Oscar Micheaux
  • Gênero Masculino
  • Nascimento 02/01/1884
  • Local Nascimento Metropolis, Illinois, USA
  • Data Morte 25/03/1951 com 67 anos

Oscar Micheaux

Oscar Devereaux Micheaux (2 de janeiro de 1884 - 25 de março de 1951) foi um autor afro-americano, diretor de cinema e produtor independente de mais de 44 filmes. Embora atenha tido uma curta vida, a Lincoln Motion Picture Company foi a primeira empresa de cinema pertencente e controlada por cineastas negros. Micheaux é considerado o primeiro grande cineasta afro-americano, um proeminente produtor de filmes raciais, e foi descrito como "o cineasta afro-americano de maior sucesso da primeira metade do século 20 ". Ele produziu filmes mudos e filmes sonoros.

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Nos Limites dos Portões
Nos Limites dos Portões

Sylvia Landry, professora de uma escola para crianças negras pobres no Deep South, viaja para Boston para arrecadar dinheiro ao descobrir que a ins...

12 de jan. de 1920

A Garota de Chicago
A Garota de Chicago

14 de mar. de 1932

Murder In Harlem
Murder In Harlem

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

12 de dez. de 1935

Corpo e Alma
Corpo e Alma

"Pastor hipócrita e malévolo abusa da fé de pequena comunidade, sobretudo da irmã Martha Jane, cuja filha ela sonha ver casada com o ministro. Ele,...

09 de nov. de 1925

The Gunsaulus Mystery
The Gunsaulus Mystery

The Gunsaulus Mystery is a 1921 American silent race film directed, produced, and written by Oscar Micheaux. The film was inspired by events and fi...

01 de jan. de 1921

Exilado
Exilado

Um homem negro deixa Chicago e se torna um próspero fazendeiro, mas retorna ao se apaixonar por uma mulher branca e acaba se envolvendo com uma ant...

15 de mai. de 1931

Lying Lips
Lying Lips

Uma cantora de boate se recusa a "namorar" clientes, então ela é acusada pelo assassinato de sua tia, condenada pelo assassinato e enviada para a p...

02 de jan. de 1939

God's Step Children
God's Step Children

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness t...

01 de jan. de 1938

The Darktown Revue
The Darktown Revue

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

31 de jan. de 1931

Birthright
Birthright

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

01 de jan. de 1938

Swing!
Swing!

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

29 de abr. de 1938

Uncle Jasper's Will
Uncle Jasper's Will

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...

01 de jan. de 1922

Sniff the Milk
Sniff the Milk

Oscar's phone predicts the future.

The Notorious Elinor Lee
The Notorious Elinor Lee

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

01 de jan. de 1940

Harlem After Midnight
Harlem After Midnight

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

01 de jan. de 1934

Dez Minutos Para Viver
Dez Minutos Para Viver

17 de mar. de 1932

Veiled Aristocrats
Veiled Aristocrats

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.

01 de fev. de 1932

O Símbolo dos Resistentes: Uma História da Ku Klux Klan
O Símbolo dos Resistentes: Uma História da Ku Klux Klan

Racistas descobrem que, sob a terra de proprietário negro, há vastas campos de petróleo, e passam a ameaçá-lo caso ele se recusa a vendê-la.

28 de nov. de 1920

The Homesteader
The Homesteader

The Homesteader envolve seis personagens principais, sendo o principal Jean Baptiste (Charles Lucas), um herdeiro distante nas Dakotas, o único afr...

02 de jan. de 1919

Birthright
Birthright

Birthright is a 1924 film by Oscar Micheaux in 10 reels, adapted from Thomas Sigismund Stribling's novel of the same title (1922).

01 de fev. de 1924

The Brute
The Brute

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 ori...

02 de jan. de 1920

A Son of Satan
A Son of Satan

A Son of Satan is a 1924 silent race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux. The film follows the misadventures of a ma...

01 de out. de 1924

The Betrayal
The Betrayal

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.

24 de jun. de 1948

Underworld
Underworld

A young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.

01 de set. de 1937

A Daughter of the Congo
A Daughter of the Congo

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

05 de abr. de 1930

Easy Street
Easy Street

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

01 de ago. de 1930

The Spider's Web
The Spider's Web

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

03 de jan. de 1927

The Dungeon
The Dungeon

The Dungeon is a 1922 race film directed, written, produced and distributed by Oscar Micheaux, considered the African-American Cecil B. DeMille due...

22 de mai. de 1922

The House Behind the Cedars
The House Behind the Cedars

Directed by Oscar Micheaux.

02 de jan. de 1927

Deceit
Deceit

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

01 de mar. de 1923

The Virgin of the Seminole
The Virgin of the Seminole

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 ...

15 de abr. de 1923

Temptation
Temptation

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...

01 de jan. de 1935