The inspirational story of the famed basketball tricksters The Harlem Globetrotters is chronicled in this drama. Read More »
Tag Archives: Sidney Poitier
For Love of Ivy (1968) Daniel Mann, Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges
A white family has had the same black maid for many years. When she tells them she wants to go back to school and will be leaving soon Read More »
A Piece of the Action (1977) Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class sneak thieves who have never been caught. Read More »
The Long Ships (1963) Jack Cardiff, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn
In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Read More »
The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) Ralph Nelson, Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Action, Adventure, Drama
Having spent 10 years in prison for nationalist activities, Shack Twala is finally ordered released by the South African Supreme Court Read More »
Paris Blues (1961) Martin Ritt, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Drama, Music, Romance
Ram Bowen and Eddie Cook are two expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris where, unlike the US at the time, Jazz musicians are celebrated and racism is a non-issue. Read More »
Edge of the City (1957) Martin Ritt, John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden, Drama
Drifter Axel North has just arrived in New York City, having traveled from city to city throughout the country. Read More »
The Lost Man (1969) Robert Alan Aurthur, Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr., Drama
Former U.S. Army lieutenant Jason Higgs (Sidney Poitier) who, after becoming a black militant during the 1960s Black Reveolutionary movement Read More »
The Defiant Ones (1958) Stanley Kramer, Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Crime, Drama
Hanky Panky (1982) Sidney Poitier, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Quinlan, Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Architect Michael Jordan, a Chicago Architect, is New York on business. A beautiful stranger identifying herself as Janet Dunn, runs into the taxi cab he’s using. Read More »
Porgy and Bess (1959) Otto Preminger, Rouben Mamoulian, Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr., Drama, Musical, Romance
In this legendary Gershwin opera set among the black residents of a fishing village in 1912 South Carolina Read More »
Pressure Point (1962) Hubert Cornfield, Stanley Kramer, Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Drama
An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
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All the Young Men (1960) Hall Bartlett, Alan Ladd, Sidney Poitier, James Darren, Action, Drama, War
During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon’s sergeant, who’s black, in charge. Read More »
The Organization (1971) Don Medford, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Action, Crime, Drama
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a corporation’s headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance. Though sympathetic to their cause, the straight-arrow Tibbs refuses to consider it because they broke the law, but when the group is then accused of a murder it didn’t commit, Tibbs finally joins them in order to ferret out the identity of the real killer, while keeping his now rogue undercover investigation a secret from his SFPD superiors.
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Sneakers (1992) Phil Alden Robinson, Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Martin Bishop is the head of a group of experts who specialise in testing security systems. When he is blackmailed by Government agents into stealing a top secret black box, the team find themselves embroiled in a game of danger and intrigue. After they recover the box, they discover that it has the capability to decode all existing encryption systems around the world, and that the agents who hired them didn’t work for the Government after all…
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