Nickel Boys (
2024) | IMDb:
0
Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.
Starring:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
,
Sam Malone
,
Ethan Herisse
,
Brandon Wilson
,
Hamish Linklater
,
Jase Stidwell
The Last Brickmaker in America (
2001) | IMDb:
7.3
A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost 13-year-old.
Directed by:
Gregg Champion
Produced by:
The Jackal (
1997) | IMDb:
6.4
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Sneakers (
1992) | IMDb:
7.1
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Starring:
Jo Marr
,
Gary Hershberger
,
Robert Redford
,
Sidney Poitier
,
David Strathairn
,
Dan Aykroyd
Little Nikita (
1988) | IMDb:
5.9
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier
,
River Phoenix
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Caroline Kava
,
Lucy Deakins
,
Richard Bradford
Uptown Saturday Night (
1974) | IMDb:
6.6
Two blue-collar buddies search the underworld for a winning lottery ticket lost in a nightclub holdup.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier
,
Bill Cosby
,
Harry Belafonte
,
Flip Wilson
,
Richard Pryor
,
Calvin Lockhart
Directed by:
Sidney Poitier
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (
1967) | IMDb:
7.8
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Starring:
Katharine Houghton
,
Sidney Poitier
,
Katharine Hepburn
,
Spencer Tracy
,
Cecil Kellaway
,
Beah Richards
In the Heat of the Night (
1967) | IMDb:
7.9
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
The Greatest Story Ever Told (
1965) | IMDb:
6.5
From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.
Starring:
Max von Sydow
,
Michael Anderson Jr.
,
Carroll Baker
,
Ina Balin
,
Victor Buono
,
Richard Conte
The Long Ships (
1964) | IMDb:
6
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of Voices." Viking explorer Rolfe also becomes intent on finding the mythical treasure, and sails with his crew from Scandinavia to Africa to track it down. Reluctantly working together, El Mansuh and Rolfe, along with their men, embark on a quest for the prized object, but only one leader will be able to claim the bell as his own — if it even exists at all.
Starring:
Richard Widmark
,
Sidney Poitier
,
Russ Tamblyn
,
Rosanna Schiaffino
,
Oskar Homolka
,
Edward Judd
Directed by:
Jack Cardiff
Porgy and Bess (
1959) | IMDb:
7
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Starring:
Sidney Poitier
,
Dorothy Dandridge
,
Sammy Davis Jr.
,
Pearl Bailey
,
Brock Peters
,
Diahann Carroll
Produced by:
Samuel Goldwyn