Oscar Micheaux Movies

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children....

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...

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.

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...

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...

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...

A US cavalry officer rescues a mulatto girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar...

A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).

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...

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

An Oscar Micheaux' film.

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar...