Two-Gun Man From Harlem (1938)

Starring:

• Herb Jeffries
• Marguerite Whitten 
• Clarence Brooks 
• Mantan Moreland 
• Matthew 'Stymie' Beard 
• Spencer Williams 
• Mae Turner 
• Jess Lee Brooks 
• Rosalie Lincoln

Storyline
A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like him. He infiltrates the gang to catch the men who framed him.

The Girl From Chicago (1932)

Starring:  

• Grace Smith
• Carl Mahon
• Eunice Brooks
• Starr Calloway 
• Edwin Cary 
• Minto Cato 
• John Everett 
• Juano Hernandez 
• Alice B. Russell 
• Cherokee Thornton 
• Frank H. Wilson

Storyline
A remake of Micheaux's now-lost 1926 silent film The Spider's Web, The Girl From Chicago is another film that explores the cultural rift between the urban and the rural, set in both Harlem and Batesburg, Mississippi.

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi 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.

Pinky (1949)

Starring:

• Jeanne Crain
• Ethel Waters
• Ethel Barrymore
• William Lundigan
• Frederick O'Neal 
• Nina Mae McKinney

Storyline
Pinky, a young nurse (Jeanne Crain), returns to her small southern hometown, but the trip is a bittersweet one: Educated in the North, Pinky is engaged to a doctor that doesn't know she is part Black. Her grandmother (Ethel Waters) is a proud Black woman who is less than happy to learn that Pinky's fiance is white. Then, Pinky's friendship with a southern aristocrat (Ethel Berrymore), is cause for more scandal-and a lawsuit-when she dies and leaves her house to Pinky. Shunned by both Blacks and Whites, Pinky's choices make her the unfortunate target of bigotry in this compelling classic.