List of the best Ossie Davis movies: Black Girl(1972), Cotton Comes to Harlem(1970), Gordon's War(1973), Gone Are the Days(1963), Proud(2004), Countdown at Kusini(1976), Do the Right Thing(1989), I'm Not Rappaport(1996), Countdown at Kusini(1976), A Man Called Adam(1966), Sam Whiskey(1969), The Scalphunters(1968) ... ...
7.0/10
Drama
USA
1972
97 Minutes
Director
Brock Peters Leslie Uggams Peggy Pettit Claudia McNeil Louise Stubbs Gloria Edwards Loretta Greene Kent Martin Ruby Dee
daughter sister single mother adopted daughter grandmother tender emotional moving family home mother/child relationship dreams siblings family dysfunction jealousy poverty growing up rivalry 1970s
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
97 Minutes
Director
Godfrey Cambridge Raymond St. Jacques Calvin Lockhart Judy Pace Redd Foxx Emily Yancy Cleavon Little
police detective political activist reverend partner hijacker rousing hysterical harlem, n.y. barbecue truck theft investigation scam pursuit rescue 1970s
Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.
6.5/10
Action
USA
1973
89 Minutes
Director
Paul Winfield Carl Lee David Downing Tony King Gilbert Lewis Carl Gordon Nathan C. Heard Grace Jones
green beret soldier military officer drug dealer pimp corrupt businessman brutal dark harlem, n.y. family home street hideout big city drug trafficking crime prostitution vigilantism corruption revenge 1970s
Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.
6.4/10
Comedy
USA
1963
97 Minutes
Writer
Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Sorrell Booke Godfrey Cambridge Hilda Haynes Alan Alda Beah Richards Charles Welch Ralph Roberts
reverend fiancée son plantation owner old man engaging spirited playful witty plantation barn church cotchipee, ga. civil rights deception father/son relationship schemes integration racism quest
An idealistic young man returns to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. He brings his fiancée Lutiebelle, but hopes to convince the plantation owner that she is really his cousin ... See full summary »
5.7/10
Drama, History, War
USA
2004
87 Minutes
Ossie Davis Albert Jones Jeffrey Nash Darnell Williams Michael Scott Kidada Jones Reggie Austin Vernel Bagneris Marcus Chait Erik LaRay Harvey Rashad Haughton
sailor naval officer grandfather crew member grandson inspiring powerful thrilling battleship sea navy overcoming the odds segregation racism world war ii underdog adventure 1990s
The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.
Drama
1976
101 Minutes
Director
Ruby Dee Ossie Davis Greg Morris Tom Aldredge Michael Ebert Thomas Baptiste
An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1989
120 Minutes
Da Mayor
Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee Richard Edson Giancarlo Esposito Spike Lee Bill Nunn John Turturro Rosie Perez Paul Benjamin Frankie Faison
owner brother son sister young boy gutsy intense witty street restaurant brooklyn, n.y. racism violence civil rights community rivalry 1980s
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1996
135 Minutes
Walter Matthau Ossie Davis Amy Irving Martha Plimpton Craig T. Nelson Boyd Gaines Guillermo Díaz Elina Lowensohn Ron Rifkin Marin Hinkle
old man best friend daughter yuppie drug dealer artist charming emotional new york city central park apartment building supermarket aging friendship social activism disguise drug addiction father/daughter relationship quest love
Two old men - a white former radical, and a black retired janitor - strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.
Drama
1976
101 Minutes
Director
Ruby Dee Ossie Davis Greg Morris Tom Aldredge Michael Ebert Thomas Baptiste
An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.
6.6/10
Drama
USA
1966
102 Minutes
Nelson Davis
A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
5.9/10
Comedy, Western
USA
1969
96 Minutes
Jed Hooker
Burt Reynolds Clint Walker Ossie Davis Angie Dickinson William Schallert Woodrow Parfrey Anthony James Del Reeves
gambler widow blacksmith inventor beautiful woman amusing madcap lighthearted wild west river heist gold seduction old west dangerous assignment adventure pursuit 1860s
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they had been stolen by her dead husband.
Comedy, Western
1968
102 Minutes
Joseph Lee
Burt Lancaster Shelley Winters Ossie Davis Telly Savalas Dabney Coleman Paul Picerni Armando Silvestre Nick Cravat
trapper slave native american thief outlaw amusing offbeat thrilling mexico american west slavery friendship escape race relations violence greed quest pursuit revenge 1860s
A fur trader (Burt Lancaster) and a cultured slave (Ossie Davis) have run-ins with Indians and marauders.
Drama
1969
110 Minutes
Luke
A cruel Mississippi planter's (Stephen Boyd) slave mistress (Dionne Warwick) is inspired to rebellion by a Christian slave (Ossie Davis).
Drama
1999
97 Minutes
Mordecai
Banished to Earth for a month to learn compassion, an angel (Bruce Greenwood) becomes very attached to a family.
7.9/10
Drama
UK
1965
123 Minutes
Jacko King
Sean Connery Harry Andrews Ian Bannen Alfred Lynch Ossie Davis Roy Kinnear Jack Watson Ian Hendry Michael Redgrave Norman Bird Neil McCallum
prisoner sergeant guard british soldiers bleak brutal intense prison camp africa libya desert following orders humiliation morality military prison rivalry discovery underdog fall
In a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1979
91 Minutes
Captain John Geiberger
Dom DeLuise Suzanne Pleshette Jerry Reed Luis Avalos Ossie Davis Marc Lawrence
Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront-sting operation equipped with a two-way mirror.
6.5/10
Action
USA
1992
102 Minutes
Noah
Cuba Gooding Jr. James Marshall Brian Dennehy Robert Loggia Ossie Davis Cara Buono John Heard Jon Seda Lance Slaughter T.E. Russell Francesca P. Roberts
young man boxer father promoter bookie police officer brutal gutsy intense chicago boxing ring school street ghetto boxing aspirations family duty friendship transformation
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 falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.
Drama
1997
117 Minutes
Juror 2
Jack Lemmon George C. Scott Douglas Spain Courtney B. Vance Ossie Davis Armin Mueller-Stahl Dorian Harewood James Gandolfini Tony Danza Hume Cronyn Mykelti Williamson
juror judge alleged criminal latino priest inspiring tense uneasy courtroom jury deliberation room united states court battles citizenship jury service law and order discrimination metamorphosis quest 1990s
One (Jack Lemmon) of 12 jurors holds out in the case of a boy (George C. Scott) from the slums who is accused of killing his father.
6.8/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1994
120 Minutes
Judge Harry Roosevelt
Susan Sarandon Tommy Lee Jones Mary-Louise Parker Anthony LaPaglia Anthony Edwards Ossie Davis Brad Renfro David Speck J.T. Walsh Will Patton Bradley Whitford
boy lawyer attorney mafia boss fbi agent mother gripping thrilling tender louisiana murder organized crime suicide investigation witness protection trust mystery pursuit escape 1990s
A young boy who witnessed the suicide of a mafia lawyer hires an attorney to protect him when the District Attorney tries to use him to take down a mob family.
5.8/10
Drama
USA
1984
117 Minutes
Raymond
Paul Newman Robby Benson Joanne Woodward Ellen Barkin Wilford Brimley Judith Ivey Ossie Davis Morgan Freeman Katherine Borowitz Maury Chaykin Michael Brockman
father son ex-girlfriend love interest mother brooding emotional florida beach household construction site father/son relationship romance writing blue-collar life pregnancy aging discovery love 1980s
Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.
Drama
1997
118 Minutes
Mr. Evers
Alfre Woodard Laurence Fishburne Craig Sheffer Joe Morton Obba Babatundé E.G. Marshall Ossie Davis Von Coulter
nurse patient senator doctor farmer emotional uneasy shocking hospital courtroom alabama farm tuskegee study syphilis eunice evers conspiracy sacrifice 1970s
A nurse (Alfre Woodard) becomes involved in a government experiment to withhold treatment for syphilis from a group of black patients.
Drama
1950
106 Minutes
Richard Widmark Linda Darnell Sidney Poitier Stephen McNally Mildred Joanne Smith Harry Bellaver Stanley Ridges Dotts Johnson Amanda Randolph Ruby Dee Ken Christy
doctor robber racist widow surgeon brother tense fiery suspenseful hospital city race relations racism revenge accidental death revenge pursuit rivalry 1950s
A hoodlum (Richard Widmark) sparks a race riot after his brother dies under a doctor's (Sidney Poitier) care.
6.8/10
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
1996
120 Minutes
Richard Belzer De'aundre Bonds Andre Braugher Thomas Jefferson Byrd Gabriel Casseus Albert Hall Hill Harper Harry Lennix Bernie Mac Wendell Pierce Roger Guenveur Smith
gang member actor cop bus driver charming emotional powerful bus washington, d.c. race relations protest politics quest discovery underdog 20th century
A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
7.1/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
92 Minutes
Paul Douglas Richard Basehart Barbara Bel Geddes Debra Paget Agnes Moorehead Robert Keith Howard da Silva Jeffrey Hunter Martin Gabel Grace Kelly Frank Faylen
young man cop psychiatrist girlfriend mother father gritty tense new york city skyscraper hotel office suicide dysfunction depression divorce family rescue fall 1950s
An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.
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