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Don't Judge a Movie by the Cover
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Blaxploitation films


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Movie: Black Belt Jones ( 1974 )
A Mafia buy out of Papa Byrd's karate school downtown ends in his death. Byrd's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell, and wants revenge. Byrd's students call the Black Belt Jones for help. Jones reluctantly teams with Sydney in many battles.
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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: Get Christie Love! ( 1974 )
A beautiful policewoman goes undercover to break up a drug ring.
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Movie: Street Sisters ( 1974 )
Young woman quickly realize that prostitution is a harsh reality.
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Movie: Bamboo Gods and Iron Men ( 1974 )
The Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Bouddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that Cal Jefferson is a top American boxer...
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Movie: Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes ( 1974 )
A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.
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Movie: Coffy ( 1973 )
A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.
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Movie: I Escaped from Devil's Island ( 1973 )
In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
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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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TV Show: Shaft ( 1973 )
In this short-lived series based on the popular movie and its sequels, John Shaft is the "black private dick" who would risk his life for his brother man.
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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: 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: Live and Let Die ( 1973 )
Several British agents have been murdered and James Bond is sent to New Orleans, to investigate these mysterious deaths. Mr. Big comes to his knowledge, who is self-producing heroin. Along his journeys he meets Tee Hee who has a claw for a hand, Baron Samedi the voodoo master and Solitaire a tarot card reader. Bond must travel to New Orleans, and deep into the Bayou.
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Movie: Scream Blacula Scream ( 1973 )
The vampire Mamuwalde (Blacula) is stirred by African voodoo, and is forced to kill again.
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Movie: Shaft in Africa ( 1973 )
Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
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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: 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: 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: Brother on the Run ( 1973 )
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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: Mean Mother ( 1973 )
Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.
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Movie: Across 110th Street ( 1973 )
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
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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: Black Gunn ( 1973 )
A black militant group robs a Mafia bookie joint and also steals the incriminating ledgers which, in turn, prompts retaliation from the mob.
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Movie: Black Caesar ( 1973 )
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
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Movie: Black Mama White Mama ( 1973 )
When two troublemaking female prisoners (one a revolutionary, the other a former harem-girl) can't seem to get along, they are chained together and extradited for safekeeping. The women, still chained together, stumble, stab, and cat-fight their way across the wilderness, igniting a bloody shootout between gangsters and a group of revolutionaries.
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Movie: Joe Bullet ( 1973 )
When a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day...Joe Bullet.
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Movie: Fox Style ( 1973 )
A wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs.
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Movie: Hit Man ( 1972 )
An ex-cop discovers that his brother's recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city's porno movie scene.
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Movie: Don't Play Us Cheap ( 1972 )
Film version of Melvin Van Peebles' Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up. But somehow, their attempts to ruin the party fail.
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Movie: Melinda ( 1972 )
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
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Movie: Black Girl ( 1972 )
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
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Movie: Lady Sings the Blues ( 1972 )
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
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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: Hammer ( 1972 )
A Los Angeles dock worker becomes a boxer but his crooked manager is involved in various rackets and he's working for the mob.
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Movie: Blacula ( 1972 )
An 18th century African statesman is transformed into a vampire, cursed with the name Blacula, and entombed in Dracula's Castle after he fails to convince the Count to support him in his cause to end the slave trade. Two hundred years later, a pair of interior decorators transport his coffin to L.A. where he awakes with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. As Blacula pursues a woman who resembles his long dead wife, her brother-in-law, a pathologist, investigates the string of carnage that follows in the vampire's wake.
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Movie: Shaft's Big Score! ( 1972 )
Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
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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: 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: The Final Comedown ( 1972 )
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
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Movie: Black Jack ( 1972 )
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
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Movie: Miss Melody Jones ( 1972 )
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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: Shaft ( 1971 )
A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
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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: Speeding Up Time ( 1971 )
A poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.
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Movie: Halls of Anger ( 1970 )
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
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Movie: Black Angels ( 1970 )
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
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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: 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: Cotton Comes to Harlem ( 1970 )
Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.
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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: The Lost Man ( 1969 )
A gang of black militants plots to rob a factory to finance their "revolutionary struggle".
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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.