Oscar Micheaux Movies

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.

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...

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

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...

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

A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film follows the misadventures of a man...

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

Rena is a young woman of mixed race. Although she is romantically pursued by an upwardly mobile African American named Frank, Rena does not decide in...

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

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...

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

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.

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...

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory, he is charged with the...

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...

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

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...

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.