Oscar Micheaux Movies

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...

Directed by Oscar Micheaux and Jerry Mills.

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

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

A lost film. Remade by Micheaux as a sound film, The Girl from Chicago (1932).

The brute is a gambler,boxing manager and underworld boss who mistreats a young woman, who is forced into marriage with him for money after her...

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.

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

Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined...

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film.

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

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...

An Oscar Micheaux' film.

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...

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.

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...

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