Blaxplotation that ISN'T the same 30 movies on all the other "Blaxploitation" lists...
by J_Frank_Parnell | created - 20 Jun 2021 | updated - 25 Oct 2022 | PublicObscure (mostly) 70s Blaxplotation (plus all the standard Blaxploitation stuff, at the end, just to be thorough). Black bikers, Black Gestapo, Black power kung-fu, Black Westerns, Blaxploitation horror knock-offs, some of the edgier 'race movies' of the 60s, pimp shit, voodoo shit, prison movies, soft-core porn, Caribbean movies, etc
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1. Trick Baby (1972)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two Phildelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Director: Larry Yust | Stars: Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Dallas Edward Hayes, Beverly Ballard
Votes: 651 | Gross: $0.62M
2. Uptight (1968)
M | 104 min | Drama, Thriller
In this landmark collaboration between activist and actress Ruby Dee and director Jules Dassin, Black revolutionaries are betrayed by one of their own. Based on the 1935 classic "The Informer."
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne
Votes: 965
3. Wattstax (1973)
R | 103 min | Documentary, Comedy, Music
Documentary covering a Stax Records-sponsored all-day concert at the 1972 Watts Summer Festival with performances by Stax Records artists such as Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, The Staples Singers, and more.
Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: The Dramatics, The Staple Singers, Kim Weston, Jimmy Jones
Votes: 1,089
4. Putney Swope (1969)
R | 84 min | Comedy
The board of directors at a Madison Avenue ad agency must elect a new chairman. In the maneuvering to make sure that enemies don't get votes, all the members accidentally cast their ballot for the board's token black man, Putney Swope.
Director: Robert Downey Sr. | Stars: Arnold Johnson, Stan Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Archie Russell
Votes: 4,359 | Gross: $2.73M
5. The Black Gestapo (1975)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross
Votes: 1,338
6. The Black Godfather (1974)
R | 90 min | Crime
J.J., a rising star in the crime scene, is in the process of consolidating his power over the neighborhood. One of the only remaining obstacles is the heroin cartel is understandably reluctant to abandon such a lucrative market.
Director: John Evans | Stars: Rod Perry, Damu King, Don Chastain, Diane Sommerfield
Votes: 567 | Gross: $0.49M
7. The Black Connection (1974)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama
Las Vegas drug dealer is in deep with the Italian mob over a large amount of missing cocaine. He must get creative to get out from under the mob before they take the ultimate course of action.
Director: Michael Finn | Stars: The Checkmates Ltd., Bobby Stevens, Sweet Louie, Sonny Charles
Votes: 110
8. The Black 6 (1973)
R | 94 min | Action, Drama
A high school student, who is a person of colour, 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 seeks revenge.
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Robert Howard, Cindy Daly, Mikel Angel, John Isenbarger
Votes: 629
9. The Black Klansman (1966)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama
After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
Director: Ted V. Mikels | Stars: Richard Gilden, Rima Kutner, Harry Lovejoy, Max Julien
Votes: 539
10. Black Angels (1970)
R | 87 min | Action, Drama
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
Director: Laurence Merrick | Stars: Des Roberts, John King III, Linda Jackson, James Whitworth
Votes: 178
11. Black Starlet (1974)
R | 98 min | Drama
Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Director: Chris Munger | Stars: Juanita Brown, Eric Mason, Rockne Tarkington, Damu King
Votes: 67
12. The Black Dragon's Revenge (1975)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Three rival gangs embark on a search for Bruce Lee's handwritten "finger fighting " manual.
Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Ron Van Clief, Charles Bonet, Phillip Ko, Bobby Canavarro
Votes: 156
13. The Black Dragon (1974)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
Decent, simple, honest Chinese farmhand and ace martial artist Tai-Lin goes to the Philippines to seek his fortune. He befriends scruffy petty street hoodlum Siao-Mao and gets a job as a ... See full summary »
Director: Chun-Ku Lu | Stars: Tony Ferrer, Alona Alegre, Dick Chan, Jimmy Lee
Votes: 117
"The Black Dragon"
14. Way of the Black Dragon (1978)
88 min | Action, Adventure
Allison Wong gets abducted by a gang of drug smugglers with a nasty sideline business involving white slavery and prostitution. Interpol agent Bill Eaton, honest worker Chen, and Allison's ... See full summary »
Director: Chih Chen | Stars: Cecilia Wong, Carter Wong, Ron Van Clief, Charles Bonet
Votes: 75
15. Bogard (1975)
X | 93 min | Action, Crime
To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.
Director: Timothy Galfas | Stars: Richard Lawson, Annazette Chase, Philip Michael Thomas, Robert Burr
Votes: 512
16. Black Girl (1972)
PG | 97 min | Drama
An aspiring dancer and her wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Brock Peters, Claudia McNeil, Leslie Uggams, Louise Stubbs
Votes: 557 | Gross: $0.41M
17. Black Eye (1974)
PG | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Private detective investigated a series of murders connected with a drug ring in Venice, California.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Fred Williamson, Rosemary Forsyth, Teresa Graves, Floy Dean
Votes: 309
18. Black Gunn (1972)
R | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A black militant group robs a Mafia bookie joint and also steals the incriminating ledgers which, in turn, prompts retaliation from the mob.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Jim Brown, Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 875 | Gross: $1.10M
19. Black Belt Jones (1974)
R | 85 min | Action
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.
Director: Robert Clouse | Stars: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers, Eric Laneuville
Votes: 2,725 | Gross: $0.73M
20. Black Lolita (1974)
R | 85 min | Action, Drama
A singer returns to her home town, puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.
Director: Stephen Gibson | Stars: Yolanda Love, Susan Ayers, Ed Cheatwood, Joey Ginza
Votes: 69
21. Black Commando (1982)
90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Director: Max H. Boulois | Stars: Tony Curtis, Joanna Pettet, Max H. Boulois, Ramiro Oliveros
Votes: 83
22. Blackjack (1978)
104 min | Action
A gang of criminals set out to rob mafia controlled casinos in Las Vegas.
Director: John Evans | Stars: William Smith, Tony Burton, Frank Christi, Damu King
Votes: 57
23. Black Jack (1972)
GP | 87 min | Comedy
Three anti-war activists hijack a B-52 bomber.
Director: William T. Naud | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Brandon De Wilde, Keenan Wynn, Tim O'Connor
Votes: 72
24. The Black Bunch (1972)
X | 82 min | Action, Drama
In Africa, four native women join and are hired to find a wealthy man's son who has disappeared, and use the opportunity to get revenge on a gang of mercenaries who have massacred the inhabitants of the womens' village.
Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: Gladys Bunker, Betty Barton, Yvonne, Anita Cunningham
Votes: 63
25. Black Samson (1974)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.
Director: Charles Bail | Stars: Rockne Tarkington, William Smith, Connie Strickland, Carol Speed
Votes: 629 | Gross: $0.09M
26. Black Samurai (1976)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime
Robert Sand, agent of D.R.A.G.O.N. (Defense Reserve Agency Guardian Of Nations), is playing tennis on his vacation with a beautiful black girl, when his commanding officers ask him to save a Chinese girl who happens to be Sand's girlfriend, and the daughter of a top Eastern Ambassador. The ransom for the abduction was the secret for a terrific new weapon - the freeze bomb - but the 'Warlock' ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Jim Kelly, Bill Roy, Roberto Contreras, Marilyn Joi
Votes: 1,045
27. Black Shampoo (1976)
R | 85 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A promiscuous heterosexual black hairstylist and businessman has sex with his white female customers, but when he begins a relationship with his black secretary, her white mobster ex-boyfriend resorts to violent measures to get her back.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: John Daniels, Tanya Boyd, Joseph Carlo, Skip E. Lowe
Votes: 979
28. Black Heat (1976)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Kicks Carter, a streetwise Las Vegs cop, is out to shut down an upscale hotel that is actually a front for a host of illegal activities. A gang headed by the scuzzy Ziggy is running ... See full summary »
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Timothy Brown, Russ Tamblyn, Jana Bellan, Geoffrey Land
Votes: 268
29. Black Caesar (1973)
R | 87 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raised in Harlem, Tommy Gibbs becomes a successful mob boss but he clashes with the rival Mafia and his old enemy, dirty cop McKinney.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Art Lund, D'Urville Martin
Votes: 3,893
30. Blackenstein (1973)
R | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Eddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.
Director: William A. Levey | Stars: John Hart, Ivory Stone, Joe De Sue, Roosevelt Jackson
Votes: 1,417
31. Black Mama White Mama (1973)
R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Sid Haig, Lynn Borden
Votes: 3,639 | Gross: $0.19M
32. Blacula (1972)
PG | 93 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.
Director: William Crain | Stars: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala
Votes: 7,865 | Gross: $3.00M
33. Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror
The vampire Mamuwalde (a.k.a. Blacula) is resurrected by voodoo and forced to kill again.
Director: Bob Kelljan | Stars: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad
Votes: 3,059 | Gross: $2.18M
34. Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
R | 87 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
When a black scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells and tests it on himself, it accidentally turns him into an albino monster with a lust for murdering prostitutes, pimps and drug dealers.
Director: William Crain | Stars: Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Marie O'Henry, Ji-Tu Cumbuka
Votes: 602
35. Bad, Black and Beautiful (1975)
R | 83 min | Action
When Johnny Boyles is falsely accused of murdering his ex-boss, he turns to the unstoppable attorney, Eva Taylor, to help him plea his case.
Director: Bobby Davis | Stars: Gwynn Barbee, Sammy Sams, Levi Balford, Luke Ward
Votes: 49
36. Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
PG | 96 min | Comedy
In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Williams | Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers
Votes: 489 | Gross: $1.72M
37. Cool Red (1976)
PG | 101 min | Action, Drama
Story of the transition of an African country from colonialism to independence.
Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, Greg Morris, Tom Aldredge
Votes: 32
38. Blue Collar (1978)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama
When three automotive factory workers who're struggling financially try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption, and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 10,648
39. Boss Nigger (1974)
PG | 87 min | Comedy, Western
Two black bounty hunters, pursuing an outlaw, take over a small Western town without a sheriff.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, William Smith, R.G. Armstrong
Votes: 2,929
40. The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger (1978)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Rene Martinez Jr. | Stars: Steve Gallon, Joycelyn Norris, Benny Latimore, Peter Conrad
Votes: 232
"Supersoul Brother"
41. The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973)
R | 109 min | Western
After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.
Director: Larry G. Spangler | Stars: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin, Denise Nicholas, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Votes: 221 | Gross: $0.32M
42. Super Spook (1974)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
After a Harlem numbers lady is robbed in Central Park, her daughter hires an out of touch sleuth to catch the robber before the mob and a crooked cop come down on her mother.
Director: Tony Major | Stars: Leonard Jackson, Bill Jay, Tony King, Bob Reed
Votes: 36
43. Honky (1971)
R | 92 min | Drama, Romance
Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Brenda Sykes, John Neilson, Maia Danziger, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Votes: 151
44. Every Nigger Is a Star (1974)
Documentary, Drama
A man returns to his home of Jamaica from journey. Along the way, he meets up with famous reggae bands of the time.
Director: Calvin Lockhart | Stars: Big Youth, The Boris Gardiner Happening, Fabulous Five, Alfred Fagon
Votes: 13
45. Brothers (1977)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama
Thinly disguised account of the relationship between radical black activist Angela Davis and Black Panther and prison inmate George Jackson, who was killed in a failed 1971 prison breakout.
Director: Arthur Barron | Stars: Bernie Casey, Vonetta McGee, Ron O'Neal, John Lehne
Votes: 193
46. Brother on the Run (1973)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
About a college/high school teacher who tries to intervene and rescue his student who is being pursued by the law. The professor happens to have sexual intercourse with at least two different women on his way to save his student.
Directors: Edward J. Lakso, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Terry Carter, Gwenn Mitchell, Kyle Johnson, James Sikking
Votes: 56
47. Brotherhood of Death (1976)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: Bill Berry | Stars: Roy Jefferson, Le Tari, Haskell V. Anderson III, Mike Thomas
Votes: 544
48. Together Brothers (1974)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A group of ghetto kids try to find out who killed a popular police officer.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Ahmad Nurradin, Anthony Wilson, Nelson Sims, Kenneth Bell
Votes: 243 | Gross: $0.55M
49. Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975)
R | 91 min | Action, Drama, Horror
After being released, a wrongfully imprisoned black man exacts vengeance on those who've crossed him via the power of his newly sentient penis, which may or may not be the result of an experiment gone wrong.
Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Marlo Monte, Reatha Grey, Stan Kamber, Tiffany Peters
Votes: 785
50. Soul Brothers of Kung Fu (1977)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Two illegal immigrants meet a young kid and the three become best friends until one of them joins the Triads. Now the remaining two must fight the Triads in a battle to the death.
Director: Shan Hua | Stars: Bruce Li, Feng Ku, Meng Lo, Carl Scott
Votes: 238
51. Dynamite Brothers (1974)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.
Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Alan Tang, Timothy Brown, James Hong, Aldo Ray
Votes: 568
52. My Brother's Wedding (1983)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and well to-do fiancee and is reluctantly to be the best man at their wedding.
Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Ronnie Bell
Votes: 1,073 | Gross: $0.01M
53. Black Hooker (1974)
R | 87 min | Drama
Young woman quickly realizes that prostitution is a harsh reality.
Director: Arthur Roberson | Stars: Durey Mason, Sandra Alexandra, Jeff Burton, Kathryn Jackson
Votes: 203
54. Savage Sisters (1974)
R | 86 min | Action, Drama
Three women of three races join the fundraising part of an island revolution.
Director: Eddie Romero | Stars: Gloria Hendry, Cheri Caffaro, Rosanna Ortiz, John Ashley
Votes: 471
55. The Muthers (1976)
R | 83 min | Action, Drama
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Jeannie Bell, Rosanne Katon, Trina Parks, Jayne Kennedy
Votes: 839
56. Mean Mother (1973)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two US soldiers desert from the Vietnam war and go their separate ways. Both of them reach Europe and become involved in the criminal underworld, and eventually reunite in Rome with plans to escape to Canada.
Directors: Al Adamson, León Klimovsky | Stars: Dobie Gray, Dennis Safren, Luciana Paluzzi, Lang Jeffries
Votes: 445
57. Bush Mama (1979)
97 min | Drama
It details the life of Dorothy who is a poor black woman. Her husband is put in jail for no observable reason and she is pregnant with a second child. The government threatens to take away her welfare if she does not get an abortion.
Director: Haile Gerima | Stars: Barbarao, Johnny Weathers, Susan Williams, Cora Lee Day
Votes: 269
58. The Man (1972)
G | 93 min | Drama
An African-American senator becomes the designated survivor of a tragic accident that kills the President of the United States. Now the first black President, he attempts to end the bigotry and divide standing in his way.
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres
Votes: 412
59. The Get-Man (1974)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Thriller
A police officer becomes greatly obsessed with a sadistic serial killer/rapist called "The Zebra Killer" after his girlfriend is kidnapped, and discovers a string of many brutal murders along the way while tracking him down.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Juanita Moore, Austin Stoker, Hugh Smith, James Carroll Pickett
Votes: 178
60. The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
R | 95 min | Adventure, Action
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: John Daniels, Eli Haines, Tom Hankason, Marva Farmer
Votes: 318
61. Hit Man (1972)
R | 90 min | Crime, Drama
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.
Director: George Armitage | Stars: Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Lisa Moore, Bhetty Waldron
Votes: 1,107 | Gross: $1.06M
62. Trouble Man (1972)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A neighborhood "problem solver" is framed for murder by a couple of local crime bosses trying to get him out of the way.
Director: Ivan Dixon | Stars: Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite, William Smithers
Votes: 1,606
63. Countryman (1982)
R | 102 min | Drama
A young American couple crash-lands their plane in Jamaica. A fisherman rescues them and leads them away from the authorities, who have fabricated a story about the plane, involving drug and arms smuggling by the CIA, to gain popularity in an upcoming election.
Director: Dickie Jobson | Stars: Countryman, Hiram Keller, Carl Bradshaw, Basil Keane
Votes: 616
64. Watermelon Man (1970)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin
Votes: 2,869 | Gross: $1.50M
65. Mister Deathman (1983)
93 min | Action
Geoffrey Graves is a suave secret agent who's called out of retirement and sent to South Africa to recover a kidnapped aerospace engineer before he can reveal the secrets of the ... See full summary »
Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: David Broadnax, Stella Stevens, Arthur Brauss, Lena Farugia
Votes: 98
66. That Man Bolt (1973)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
To take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, via Los Angeles, is it necessary to call on that man - Bolt? With the number of dangerous spies and gangsters who are after that briefcase, maybe Jefferson Bolt is not enough.
Directors: Henry Levin, David Lowell Rich | Stars: Fred Williamson, Byron Webster, Miko Mayama, Teresa Graves
Votes: 433
67. Buck and the Preacher (1972)
GP | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Directors: Sidney Poitier, Joseph Sargent | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell
Votes: 2,688 | Gross: $3.03M
68. The Slams (1973)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Everybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Jim Brown, Judy Pace, Roland Bob Harris, Paul Harris
Votes: 323 | Gross: $0.26M
69. Truck Turner (1974)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
While tracking a strong-armed pimp who has skipped bail, a bounty hunter discovers a contract has been put out on him and must go on the run.
Director: Jonathan Kaplan | Stars: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase
Votes: 3,593 | Gross: $0.18M
70. Book of Numbers (1973)
R | 81 min | Crime, Drama
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
Director: Raymond St. Jacques | Stars: Raymond St. Jacques, Philip Michael Thomas, Freda Payne, Hope Clarke
Votes: 95
71. Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery
Votes: 1,760 | Gross: $1.45M
72. Bucktown (1975)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
After being hassled by The Man in a southern town, a cool operator asks some violent friends for help. After all, if you can't trust another brother, who can you trust?
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King
Votes: 1,599
73. Youngblood (1978)
R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A gang war/drug story set in a Los Angeles ghetto about the coming of age of a 15-year-old black youth.
Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Bryan O'Dell, Renn Woods, Tony Allen
Votes: 351
74. Fox Style (1973)
R | 84 min | Drama
A wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs.
Director: Clyde Houston | Stars: Chuck Daniel, Juanita Moore, Denise Denise, Richard Lawson
Votes: 87
75. Hammer (1972)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Los Angeles dock worker becomes a boxer but his crooked manager is involved in various rackets and he's working for the mob.
Director: Bruce D. Clark | Stars: Fred Williamson, Bernie Hamilton, Vonetta McGee, William Smith
Votes: 751
76. Mr. Mean (1977)
R | 98 min | Action, Drama
A former Cosa Nostra henchman seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss.
Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Lou Castel, Raimund Harmstorf, Crippy Yocard
Votes: 122
77. Cool Breeze (1972)
R | 101 min | Crime, Drama
Thalmus is the leader for a group of criminals who gather in L.A. to rob a bank. Their goal is to find a new bank.
Director: Barry Pollack | Stars: Thalmus Rasulala, Judy Pace, Julian Christopher, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Votes: 414 | Gross: $1.18M
78. The Take (1974)
PG | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Crime fighter Terry Sneed arrives in New Mexico to help out a local police chief - but he's already taking money from the underworld.
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Frankie Avalon, Sorrell Booke
Votes: 315
79. Carter's Army (1970 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A racist officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Germans.
Director: George McCowan | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver, Roosevelt Grier
Votes: 610
80. Getting Over (1981)
PG | 108 min | Comedy, Music
This tuneful drama features the rock group Love Machine as it tells the tale of a record promoter hired by a crooked producer to fulfill affirmative action quotas. It is the hard-working, ... See full summary »
Director: Bernie Rollins | Stars: John Daniels, Gwen Brisco, Bernice Givens, Mary Hopkins
Votes: 27
81. Top of the Heap (1972)
R | 90 min | Drama
A D.C. black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.
Director: Christopher St. John | Stars: Christopher St. John, Paula Kelly, Florence St. Peter, Leonard Kuras
Votes: 398 | Gross: $0.26M
82. Joe Bullet (1973)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action
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.
Director: Louis de Witt | Stars: Ken Gampu, Joe Lopez, Abigail Kubeka, Jimmy Sabe
Votes: 115
83. Car Wash (1976)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A comedic take on the daily life of car-wash employees, chronicling their hopes, fears, joys, dreams, and tribulations, and meeting some eccentric customers along the way.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff
Votes: 8,197
84. Hot Potato (1976)
PG | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Martial-arts expert tries to rescue an ambassador's daughter who was kidnapped in Thailand.
Director: Oscar Williams | Stars: Jim Kelly, George Memmoli, Geoffrey Binney, Irene Tsu
Votes: 451
85. The Human Tornado (1976)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Dolemite flees to California, where he helps Queen Bee and her Kung Fu prostitutes battle a local gangster.
Director: Cliff Roquemore | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Lady Reed, Jimmy Lynch, Howard Jackson
Votes: 1,959
86. Petey Wheatstraw (1977)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
After being murdered by his rivals, Petey Wheatstraw is resurrected, in exchange for marrying the devil's daughter, the world's ugliest woman.
Director: Cliff Roquemore | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Jimmy Lynch, Leroy Daniels, Ernest Mayhand
Votes: 1,552
87. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
PG | 102 min | Action, Drama, Crime
A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
Director: Ivan Dixon | Stars: Lawrence Cook, Janet League, Paula Kelly, J.A. Preston
Votes: 1,567 | Gross: $1.00M
88. Darktown Strutters (1975)
PG | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
Syreena must investigate the disappearance of her mother, Cinderella. A series of wild complications follow.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Trina Parks, Lejeune Richardson, Bettye Sweet, Shirley Washington
Votes: 533
VERY strange Black musical- Kinda like 'The Wiz', but with even more psychadelics, mixed with a biker movie, mixed with cheesy, campy skit comedy, mixed with 'The Banana Splits'. Worth watching just for the wtf-value.
89. Across 110th Street (1972)
R | 102 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.
Director: Barry Shear | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Frank Adu
Votes: 7,147 | Gross: $3.60M
90. The Cool World (1963)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A look at the horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
Director: Shirley Clarke | Stars: Rony Clanton, Carl Lee, Yolanda Rodríguez, Clarence Williams III
Votes: 662
91. Sugar Hill (1974)
PG | 91 min | Action, Crime, Horror
When her boyfriend is murdered by mobsters, Sugar Hill decides not to get mad, but BAD. She asks the voodoo priestess Mama Maitresse to summon Baron Samedi, the Lord of the Dead, to help ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Maslansky | Stars: Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Betty Anne Rees
Votes: 2,303 | Gross: $0.03M
Blaxploitation zombie movie
92. Abby (1974)
R | 89 min | Horror
A marriage counselor becomes possessed by a demon of sexuality when her father-in-law, an archaeologist and an exorcist, accidentally frees it while in Africa.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Carol Speed, William Marshall, Terry Carter, Austin Stoker
Votes: 1,089
(Blaxploiation 'The Exorcist' clone)
93. The Monkey Hu$tle (1976)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Kirk Calloway, Thomas Carter, Donn Carl Harper
Votes: 490
94. Foxy Brown (1974)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A voluptuous vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter
Votes: 12,040 | Gross: $2.46M
95. Disco Godfather (1979)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission!
Director: J. Robert Wagoner | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones
Votes: 1,789
96. Disco 9000 (1977)
PG | 101 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.
Director: D'Urville Martin | Stars: John Poole, Jeannie Bell, Harold Nicholas, Nicholas Lewis
Votes: 123
97. Ganja & Hess (1973)
R | 112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor's assistant finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Director: Bill Gunn | Stars: Duane Jones, Marlene Clark, Bill Gunn, Sam L. Waymon
Votes: 2,600 | Gross: $0.02M
Originally "Black Vampire"
98. Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
R | 97 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
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.
Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace
Votes: 2,688 | Gross: $4.39M
99. The Mack (1973)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Director: Michael Campus | Stars: Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor, Carol Speed
Votes: 3,302
100. Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
PG | 104 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
At Madame Zenobia's illegal nightclub, when Steve Jackson and Wardell Franklin get robbed of their wallets containing a winning lottery ticket, they set out to recover it.
Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson
Votes: 2,815 | Gross: $4.57M
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