Oscar Micheaux Movies

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt.

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Micheaux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the...

A drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African-American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused...

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

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 young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.

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

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...

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...

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...

The brute is a gambler, boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman. She is forced into marriage with him for money after her...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

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

A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago - and soon enough meets her club...

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician named Gyp Lassiter, even though she is really in...

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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