Best movies of Ossie Davis

Actors : Ossie Davis, Richard Edson, Ruby Dee, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Spike Lee,

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.

Actors : Heidi Marnhout, Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce,
Directors : Don Coscarelli,

Elvis and JFK, both alive and in a nursing home, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, D.B. Sweeney, Julianna Margulies, Ossie Davis,

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt,
Directors : Betty Thomas,

A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.

Actors : Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Ossie Davis, Annabella Sciorra,
Directors : Spike Lee,

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

Actors : Joy Bryant, Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Ossie Davis,
Directors : Mario Van Peebles,

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

Actors : Charles S. Dutton, Ossie Davis, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher,
Directors : Spike Lee,

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

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas, Ossie Davis, Shelley Winters,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

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.

Actors : Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Ossie Davis, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Herb Gardner,

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 ...

Actors : Sammy Davis Jr., Ossie Davis, Cicely Tyson, Louis Armstrong,
Directors : Leo Penn,

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

Actors : Clint Walker, Angie Dickinson, Ossie Davis, Burt Reynolds,
Directors : Arnold Laven,

Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ...

Actors : Jerry Reed, Suzanne Pleshette, Ossie Davis, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Dom DeLuise,

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 ...

Actors : Betsy Russell, Ossie Davis, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell,
Directors : Robert Vincent O'Neill,

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. ...

Actors : Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Hilda Haynes, Godfrey Cambridge,
Directors : Nicholas Webster,

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 ...

Actors : Dionne Warwick, Stephen Boyd, Marilyn Clark, Ossie Davis,
Directors : Herbert J. Biberman,

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

Actors : Eric McCormack, Kim Hunter, James Whitmore, Ossie Davis,
Directors : Arne Olsen,

Owen is the head administrator of an old age home in Washington. One day, a resident discovers he is cheating on his taxes, and orders that Owen takes him and two others on a road trip to ...

Actors : Greg Morris, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Tom Aldredge,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

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