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Micheaux Picture Corporation

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New York City, New York

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Browse 20 movies from Micheaux Picture Corporation

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Birthright poster
Movie

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children.

Birthright

Jan 1938

Birthright poster
Movie

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, in order to build a school for black children. Considered a lost film.

Birthright

Feb 1924

Swing! poster
Movie

Ted Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.

Swing!

Apr 1938

The Exile poster
Movie

An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.

The Exile

May 1931

Murder In Harlem poster
Movie

A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.

Murder In Harlem

Dec 1935

Veiled Aristocrats poster
Movie

A young woman plans to marry, but her mother and brother--a lawyer--don't like her prospective husband and scheme to prevent the marriage.

Veiled Aristocrats

Feb 1932

Body and Soul poster
Movie

A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the perfect cover to swindle the townspeople and corrupt an innocent young woman.

Body and Soul

Nov 1925

The Darktown Revue poster
Movie

With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins with the high-toned Heywood Choir singing "Watermelon time" and concludes with Amon David playing a preacher using heavy blackface. Amon Davus was known as "the Back Biting Comedian, Par Excellence", and his sermon is one of Michaeux's many notable send-ups of the clergy.

The Darktown Revue

Jan 1931

The Betrayal poster
Movie

In this film, African-American Leroy Collins struggles with the onus placed on him by Society when he falls in love with a white woman.

The Betrayal

Jun 1948

Lying Lips poster
Movie

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

Lying Lips

Jan 1939

The Notorious Elinor Lee poster
Movie

Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.

The Notorious Elinor Lee

Jan 1940

Underworld poster
Movie

A young Southern college student falls for the charms of a female nightclub owner while on summer break in Chicago - and soon enough meets her club co-owner boyfriend and his gangster pals.

Underworld

Sep 1937

The Symbol of the Unconquered poster
Movie

Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly falls for him. Trouble brews as the local cadre of racist hucksters want the valuable land Van Allen lives on, and will do anything to take it from him.

The Symbol of the Unconquered

Nov 1920

Harlem After Midnight poster
Movie

Gangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.

Harlem After Midnight

Jan 1934

The Girl from Chicago poster
Movie

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.

The Girl from Chicago

Mar 1932

Ten Minutes to Live poster
Movie

A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.

Ten Minutes to Live

Mar 1932

Deceit poster
Movie

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. Like many of Micheaux's films, Deceit casts clerics in a negative light. Although the film was shot in 1921, it was not released until 1923. It is not known whether the film currently survives, which suggests that it is a lost film. The 1922 film The Hypocrite was shown within Deceit as a film within a film.

Deceit

Mar 1923

The Gunsaulus Mystery poster
Movie

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory, he is charged with the crime. The film is now believed to be lost.

The Gunsaulus Mystery

Jan 1921

God's Step Children poster
Movie

Naomi, a light-skinned Black child, is abandoned by her mother and raised by the virtuous Mrs. Saunders. When the girl's fixation with whiteness turns her against her own race, she is sent to a convent. Hopelessly in love with her adoptive brother Jimmie, Naomi consents to marry his friend, but is repulsed by his darker skin and unrefined ways.

God's Step Children

Jan 1938

The Dungeon poster
Movie

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician named Gyp Lassiter, even though she is really in love with Stephen Cameron, a young lawyer. When she discovers that her husband has conspired to support segregationist policies in exchange for support by white political power brokers, she objects to his crooked dealings and gets herself imprisoned in a secret dungeon where her husband had murdered his previous wives. Presumed to be a lost film.

The Dungeon

May 1922