Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with blaxploitation genres and themes.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films.
Italo-Western, Western film, action film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, drama film, historical drama film, historical film, revisionist Western
In 1858 Texas, several male African American slaves are being "driven" by the Speck Brothers, Ace and Dicky. Among the shackled slaves is Django, sold off and separated from his wife, Broomhilda. The Speck Brothers are stopped by Dr.
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Blaxploitation, Heist, Thriller, blaxploitation film, crime drama film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, gangster film, heist film, independent film, neo-noir, suspense film, thriller film
Jackie Brown, a flight attendant, smuggles money from Mexico into the United States for Ordell Robbie, a gun runner in Los Angeles. When Beaumont Livingston—Ordell's bagman—is arrested, Ordell hires bail bondsman Max Cherry to bail him out…
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Secret Agent, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, spy film
Three MI6 agents are killed under mysterious circumstances within 24 hours in the United Nations headquarters in New York City, in New Orleans, and the small Caribbean nation of San Monique, while monitoring the operations of the island's …
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Fantasy, Musical, adventure film, blaxploitation film, fantasy film, musical film
A crowded Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where 24-year-old elementary schoolteacher Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry. She is teased by Aunt Em for having delayed moving out to…
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Modern-Day Fantasy, Slasher Horror, blaxploitation film, horror film, slasher film, supernatural horror film
In 1977, at Chicago's Cabrini–Green housing projects, a young boy witnesses the killing of Sherman Fields, a homeless African American man with a hook for a hand. Suspected of giving a white child a razor blade in a piece of candy, Sherman…
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Biographical picture, Blaxploitation, Justice Drama, Political Drama, biographical film, drama film
One night shortly before Malcolm Little is born, a party of Klansmen surround the Little family home in Omaha, Nebraska, break all the windows, and ride off into the night. Malcolm has a Grenadian mother and African-American father. His fa…
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Gross Out Film, Komödie, Parodie, Sci-Fi
The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men from the planet Anus, who discover the presence of female creatures on planet Earth. Using rayguns, they proceed to eliminate all females from Earth, eliciting gratitude from t…
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Action, Thriller, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film, neo-noir
In the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, Nino Brown and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers (CMB), become the dominant drug ring once crack cocaine is introduced to the streets. His gang consists of Gerald "Gee Money" Wells, his best fri…
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Drama, Historie, action film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film
In the Deep South of the United States before the American Civil War, Falconhurst is a run-down plantation owned by widower Warren Maxwell and largely run by his son, Hammond. One of Hammond's female slaves, Pearl, reaches puberty and Hamm…
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Monster Film, Thriller, action film, disaster film, drama film, dystopian film, horror film, post-apocalyptic film, science fiction film, zombie film
In March 1975, a Sino-Soviet border conflict escalates into full-scale war in which biological warfare destroys most of the human race. U.S. Army Col.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
In January 1971, private investigator John Shaft is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. He spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building and ambushes him. At gunpoint, he brings him to his office, where the seco…
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Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, Social Drama, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, coming-of-age film, crime film, drama film, hood film, thriller film
Marcus is a quiet boy who adores his mother Katrina, and the two live a relatively comfortable life on her drug-dealing income. After Marcus writes a song for his love interest Charlene, her stepfather sends her away to live with her grand…
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Action, Blaxploitation, LGBTQ-related film, Parodie, action film, biographical film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, ghost film, martial arts film
In the early 1970s, Black Dynamite, a Vietnam War veteran and former CIA officer, skilled in kung fu, vows to clean up the streets of drug dealers and gangsters after his younger brother Jimmy is killed by a shady organization. O'Leary, Bl…
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Action, Adventure, Komödie, Musical, Silly Movie, action film, blaxploitation film, hood film
Pootie Tang sits down for a TV interview, at which the interviewer (Bob Costas) asks about Pootie's upcoming movie. At this point, a movie clip is played. Although initially unclear, the events described below all appear to be part of the …
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Cartoon, Crime, Drama, adult animated film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, live-action/animated film
Sampson and the "Preacher" rush to help their friend, Randy, escape from prison, but are stopped by a roadblock and a shootout with the police begins. While waiting for them, Randy converses with an escapee named Pappy, who claims to know …
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Komödie, action film, blaxploitation film
When soldier Jack Spade learns that his brother Junebug overdosed on gold chains and died, he returns to Any Ghetto, U.S.A, where he is met by his mother and sister-in-law, Cheryl. As he surveys the old neighborhood, Jack notices the impac…
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Blaxploitation, Western, Western film, blaxploitation film
Upon finding a wagon under attack by bandits, two Black bounty hunters, Boss and Amos intervene and save Clara Mae, a Black woman. Upon inspecting the bodies, the bounty hunters find several have rewards to their name and one holds a lette…
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Action, Komödie, Parodie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, parody film, spy film
The film begins with a backstory of how African-American culture's popularity with the American public began to decline in the 1980s, when style and originality began to lose appeal in the public eye due to the persistent efforts of "The M…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, drama film, thriller film
A young African-American orphan is sheltered by a Los Angeles brothel in the 1940s. Working as a towel boy, he is seduced by one of the prostitutes. The women name him "Sweet Sweetback" in honor of his sexual prowess and large penis.
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Blaxploitation, action film, blaxploitation film, girls with guns, vigilante film
Foxy Brown is happy to see her lover return from hiding, having thought him dead (which resulted in him having to go under the new identity of Michael Anderson). Her government-agent boyfriend is soon shot down at her doorstep by members o…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, Musical, Social Drama, crime film, drama film, musical film
Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin is a young and poor man living in rural Jamaica. After his grandmother dies, he leaves the countryside for the city of Kingston, where he is immediately conned out of all his possessions by a street vendor. Though his…
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Coming Of Age, Tragic Comedy Film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film
In 1964 Chicago, Leroy "Preach" Jackson and his best friend, Richard "Cochise" Morris, are in the final weeks of their senior year at Cooley Vocational High School in the Near North Side. They sneak out of class one Friday and spend the da…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Youngblood Priest, an African-American cocaine dealer, enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in Harlem. He yearns to go straight, despite the fortune he makes. One day, Priest confronts Fat Freddie, one of his dealers, about money that Freddie owes…
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Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, action comedy film, blaxploitation film
Dolemite is a pimp, comedian, and nightclub owner who is serving twenty years in prison after being set up by a rival, Willie Green, and framed by police detectives Mitchell and White, at the direction of Mayor Daley. Released by the gover…
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