Blaxploitation

	Title	Year	Director	IMDb	Plot	Links
	Abar, the First Black Superman	1977	Frank Packard	1.8	Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus becomes a superpowered crimefighter.	IMDB
	Across 110th Street	1972	Barry Shear	6.6	Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Caesar	1973	Larry Cohen	6.3	Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Demons	1991	Umberto Lenzi	3.0		IMDB
	Black Devil Doll From Hell	1984	Chester Novell Turner	3.1	Helen Black, a prim and deeply religious woman, buys a strange doll in a curio shop. The shop's owner tells her that the doll has been purchased four different times, and each time it has found its way back to the shop.	IMDB
	The Black Godfather	1974	John Evans	3.0	J.J., a rising star in the black crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Mama, White Mama	1972	Eddie Romero	4.7	When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Black Samurai	1977	Al Adamson	3.1	Millionaire's girlfriend is kidnapped by drug-dealing, voodoo-worshiping ring that sells women into slavery. He tries to get her back.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Blacula	1972	William Crain		His Bite Was Outta Sight! Urban action and fatal attraction give rise to a groove from beyond the grave in this funkadelic, fangadelic Soul Cinema sensation! The eternally cool William Marshall puts a fresh spin on the age-old legend of the vampire, condemned to wander the Earth with an insatiable lust for blood. In 1780, African Prince Mamuwalde (Marshall) pays a visit to Count Dracula in Transylvania, seeking his support in ending slave trade. Instead, the evil count curses his noble guest and transforms him into a vampire! Released from his coffin nearly two centuries later by a pair of luckless interior decorators, Mamuwalde emerges as "Blacula," one strange dude strollin' the streets of L.A. on a nightly quest for human blood!	DVD Empire
	Claudine	1974	John Berry	6.5	Claudine tries to provide for her six children in Harlem while on welfare. She has a romance with Roop...	IMDB
	Cleopatra Jones	1973	Jack Starrett	5.3	Cleopatra Jones is a United States Special Agent assigned to crack down on drug-trafficking in the U.S...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Cornbread, Earl and Me	1975	Joseph Manduke; Joe Manduke	6.1	A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Darktown Strutters	1975	William Witney	5.4	Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.	IMDB
	Detroit 9000	1973	Arthur Marks	5.5	Cops go after jewel thieves.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Disco Godfather	1980	J. Robert Wagoner	3.4	A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is...	IMDB
	Dolemite	1975	D'Urville Martin	5.2	Dolemite has to deal with Willie Green, Mitchell and White, Mayor Daly, and assorted production equipment...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Final Comedown	1972	Oscar Williams	6.0	Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Five on the Black Hand Side	1973	Oscar Williams	5.6	"High-Spirited Humor… Very Real and Touching." -Los Angeles Times You've been Coffy-tized, Blacula-rized and Superlfied. Now prepare to be glorified, unified and filled-with-pride with this "breakthrough film" (Variety) "that delivers enough solid laughs for any audience" (Boxoffice)! With "a combination of seriousness and warmth that is rare in any film" (Players) and a sense of family that anyone can relate to, Five on the Black Hand Side is "a wisely entertaining film" (New York)! In the Brooks family, Papa may rule with an iron fist… but Mama's about to slap him down with her open hand! Tired of being told what to do and when to do it, she goes to war! Swapping her old housedress for army green duds and combing her tidily coiffed head into a ceiling-scraping 'fro, she takes to the roof on strike… until her browbeating, penny-pinching, gaspassing husband agrees to meet her bill of rights!	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Foxy Brown	1974	Jack Hill	6.1	A sexy black woman, Foxy Brown, seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Friday Foster	1975	Arthur Marks	5.5	Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Goodbye Uncle Tom	1971	Gualtiero Jacopetti; Franco E. Prosperi	6.2	Addio Zio Tom (Goodbye Uncle Tom) is truly a one-of-a-kind film, a product of its troubled times, and a film the likes of which could never be made again. This movie has nothing to do with Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, but it has everything to do with the enslavement and degradation of blacks in America. When this film was released in America in 1971, it was mistakenly condemned as racist. That was because the US distributors had directors Jacopetti and Prosperi remove 13 minutes of pro-black, anti-American political material.	IMDB
	Hell Up in Harlem	1973	Larry Cohen	5.7	A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Human Tornado	1976	Cliff Roquemore	6.1	One of several Rudy Ray Moore films, THE HUMAN TORNADO is part of the on-going adventures of Dolemite: a signifying' super-hero...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Klansman	1974	Terence Young	4.3	An FBI Agent goes undercover in the Ku Klux Klan.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	The Mack	1973	Michael Campus	6.0	Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Mean Johnny Barrows	1976	Fred Williamson	4.4	A G.I. is unjustly thrown out of the service, and winds up being a gas station attendant. A gangster wants to hire him as a hitman...	IMDB
	Petey Wheatstraw	1977	Cliff Roquemore	5.6	Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Putney Swope	1969	Robert Downey Sr.; Robert Downey, Sr.	6.3	Dark satire in which the token black man on the executive board of an advertising firm is accidentally put in charge...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Shaft	1971	Gordon Parks	6.5	John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Shaft in Africa	1973	John Guillermin	5.6	P.I. John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Shaft's Big Score!	1972	Gordon Parks	6.0	Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Shaolin Dolemite	1999	Robert Tai	5.0	Prepare Yourself! The Godfather of Rap and original Blaxploitation superstar Rudy Ray Moore (Dolemite) locks fists with master Kung-Fu director Robert Tai (5 Deadly Venoms) in the very first martial arts blaxploitation comedy ever made. Monk Ru-Dee of the Dolemite Clan goes on an action-filled odyssey into the deepest China in search of Twopac, the Westside Monk, to bring him to justice. Deadly obstacles stand in Ru-Dee's way: The Vampire Bronzemen, the topless Ninja Ho, and the dreaded Ninja Clan of Japan. Rudee must consult the wisdom of Abbot White (Robert Tai) and commences to hilariously kick ass with the help of the Clan of the Wu Tang and the Shabazz Tribe (The East Side Monks). Extraordinary dubbing, complete irreverence and some of the most brilliant fight choreography ever shot make Shaolin Dolemite an outstanding introduction to the new millennium's most original entertainment form: the marriage of Hong Kong action and the brilliance of the blaxploitation genre.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Sheba, Baby	1975	William Girdler	5.2	A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Soul Vengeance	1975	Jamaa Fanaka	3.0	A proud black man does time in jail where he is subjected to heinous experiments. Once released, he...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Sounder	1972	Martin Ritt	7.9	The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, the wife and mother, Rebecca Morgan, sends the oldest son, who is about 11 years old, to visit his father at the camp. The trip becomes something of an odyssey for the boy. During the journey he stays a little while with a dedicated Black schoolteacher.	IMDB
	Superfly	1972	Gordon Parks Jr.; Gordon Parks, Jr.	5.9	Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death...	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song	1971	Melvin Van Peebles	5.4	After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.	IMDB; DVD Empire
	Velvet Smooth	1976	Michael L. Fink	3.0	The female head of a detective agency is hired by a crime lord to figure out who's taking his action.	IMDB
	The Zombies Of Sugar Hill	1974	Paul Maslansky	4.1	When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket...	IMDB