The best Ossie Davis’s crime 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.

The Client

The Client
6.7/10
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.

12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men
7.8/10
During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

No Way Out

No Way Out
7.4/10
The Biddle brothers, shot while robbing a gas station, are taken to the prison ward of the County Hospital; Ray Biddle, a rabid racist, wants no treatment from black resident Dr. Luther Brooks. When brother John dies while Luther tries to save him, Ray is certain it's murder and becomes obsessed with vengeance. But there are black racists around too, and the situation slides rapidly toward violence.

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.

The Sheriff

The Sheriff
6.8/10
A rape case opens racial divisions in a small town. A black sheriff and his white deputy investigate allegations that a wealthy white businessman raped a black college student.

The Outsider

The Outsider
7.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/11/1967
  • Character: Lt. Wagner
Darren McGavin is David Ross, a private investigator playing a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quickly when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect in an attractive woman's death. This NBC TV movie served as a pilot for the later series.

Ripper

Ripper
An allusive copycat killer of the Jack the Ripper murders appears in the year 2040, and a crime reporter named Jake Quinlan is tasked with attempting to track the killer down using a cyberspace interface and based off of a roster of four suspects.

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