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Sidney Poitier has 17 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by In the Heat of the Night.
1995
Crime · Thriller
In the Heat of the Night
1967 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Lilies of the Field
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Tubi · Free w/ ads
The Defiant Ones
1958 · Movie · Actor
Top 30%MGM+ · Included
Stir Crazy
1980 · Movie · Director
Top 43%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Duel at Diablo
1966 · Movie · Actor
Top 64%MGM+ · Included
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Dir. Norman Jewison · With Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn
Walter Lee Younger is a young man struggling with his station in life. Sharing a tiny apartment with his wife, son, sister and mother, he seems like an imprisoned man. Until, that is, the family gets an unexpected financial windfall.
Dir. Daniel Petrie · With Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Dir. James Clavell · With Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson
An unemployed construction worker heading out west stops at a remote farm in the desert to get water when his car overheats. The farm is being worked by a group of East European Catholic nuns, headed by the strict mother superior, who believes the man has been sent by God to build a much needed church in the desert.
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann
A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man, who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life.
Dir. Guy Green · With Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Dir. Phil Alden Robinson · With Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, David Strathairn
Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.
Dir. Stanley Kramer · With Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel
When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley
Richard Dadier is a teacher at North Manual High School, an inner-city school where many of the pupils frequently engage in anti-social behavior. Dadier makes various attempts to engage the students' interest in education, challenging both the school staff and the pupils. He is subjected to violence as well as duplicitous schemes.
Dir. Richard Brooks · With Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, a psychopathic hitman known only as The Jackal proves an elusive target for the people charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI director, a Russian MVK Major, and a jailed IRA terrorist who can recognize him.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.
Dir. Sidney Poitier · With Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Georg Stanford Brown
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz · With Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Sidney Poitier
In Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Native wife, and a housewife abandons her husband to rejoin her Apache lover's tribe.
Dir. Ralph Nelson · With James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bill Travers
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins
A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.
Dir. Gordon Douglas · With Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a taxi accident. With the aid of a paranormal researcher, Elliott attempts to complete the deal from the beyond, ensuring his family will be taken care of.
Dir. Sidney Poitier · With Bill Cosby, Kimberly Russell, Denise Nicholas
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