Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Western
Elvis Presley and a black "JFK" stay in a nursing home where nothing happens – until a wayward Egyptian mummy comes and sucks out the old people's souls thru their anuses. The two decide to fight back.
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Heidi Marnhout, Bob Ivy, Edith Jefferson
Director: Don Coscarelli
Deacons for Defense (2003)
Drama
he true story of the South's first black militia group during the civil rights movement.
Starring: Forest Whitaker, Chris Britton, Jonathan Silverman, Ossie Davis, Gene Mack, Tyrone Benskin, Paul Benjamin, Mpho Koaho
Director: Bill Duke
I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
Comedy | Drama
Two old men – a white former radical, and a black retired janitor – strike up an unusual and funny friendship on a park bench in New York, where they deal with family, drug dealers, and the pitfalls of age.
Starring: Walter Matthau, Ossie Davis, Amy Irving, Craig T. Nelson, Boyd Gaines, Martha Plimpton
Director: Herb Gardner
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Comedy | Drama
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.
Starring: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee
Director: Spike Lee
Freedom Road (1979)
Drama
Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.
Starring: Muhammad Ali, Kris Kristofferson, Ron O'Neal, Edward Herrmann, John McLiam, Ossie Davis
Director: Ján Kadár
Dinosaur (2000)
Adventure | Animation | Family | Thriller
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
Starring: D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright
Director: Eric Leighton, Ralph Zondag
School Daze (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Musical
A not so popular man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at a historically black college.
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Giancarlo Esposito, Ossie Davis, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn
Director: Spike Lee
Baadasssss! / How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (2003)
Biography | Drama
Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, Terry Crews, David Alan Grier
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Her Alibi (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Romance
Mystery novelist Phillip Blackwood has writer's block. He hits the courtrooms for inspiration–and is zapped with a doozy. A mysterious Romanian beauty arraigned for murder arouses both his creative and amorous impulses.
Starring: Tom Selleck, Paulina Porizkova, William Daniels, James Farentino, Victor Argo, Tess Harper, Bill Smitrovich, Joan Copeland, Ossie Davis
Director: Bruce Beresford
Proud (2004)
Drama
The USS Mason entered World War 2 on a presumably doomed mission. The all African-American crew overcame the harsh realities of war abroad and segregation at home… and was finally honored for its heroism in 1994.
Starring: Ossie Davis, Stephen Rea
Director: Mary Pat Kelly
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The Hill (1965)
Drama | War
WWII, in a British disciplinary camp located in the Libyan desert. Prisoners are persecuted by Staff Sergeant Williams, who made them climb again and again, under the heavy sun, an artificial hill built right in the middle of the camp. Harris is a more human and compassionate guard, but the chief, S.M. Wilson, refuses to disown his subordinate Williams. One day, five new prisoners arrive. Each of them will deal in a different way with the authority and Williams' ferocity.
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen, Alfred Lynch, Ossie Davis, Roy Kinnear, Jack Watson
Director: Sidney Lumet
