Ossie Davis films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 10 films on Boxlist

Known for Do the Right Thing, 12 Angry Men and The Client.

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Starring Ossie Davis

Do the Right Thing
1989 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione 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...
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12 Angry Men
1997 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
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.
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The Client
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is...
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The Hill
1965 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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...
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Bubba Ho-tep
2002 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become 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...
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Grumpy Old Men
1993 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
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...
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Dinosaur
2000 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
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Joe Versus the Volcano
1990 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
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.
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Gladiator
1992 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
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 is noticed and quickly falls into the world of illegal underground boxing - where punches can kill.
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Doctor Dolittle
1998 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
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...
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