BLAXPLOITATION Watchlist 1970 - 1972
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1. a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970)
PG | 79 min | Documentary, Sport
The documentary story of Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) -- the heavyweight boxing champion whose style and courage captured the imagination of the world.
Director: Jim Jacobs | Stars: Richard Kiley, Muhammad Ali, Cus D'Amato, Floyd Patterson
Votes: 718 | Gross: $0.41M
2. 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: 2,689 | Gross: $4.39M
3. 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
4. The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lola Falana
Votes: 1,173
5. The Red, White, and Black (1970)
GP | 77 min | Action, Romance, Western
A recruit joins an all-black cavalry regiment led by a white man in the post-Civil War West.
Director: John 'Bud' Cardos | Stars: Robert DoQui, Isaac Fields, Barbara Hale, Rafer Johnson
Votes: 86 | Gross: $0.52M
6. 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
7. 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: 2,870 | Gross: $1.50M
8. The Bus Is Coming (1971)
GP | 109 min | Drama
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.
Director: Wendell Franklin | Stars: Mike B. Sims, Lonnie Bradford, Stephanie Faulkner, Burl Bullock
Votes: 82
9. 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
10. The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
A chronicle of Fred Hampton's revolutionary leadership of the Illinois Black Panther Party, followed by an investigation into his assassination at the hands of the Chicago Police Department.
Director: Howard Alk | Stars: Skip Andrew, Edward Carmody, James Davis, Rennie Davis
Votes: 555
11. Quadroon (1971)
R | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.
Directors: Jack Weis, Herbert Janneke Jr. | Stars: Kathy McKee, Tim Kincaid, Robert Priest, George Lupo
Votes: 114
12. Skin Game (1971)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Western
In 1857, con man Quincy Drew and his black friend Jason O'Rourke swindle slave owners into buying Jason, who's a free man, and later share the profits when Jason escapes captivity.
Directors: Paul Bogart, Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Garner, Louis Gossett Jr., Susan Clark, Brenda Sykes
Votes: 1,920 | Gross: $0.74M
13. 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
14. 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
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15. 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: 874 | Gross: $1.10M
16. 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
17. 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: 2,689 | Gross: $3.03M
18. 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
19. Don't Play Us Cheap (1972)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two imps take human form in order to break up the party.
Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Thomas Anderson, Jay Van Leer, Robert Dunn, Mabel King
Votes: 386
20. The Final Comedown (1972)
R | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Black revolutionaries take action in the white suburbs.
Director: Oscar Williams | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, D'Urville Martin, Celia Milius, Maidie Norman
Votes: 447 | Gross: $0.16M
21. 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: 131 | Gross: $0.46M
22. 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: 750
23. 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: 7,037
24. 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
25. 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: 1,108 | Gross: $1.06M
26. Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
R | 144 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The story of the troubled life and career of the legendary Jazz singer, Billie Holiday.
Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Diana Ross, Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, James T. Callahan
Votes: 4,848 | Gross: $6.03M
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
28. Malcolm X (1972)
PG | 91 min | Documentary, Biography
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
Director: Arnold Perl | Stars: James Earl Jones, Ossie Davis, John Ali, Muhammad Ali
Votes: 532 | Gross: $0.10M
29. 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
30. Nationtime (1972)
80 min | Documentary
A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered voices from across the political spectrum.
Director: William Greaves | Stars: Amiri Baraka, Charles C. Diggs Jr., Richard Hatcher, Walter Fauntroy
Votes: 139
31. Super Fly (1972)
R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris
Votes: 8,604
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. 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: 1,605
36. 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
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