Ossie Davis

Sal 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.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

During the trial of a man accused of his father's murder, a lone juror takes a stand against the guilty verdict handed down by the others as a result of their preconceptions and prejudices.

Dir. William Friedkin · With Courtney B. Vance, Ossie Davis, George C. Scott

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's noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing — where punches can kill.

Dir. Rowdy Herrington · With James Marshall, T.E. Russell, Cuba Gooding Jr.

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.

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen

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.

Dir. Donald Petrie · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret

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

Dir. Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton · With D. B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis

The "true" story of what really became of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then missed his chance to switch back. He must team up with JFK and fight an ancient Egyptian mummy for the souls of their fellow residents.

Dir. Don Coscarelli · With Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo relationship even worse.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike Lee

Fraternity and sorority members clash with other students at a historically black college during homecoming weekend.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell

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.

Dir. John Patrick Shanley · With Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Lloyd Bridges

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!

Dir. Betty Thomas · With Eddie Murphy, Ossie Davis, Oliver Platt

Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.

Dir. Spike Lee · With Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin