Movies: Micheaux Film

A nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt....

Screenplay adapted from Charles Chestnutt's novel....

An African-American violin prodigy overcomes her impoverished background to find success in music and love. Based on Oscar Micheaux's unpublished novel, House of Mystery....

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film....

Aileen Kennibrew, a charming and beautiful girl calls on one Richard Ellis, a motion picture producer, who is impressed by her modesty, refined personality and striking carriage and is persuaded to "try" her out in the movies. She makes good, and alt...

Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings....

The film focused on a young black man who joins the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and becomes a hero by rescuing a captive mixed-race woman from a hostile American Indian tribe. The young man later purchases a ranch that becomes the foundation for gr...

An Oscar Micheaux' feature film....

An Oscar Micheaux' film....

Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a conventional melodrama directed by Oscar Micheaux.[1] Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light.[2] Although the film w...