Oscar Micheaux Movies

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway....

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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.

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 Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

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

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).

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...

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...

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

An Oscar Micheaux' film.