a "temporary" status. At the mean time, a boy who lives alone with his mother goes to the same school. He wants to have a father by his own choice, not his mother's. It seems that the teacher suits most of the boy's idea of a father. And the boy gains what he always wants.

Immer noch wach
Not rated
Immer noch wach2025Comedy

The latest stand-up special by Swiss-German comedian Hazel Brugger.

Tango Argentino
★ 4.5
Tango Argentino1992Drama

A boy who is helping lonely, elderly people revives their urge to live and receives in return their love and understanding, which have been denied to him by his parents.

Moonstruck
★ 6.8
Moonstruck1987Comedy · Drama

37-year-old Italian-American widow Loretta Castorini believes she is unlucky in love, and so accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend Johnny, even though she doesn't love him. When she meets his estranged younger brother Ronny, an emotional and passionate man, she finds herself drawn to him. She tries to resist, but Ronny, who blames his brother for the loss of his hand, has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls for Ronny, she learns that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

Addicted to Love
★ 6.2
Addicted to Love1997Comedy

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

Spoiled Children
★ 6.2
Spoiled Children1977Comedy · Drama

Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.

The Last Sparapet
Not rated
The Last Sparapet2025Drama

Based on true events, the film presents nearly all stages of national hero Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan's life, intertwined with significant events in the modern history of our country.

The Unvarnished Boy
★ 5.0
The Unvarnished Boy2010Drama

A young boy struggles with life on the streets of Vancouver's dangerous and soul-consuming lower East side.

The Assassin(s)
★ 7.2
The Assassin(s)2026Drama

In 1974, a shooting shocks South Korea. Detective Cheol-gu, who witnesses the attack, Jae-hwan, the city desk editor whose coverage is suppressed, and Young-il, a rookie reporter, begin to dig beneath the cover-up. As their pursuit of the truth deepens, they come to confront forces meant to remain unseen.

Final Round
★ 10.0
Final Round2022Drama

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to cross the Strait of Gibraltar with his two friends.

2020 is Hard
Not rated
2020 is Hard2020Comedy

A young Brooklynite discovers the disturbing truth about his roommate's politics.

Hibernatus
★ 6.7
Hibernatus1969Comedy

Hubert de Tartas' life becomes a complete muddle when his wife's grandfather is unearthed after having spent 65 years in frozen hibernation in the polar circle. After being de-frosted, the Hibernating Man believes it is still the beginning of the century. Nothing is spared to keep that illusion alive. At the end of his rope, Hubert blurts out the truth and takes the man from Edwardian times on a crazy spree through an ultramodern Twentieth Century.

This Man Must Die
★ 7.3
This Man Must Die1969Drama

When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.

The Tender Age
★ 8.0
The Tender Age1968Drama

Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a sixteen-millimeter camera and a team of friends, Henri embarks on this adventure, playing the role of Adolphe himself. Despite all the warnings, he lived through the passion and ordeal of the novel's hero, right to the end. Different times and circumstances will not change this.

Hi, Are You Alone?
★ 5.3
Hi, Are You Alone?1995Comedy

Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.

Sounds of Sand
★ 6.1
Sounds of Sand2007Drama

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave and head south. Rahne, the only literate one, decides to head east with his three children and Mouna, his wife. A few sheep, some goats, and Chamelle, a dromedary, are their only riches. A tale of exodus, quest, hope and fatality.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.