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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 4.
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, drama film
Friday Foster (Grier) is an ex-magazine model turned magazine photographer who refuses to heed her boss's admonitions against becoming involved in the stories to which she is assigned. After witnessing an assassination attempt on the natio…
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Monster Film, blaxploitation film, horror film
Big and burly African American soldier Eddie Turner stepped on a land mine while serving in Vietnam and lost both arms and both legs. His physicist fiancé Doctor Winifred Walker thinks she has found help for him in her white former teacher…
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blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Youngblood Priest and Georgia are now living in Rome, having relocated from New York City. Priest drops Georgia off and when she goes to the place, she meets a black American man named Jordan who recognizes her from New York City. Priest m…
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Blaxploitation, Komödie, blaxploitation film, fantasy film
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is born during a great Miami hurricane, and after a difficult labor by his mother, emerges as a talking, diaper-wearing, six-year-old boy who promptly attacks the doctor and then his father. His mother sto…
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blaxploitation film
Coleman Buckmaster, also known as "the Golden Ear", is a producer extraordinaire for A-Chord Records. In the midst of working slavishly to complete the debut album of "the Group", Buckmaster is forced to put their project on the back-burne…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film
Private investigator Sheba Shayne (Grier) returns from Chicago, Illinois to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, to confront thugs who are trying to intimidate her father Andy into dissolving or handing over his family insurance company b…
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Blaxploitation, action film, blaxploitation film
After coming off a successful comedy tour, Dolemite throws a get-together at his mansion. The party is crashed by racist police officers and they find out that the sheriff's wife is offering Dolemite money for sexual services. When the she…
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Italo-Western, Spaghetti Western, blaxploitation film
Pike, the right-hand man of cattle rancher Bob Morgan, is entrusted with a mission to deliver $86,000 across the border to the Morgan Ranch in Sonora, Mexico after his boss dies. Pike teams up with dishonest gambler Tyree and they are forc…
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blaxploitation film, boxing film, drama film, prison film
Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone earned his parole from jail by winning a prison boxing tournament. All Too Sweet wants to do is start a peaceful life, but a condition of his release is that he work for a boxing promoter. Too Sweet has no intere…
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action film, blaxploitation film, thriller film
After the father of Vietnam veteran and ex-Green Beret captain Slaughter is killed by a car bomb, he becomes obsessed with avenging the murder. He learns it was arranged by a Cleveland organized-crime gang and tracks down the mobster respo…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Duke Johnson, a former black activist, arrives in Bucktown to bury his brother Ben, a bar owner who was killed for refusing to pay crooked white cops for protection. Ben’s widow, Aretha is hostile towards him as he never contacted Ben whil…
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Blaxploitation, Horror, blaxploitation film, horror film
Isaac "Ike" Hendrix is a young law student who lives with his girlfriend, Christella and works as a taxi-cab driver in New Orleans. While out on a night of fun with Christella and their best friends, Tony and Phyllis, he participates in a …
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Fantasy, Horror, Slasher Horror, blaxploitation film, horror film, slasher film
Nerdy high school student Michael asks fellow classmate Jada to go to the homecoming dance with him. Despite Michael's unrequited feelings for her, Jada considers Michael as a friend, and politely rejects him, reminding him that she has a …
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Crime, Drama, biographical film, blaxploitation film
The plot concerns the obsession of Duke (Hampton Clanton), a 15-year-old member of the gang Royal Pythons, to get a gun from a racketeer named Priest (Carl Lee), in order to become the president of the Pythons and a big shot in Harlem. Aft…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film
Ivy Moore, a 27-year-old African-American woman, has worked as a maid for the department store owning Austin family of Long Island, New York, for nine years, since being brought by them from Florida, where she was raised by her grandmother…
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Crime, Drama, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, heist film
Sidney Lord Jones is a convicted felon who is granted an early release by the parole board in San Quentin. While imprisoned, he learns about the underworld diamond trade from reading and studying trade magazines. It motivates him to plan a…
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Crime, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
In a small Southern town, a black man, Jim Price is elected sheriff over John Little, the white incumbent. Racial tensions exist in the community, and Price gets little assistance from Little, who is leaving office, or from Mayor Parks, wh…
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LGBTQ-related film
The film's plot combines several elements from these original films. Starrbooty (RuPaul) is in the middle of a major karate fight when she receives a phone call informing her that her adopted niece Cornisha has been kidnapped. With the hel…
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blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Joey Maxwell, Manuel, and Reynaldo invade a New York City drug den in Harlem, killing three dealers. One escapes long enough to telephone his boss, Eddie Baker, but Eddie is having sex. The killers break in and murder Eddie and his girl.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, horror film
Tucker Williams, dressed in shiny, chest-exposing clothing, spins platters as the "Disco Godfather" at his "Blueberry Hill" discotheque during the late-1970's height of the disco era. In the audience is his nephew Bucky, a basketball star,…
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blaxploitation film, thriller film
Jonathan Knight is the owner of "Mr. Jonathan's", the most successful hair salon for women on the Sunset Strip. His reputation as a lover has become as such that he is sought after almost as much for sexual trysts as he is for his hair sty…
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Adventure, Erotic Film, blaxploitation film, sexploitation film
In 1835, Charles Walker travels to Saint Kitts in the British West Indies to look for his missing brother Jonathan. Charles pretends to be a bookkeeper when arrives at Blackmoor Plantation, run by Jonathan's vicious ex-wife, Lady Susan Wal…
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comedy film
During the weekend of her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Gladys Ann Brooks, a meek wife (played by Clarice Taylor) and her three children—Gideon Brooks (Glynn Turman), Booker T. Washington-Brooks (D'Urville Martin), and Gail Brooks (Bonnie Banfi…
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Drama, blaxploitation film
Black Sister's Revenge is about a teen moving from a small Southern town in Mississippi to live with her family in Los Angeles. When Emma Mae (Jerri Hayes) first moves to Los Angeles, she's introduced to Jesse Amos (Ernest Williams III), w…
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