Best "blackface" Movies of All Time

36 movies found (page 1/2):

Tropic Thunder(2008)

| 1h 47min | Action, Comedy, Adventure, War

3.3/5 (with 2,706 votes)

Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr. lead an ensemble cast in 'Tropic Thunder,' an action comedy about a group of self-absorbed actors who set out to make the most expensive war film. After ballooning costs force the studio to cancel the movie, the frustrated director refuses to stop shooting, leading his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where they encounter real bad guys.

Directed by Ben Stiller - With Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Brandon T. Jackson, Nick Nolte, ...

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Seven Chances(1925)

56min | Comedy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

Directed by Buster Keaton - With Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, Jean Arthur, Constance Talmadge, Doris Deane, ...

Holiday Inn(1942)

1h 41min | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 81 votes)

Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club—Holiday Inn—is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.

Directed by Mark Sandrich - With Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Walter Abel, Irving Berlin, Donald Brown, Julia Faye, ...

O Lucky Man!(1973)

3h 3min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in modern Britain.

Directed by Lindsay Anderson - With Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Helen Mirren, Philip Stone, ...

Pardon Us(1931)

56min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.

Directed by James Parrott - With Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Walter Long, Jimmy Finlayson, Wilfred Lucas, Tiny Sandford, ...

The Man in Grey(1943)

1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

Directed by Leslie Arliss - With Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger, Amy Veness, Helen Haye, ...

Someone's Knocking at the Door(2009)

1h 20min | Horror, Comedy

2.3/5 (with 14 votes)

Returning to the same medical school where they were test subjects years before, two twisted serial killers use brutal sex acts to kill off a group of med students.

Directed by Chad Ferrin - With Ezra Buzzington, Lew Temple, Vernon Wells

Check and Double Check(1930)

1h 17min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Amos and Andy trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.

Directed by Melville W. Brown - With Charles Correll

Elstree Calling(1930)

1h 23min | Music, Comedy

2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, André Charlot, Jack Hulbert - With Teddy Brown, Donald Calthrop, Jameson Thomas, Anna May Wong, John Stuart, John Longden, ...

Martyrs of the Alamo(1915)

1h 11min | Drama, History

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.

Directed by Christy Cabanne - With Walter Long, Alfred Paget, Douglas Fairbanks, Juanita Hansen, Ora Carew, Augustus Carney, ...

His Trust(1911)

14min | History, Drama, War

2.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A Confederate officer is called off to war. He leaves his wife and daughter in the care of George, his faithful Negro servant. After the officer is killed in battle, George continues in his caring duties, faithful to his trust.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Wilfred Lucas, Dell Henderson, Claire McDowell, Edith Haldeman, Linda Arvidson, Dorothy Bernard, ...

A Florida Enchantment(1914)

1h 3min | Comedy, Fantasy

2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

A young woman discovers a seed that can make women act like men and men act like women. She decides to take one, then slips one to her maid and another to her fiancé. The fun begins.

Directed by Sidney Drew - With Edith Storey, Charles Kent

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Children of Pleasure(1930)

1h 10min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Lawrence Gray, Wynne Gibson, Ann Dvorak, Jack Benny, Mary Carlisle, Edward Martindel, ...

Boston Blackie's Rendezvous(1945)

1h 4min | Crime, Mystery

2.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss - With Chester Morris

Charleston Parade(1927)

17min | Science Fiction

3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Catherine Hessling, Jean Renoir, Jean Giraudoux, André Cerf, Pierre Braunberger, Pierre Lestringuez, ...

Ducktators(1997)

46min | Documentary

Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion(1945)

1h 6min | Crime, Mystery

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.

Directed by Arthur Dreifuss - With Chester Morris

His Darker Self(1924)

16min | Comedy

A small town man takes a mail-order detective course. When a Black friend is murdered, he goes undercover in black-face to investigate at a notorious, knife-wielding bootlegger's roadhouse. Originally a 5-reel feature (50min), now only 2 reel edit exists.

Directed by John W. Noble

A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic(1929)

15min | Music

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually filmed on a soundstage at the Paramount Astoria studio.

Vampiresas 1930(1962)

1h 45min | Comedy

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

As the era of silent films finds itself at a close, four down-and-out silent film actors and musicians struggle to find work. Fate leads them to a former star of the silent era as she struggles to escape her reputation as a wild and evil vamp of the silver screen and longs to be just thought of as an honest and decent woman. They join forces, and for a short time have a decent amount of success singing and dancing at clubs and bars. But the public has an insatiable taste for foreign black jazz bands, and they will stop at nothing to become a success.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Antonio Ozores, Félix Fernández, Silvia Solar, Yves Massard, Antonio Garisa, Valeriano Andrés, ...

His Trust Fulfilled(1911)

17min | History, Drama, War

1.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Continuing where His Trust (1911) leaves off, George takes care of his deceased master's daughter after her mother's death. He sacrifices his own meager savings to give the girl a good life, until the money runs out and he tries to steal money from the girl's rich cousin.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Wilfred Lucas, Claire McDowell, Gladys Egan, Dorothy West, Verner Clarges, Linda Arvidson, ...

Here Come the Waves(1944)

1h 39min | Comedy, Romance / Love

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Show business twin sisters Rosemary and Susie, one serious and the other a scatterbrain, join the WAVES and both fall in love with crooner Johnny Cabot.

Directed by Mark Sandrich - With Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Sonny Tufts, Ann Doran, William Haade

Uncle Tom's Uncle(1926)

20min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The Gang stages their own revisionist version of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in Mickey's barn. But Joe's mother thinks the back yard needs cleaning, and there are several interruptions when they lose a leading character. Mickey plays Simon Legree; Mary as Eva; Joe as Uncle Tom; and Farina essays the role of Topsy.

Directed by Robert F. McGowan

Our Colonial Hangover(2014)

1h | Documentary, TV Movie

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Our Colonial Hangover analyzes the debate surrounding the racist component of the Dutch Black Pete character. Although the debate always heats up around the time of the Saint Nicholas celebrations every December, it reached an unprecedented level of ferocity in 2013.

Directed by Sunny Bergman

Colored Villainy(1915)

10min | Comedy

The Keystone gang all in blackface for this one-reeler!

The Singing Kid(1936)

1h 25min | Drama, Music

Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl Ruth Haines, the pretty aunt of precocious little Sybil Haines.

Directed by William Keighley - With Al Jolson

The Spider and the Tulip(1943)

16min | Animation, Adventure

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

A ladybird is being chased by a black-faced spider.

Directed by Kenzō Masaoka

The Little Soldier Who Became a God(1908)

4min | Animation, Comedy

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A stop-motion film from Émile Cohl with tin soldiers, children's drawings and cannibals.

Chloe, Love Is Calling You(1934)

1h 2min | Horror

1.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.

Directed by Marshall Neilan

Alkali Ike and the Wildman(1913)

11min | Comedy

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Directed by Broncho Billy Anderson - With Augustus Carney, Victor Potel

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