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- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsWilliam ByrdLeroy CollinsVerlie CowanMartin Eden is a successful African-American farmer in South Dakota. He is in love with Deborah Stewart, but he believes that she is white and that she would not be interested in him. He is unaware that Deborah also loves him.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsGladys WilliamsRobert Earl JonesCarman NewsomeGangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEdna Mae HarrisCarman NewsomeRobert Earl JonesA nightclub singer refuses to "date" customers, so she's framed for the murder of her aunt, convicted of the killing and sent to prison.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarman NewsomeEthel MosesAlec LovejoyA black Harvard graduate confronts racism.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsJacqueline LewisEthel MosesAlice B. RussellA young light-skinned Negress struggles to find her place in both the black and the white worlds.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCora GreenLarry SeymourHazel DiazTed Gregory is trying to be the first black producer to mount a show on Broadway, but he has trouble with his star singer.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsBee FreemanSol Johnson'Slick' ChesterA young college student falls under the influence of a murderous gambler.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxClarence WilliamsStarsClarence BrooksDorothy Van EngleAndrew BishopA black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After he reports it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsAndrew BishopEthel MosesLorenzo TuckerHelen Ware, an artist's model, known as the Brown Venus is sad, discouraged and unhappy. When her men friends learn that she often poses nude, they try to become unduly "friendly" or just shun her, with the result that a beautiful girl with the figure of a Goddess finds herself without a lover. In desperation, she goes to a notorious night club and is later seen about to start on the downward trail. In New York's Harlem section, gangdom is running riot. Gangster Kid Cotton kills a man and runs away with the man's sweetheart, who is unaware of the crime until she reads about it in a newspaper at the "Mad Mullah" club in Chicago. Helen is near their table, overhears their discussion of the killing, and later finds herself involved in the case. Government undercover man Robert Fletcher trails Cotton to Chicago, and a peculiar twist of fate brings Helen to his hotel room, and a most intimate situation follows. Cotton sets up a numbers bank in Chicago in opposition the the policy gang, and a gang war breaks out. Gomez and his gang are rubbed out and Cotton becomes the king of the underworld. But the dragnet, thrown around him by Fletcher, begins to tighten.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence Chenault'Slick' ChesterA.B. DeComathiereGangsters in Harlem make plans to commit a kidnapping.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCarl MahonStarr CallowayAlice B. RussellAn undercover government agent on a case in Mississipi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss. He rescues the girl, and they leave Mississippi and head to Harlem, but their troubles follow them: they become involved in the murder of a local crime boss there.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLawrence ChenaultA.B. DeComathiereLaura BowmanA movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a patron at the club gets a note saying that she'll soon get another note, and that she will be killed ten minutes after that.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLucille LewisWalter FlemingLaura BowmanJohn Walden, left home 20 years earlier and has been "passing" as white in a town where no one knew of his background. He returns home to take his now grown sister back with him so she too can live a life as a white woman. He even goes so far as to find her a suitable white man to marry. Unfortunately, she can not get over the young black man she left back home.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsCeleste ColeAmon DavisDonald HeywoodMusical numbers and comedy routines.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEunice BrooksStanley MorrellCeleste ColeA young man named Jean in post-World War I Chicago falls in love with a beautiful girl named Edith. He proposes to her, but realizes that she's involved in the rackets and won't leave them, so he goes back home to South Dakota, where he becomes a successful rancher. There he falls for a white girl, but guilt drives him back to Chicago, where he runs into Edith again, and they agree to marry. When Edith is later found murdered, Jean is blamed for the crime.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsWilliam A. Clayton Jr.Willor Lee GuilfordRichard B. HarrisonCon artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsKathleen NoisetteLoretta TuckerSalem Tutt WhitneyA US cavalry officer rescues a mixed race girl, raised in Africa, from slavers.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsLorenzo TuckerWilliam A. Clayton Jr.Kathleen NoisetteFilm producer Winston L. Jaune gives his brother J. Lee a job in his company. J. Lee promptly steals company funds, spends lavishly in cabarets, at wild parties, and on women. Hw thereby put the company in financial difficulties.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsKathleen NoisetteWilliam A. Clayton Jr.Bessie GivensDetails the plight of a young woman who falls in love and marries a glib con artist who abandons her without money on their wedding night.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsWilliam EdmonsonA.B. DeComathiereArdelle DabneyGeorge Eldridge Van Paul, the son of a white father and a black mother, is brought up to believe that he is completely white. He falls in love with Hester Morgan, a black girl, but when she learns that he is white, she refuses to see him.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsShingzie HowardAndrew BishopLawrence ChenaultRena ( Shingzie Howard ), a beautiful mulatto woman, who passes as white, receives a proposal from an aristocratic white millionaire who has fallen in love with her. Rena accepts without revealing the secret of her racial background. Unhappy, Rena returns to her former lover, Frank Fowler, a black man, who has risen to power despite his color. She tells him that although she has fooled the public, she has not fooled herself.
- DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsGrace SmithLaurence CrinerLionel MonagasAn African American entrepreneur who has built up his fortune in South America returns to the U.S. and falls in love with a young woman who turns out to be part of a notorious family of criminals.