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To Sir, With Love

To Sir, With Love (1967) more movies like this

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 Love. Unable to find work as an engineer, Poitier accepts a teaching post in London's East End slums. To reach his sullen, rebellious students, Poitier throws away his textbooks and endeavors to reach ...

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A Raisin in the Sun

A Raisin in the Sun (1961) more movies like this

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 1961, and a wealth of future plays, films, and TV productions have taken their lead from this socially conscious drama about a struggling African-American family. Lena Younger (Claudia McNeil) is a ...

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In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night (1967) more movies like this

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 unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), a well-dressed northern African-American, ...

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Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill (1988) more movies like this

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 killer. Reluctantly teamed with tracker Tom Berenger, the citified Poitier braves the wilds of the Pacific Northwest in search of his quarry. For Berenger, the pursuit is personal; the killer, whose ...

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Let's Do It Again

Let's Do It Again (1975) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Jimmie "J.J." Walker

A pair of blue-collar buddies use hypnosis to turn a wimpy boxer into a champ in this crime comedy, which reunites actor/director Sidney Poitier and comedian Bill Cosby, stars of the similarly themed Uptown Saturday Night. Clyde Williams (Poitier) and Billy Foster (Cosby) want to help raise funds to sustain the Sons and Daughters of Shaka Lodge, ...

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Blackboard Jungle

Blackboard Jungle (1955) more movies like this

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 school in inner-city New York. However, he soon discovers the school is overrun by delinquents, led by Artie West (Vic Morrow), an insolent hood who likes to call Richard "Mr. Daddy-O." Artie and his ...

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The Bedford Incident

The Bedford Incident (1965) more movies like this

directed by James B. Harris
featuring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Donald Sutherland

The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe -- to tap the well of public anxiety surrounding nuclear weapons and the Cold War one more time. Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is allowed aboard a navy ship on patrol near the Arctic Circle, under the command of ...

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Brother John

Brother John (1970) more movies like this

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 community of all hatred and prejudice, "Brother John" is nothing less than the Messiah returned to earth. Trouble is, he's black, and it's Alabama-so who's going to pay attention? Will Greer costars as a ...

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Mandela and de Klerk

Mandela and de Klerk (1997) more movies like this

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 African president Frederick Willem De Klerk, the man who instituted the reforms that would abolish apartheid, who released Nelson Mandela from nearly 30 years in prison, and who jointly received the Nobel ...

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Goodbye, My Lady

Goodbye, My Lady (1956) more movies like this

directed by William Wellman
featuring Walter Brennan, Phil Harris, Brandon de Wilde, Sidney Poitier, William Hopper

The focus of this heartfelt family film is Skeeter (Brandon de Wilde), a 14-year-old orphan who lives with his aged Uncle Jesse (Walter Brennan) in the swamps of the deep South. Their lives are brightened by a stray dog that Skeeter discovers and takes in. He makes the basenji his own, but eventually finds out that the dog is missing and its owner ...

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Pressure Point

Pressure Point (1962) more movies like this

directed by Hubert Cornfield
featuring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Munday

Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink Sidney Poitier for advice. This prompts Poitier to recall his experiences during World War II. While working on behalf of the government, Poitier was assigned the case of psycho Nazi sympathizer Bobby Darin. A complex flashback ...

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Paris Blues

Paris Blues (1961) more movies like this

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 eager to escape the racism of the U.S. Newman is Ram Bowen, a trombone player who makes his living in a jazz group, which also includes tenor man Eddie Cook (Sidney Poitier), while studying music and ...

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Something of Value

Something of Value (1957) more movies like this

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 Value. Filmed on location in Africa, this is the story of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, as seen through the eyes of a handful of protagonists. Virtually alone in a sea of racist British colonialism, ...

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Sneakers

Sneakers (1992) more movies like this

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 by the government to steal a black box, containing a code-breaking machine, from the mathematician who invented the device. The government is able to persuade Martin to take the job by convincing him ...

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Duel at Diablo

Duel at Diablo (1966) more movies like this

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 out to be a white woman, Ellen Grange (Bibi Andersson); he gets her away from them and returns her to her home and her husband Willard (Dennis Weaver), who seems much more upset that the horse she was ...

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kramer
featuring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Houghton, Beah Richards, Roy E. Glenn, Sr., Isabel Sanford, Cecil Kellaway

Old-line liberals Matt and Christina Drayton (Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) have raised their daughter Joey (Katharine Houghton) to think for herself and not blindly conform to the conventional. Still, they aren't prepared for the shock when she returns home from a vacation with a new fiancé: African-American doctor John Prentice (Sidney ...

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Band of Angels

Band of Angels (1957) more movies like this

directed by Raoul Walsh
featuring Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop out of the exclusive girls' school she was ...

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Buck and the Preacher

Buck and the Preacher (1972) more movies like this

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, an ex-Army soldier who is scouting sites for the former slaves that want to settle out West. The villainous Deshay (Cameron Mitchell) rounds up his gang to try to stop Buck because he wants to keep the ...

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They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) more movies like this

directed by Gordon M. Douglas
featuring Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe, Juano Hernandez, George Spell

Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Virgil Tibbs in this crime drama, a story unrelated to that of the earlier film In the Heat of the Night. Once again, he is a veteran homicide detective and is currently investigating the murder of a prostitute. The primary suspect is San Francisco political activist Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), the ...

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The Jackal

The Jackal (1997) more movies like this

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 down a key figure in the Russian Mafia, they are threatened by the criminal's powerful brother who swears vengeance on the FBI and immediately hires a professional assassin, the Jackal (Bruce Willis) ...

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The Mark of the Hawk

The Mark of the Hawk (1957) more movies like this

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. Poitier's brother Clinton Macklin is in charge of a rebel organization, determine to topple the white-dominated government. Poitier must choose between seeking out racial equality through peaceful ...

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Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night (1974) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Poitier
featuring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor

Uptown Saturday Night is a delightful comedy directed by and starring Sidney Poitier. Steve Jackson (Sidney Poitier) is a factory worker. One evening, when boredom gets the best of him, Steve and his pal Wardell (Bill Cosby) decide to go to an underground gambling club to have some fun. While they are there the place is held-up and Steve's wallet ...

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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn

The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999) more movies like this

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), whose family land comes under the scrutiny of greedy land developer (George Newbern. Though his humble character holds the respect of the tiny community in which he resides, the unscrupulous developer ...

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The Long Ships

The Long Ships (1963) more movies like this

directed by Jack Cardiff
featuring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Beba Loncar, Oscar Homolka

In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as three men, but he adds enough incorrect details to throw them off the proper trail. However, Aly Mansuh (Sidney ...

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The Defiant Ones

The Defiant Ones (1958) more movies like this

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, Noah Cullen, hates whites. However, the men are manacled together, forced to rely on each other to survive. Captured at one point by a lynch-happy mob, the convicts are rescued by Big Sam (Lon Chaney ...

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