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1. Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)
G | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin
Votes: 1,361 | Gross: $1.24M
...tick...tick...tick... (1970, January 9th)
2. Halls of Anger (1970)
GP | 96 min | Drama
An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Janet MacLachlan, Jeff Bridges, James A. Watson Jr.
Votes: 436
Halls of Anger (1970, April 29th)
3. The Landlord (1970)
PG | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
At the age of 29, Elgar Enders (Beau Bridges) "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Ashby | Stars: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey
Votes: 3,088 | Gross: $0.96M
The Landlord (1970, May 20th)
4. 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
The Watermelon Man (1970, May 27th)
5. 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
Black Angels (1970, October 14th)
6. The Big Doll House (1971)
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills
Votes: 3,095 | Gross: $10.00M
The Big Doll House (1971, April 30th)
7. Black Chariot (1971)
90 min | Drama
Young black man joins a black nationalist group, which is betrayed by a turncoat.
Director: Robert Goodwin | Stars: Bernie Casey, Barbarao, Richard Elkins, Paulene Myers
Black Chariot (1971, June) *lost
8. Speeding Up Time (1971)
90 min | Action, Drama
A poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.
Director: John Evans | Stars: Winston Thrash, Pamela Donegan, Ellen Brown, Ojenke
Votes: 22
Speed Up Time (1971, July 16th)
9. Women in Cages (1971)
R | 81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
Director: Gerardo de Leon | Stars: Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Jennifer Gan, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,939
Women In Cages (1971, October 20th)
10. The Organization (1971)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Sheree North
Votes: 2,160 | Gross: $1.50M
The Organization (1971, October 20th)
11. 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
Honky (1971, November 26th)
12. Fritz the Cat (1972)
X | 78 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Fritz drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem and hits the road with an ex-girlfriend before getting mixed up with domestic terrorists.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Skip Hinnant, Rosetta LeNoire, John McCurry, Judy Engles
Votes: 14,343 | Gross: $25.00M
Fritz The Cat (1972, January 25th)
13. Embassy (1972)
PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Chuck Connors, Marie-José Nat, Ray Milland
Votes: 153
Embassy (1972, February)
14. Georgia, Georgia (1972)
R | 91 min | Drama, Romance
Georgia, an African-American singer, travels to the Swedish city of Stockholm for a performance. There, she meets an American deserter and soon they have fallen in love. But Georgia's ... See full summary »
Director: Stig Björkman | Stars: Diana Sands, Dirk Benedict, Minnie Gentry, Roger Furman
Votes: 130 | Gross: $0.46M
Georgia, Georgia (1972, March 10th)
15. 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
Buck and the Preacher (1972, March 17th)
16. 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
Top of the Heap (1972, June 2nd)
17. A Place Called Today (1972)
X | 103 min | Drama
Racial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.
Director: Don Schain | Stars: J. Herbert Kerr Jr., Lana Wood, Cheri Caffaro, Richard Smedley
Votes: 80
A Place Called Today (1972, June 15th)
18. The Hot Box (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.
Director: Joe Viola | Stars: Carmen Argenziano, Andrea Cagan, Margaret Markov, Rickey Richardson
Votes: 392
The Hot Box (1972, June 23rd)
19. Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)
PG | 100 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Warren | Stars: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Peter De Anda, Percy Rodrigues
Votes: 358 | Gross: $0.34M
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972, June 29th)
20. Sign of Aquarius (1970)
R | 95 min | Drama, Musical
A group of hippies who live together in a communal apartment are arrested during a peace demonstration. Upon their release, they return home to discuss plans for another demonstration. That... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Emery | Stars: Paul Elliot, Gabe Lewis, Jim Coursar, Nick Kleinholz III
Votes: 84 | Gross: $0.13M
Ghetto Freaks (1972, June) *re-marketed as blax, c:1970
21. The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
Doctors are forced to transplant the head of a dying, racist surgeon onto the body of a black death row inmate.
Director: Lee Frost | Stars: Roosevelt Grier, Ray Milland, Don Marshall, Roger Perry
Votes: 2,927
The Thing with Two Heads (1972, July 19th)
22. Bone (1972)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.
Director: Larry Cohen | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten, Jeannie Berlin
Votes: 1,376
Bone (1972, July)
23. The Big Bird Cage (1972)
R | 88 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Grier and Haig are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Candice Roman, Teda Bracci
Votes: 3,016
The Big Bird Cage (1972, July)
24. The Night of the Strangler (1972)
R | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.
Director: Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stars: Micky Dolenz, James Ralston, Michael Anthony, Chuck Patterson
Votes: 384
The Night of the Strangler (1972, October 1st)
25. Hickey & Boggs (1972)
PG | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Bill Cosby and Robert Culp ("I Spy") are united again as private eyes in this Walter Hill-scripted "film noir." Searching for a missing girl, they find themselves involved with vicious criminals and precipitating a string of deaths.
Director: Robert Culp | Stars: Bill Cosby, Robert Culp, Ta-Ronce Allen, Rosalind Cash
Votes: 1,382
Hickey and Boggs (1972, October 4th)
26. 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
Black Girl (1972, November 9th)
27. The Limit (1972)
PG | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan. One afternoon, Mark has a run-in with... See full summary »
Director: Yaphet Kotto | Stars: Yaphet Kotto, Quinn K. Redeker, Virgil Frye, Corinne Cole
Votes: 40 | Gross: $0.03M
The Limit (1972, November 10th) *lost
28. 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
Trick Baby (1972, December 22nd)
29. Catch the Black Sunshine (1974)
PG | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An albino black man and his black brother run from their former owner and search for treasure.
Director: Chris Robinson | Stars: Chris Robinson, Ted Cassidy, Robert Leslie, Phyllis Robinson
Votes: 91
Charcoal Black (1972, Unknown)
30. Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
After being bitten by a cobra in the Philippines, Lena can turn herself into a snake and she stops aging. The curse comes with a price. The priestess Lena must consume cobra venom and vital young men to stay young.
Director: Andrew Meyer | Stars: Joy Bang, Marlene Clark, Roger Garrett, Vic Diaz
Votes: 496
Night of the Cobra Woman (1972, Unknown)
31. Together for Days (1972)
PG | 84 min | Drama
A Black radical activist and a young White woman find themselves drawn to one another during the politically and racially-charged atmosphere of early 1970s America.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Clifton Davis, Lois Chiles, Northern Calloway, Leonard Jackson
Votes: 113
Together for Days (1972, Unknown) *lost
32. The Harder They Come (1972)
R | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Wishing to become a successful reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.
Director: Perry Henzell | Stars: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman
Votes: 7,036
The Harder They Come (1972, Unknown) *February 8th, 1973 in USA
33. Alabama's Ghost (1973)
PG | 96 min | Horror
Nightclub janitor discovers a secret room, finds old magician's belongings, tries on the costumes and becomes "Alabama, King of the Cosmos."
Director: Fredric Hobbs | Stars: Christopher Brooks, Peggy Browne, E. Kerrigan Prescott, Steven Kent Browne
Votes: 276
Alabama's Ghost (1973, February)
34. 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
The Black Bunch (1973, February)
35. Charley-One-Eye (1973)
R | 96 min | Western
A black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Jill Pearson
Votes: 288
Charley-One-Eye (1973, April 18th)
36. 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: 2,601 | Gross: $0.02M
Ganja & Hess (1973, April 20th)
37. Terminal Island (1973)
R | 88 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
After the abolishment of the death penalty, California murderers are dumped on an island to spend the rest of their lives unsupervised. There, two groups are formed, one lead by a psychopath, and another group determined to bring him down.
Director: Stephanie Rothman | Stars: Don Marshall, Phyllis Davis, Ena Hartman, Marta Kristen
Votes: 1,508
Terminal Island (1973, June)
38. 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
Fox Style (1973, July)
39. Heavy Traffic (1973)
R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Joseph Kaufmann, Beverly Hope Atkinson, Frank DeKova, Terri Haven
Votes: 3,715 | Gross: $1.34M
Heavy Traffic (1973, August 8th)
40. 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
The Slams (1973, September 26th)
41. I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure
In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Jim Brown, Christopher George, Richard Ely, Richard Rust
Votes: 553
I Escaped From Devil's Island (1973, September)
42. The Black Alley Cats (1973)
81 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
Director: Henning Schellerup | Stars: Sunshine Woods, Sandy Dempsey, Charlene Miles, Johnnie Rhodes
Votes: 150
The Black Alley Cats (1973, September)
43. Tom (1973)
R | 82 min | Drama
A white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides.
Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Greydon Clark, Tom Johnigarn, Jacqulin Cole, Bambi Allen
Votes: 239
Tom (1973, Unknown)
44. Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Jefferson's honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Buddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. ... See full summary »
Director: Cesar Gallardo | Stars: James Iglehart, Shirley Washington, Chiquito, Marissa Delgado
Votes: 278
Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974, January)
45. 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
Street Sisters (1974, March 13th) *not blax, marketed with Black Hooker poster
46. Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
PG | 95 min | Action, Crime, Romance
The exploits of 1910s bounty hunter Thomasine and bandit Bushrod who, after rekindling their old romance, take to robbing banks to survive, stealing from rich whites and sharing their loot with the poor on the harsh frontier.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Max Julien, Vonetta McGee, George Murdock, Glynn Turman
Votes: 607
Thomasine & Bushrod (1974, April 10th)
47. Claudine (1974)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.
Director: John Berry | Stars: Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Tamu Blackwell
Votes: 2,514 | Gross: $3.51M
Claudine (1974, April 22nd)
48. 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
Black Eye (1974, May 17th)
49. 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
Dynamite Brothers (1974, May)
50. Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974)
R | 88 min | Horror
The mummy of long dormant, but powerful Caribbean voodoo priest Gatanebo gets revived on a luxury South Seas ocean liner and proceeds to terrorize the passengers.
Director: Manuel Caño | Stars: Aldo Sambrell, Tanyeka Stadler, Alexander Abrahan, Fernando Sancho
Votes: 408
Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974, June 12th) *not blax, whites playing blacks
51. 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
Truck Turner (1974, June 26th)
52. The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974)
R | 77 min | Animation, Comedy
Fritz the Cat may have lost one of his lives in the comics, but in his new movie, he has eight more lives left to go! While his wife screams at him, Fritz lights up a joint and reminiscences about what could have been.
Director: Robert Taylor | Stars: Skip Hinnant, Reva Rose, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely
Votes: 3,004 | Gross: $1.09M
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (1974, June 26th)
53. Tough (1974)
G | 87 min | Drama
Gossett continually rebels against the white establishment. The boy finds he can expect no back-up of his attitude at home, where his parents wallow in self-indulgence, so he feels that a show of force is his only option.
Director: Horace Jackson | Stars: Dion Gossett, Christopher Townes, Renny Roker, Rich Holmes
Votes: 83 | Gross: $1.21M
Tough (1974, July 24th)
54. 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
Uptown Saturday Night (1974, July 26th)
55. 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
The Zebra Killer (1974, July)
56. 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
Savage Sisters (1974, July)
57. Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue (1974)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A young black student accidentally films a crooked cop committing a murder. He then follows the cop around, filming more of his illegal activities.
Director: Dennis McGuire | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Eric Laneuville, Paul Sorvino, Earl Hindman
Votes: 60
Shoot It: Black, Shoot It: Blue (August, 1974)
58. Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974)
PG | 89 min | Action
Liv is a mercenary drawn into a mission to rescue a kidnapped politician. He travels to the volatile Mideast and is assisted by Laura, a translator, where their lives are imperiled.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Diana Sands, Calvin Lockhart, Seth Allen, J. Eric Bell
Votes: 70
Honeybaby, Honeybaby (1974, October)
59. The House on Skull Mountain (1974)
PG | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Murders occur at the southern estate of a voodoo priestess when four relatives gather to hear her will.
Director: Ron Honthaner | Stars: Victor French, Janee Michelle, Jean Durand, Mike Evans
Votes: 792
The House on Skull Mountain (1974, October)
60. Hangup (1974)
R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: William Elliott, Marki Bey, Cliff Potts, Michael Lerner
Votes: 82
Hangup (1974, October) *thought lost, AGFA have found a print
61. The Klansman (1974)
R | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Lee Marvin, Richard Burton, Cameron Mitchell, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 1,800 | Gross: $0.53M
The Klansman (1974, November 13th)
62. 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 (1974, November)
63. Space Is the Place (1974)
R | 82 min | Sci-Fi, Music
In an effort to bring unity and equality to African-Americans, an interstellar traveler and musician lands on earth and duels with an evil overlord for the souls of people.
Director: John Coney | Stars: Sun Ra, Raymond Johnson, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney
Votes: 1,463
Space Is the Place (1974, November)
64. Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974)
R | 86 min | Crime, Thriller
A numbers king pin tries to stay in business as the mafia and police close in around him.
Director: Bill Brame | Stars: Frank DeKova, Paul Harris, Frances E. Williams, Reginald Farmer
Votes: 368
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes (1974, November)
65. 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
Abby (1974, December 25th)
66. 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
Black Starlet (1974, December)
67. The Obsessed One (1974)
76 min | Thriller
A bunch of beatniks goes out for a demented spree of murder and violent fun. The beatniks find Tyrone Pedro and his new wife in the park. They beat up Tyrone and brutally rape his wife and ... See full summary »
Director: Ramdjan Abdoelrahman | Stars: Malc Panday, Sally Savalas, Tracy Parrish, Tricia Welch
Votes: 46
The Obsessed One (1974, Unknown)
68. 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
Bogard (1974, Unknown) *pulled from theaters/edited two films into Black Fist c:1975
69. Mr. Ricco (1975)
PG | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A San Francisco attorney (Dean Martin) is hired to defend a black militant accused of murder.
Director: Paul Bogart | Stars: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas
Votes: 650
Mr. Ricco (1975, February)
70. Lord Shango (1975)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror
A tribal priest returns from the dead to take his revenge on non-believers.
Director: Ray Marsh | Stars: Marlene Clark, Lawrence Cook, Wally Taylor, Avis McCarther
Votes: 183
Lord Shango (1975, March)
71. Force Four (1975)
R | 82 min | Action, Drama
When a priceless African statue is stolen and its courier is murdered, the Force Four are called in to deal out some old fashioned retributive action.
Director: Michael Fink | Stars: Owen Watson, Warhawk Tanzania, Malachi Lee, Judie Soriano
Votes: 103 | Gross: $0.24M
Force Four (1975, April)
72. Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Sport
A 12-year-old is traumatised by the murder of his friend, a star basketball player.
Director: Joseph Manduke | Stars: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair
Votes: 1,060 | Gross: $0.78M
Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975, May 21st)
73. Man Friday (1975)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
During the 17th century, shipwrecked English seaman Robinson Crusoe, after years of solitude, spots natives on his deserted Pacific island and befriends one who he names Friday.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier, Christopher Cabot
Votes: 1,083
Man Friday (1975, May)
74. Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
R | 92 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Directors: David Worth, Richard Robinson | Stars: Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy
Votes: 955
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975, June)
75. Mandingo (1975)
R | 127 min | Drama, History, Romance
An 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward
Votes: 4,221 | Gross: $2.43M
Mandingo (1975, July 25th)
76. Coonskin (1974)
R | 100 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Rabbit, a country-born trickster, takes over the organized crime racket in Harlem, facing opposition from the institutionalized racism of the Mafia and corrupt police.
Director: Ralph Bakshi | Stars: Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas
Votes: 3,749
Coonskin (1975, August 20th)
77. Deliver Us from Evil (1975)
PG | 96 min | Drama
Fed up with violence in their neighborhood, a janitor, a teacher and a disabled boy band together against drug dealers and other thugs.
Director: Horace Jackson | Stars: Marie O'Henry, Renny Roker, Candi Keath, Cal Haynes
Votes: 115
Joey (1975, August) *back out 1977 as Deliver Us from Evil
78. Bamboo Trap (1975)
Action, Drama
Director: Ernesto Ventura | Stars: George Estregan, Lotis Key, Eddie Garcia, Chanda Romero
Votes: 15
Bamboo Trap (1975, August 1st) *lost/no USA?
79. Mahogany (1975)
PG | 109 min | Drama, Romance
Tracy, an aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring ... See full summary »
Directors: Berry Gordy, Tony Richardson, Jack Wormser | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Votes: 2,226 | Gross: $5.00M
Mahogany (1975, October 8th)
80. Old Dracula (1974)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Horror
In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from several beautiful models, but during the transfusion, Vampira's race turns from white to black.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: David Niven, Teresa Graves, Peter Bayliss, Jennie Linden
Votes: 1,265
Vampira (1974, October 10th)
81. Take a Hard Ride (1975)
PG | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After selling his cattle in town, ranch owner Morgan unexpectedly dies, and his foreman Pike has to deliver the payroll to Sonora, despite the perilous journey during which he's followed by many shady characters who want the money.
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak
Votes: 1,482
Take a Hard Ride (1975, October 29th)
82. Black Emanuelle (1975)
R | 96 min | Drama
While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts.
Director: Bitto Albertini | Stars: Laura Gemser, Karin Schubert, Angelo Infanti, Isabelle Marchall
Votes: 1,762
Black Emanuelle (1975, November 27th)
83. 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
The Black Dragon's Revenge (1975, November)
84. Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In New York City, a young black boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love despite objections from each other's families.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Robert Hooks
Votes: 307
Aaron Loves Angela (1975, December 25th)
85. 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
Bad, Black and Beautiful (1975, Unknown)
86. Tang shan hu wei jian sha shou (1974)
R | 90 min | Action, Drama
The members of an illicit organization called The Black Hand placed a lot of money on Bruce Lee. When Bruce, however, costs them a million dollar they are not happy and plot revenge.
Directors: Che Yang, Yang Yang | Stars: Lung Tang, Ti Hua, Ching-Te Chen, Jackie Chen
Votes: 40
The Black Dragon vs The Yellow Tiger (1976, February)
87. The Zebra Force (1976)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime
A group of Vietnam vets, tired of the depredation of the Mafia on their neighborhood, decide to take on the mob on their own terms--but by using a very different twist.
Director: Joe Tornatore | Stars: Mike Lane, Richard X. Slattery, Rockne Tarkington, Glenn R. Wilder
Votes: 270
The Zebra Force (1976, April 11th)
88. The River Niger (1976)
R | 105 min | Drama
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But ... See full summary »
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Louis Gossett Jr., Glynn Turman
Votes: 296
The River Niger (1976, April 14th)
89. 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
Countdown at Kusini (1976, April 16th) *lost
90. 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
Hot Potato (1976, April)
91. Black Trash (1976)
R | 86 min | Action, Crime
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
Director: Christopher Rowley | Stars: Nigel Davenport, Ken Gampu, Peter Dyneley, Bima Stagg
Votes: 108
Death of a Snowman (1976, June 7th) *September 1978 in USA
92. Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1976)
PG | 76 min | Action, Drama
An American track team has just arrived in The Philippines for an international competition. Among the competitors are Ginger and Pam, nicknamed "Ivory" and "Ebony", who meet up with ... See full summary »
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Rosanne Katon, Colleen Camp, Sylvia Anderson, Ken Washington
Votes: 215
Ebony, Ivory & Jade (1976, June)
93. The Long Night (1976)
PG | 85 min | Drama
Steely Brown, a young boy living in Harlem, wanders the streets of the city one night, reflecting on what led to the disappearance of his father. Meeting the denizens of his neighborhood, ... See full summary »
Director: Woodie King Jr. | Stars: Woodie King Jr., Dick Anthony Williams, Peggy Kirkpatrick, Yvonne Warden
The Long Night (1976, June) *thought lost, has been found/no release yet
94. Drum (1976)
R | 110 min | Action, Drama
A mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.
Directors: Steve Carver, Burt Kennedy | Stars: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Ken Norton, Pam Grier
Votes: 1,060
Drum (1976, July 30th)
95. Black Emanuelle 2 (1976)
91 min | Drama
An international supermodel is in a mental hospital, and her psychiatrist tries to draw out what traumatic experiences in her past contributed to put her there.
Director: Bitto Albertini | Stars: Angelo Infanti, Shulamith Lasri, Don Powell, Percy Hogan
Votes: 337
The New Black Emanuelle (1976, July 31st)
96. Black Velvet (1976)
R | 85 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Glamorous, but passive and browbeaten fashion model Laura and her abusive photographer husband Carlo go to Egypt to visit Laura's wealthy friend Crystal. While staying at Crystal's palatial... See full summary »
Director: Brunello Rondi | Stars: Laura Gemser, Annie Belle, Al Cliver, Gabriele Tinti
Votes: 561
Black Emmanuelle, White Emmanuelle (1976, September 1st)
97. Devil's Express (1976)
R | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A tough black martial artist cop takes on warring street gangs and an evil demon that haunts the New York City subways.
Director: Barry Rosen | Stars: Warhawk Tanzania, Larry Fleischman, Wilfredo Roldan, Stephen DeFazio
Votes: 539
Devil's Express (1976, September 7th)
98. Norman... Is That You? (1976)
PG | 91 min | Comedy
A black man is distraught when he discovers his son is gay and is determined to set him right.
Director: George Schlatter | Stars: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Dennis Dugan, Michael Warren
Votes: 442
Norman...Is That You? (1976, September 29th)
99. Blind Rage (1976)
R | 80 min | Action, Comedy
Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.
Director: Efren C. Piñon | Stars: Tony Ferrer, Leila Hermosa, Leo Fong, Charlie Davao
Votes: 399
Blind Rage (1976, October 6th) *April 1978 in USA
100. 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
The Muthers (1976, November)
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