Ossie Davis Movies

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) ... ...

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Black Girl

An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

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.

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Gordon's War

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.

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Gone Are the Days

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 »

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Proud

The true story of one of only two U.S. Navy ships that saw combat in World War II with African-American crews.

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Countdown at Kusini

An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

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Do the Right Thing

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.

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I'm Not Rappaport

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.

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Countdown at Kusini

An Afro-American jazz pianist (Greg Morris) becomes involved with a patriot (Ossie Davis) hunted by a mercenary in Africa.

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A Man Called Adam

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

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Sam Whiskey

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.

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The Scalphunters

A fur trader (Burt Lancaster) and a cultured slave (Ossie Davis) have run-ins with Indians and marauders.

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Slaves

A cruel Mississippi planter's (Stephen Boyd) slave mistress (Dionne Warwick) is inspired to rebellion by a Christian slave (Ossie Davis).

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The Soul Collector

Banished to Earth for a month to learn compassion, an angel (Bruce Greenwood) becomes very attached to a family.

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The Hill

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.

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Hot Stuff

Miami police fence stolen goods at a storefront-sting operation equipped with a two-way mirror.

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Gladiator

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.

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12 Angry Men

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.

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The Client

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.

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Harry and Son

Harry Keach has been widowed for two years and works as a demolition crane operator on a demolition crew.

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Miss Evers' Boys

A nurse (Alfre Woodard) becomes involved in a government experiment to withhold treatment for syphilis from a group of black patients.

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No Way Out

A hoodlum (Richard Widmark) sparks a race riot after his brother dies under a doctor's (Sidney Poitier) care.

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Get on the Bus

A disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.

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Fourteen Hours

An unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.

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