# The best Sidney Poitier movies

Virgil Tibbs, the fiancé in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the teacher in To Sir, with Love: the Sidney Poitier films rated highest on Melhores Filmes and Cinema Clássico.

- 14 votes · 13 items
- Apr 5, 2019 · Marta Gonçalves
- https://even.best/en/l/4414/the-best-sidney-poitier-movies

## Top 13

1. **In the Heat of the Night (1967)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Norman Jewison. Detective Virgil Tibbs in Mississippi.
2. **The Defiant Ones (1958)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Stanley Kramer. Two escaped convicts chained together, with Tony Curtis.
3. **Lilies of the Field (1963)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Ralph Nelson. The first Best Actor Oscar for a Black actor.
4. **Sneakers (1992)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Phil Alden Robinson. A team of security experts.
5. **Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Stanley Kramer. The fiancé meeting his bride's parents.
6. **A Raisin in the Sun (1961)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Daniel Petrie. A Black family in Chicago, from Lorraine Hansberry.
7. **A Patch of Blue (1965)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Guy Green. A blind young woman and a stranger in the park.
8. **No Way Out (1950)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A doctor and a racist patient; his debut.
9. **To Sir, with Love (1967)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — James Clavell. A teacher at a tough London school.
10. **Blackboard Jungle (1955)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Richard Brooks. A rebellious pupil in a Bronx school.
11. **Edge of the City (1957)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Ritt. Longshoremen in New York harbour, with John Cassavetes.
12. **The Bedford Incident (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — James B. Harris. A journalist aboard a destroyer in the Cold War.
13. **Porgy and Bess (1959)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Otto Preminger. Gershwin's opera.

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