Ossie Davis — Actor (19)
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No Way Out (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
No Way Out
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Richard Widmark / Linda Darnell …
other title: Uomo bianco tu vivrai! / Der Hass ist blind …
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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The Fall (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Fall
director: Peter Whitehead actor: Peter Whitehead / Alberta Tiburzi …
"The Fall" depicts certain scenes in New York City between October 1967 and March 1968, shot by the independent filmmaker, Peter Whitehead. It is a very personal documentary, and Whitehead appears in a large number of scenes, and we hear his lengthy ruminations on the state of the United States and the war in Vietnam.
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Fourteen Hours (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fourteen Hours
director: Henry Hathaway actor: Paul Douglas / Richard Basehart …
other title: La 14ª ora / Vierzehn Stunden …
A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman makes every effort to argue him out of it.
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Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class
director: William Greaves actor: Ossie Davis / Dr. Percy Julian …
other title: Still a Brother
The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William Greaves and William Branch in a 90-minute NET Journal documentary.
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Avenging Angel (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Avenging Angel
director: Robert Vincent O'Neil actor: Betsy Russell / Rory Calhoun …
other title: Angel Killer 2 - La vendetta / Angels hævn …
Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her life has been murdered, she quickly finds herself pitted against an underworld of mob figures who might be more than she's bargained for...
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The Hill (1965) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
The Hill
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Sean Connery / Harry Andrews …
other title: La collina del disonore / Højen …
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 manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Joe Versus the Volcano
director: John Patrick Shanley actor: Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan …
other title: Joe contro il vulcano / Joe og vulkanen …
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 hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.
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The Client (1994) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Client
director: Joel Schumacher actor: Brad Renfro / Susan Sarandon …
other title: Il cliente / Klienten …
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
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Malcolm X (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Malcolm X
director: Spike Lee actor: Denzel Washington / Angela Bassett …
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hit bottom during his imprisonment in the '50s, he became a Black Muslim and then a leader in the Nation of Islam. His assassination in 1965 left a legacy of self-determination and racial pride.
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Jungle Fever (1991) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Jungle Fever
director: Spike Lee actor: Wesley Snipes / Annabella Sciorra …
other title: A Febre da Selva / Fiebre salvaje …
A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.
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Bubba Ho-tep (2002) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Bubba Ho-tep
director: Don Coscarelli actor: Bruce Campbell / Ossie Davis …
other title: Bubba Ho-tep - Il re è qui
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.
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4 Little Girls (1997) [Movie] TMDB
4 Little Girls
director: Spike Lee actor: Maxine McNair / Chris McNair …
other title: Vier kleine Mädchen / Cuatro niñas
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.
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Grumpy Old Men (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Grumpy Old Men
director: Donald Petrie actor: Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau …
other title: Due irresistibili brontoloni / Gnavne gamle mænd …
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
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Do the Right Thing (1989) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Do the Right Thing
8.8 (8 ratings) director: Spike Lee actor: Danny Aiello / Ossie Davis …
other title: Fa' la cosa giusta / Não Dês Bronca …
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.
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Dinosaur (2000) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dinosaur
director: Ralph Zondag / Eric Leighton actor: D. B. Sweeney / Alfre Woodard …
other title: Dinosauri / Dinosaurerne …
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Doctor Dolittle (1998) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Doctor Dolittle
6.2 (5 ratings) director: Betty Thomas actor: Eddie Murphy / Ossie Davis …
other title: Il dottor Dolittle / Dr. Dolittle …
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!