Sidney Poitier Movies

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The Defiant Ones is a movie starring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, and Theodore Bikel. Two escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.

A Raisin in the Sun is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, and Ruby Dee. A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

To Sir, with Love is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, and Christian Roberts. Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East...

A black police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a movie starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Hepburn. A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter introduces them to her African-American fiancé.

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, and Barbara McNair. In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.

Uptown Saturday Night is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and Harry Belafonte. At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery...

The Wilby Conspiracy is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Michael Caine, and Nicol Williamson. A black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.

A Piece of the Action is a movie starring Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, and James Earl Jones. A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves to "volunteer" helping juvenile delinquents change paths.

An F.B.I. Agent works to uncover an All-American family as Soviet sleeper Agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their unaware son.

A security pro finds his past coming back to haunt him, when he and his unique team are tasked with retrieving a particularly important item.

To Sir, with Love II is a TV movie starring Sidney Poitier, Christian Payton, and Dana Eskelson. After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of teaching kids in...

The Jackal is a movie starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, and Sidney Poitier. An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.