The best Ossie Davis’s comedy movies

Ossie Davis

Ossie Davis

18/12/1917- 04/02/2005
Today we present the best Ossie Davis’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Ossie Davis’s movies.
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Doctor Dolittle

Doctor Dolittle
5.4/10
A successful physician and devoted family man, John Dolittle seems to have the world by the tail, until a long suppressed talent he possessed as a child, the ability to communicate with animals is suddenly reawakened with a vengeance! Now every creature within squawking distance wants the good doctor's advice, unleashing an outrageous chain of events that turns his world upside down!

Joe Versus the Volcano

Joe Versus the Volcano
5.9/10
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

Cop and ½

Cop and ½
4.2/10
When a pint-sized 8-year-old kid witnesses a murder he offers to help the police, if they make him a cop, too. Saddled with this streetwise sidekick, a hardboiled cop is forced to take his new partner seriously as they race the clock to bring the bad guys to justice.

Grumpy Old Men

Grumpy Old Men
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1993
  • Character: Chuck
For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.

School Daze

School Daze
6.1/10
Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters
6.7/10
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides

Sam Whiskey

Sam Whiskey
5.9/10
Sam Whiskey is an all-round talent, but when the attractive widow Laura offers him a job, he hesitates: he shall salvage gold bars, which Laura's dead husband stole recently, from a sunken ship and secretly bring them back to the mint before they are missed. But how shall he manage to get several hundred pounds of gold into the mint without anyone noticing?

She Hate Me

She Hate Me
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/07/2004
  • Character: Judge Buchanan
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Bubba Ho-tep

Bubba Ho-tep
6.9/10
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

Let's Do It Again

Let's Do It Again
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 11/10/1975
  • Character: Elder Johnson
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/08/1979
  • Character: Captain John Geiberger
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.

The House of God

The House of God
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1984
  • Character: Dr. Sanders
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1996
  • Character: Midge Carter
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.

The Legend of the Candy Cane

The Legend of the Candy Cane
6.1/10
The night a mysterious stranger rode into the lonely prairie town of West Sage, no one realized their lives would never be the same.

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