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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 3.
Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film, gangster film
Slaughter (Jim Brown), a fierce Vietnam veteran and ex-Green Beret, had avenged the death of his parents by killing in Mexico the gangster responsible. He is now relocated in Los Angeles, California, where Slaughter sought to escape the pa…
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Crime, Drama, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, hood film
Diquan Mitchell is a 19-year old ex-con who is attempting to turn his life around and start legitimate work. Upon arriving home, Mitchell witnesses an argument between two youths, Chucky and Pharaoh, turn into a shooting in the stairwell o…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, crime thriller film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
At home in his New York City apartment, John Shaft is tranquilized, then kidnapped and persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor to travel to Africa, assuming the identity of an indigenous…
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blaxploitation film, drama film
Protagonist Billie Jean lives in a cramped house with her mother Rosie, her grandmother Mu'Dear, her two older sisters, Norma Faye and Ruth Ann, and Mu'Dear's live-in boyfriend, Herbert. She desperately wishes to avoid the fate of Norma Fa…
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Sci-Fi, adventure film, blaxploitation film, science fiction film
Sun Ra, who has been reported lost since his European tour in June 1969, lands on a new planet in outer space with his crew, known as "the Arkestra", and decides to settle African Americans on this planet. The medium of transportation he c…
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Blaxploitation, Exploitation Film, Vampirfilm, blaxploitation film, horror film, vampire film
After Voodoo queen Mama Loa dies, her cult members vote adopted apprentice Lisa Fortier as her successor, leaving her arrogant biological son Willis outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Prince Mamuwalde, otherwise known as the v…
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Blaxploitation, Martial-Arts, action film, blaxploitation film, martial arts film
The Mafia have learned of the construction of a new civic center, and have bought up all the land at the intended building site except for a karate dojo owned by "Pop" Byrd, who refuses to give up his property. The Don contacts an indebted…
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Action, Sexploitation Film, action film, blaxploitation film, prison film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Brought to a women's prison in a tropical country, Lee Daniels (Pam Grier) and Karen Brent (Margaret Markov), a prostitute and a revolutionary respectively, butt heads and cause enough trouble to warrant a transfer to a maximum-security pr…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, drama film, sexploitation film, women in prison film
Carol "Jeff" Jeffries is set up by her boyfriend, Rudy. Jeff does not realize that Rudy runs a ship-board prostitution, gambling, and drug dealing empire. Rudy sees the heat closing in on him and stashes his illegal goods in Jeff's purse.
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Komödie, blaxploitation film, comedy film
When he falls into a union action by mistake, Leroy Jones is forced out of town. The only option given to Leroy was a one way bus ticket to Los Angeles, where more jobs are available. While he is away, Leroy becomes smitten with Vanetta, a…
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Blaxploitation, Detective Film, Secret Agent, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, mystery film, neo-noir
Queens private detective John Shaft is contacted by his old friend Cal Asby, an insurance salesman and mortician, who tells him he's in trouble and asks him to come immediately. As soon as Shaft arrives, Asby is killed by a bomb planted in…
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Adventure, Exploitation Film, blaxploitation film
In the ancient Roman town of Brundisium, a group of slave girls are sold to a man named Timarchus, the organizer of the events that take place in the town’s colosseum. After a fight breaks out amongst the girls, Timarchus gets the idea of …
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, thriller film
Jimmy Lait (Brown) and his girlfriend, Wendy, come across Jimmy's friend, House, wounded and dying. Lait learns from House that he had escaped from a secret medical experimentation facility. Later in the hospital, a delirious House tells L…
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blaxploitation film
Helen Black is a devout, church-going Christian. Despite pressure from her friend to seek out sex, Helen is determined to abstain from sex until marriage. She also meets a man in her neighborhood who sells stolen items out of his car's tru…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film
An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective, and all-purpose ghetto fixer who operates out of a billiards parlor in South…
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Action, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, thriller film
Having survived the assassination attempt at the end of Black Caesar, Tommy Gibbs takes on corrupt New York District Attorney James DiAngelo, who had sought to jail Gibbs and his father, Papa Gibbs, in order to monopolize the illicit drug …
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blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Willie Dynamite appears as the film's opening credits begin, with Martha Reeves singing the title song, 'Willie Dynamite.' Willie is driving his 'pimped-out' purple Cadillac on the streets of midtown Manhattan. The front license plate read…
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Groteske, Horror, Komödie, Monster Film, blaxploitation film, comedy film, comedy horror, horror film, science fiction comedy, science fiction film
Dr. Maxwell Kirshner arrives at a mansion in a wheelchair; once inside, Kirshner asks if his experiment has been a success, and is told by an orderly that it has been. He is taken to the basement, where the experiment is in fact a two-head…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Horror, Zombiefilm, blaxploitation film, horror film, zombie film
The story centers on Diana "Sugar" Hill (Bey), a photographer in Houston whose boyfriend, nightclub owner Langston (Larry D. Johnson), has been killed by mob boss Morgan (Robert Quarry) and his men when he refused to sell the club to Morga…
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Crime, blaxploitation film
Tyrone Tackett, a former police officer, returns to Los Angeles to investigate the suspicious death of his brother, Cornell. Cornell's girlfriend, prostitute Irvelle Way, denies knowledge about Cornell's death, but Tyrone insists she atten…
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blaxploitation film, horror film
Dr. Garrett Williams explains to his students, "Eshu is the most powerful of all earthly deities. Eshu is a trickster, creator of whirlwinds...
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Drama, blaxploitation film, drama film
In Cleveland, Ohio, at the time of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., protesters riot in the streets. Johnny Wells, a charismatic black revolutionary, leads a group of black men on a mission to steal guns from a warehouse as prep…
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Western film, blaxploitation film
The Soul of Nigger Charley continues the story of escaped slave Charley and fellow ex-slave Toby. This time, the two friends help a group of ex-slaves earn freedom as they combat a ruthless ex-Civil War officer who wants to keep slavery al…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film
Martel Gordone had been wandering aimlessly through the desert when he is finally picked up by an African-American woman driving a van dubbed the "Shaggin' Wagon". The woman, Linda, who picks him up is actually a prostitute on her way to s…
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