The best Ossie Davis’s movies on Google Play 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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Dinosaur

Dinosaur
6.4/10
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

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!

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/06/1989
  • Character: Da Mayor
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

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.

Gladiator

Gladiator
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 06/03/1992
  • Character: Noah
Tommy Riley has moved with his dad to Chicago from a 'nice place'. He keeps to himself, goes to school. However, after a street fight he is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.

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.

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.

The Hill

The Hill
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/06/1965
  • Character: Jacko King
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.

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.

Baadasssss!

Baadasssss!
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/05/2004
  • Character: Granddad
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.

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

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.

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls
7.8/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 09/07/1997
  • Character: Self - Actor and Playwright
On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

The Soul Collector

The Soul Collector
6.1/10
Zachariah, makes a few mistakes and it is decided that he is to live as a human being for thirty days. Mordecai is his supervisor. Rebecca's husband died and Zachariah the soul collector, or, the angel of the death helped him to make the transition between heaven and earth. There are some complications with Rebecca's farm and Zachariah helps her out.

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'.

Malcolm X

Malcolm X
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 24/05/1972
  • Character: Eulogy (voice)
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 01/01/1986
  • Character: Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.

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