Oscar Micheaux Movies

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

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

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

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

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

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...

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

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...

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...

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...

Helen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they...

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

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children....

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 African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished...

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel.

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