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Don't Judge a Movie by the Cover
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Blaxploitation films


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Movie: Naked Evil ( 1966 )
Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
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Movie: No Way Back ( 1982 )
Crowder is a man who will do anything, if the price is right. He is a private detective with a past in the police force. A woman comes to his office one day and asks if he will find her husband. He takes the mission, but soon he gets into a lot of trouble with some gangsters.
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Movie: One Down, Two to go ( 1982 )
During a high-stakes east-west karate tournament, coach Chuck suspects the match is rigged against him. When looking around the other team's locker room gets him shot, he calls in Cal and J, his partners from California. After exercising a little persuasion and a lot of brute force, they discover who's behind it all. Now the only problem is getting back the money Chuck is owed.
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Movie: Petey Wheatstraw ( 1977 )
Petey Wheatstraw (Rudy Ray Moore) is a candidate to become the devil's son-in-law. The storyline is a scaffolding on which Rudy Ray Moore's standup humor can be unfolded. Beginning life as the afterbirth to a watermelon, the young Wheatstraw becomes a martial artist, but is unable to best the evil comedy team of Leroy and Skillet, who also indulge in wholesale murder. Satan restores the comedians' victims to life, and charges Petey with the task of marrying his clock-stoppingly ugly daughter to giving him a grandchild. When Petey attempts to default on the deal, he is pursued by the devil's henchmen.
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Movie: Savage Sisters ( 1975 )
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.
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Movie: Slaughter ( 1973 )
Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
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Movie: Solomon King ( 1974 )
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Movie: Sparkle ( 1976 )
Three sisters form a singing group in 1950s Harlem, but success threatens to ruin their relationship forever.
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Movie: Speeding Up Time ( 1971 )
A poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.
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Movie: Street Sisters ( 1974 )
Young woman quickly realize that prostitution is a harsh reality.
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Movie: Sugar Hill ( 1974 )
When her boyfriend is murdered by gangsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD! She entreats voodoo queen Mama Maitresse to call on Baron Samedi, Lord of the Dead, for help with a gruesome revenge. In exchange for Sugar's soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who think they got away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.
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Movie: Super Fly T.N.T. ( 1973 )
A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
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Movie: Super Spook ( 1975 )
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Movie: Sweet Jesus, Preacherman ( 1973 )
A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
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Movie: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song ( 1973 )
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
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Movie: TNT Jackson ( 1975 )
A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.
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Movie: #Dupe# ( 1975 )
Her name is Diana Jackson, but you can call her T.N.T. When T.N.T.'s brother is killed by ruthless drug dealers, the beautiful young karate expert goes to the most dangerous part of Chinatown to find the killer. In trouble with the law since she was 13, T.N.T. wants no help from the pigs; but she does befriend a Chinaman named Joe, whose impressive martial arts skills prove useful more than once. In her quest for the killer, she'll meet the white drug lord, Sid; Elaine, his bitchy girlfriend; his suspicious Chinese assistant, Ming; and Charlie, his handsome black assistant with criminal ambitions of his own. Before her search is over, she'll find herself making love to Charlie, trading insults with Elaine, and fighting criminals while nude and in the dark. Just call her T.N.T.
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Movie: The Arena ( 1974 )
In ancient Rome audiences have grown tired of viewing gladiators fight to the death. Something new is needed--women. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.")
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Movie: The Big Score ( 1983 )
A narcotics detective lets nothing stand in the way of his bringing down a major drug dealer.
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Movie: The Big Score ( 1997 )
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Movie: The Black 6 ( 1974 )
A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.
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Movie: The Black Connection ( 1974 )
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Movie: The Black Gestapo ( 1975 )
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his...Read all
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Movie: The Black Dragon Revenges the Death of Bruce Lee ( 1975 )
Martial arts legend Ron van Clief stars in this action thriller about rival gangs in search of a lost "finger fighting" manual written by Bruce Lee. From the heyday of 1970s Blaxploitation and kung fu flicks, this movie demonstrates much of the same crude dialog and cut-rate film techniques usually found in those genres but succeeds by having a legitimate bad ass like van Clief in the lead role.
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Movie: The Bus Is Coming ( 1971 )
A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
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Movie: The Candy Tangerine Man ( 1975 )
Sunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciously defends his patch. First, he clobbers the Mob who attempt to move in on his patch. Second, he tracks down one of his girls who runs off with a suitcase full of his cash. Third, he disposes of two policemen. But by now he knows his pimping days are numbered, so after a final explosive gun battle he switches to being his alter ego, mild-mannered businessman Ron who lives out in the leafy suburbs with an unsuspecting wife and family.
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Movie: The Education of Sonny Carson ( 1974 )
A gifted young man is caught up in gang life.
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Movie: The Final Comedown ( 1972 )
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
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Movie: The Hitter ( 1983 )
An ex-professional boxer (O'Neal) tries to make a new start when teaming up with a fast talking but ageing hoodlum (Ceaser) and an ex-call girl (Frazier) but soon get more than they bargained for when crossing an adversary from their past.
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Movie: The Klansman ( 1974 )
A local Sheriff tries to keep the peace as racial strife hits his small Alabama town as tensions boil over when a black man is accused of raping a white woman.
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Movie: The Last Dragon ( 1985 )
In New York City, a young man searches for the "master" to obtain the final level of martial arts mastery known as the glow. Along the way, he must fight a martial arts expert corrupted with power, and rescue a beautiful singer from an obsessed music promoter.
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Movie: The Legend of Nigger Charley ( 1972 )
A slave kills a white man in self-defense and heads West towards freedom, pursued by a professional slave hunter.
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Movie: The Soul of Nigger Charley ( 1974 )
After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.
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Movie: The Liberation of L.B. Jones ( 1970 )
A successful African American businessman has a quarrel with a white policeman, suspecting that he is having an affair with his wife. The policeman's colleagues are seeking to avoid publicity.
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Movie: The Lost Man ( 1969 )
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle".
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Movie: The Man ( 1972 )
When the President and Speaker of the House are killed in a building collapse, and the Vice-President declines the office due to age and ill-health, Senate President pro tempore Douglas Dilman (James Earl Jones) suddenly becomes the first black man to occupy the Oval Office. The events from that day to the next election when he must decide if he will actually run challenge his skills as a politician and leader.
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Movie: The Monkey Hu$tle ( 1976 )
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
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Movie: The Muthers ( 1976 )
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
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Movie: The Omega Man ( 1971 )
Army doctor Robert Neville struggles to create a cure for the plague that wiped out most of the human race.
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Movie: The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger ( 1978 )
Super Soul Brother was originally going to be the "Black Superman". However, it ended up an action comedy. Wildman Steve plays a bum who agrees to allow an experimental drug to be administered to him. What he doesn't realize is that the doctor who's doing the experiment is a criminal, trying to create an unstoppable thief that's immune to bullets. Steve gains all the powers that Superman has, and after getting his revenge against all those who harassed him on the street, discovers the truth about the doctor's plans for him.
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Movie: The Slams ( 1973 )
After a murderous heist Curtis Hook (Jim Brown) is caught by the police. The police, prisoners and guards want to know where he stashed the $1.5 million. When the place where he stashed the money is scheduled to be demolished Hook makes plans to get out of jail promptly.
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Movie: The Spook Who Sat by the Door ( 1981 )
A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
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Movie: Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde ( 1976 )
When a scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells, it accidentally turns him into an albino vampire with a taste for prostitutes.
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Movie: The Wiz ( 1978 )
24-year-old kindergarten teacher Dorothy, born, raised, and still working in Harlem, is celebrating Thanksgiving with her extended family, but she doesn't seem to be thankful for much. She lives a sheltered life and is shy and unfulfilled. When she gets caught in a snowstorm while chasing her dog Toto, they're transported to the mysterious Land of Oz, where she's informed that the only way she can find her way home is through the assistance of the powerful wizard in the Emerald City. As she searches for him by easing down the Yellow Brick Road, she befriends some creatures who face problems in their lives. In their quest to find the wizard, they also face Evillene, the equally evil sister of Evermean, the wicked witch whom Dorothy inadvertently killed when she arrived in Oz; Evillene might be their biggest obstacle.
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Movie: They Call Me Mister Tibbs! ( 1970 )
In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.
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Movie: Three the Hard Way ( 1974 )
The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.
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Movie: Tick, Tick, Tick ( 1970 )
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
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Movie: Together Brothers ( 1974 )
When a five year old inner city kid witnesses the murder of a kind police officer, he is struck mute. However, his older brother and his gang refuse to let the murder of their friend and mentor go unsolved and they decide to band together and crack the case.
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Movie: Tom ( 1973 )
A white veteran goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his black Army buddy who died in Vietnam. He encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
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Movie: Top of the Heap ( 1972 )
A Washington D.C. cop is proud to be one of the few African-Americans on the force. He is not well loved by his peers or by street people. Trouble erupts when he is overlooked for a promotion.
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Movie: Tough Guys ( 1974 )
An ex-convict priest and a framed former policeman hunt a machine-gun killer behind a bank robbery.
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Movie: Trick Baby ( 1973 )
Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
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Movie: Trouble Man ( 1973 )
A neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way.
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Movie: Slow Burn ( 2003 )
The murder of the ex-wife of Dr. Sam Dennis Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.