Search results for "Ossie Davis"
Slaves

Slaves

Slaves
IMDb: 5
110

A Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.

Genre: Drama
Night Gallery

Night Gallery

Night Gallery
IMDb: 7.5
98

This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: “The Cemetery,” directed by Boris Sagal; “Eyes,” directed by Steven Spielberg; and “The Escape Route,”…

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus

Get on the Bus
IMDb: 6.8
120

Several Black men take a cross-country bus trip to attend the Million Man March in Washington, DC in 1995. On the bus are an eclectic set of characters including a…

Genre: Drama
Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks
IMDb: 8.4
88

Beah: A Black Woman Speaks is a 2003 documentary about the life of Academy Award nominated actress Beah Richards. Directed by Lisa Gay Hamilton, it won the Documentary Award at…

Genre: Documentary
The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters
IMDb: 6.8
102

Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano
IMDb: 5.8
102

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Secret Path

The Secret Path

The Secret Path
IMDb: 7.6
98

A young girl stuck in a horrific cycle of familial violence finds the power to build her own future from the place she least suspected in an inspiring tale of…

Genre: Drama
Harry & Son

Harry & Son

Harry & Son
IMDb: 5.8
120

Widower Harry Keach is a construction worker who was raised to appreciate the importance of working for a living. He takes a dim view of his sensitive son Howard’s lackadaisical…

Genre: Drama
Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
IMDb: 6.7
91

When a police department’s burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their…

Genre: Comedy
A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam

A Man Called Adam
IMDb: 6.6
99

A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.

Genre: Drama, Music
12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
IMDb: 7.9
117

During the trial of a man accused of his father’s murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of…

Genre: Crime, Drama, TV Movie
The Hill

The Hill

The Hill
IMDb: 7.9
123

North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It’s not a military objective. It’s The Hill, a…

Genre: Drama, War
Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel

Avenging Angel
IMDb: 4.9
93

Molly, former baby prostitute “Angel” from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become…

Genre: Action, Thriller
Gladiator

Gladiator

Gladiator
IMDb: 6.5
101

Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a ‘nice place’. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly…

Genre: Action, Drama
I’m Not Rappaport

I’m Not Rappaport

I’m Not Rappaport
IMDb: 6.6
135

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment…

Genre: Comedy
Deacons for Defense

Deacons for Defense

Deacons for Defense
IMDb: 7
95

Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still…

Genre: Drama
A Vow To Cherish

A Vow To Cherish

A Vow To Cherish
IMDb: 6.8
84

John (Ken Howard) and Ellen (Barbara Babcock) have a picture-perfect life: While John runs a successful business, Ellen works as a schoolteacher, and they’ve raised two beautiful children. But that…

Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again

Let’s Do It Again
IMDb: 6.9
110 min

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a few blue-collar employees in Atlanta who’ve promised to boost funds for his or her fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. Nonetheless,…

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Genre: Crime
Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey
IMDb: 5.9
96 min

Sam Whiskey is an all-round expertise, however when the enticing widow Laura presents him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura’s useless husband stole not too…

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Genre: Comedy, Western
School Daze

School Daze

School Daze
IMDb: 6.0
121 min

Fraternity and sorority members clash with different pupils in a historically black school during homecoming weekend.

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Genre: Drama, Music
Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
IMDb: 7.9
120 min

Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. An area nearby, Buggin’ Out, becomes angry if he sees this the pizzeria’s Wall of Fame displays just…

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Genre: Drama
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever
IMDb: 6.5
132 min

A married and successful black man contemplates having an affair with a white woman in the work. He is quite rightly stressed that the racial gap could create a taboo…

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Genre: Romance
Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men
IMDb: 7.0
103 min

For years, next-door neighbors and past friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and evil pranks. As soon as an alluring widow goes in neighboring, their poor blood circulates…

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Genre: Comedy
Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle
IMDb: 5.4
85 min

A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle appears to get the entire world by the tail, before a very long suppressed talent he possessed as a young child,…

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Genre: Family, Fantasy
Dinosaur

Dinosaur

Dinosaur
IMDb: 6.5
82 min

An orphaned Paper increased by lemurs combines an ambitious trek into a sancturary following a meteorite shower destroys his family residence.

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Genre: Family
Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep
IMDb: 7.0
92 min

Bubba Ho-tep informs the “true” story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis being an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities…

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Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!
IMDb: 7.3
109 min

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the sophisticated manufacturing of his father Melvin’s traditional 1971 movie, “Candy Sweetback’s Baadasssss Track.” Taking part in his father within the movie, Van Peebles gives…

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Genre: Drama