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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 164 films · Page 5.
blaxploitation film
During the civil rights movement, a light-skinned African-American man, Jerry Ellworth (Richard Gilden, a white actor), is a Los Angeles jazz musician with a white girlfriend, Andrea (Rima Kutner). Meanwhile, in a Turnersville, Alabama din…
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Action, Gangster Film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
"Blue" Howard (Mel Stewart) and "White Folks" (Kiel Martin) are two con men in Philadelphia. Blue is an older black hustler who raised "White Folks” and taught him "the con". White Folks is the son of a black mother who is a prostitute and…
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Horror comedy, comedy horror, horror film
Jack Whittier (Dean Stockwell) is the press secretary for the White House and for the President of the United States. While on assignment in Hungary, he is bitten by a wolf who actually turns out to be a man. When Jack tries to report it, …
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blaxploitation film
Sugar Bowman agrees to serve two years working on a sugar-cane plantation rather than go to jail on a trumped-up drug charge. She arrives with new inmate Simone and encounters brutal guard Burgos and a maniacal plantation owner known only …
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Blaxploitation, Thriller, action film, exploitation film, rape and revenge film
Kane, a hate-fuelled racist redneck absconds from jail with his sidekicks (an Asian and a Mexican). They hole up in the secluded house of Ted Turner, a black minister, and his family. After threats and harsh epithets are exchanged, the min…
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Action, Blaxploitation, blaxploitation film, martial arts film
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is on vacation when his commanding officers ask him to save a Japanese girl named Toki who is Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of an Eastern Ambassador. Th…
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Blaxploitation, Sexploitation Film, Slasher Horror, blaxploitation film, horror film
In Los Angeles, Dr. Henry Pride is an accomplished and wealthy African American medical doctor working on a cure for cirrhosis of the liver along with his colleague, Dr. Billie Worth (Rosalind Cash).
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, action film, blaxploitation film
The plot involves Bubba Daniels, an African American veteran of the Vietnam War who returns home to find that his brother Eddie has been killed. The killing was done by a white supremacist motorcycle gang, led by Moose King, who objected t…
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blaxploitation film, thriller film
Street-smart white detective Danny Bassett (Alex Rocco) teams with educated black detective Sgt. Jesse Williams (Hari Rhodes) to investigate a theft of $400,000 at a fund-raiser for Representative Aubrey Hale Clayton (Rudy Challenger).
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blaxploitation film, exploitation film, pornographic film
Blaxploitation, Western, blaxploitation film, crime film
In Texas in 1911, Thomasine knocks out a man who attempted to force himself on her sexually without paying for her prostitution services. She is revealed to actually be a bounty hunter who used her attractiveness to lure in her latest, uns…
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Action, Blaxploitation, action film, blaxploitation film, thriller film
The film is about Diana Jackson (nicknamed "TNT"), who learns her brother is missing. She suspects a powerful gangster and his friends are behind the disappearance. Determined to get at the truth, she goes to Hong Kong, and along with a fr…
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blaxploitation film
The film includes a loose plot centered on the ensemble cast of characters in which Foxx mentors "Baby D" (Calloway), "Player" (Carter), and "Tiny" (Harper) in the ways of small-time hustling. An example of a hustle is the boys apparently …
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Action, LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film, crime film
The story begins with two government agents, Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson, being captured by the "Dragon Lady" (Stella Stevens). Cleopatra Jones then travels to Hong Kong to rescue the agents. Jones pairs up with Mi Lin-fong () and e…
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Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Sport, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film
Boxing manager Big Sid is told by the head of a crime syndicate that a shipment of heroin is arriving, and in turn, Sid instructs his henchman Brenner to oversee the shipment. At the dock where the shipment is to arrive, a dock worker name…
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Dark Comedy, blaxploitation film, comedy drama
Bernadette and Bill are a bickering couple from Beverly Hills. One day, a stranger wanders onto their property and they mistake him for an exterminator. The man, who calls himself Bone, takes the couple hostage, intending to rob them.
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action film, blaxploitation film
The movie begins with an overview of a city skyline. J.J. (Rod Perry) and his friend are seen walking down a street; they stop and one of the men points to a house.
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Action, Blaxploitation, Drama, Thriller, action film, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, exploitation film, thriller film
Action, Blaxploitation, Crime, Thriller, blaxploitation film, heist film, thriller film
In Los Angeles, a nighttime robbery of an illegal mafia bookmaking operation is carried out by the militant African-American organization BAG (Black Action Group). Though successful, several of the bookmakers and one of the burglars are ki…
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blaxploitation film, coming-of-age film, romance film, teen film
A modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the film deals with the struggles of living in Harlem and intercultural divides in the 1970s. Two teenagers living in the slums of New York City are deeply in love with each ot…
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LGBTQ-related film, blaxploitation film
Mr. Kool is a policeman who patrols one of the toughest sections of Galveston. He is widely respected by the community for being understanding, but yet tough.
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action film, blaxploitation film, crime film
Gordon, a soldier from Harlem, returns home from his tour of duty in Vietnam to find his old neighborhood has been taken over by drug dealers and pimps. Outraged and heartbroken after his wife dies of a heroin overdose, he partners with th…
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Blaxploitation, Komödie, Western, Western film, blaxploitation film, comedy film
A frontier con man tries scams that never work, leaving his partner behind to explain.
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action film, blaxploitation film
The film is a study of prejudice and discrimination. It tells the story of a black gang who run the streets of Watts and of Jim, a white man, who tries to befriend them. Prejudice stands in the way of any friendship and turns black against…
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