Ossie Davis Movies

Doctor Dolittle

54/100

A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.

Do the Right Thing

79/100

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.

Bubba Ho-Tep

71/100

Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce ... See full summary »

Jungle Fever

65/100

Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

12 Angry Men

79/100

Twelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.

Get on the Bus

68/100

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

Baadasssss!

74/100

Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971).

The Scalphunters

69/100

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

I'm Not Rappaport

66/100

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 house. When ... See full summary »

Sam Whiskey

59/100

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.

Avenging Angel

48/100

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 attorney. ... See full summary »

Hot Stuff

65/100

Three cops try to set up a sting by establishing their own Fencing operation. They have less than complete support from above and as they begin mingling more and more with the underworld ... See full summary »

The Soul Collector

65/100

Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, ... See full summary »

The Ghosts of Christmas Eve

80/100

TSO's THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS EVE is a unique fantasy trip through the magic of Christmas. Narrated by award-winning actor Ossie Davis, the production takes us on a journey of a runaway ... See full summary »

A Man Called Adam

65/100

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

Finding Buck McHenry

58/100

When an 11 year old boy (Michael Schiffman) gets cut from his Little League baseball team, he sets out to form his own team. He persuades a school custodian (Ossie Davis) to be the coach. ... See full summary »

A Vow to Cherish

65/100

A business executive's life is turned upside-down when his wife contracts a debilitating disease.

Gone Are the Days!

68/100

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 »

The Android Affair

49/100

Karen Garrett, a promising young doctor, is assigned to perform a difficult operation on Teach, an advanced android who has never "blanked" (had his memory erased.) She soon realizes that ... See full summary »

Slaves

49/100

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

The Sheriff

69/100

A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.

Cool Red

66/100

Story of the transition of an African country from colonialism to independence.

An Evening with Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee

This hour-long, one-on-one interview provides a candid glimpse into the lives of actors and "National Treasures" Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Taped on October 18, 2002 at The Art Institute of ... See full summary »

The Tenth Level

66/100

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people...

All God's Children

67/100