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1. To Sir with Love 2 (1996)
directed by Peter Bogdanovich
featuring Sidney Poitier, Daniel J. Travanti, Christian Payton
This made-for-TV sequel to the 1968 theatrical feature To Sir With Love stars Sidney Poitier, recreating his role as Mark Thackery, an American-born ... More
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2. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
directed by Daniel Petrie
featuring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon
While this original movie version of Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning play may have dated somewhat, it was groundbreaking when first released in ... More
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3. Blackboard Jungle (1955)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow
In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high ... More
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4. The Jackal (1997)
directed by Michael Caton-Jones
featuring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Tess Harper
In Moscow, after FBI deputy director Carter Preston (Sidney Poitier) and scarred Russian intelligence officer Valentina Koslova (Diane Venora) bring ... More
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5. The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
directed by Gregg Champion
featuring Sidney Poitier, Piper Laurie, Bernie Casey, Cody Newton, Mert Hatfield
Actor Sidney Poitier returns to CBS, the same station which originally broadcast his leading role in 1999's The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, this ... More
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6. The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
directed by Gregg Champion
featuring Sidney Poitier, Dianne Wiest, Mary-Louise Parker, George Newbern
Directed by Gregg Champion, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn follows the story of small town carpenter and farmer Noah Dearborn (Sidney Poitier), ... More
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7. Shoot to Kill (1988)
directed by Roger Spottiswoode
featuring Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown, Richard Masur
Sidney Poitier makes his long-overdue return to films in the 1988 thriller Shoot to Kill. Poitier plays an FBI agent, on the trail of an elusive ... More
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8. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte
Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War. Poitier stars as Buck, ... More
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9. Duel at Diablo (1966)
directed by Ralph Nelson
featuring James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Bill Travers
Frontier scout Jess Remsberg (James Garner) is crossing the desert when he spots a dead army scout and group of Apaches pursuing someone -- it turns ... More
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10. The Slender Thread (1965)
directed by Sydney Pollack
featuring Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft, Telly Savalas, Steven Hill, Ed Asner
Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported in Time Magazine. Sidney ... More
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11. A Patch of Blue (1965)
directed by Guy Green
featuring Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman, Wallace Ford, Ivan Dixon
Shelley Winters won an Academy Award for her searing performance as Rose-Ann d'Arcy in A Patch of Blue. The star, however, is not Winters but ... More
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12. Something of Value (1957)
directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez
The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark novel Something of ... More
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13. Mandela and de Klerk (1997)
directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Tina Lifford, Ian Roberts
In an historical docudrama that was made for television, Sidney Poitier performs the role of Nelson Mandela, while Michael Caine plays the South ... More
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14. The Wilby Conspiracy (1975)
directed by Ralph Nelson
featuring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, Nicol Williamson, Prunella Gee, Persis Khambatta
The Wilby Conspiracy is set in South Africa, at a time when Apartheid was the order of the day. Political activist Shack Twala (Sidney Poitier) finds ... More
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15. Brother John (1970)
directed by James Goldstone
featuring Beverly Todd, Bradford Dillman, Sidney Poitier, Will Geer
Sidney Poitier stars as John Kane, a heavenly emissary who pays a visit to the Alabama town where he was born. Making it his mission to purge the ... More
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16. The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
directed by Gilbert Gunn, Michael Audley
featuring Eartha Kitt, Sidney Poitier, Juano Hernandez, John McIntire, Helen Horton
Filmed on location in Africa, Mark of the Hawk stars Sidney Poitier as a London-educated African who returns to his homeland to take a political post ... More
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17. Cry the Beloved Country (1951)
directed by Zoltan Korda
featuring Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey, Geoffrey Keen
This deliberately paced British film about a black rural priest and a white landowner whose paths cross in 1940s South Africa remains one of the most ... More
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18. Paris Blues (1961)
directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Louis Armstrong, Diahann Carroll
The second film of director Martin Ritt with both Paul Newmanand Sidney Poitier, it's set in a city that has long been a haven for black musicians ... More
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19. David and Lisa (1998)
directed by Lloyd Kramer
featuring Sidney Poitier, Lukas Haas, Brittany Murphy, Debi Mazar, Allison Janney
Oprah Winfrey co-produced this psychological drama, a TV movie remake of the acclaimed black-and-white low-budget ($180,000) 1962 David and Lisa. The ... More
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20. In the Heat of the Night (1967)
directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, Scott Wilson
The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an ... More
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21. For Love of Ivy (1968)
directed by Daniel Mann
featuring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters
When it was released in 1968, For Love of Ivy was the first mainstream Hollywood film to depict a mature romantic relationship between a black man ... More
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22. To Sir, With Love (1967)
directed by James Clavell
featuring Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson, Suzy Kendall, Lulu, Adrienne Posta
Sidney Poitier, who in 1955 played a student in a tough inner-city high school, portrays a teacher assigned to a similar institution in To Sir, With ... More
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23. Sneakers (1992)
directed by Phil Alden Robinson
featuring Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley, Dan Aykroyd, Mary McDonnell, River Phoenix, David Strathairn
In this tech-thriller from director Phil Alden Robinson, a group of five renegade computer hackers, led by Martin Bishop (Robert Redford), are hired ... More
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24. Lilies of the Field (1963)
directed by Ralph Nelson
featuring Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Stanley Adams, Isa Crino, Dan Frazer, Francesca Jarvis
Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, an aimless ex-GI who takes a temporary handyman job at a Southwestern farm maintained by five German nuns. It is ... More
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25. The Defiant Ones (1958)
directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Charles McGraw, Cara Williams, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Convicts Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier escape from a chain gang. Curtis' character, John "Joker" Jackson, hates blacks, while Poitier's character, ... More
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