Oscar Micheaux Movies

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.

An episode of the Screen Snapshots newsreels, showing seven segments of filmmakers behind the scenes. Featuring Oscar Micheaux,Colleen Moore, Ormer...

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...

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

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

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the perfect cover to swindle the townspeople and corrupt an...

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

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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

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).

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.