Oscar Micheaux Movies

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime...

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

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 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 Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a...

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

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.

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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 Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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