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The Best Movies Starring Sidney Poitier

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In the Heat of the Night 1967, 109 min.

Norman Jewison • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates

Crime Drama • Crime • Drama

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner 1967, 108 min.

Stanley Kramer • Starring: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katharine Hepburn

Comedy Drama • Comedy of Manners • Drama

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The Defiant Ones 1958, 97 min.

Stanley Kramer • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Tony Curtis

Buddy Film • Chase Movie • Drama

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Sneakers 1992, 126 min.

Phil Alden Robinson • Starring: Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Ben Kingsley

Action • Action Comedy • Action Thriller

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To Sir, With Love 1967, 105 min.

James Clavell • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Christian Roberts, Judy Geeson

Drama • Teen Movie • Urban Drama

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A Raisin in the Sun 1961, 128 min.

Daniel Petrie • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee

Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Family Drama

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Lilies of the Field 1963, 94 min.

Ralph Nelson • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Isa Crino

Drama • Religious Drama

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A Patch of Blue 1965, 105 min.

Guy Green • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman

Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance

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No Way Out 1950, 106 min.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis

Crime Drama • Crime • Drama

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Shoot to Kill 1988, 109 min.

Roger Spottiswoode • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Clancy Brown

Action Thriller • Action • Adventure Drama

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The Jackal 1997, 124 min.

Michael Caton-Jones • Starring: Bruce Willis, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora

Action • Action Thriller • Chase Movie

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The Bedford Incident 1965, 102 min.

James B. Harris • Starring: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur

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Uptown Saturday Night 1974, 104 min.

Sidney Poitier • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte

Blaxploitation • Comedy • Crime

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Little Nikita 1988, 98 min.

Richard Benjamin • Starring: Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, Richard Jenkins

Action Thriller • Action • Drama

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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! 1970, 108 min.

Gordon Douglas • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Edward Asner

Crime Drama • Crime • Drama

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Edge of the City 1957, 85 min.

Martin Ritt • Starring: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier, Jack Warden

Drama • Social Problem Film • Thriller

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Porgy and Bess 1959, 138 min.

Otto Preminger • Starring: Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Sammy Davis Jr.

Drama • Musical • Musical Romance

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Paris Blues 1961, 98 min.

Martin Ritt • Starring: Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier, Joanne Woodward

Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama

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Duel at Diablo 1966, 103 min.

Ralph Nelson • Starring: James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bibi Andersson

Adventure • Western

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The Slender Thread 1965, 98 min.

Sydney Pollack • Starring: Anne Bancroft, Sidney Poitier, Edward Asner

Based-on-a-True-Story • Docudrama • Drama

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