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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 2.
Action, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, girls with guns, vigilante film
An emergency room nurse named Flower Child Coffin—usually referred to as "Coffy"—seeks revenge against the people responsible for her younger sister Lubelle's heroin addiction and the widespread violence in her city. Under the guise of a p…
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Action, Komödie, Police Film, action film, blaxploitation film, comedy film
Detroit Police Department Detective Sergeant Jericho Jackson, known locally as "Action" Jackson, was a celebrated lieutenant in the police force. He had been demoted nearly two years prior, because of a case he headed involving the crimina…
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Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film, comedy film
Over a single Friday in July, the Dee-Luxe Car Wash welcomes all manner of strange and unusual visitors. A hysterical wealthy woman from Beverly Hills arrives with a carsick son. Money-hungry evangelist "Daddy Rich," who preaches a pseudo-…
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Cartoon, adult animated film, blaxploitation film, comedy drama, live-action/animated film
The film begins in live-action, introducing Michael Corleone, a twenty-two year-old virgin who plays pinball in New York City while asking himself philosophical questions before envisioning an animated and dangerous New York neighborhood. …
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Blaxploitation, Vampirfilm, blaxploitation horror film, vampire film
In 1780, African prince Mamuwalde goes to Transylvania to seek the help of Count Dracula in suppressing the slave trade. Dracula refuses, however, and insults Mamuwalde by making a pass at his wife, Luva. After a scuffle with Dracula's min…
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Black horror, Psychological Thriller, Zombiefilm, blaxploitation film, supernatural horror film
In 1979, Jimmy Bones is a numbers runner who is loved in his neighborhood as its member and protector. He is betrayed and brutally murdered by corrupt cop Lupovich and drug pusher Eddie Mack who then force Jimmy's associates Jeremiah and S…
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Crime, Drama, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Ex-convict Jim Harris and his two accomplices attempt to rob a Harlem count house for the Mafia run by local black gangsters. The heist goes awry and Harris murders both the black gangsters and the white mobsters before fleeing and murderi…
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Action, Crime, Drama, spy film
The story takes place in the early 1970s in Chicago. A white U.S. Senator facing re-election is told that his speech on law and order has led to a decline in his popularity among his African-American constituents.
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Drama, Musical, blaxploitation film, musical film
Komödie, comedy drama
In 1970, Insurance salesman Jeff Gerber lives in an all-white suburban neighborhood with his liberal-minded housewife Althea, who tolerates her husband's character flaws out of love. Every morning when Jeff wakes up, he spends some time un…
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Blaxploitation, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
After returning home from a five-year prison sentence, John "Goldie" Mickens has a plan to achieve money and power in Oakland, California, by becoming a pimp. Goldie's criminal ways contrast with his brother Olinga's Black Nationalist effo…
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Blaxploitation, Horror, horror film, vampire film
The film follows Dr. Hess Green (Duane Jones), a wealthy, black anthropologist who is doing research on the Myrthians, an ancient African nation of blood drinkers. One night, while staying in Green's lavish mansion, richly decorated with A…
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Komödie, action comedy film, blaxploitation film, boxing film, buddy film
Two friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, need to quickly find a way to raise funds for their fraternal lodge, the Sons and Daughters of Shaka. It is incumbent on Billy to find the money because he is the treasurer of the struggling lo…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, parody film
While enjoying themselves at Madame Zenobia's club on Saturday night, Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin are held up by robbers who raid the club and steal Steve's wallet. When they realize that a winning lottery ticket worth $50,000 is in…
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Blaxploitation, Christmas film, Komödie
The film begins with a flashback to a young Mordechai Jefferson Carver. At school, Mordechai is tormented by his fellow students and his teacher for being a Jewish child in a public school predominantly attended by Christians, and for cele…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Western, Western film, action film, blaxploitation film
The opening scene includes Charley as a baby with his mother Theo in Africa. The two are forced into slavery. Twenty years later, Charley kills an abusive plantation owner and flees with his two friends, Joshua and Toby.
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Action Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy cop film, comedy film, comedy thriller, thriller film
Deke "Reverend" O'Malley, a con man, is selling shares at a Harlem rally, for the purchase of a Back-to-Africa movement ship to be called The Black Beauty. During the rally, several masked gunmen jump out of a meat truck and steal $87,000 …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, thriller film
Mack "Truck" Turner (Hayes) is a former professional football player who becomes a Los Angeles–based bounty hunter after an injury. Truck visits his girlfriend, Annie (Annazette Chase), who is in jail and wants to leave LA when released. T…
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Action, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, action film, blaxploitation film, drama film
Drum is born in Havana to a white prostitute, who raises him with her black lesbian lover. Drum grows up to be a fighter and is often forced to bare-knuckle-box other slaves to the brink of death for the entertainment of the owners, one of…
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Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Tommy Gibbs is an African-American who grew up in Harlem, New York City. As a kid, he was brutally assaulted by a cop named Jack McKinney. As an adult, he joins the New York mafia and becomes the head of a black crime syndicate in Harlem.
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Action, Gangster Film, action film, blaxploitation film
The movie opens to a narration (by Ron O'Neal) detailing the poor economic state of a gang-ridden Gary, Indiana. The narrator explains to the audience of how the city came into such a state. After the opening narrative, the scene switches …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action film, exploitation film, women in prison film
A young woman named Collier enters prison, having been found guilty of killing her husband and sentenced to 99 years. As she familiarizes herself with the prison, she meets five other women. Alcott, a political prisoner, Grear, a prostitut…
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Crime Comedy, blaxploitation film, buddy film, heist film
Dave Anderson and Manny Durrell are two high-class criminals in Chicago who have never been caught. Dave is shown at the beginning of the film displaying his expert safecracking skills and burglarizing a large firm, obtaining a large sum o…
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Blaxploitation, LGBTQ-related film, action film, blaxploitation film
Cleopatra "Cleo" Jones is an undercover special agent for the United States government. Overseas modeling is only a cover for her real job: Cleo is a James Bond-like heroine with power and influence. She drives a silver and black '73 Corve…
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