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Top 14 Sidney Poitier Films & Series Streaming in the UK
Sidney Poitier KBE (February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he became the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for Lilies of the…
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In the Heat of the Night(1967)
7.9110mA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town,…
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Sidney(2022)
7.8111mFollow the real life story of Sidney Poitier, the Oscar winner of 1964.
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To Sir with Love(1967)
7.6105mIdealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's…
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The Defiant Ones
7.696mTwo chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
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Lilies of the Field(1963)
7.594mA travelling handyman becomes the answer to the prayers of nuns who wish to build a chapel in the desert.
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
7.485mA 91-year-old carpenter has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
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Pressure Point(1962)
7.191mA Black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
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Paris Blues(1961)
6.798mDuring the 1960s, two American expatriate jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls.
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Duel at Diablo(1966)
6.5103mIn Apache territory, a supply Army column heads for the next fort, an ex-scout searches for the killer of his Indian wife, and a housewife…
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The Wilby Conspiracy(1975)
6.4105mA black anti-Apartheid activist and a British engineer are forced to run from South African Secret Police.
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The Jackal(1997)
6.4124mHired 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…
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A Warm December(1973)
6.199mAn African-American doctor falls in love with the niece of an African ambassador during his vacation in London, but it turns out that she…
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The Long Ships(1964)
6.0126mA vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of…
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