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1. Pretty Dudes (2016– )
Comedy, Drama
A group of friends in the greater Los Angeles area, self-categorized as "pretty boys," navigate sexuality, race, romance, and the occasional celibacy pact.
Stars: Kyle Rezzarday, Xavier Avila, Yoshi Sudarso, Bryan Michael Nunez
Votes: 37
2.
Pretty Dudes (2016– )
Episode:
The Curse
(2016)
9 min | Comedy, Drama
Five friends in Los Angeles feel they're unlucky in love because of their good looks.
Director: Chance Calloway | Stars: Bryan Michael Nunez, Xavier Avila, Tae Song, Kyle Rezzarday
3. My Dinner with A.J. (2011)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
David and A.J. have not seen each other in over ten years. David is a bitter and cynical writer who struggled to make a name for himself as a filmmaker. A.J. was a promising actor who ... See full summary »
Director: David F. Walker | Stars: David F. Walker, A.J. Wone, Juliana Tobon
Votes: 11
4. The Betrayal (1948)
183 min | Drama
Martin Eden is a successful African-American farmer in South Dakota. He is in love with Deborah Stewart, but he believes that she is white and that she would not be interested in him. He is unaware that Deborah also loves him.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Byrd, Leroy Collins, Verlie Cowan, Frances De Young
Votes: 18
5. The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
107 min | Drama
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Gladys Williams, Robert Earl Jones, Carman Newsome, Edna Mae Harris
Votes: 12
6. Lying Lips (1939)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Music
A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Edna Mae Harris, Carman Newsome, Robert Earl Jones, Frances E. Williams
Votes: 181
7. God's Step Children (1938)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
A young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Jacqueline Lewis, Ethel Moses, Alice B. Russell, Trixie Smith
Votes: 115
8. Swing! (1938)
69 min | Musical, Drama
Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Cora Green, Larry Seymour, Hazel Diaz, Alec Lovejoy
Votes: 171
9. Birthright (1938)
74 min | Drama
A black Harvard graduate confronts racism.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Carman Newsome, Ethel Moses, Alec Lovejoy, Trixie Smith
Votes: 217
10. Underworld (1937)
95 min | Crime, Drama
A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Bee Freeman, Sol Johnson, 'Slick' Chester, Ethel Moses
Votes: 48
11. Murder in Harlem (1935)
TV-G | 96 min | Drama, Mystery
A black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
Directors: Oscar Micheaux, Clarence Williams | Stars: Clarence Brooks, Dorothy Van Engle, Andrew Bishop, Alec Lovejoy
Votes: 188
12. Temptation (1935)
Crime, Musical, Drama
Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Andrew Bishop, Ethel Moses, Lorenzo Tucker, Hilda Rogers
Votes: 16
13. Harlem After Midnight (1934)
Drama
Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Lawrence Chenault, 'Slick' Chester, A.B. DeComathiere, Bee Freeman
14. Phantom of Kenwood (1933)
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Frank H. Wilson, Babe Townsend, Bea Freeman, Pearl McCormack
15. The Girl from Chicago (1932)
70 min | Crime, Drama
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Carl Mahon, Starr Calloway, Alice B. Russell, Eunice Brooks
Votes: 222
16. Ten Minutes to Live (1932)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Lawrence Chenault, A.B. DeComathiere, Laura Bowman, Willor Lee Guilford
Votes: 289
17. Veiled Aristocrats (1932)
48 min | Drama
John Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Lucille Lewis, Walter Fleming, Laura Bowman, Lawrence Chenault
Votes: 180
19. The Exile (1931)
93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them,... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Eunice Brooks, Stanley Morrell, Celeste Cole, Kathleen Noisette
Votes: 190
20. The Darktown Revue (1931)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Musical numbers and comedy routines.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Celeste Cole, Amon Davis, Donald Heywood, Sara Martin
Votes: 107
21. A Daughter of the Congo (1930)
Adventure
A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Kathleen Noisette, Loretta Tucker, Salem Tutt Whitney, Willor Lee Guilford
Votes: 25
22. Easy Street (1930)
Drama
Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William A. Clayton Jr., Willor Lee Guilford, Richard B. Harrison, Alice B. Russell
23. Wages of Sin (1929)
Drama
Film producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at wild parties, and on women. Hw thereby put the company in financial difficulties.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Lorenzo Tucker, William A. Clayton Jr., Kathleen Noisette, Rudolph Hind
Votes: 71
24. When Men Betray (1928)
Drama
Details the plight of a young woman who falls in love and marries a glib con artist who abandons her without money on their wedding night.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Kathleen Noisette, William A. Clayton Jr., Bessie Givens, Gertrude Snelson
25. Thirty Years Later (1928)
Drama
George Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, is brought up to believe that he is completely white. He falls in love with Hester Morgan, a black girl, but when she learns that he is white, she refuses to see him.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Edmonson, A.B. DeComathiere, Ardelle Dabney, Gertrude Snelson
26. The Spider's Web (1927)
Crime, Horror
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Lorenzo McClane, Edward Thompson, Henrietta Loveless
27. The House Behind the Cedars (1927)
Drama
Rena ( Shingzie Howard ), a beautiful mulatto woman, who passes as white, receives a proposal from an aristocratic white millionaire who has fallen in love with her. Rena accepts without ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Shingzie Howard, Andrew Bishop, Lawrence Chenault, Alma Sewell
28. The Millionaire (1927)
Drama
An African American entrepreneur who has built up his fortune in South America returns to the U.S. and falls in love with a young woman who turns out to be part of a notorious family of criminals.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Grace Smith, Laurence Criner, Lionel Monagas, Cleo Desmond
29. The Broken Violin (1927)
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William A. Clayton Jr., Ardelle Dabney, Salem Tutt Whitney, J. Homer Tutt
30. The Conjure Woman (1926)
Drama
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault, Percy Verwayen, Alma Sewell
31. The Devil's Disciple (1926)
Comedy
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Lawrence Chenault
32. Body and Soul (1925)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Paul Robeson, Marshall Rogers, Lawrence Chenault, Chester A. Alexander
Votes: 1,192
34. Birthright (1924)
100 min | Drama
A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: J. Homer Tutt, Evelyn Preer, Salem Tutt Whitney, Lawrence Chenault
Votes: 16
35. A Son of Satan (1924)
70 min | Drama
The misadventures of a man who accepted a bet to spend a night in a haunted house.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Andrew Bishop, Lawrence Chenault, Shingzie Howard, Edna Morton
Votes: 22
36. Deceit (1923)
Drama, Romance
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, William Fountaine, Norman Johnstone, A.B. DeComathiere
37. The Virgin of Seminole (1923)
Drama, Western
A young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Louise Borden, William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard
38. The Dungeon (1922)
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard, J. Kenneth Goodman, William Crowell
39. Uncle Jasper's Will (1922)
Drama
About the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard, Alma Sewell
41. The Gunsaulus Mystery (1921)
Drama, Mystery
A young black man is accused of the murder of a white woman.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Edward R. Abrams, Lawrence Chenault, Louis De Bulger
42. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 3,638
43. The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
TV-PG | 54 min | Drama, Romance
Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault, Mattie Wilkes
Votes: 573
44. The Brute (1920)
Drama
The brute is a gambler,boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman, who is forced into marriage with him for money after her original fiance is thought dead. When that man returns ,he attempts to rescue her.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, A.B. DeComathiere, Sam Langford, Susie Sutton
45. The Homesteader (1919)
Drama
The Homesteader involves six principal characters, the leading one being Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), a homesteader far off in the Dakotas, the lone African American living in the area. ... See full summary »
Directors: Oscar Micheaux, Jerry Mills | Stars: Charles D. Lucas, Evelyn Preer, Iris Hall, Inez Smith
Votes: 47