Five Free Movies to Stream Now

Spike Lee’s Crooklyn (1994) is a warm, memory-soaked portrait of a Brooklyn summer, drawn from Lee and his siblings’ childhood. Anchored by Alfre Woodard and Delroy Lindo and set to a soundtrack of jazz and hip-hop, the film captures family life on a Bedford-Stuyvesant block—its games, fights and the grief that changes everything.

Stream it on Tubi. The Safdie brothers’ Lenny Cooke follows a high school phenom whose promise fades into a quieter, regretful present. Early footage—most strikingly a 2001 intramural game against LeBron James—sets up a rise-and-fall story that becomes an intimate reckoning, as Cooke lounges through the years and insists, in one fraught moment, “My name’s Leonard.” Wendell B.

Harris Jr.’s Chameleon Street, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, is a playful, inventive con-man film that predates similar Hollywood fare.

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