Blaxploitation Movies

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1. No Way Back (1976)

R | 103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Crowder is a man who will do anything, if the price is right. He is a private detective with a past in the police force. A woman comes to his office one day and asks if he will find her ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Charles Woolf, Tracy Reed, Virginia Gregg

Votes: 110

2. 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

3. 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

4. Foxy Brown (1974)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

46 Metascore

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

5. Coffy (1973)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

60 Metascore

A sexy Black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott

Votes: 12,939

6. Friday Foster (1975)

R | 90 min | Action

At Los Angeles airport, magazine photographer Friday Foster witnesses an assassination attempt against billionaire Blake Tarr and is drawn into a murky political conspiracy.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala

Votes: 2,548

7. 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

8. Three the Hard Way (1974)

R | 89 min | Action, Thriller

Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.

Director: Gordon Parks Jr. | Stars: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Sheila Frazier

Votes: 1,757 | Gross: $1.28M

9. 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

10. 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

11. Afro Ninja (2009 Video)

Unrated | 88 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

This homage to martial arts legend Jim Kelly is based on a hugely successful Youtube video. Reggie's got a dead end job, a cruel boss, and no real propsects. Until, that is, he uncovers a ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Hicks | Stars: James Black, D.T. Carney, Marla Gibbs, Nick Hermz

Votes: 148

12. 'Sheba, Baby' (1975)

PG | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.

Director: William Girdler | Stars: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin, Rudy Challenger

Votes: 1,809

13. 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

14. 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

15. Shaft (1971)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

66 Metascore

A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John

Votes: 21,030 | Gross: $16.69M

16. Shaft in Africa (1973)

R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

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.

Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee, Neda Arneric

Votes: 3,216 | Gross: $3.18M

17. Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama

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.

Director: Gordon Parks | Stars: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Joseph Mascolo

Votes: 3,596 | Gross: $10.00M

18. TNT Jackson (1974)

R | 72 min | Action

A young karate expert searches for her brother's killer in Hong Kong.

Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw, Pat Anderson, Ken Metcalfe

Votes: 1,409

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)

R | 94 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud, Brock Peters

Votes: 598

25. 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

26. 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

27. Cleopatra Jones (1973)

PG | 89 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

58 Metascore

During the 1970s, U.S. Special Agent Cleopatra Jones proves to be an invaluable asset to the local police forces in the war on drugs.

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas

Votes: 3,532 | Gross: $2.98M

28. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)

R | 94 min | Action

When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson and Melvin Johnson disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Bail | Stars: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Ni Tien, Norman Fell

Votes: 1,215

29. 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

30. 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

31. 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

32. 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

33. They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

GP | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In San Francisco, a high-priced call girl is murdered and the case is assigned to Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Martin Landau, Barbara McNair, Anthony Zerbe

Votes: 4,370 | Gross: $5.12M

34. 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

35. Let's Do It Again (1975)

PG | 110 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Two Atlanta men raise funds for their charity by rigging boxing matches in New Orleans, but their tricks attract the mob's attention.

Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos

Votes: 3,301

36. A Piece of the Action (1977)

PG | 135 min | Crime, Comedy

A retired Chicago cop blackmails two rich thieves into "volunteering" to help juvenile delinquents change paths.

Director: Sidney Poitier | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, Denise Nicholas

Votes: 1,460

37. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke

Votes: 5,365

38. 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

39. Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

PG | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror

40 Metascore

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

40. J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Thriller

42 Metascore

Murdered on Bourbon Street in 1942 New Orleans, a gangster returns from the dead 34 years later possessing the body of a young, black law student in his quest for revenge.

Director: Arthur Marks | Stars: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup

Votes: 1,448

41. 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

42. 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: 446 | Gross: $0.16M

43. 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

44. Hit! (1973)

R | 134 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney J. Furie | Stars: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles

Votes: 863 | Gross: $0.08M

45. 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

46. 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

47. Penitentiary II (1982)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.

Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Glynn Turman, Ernie Hudson, Mr. T

Votes: 779 | Gross: $3.18M

48. Penitentiary (1979)

R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's ... See full summary »

Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White, Thomas M. Pollard, Hazel Spears

Votes: 1,236

49. 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

50. Dolemite (1975)

R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

67 Metascore

After he is released from jail, a pimp takes on the criminals and corrupt police officers who framed him in the first place.

Director: D'Urville Martin | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed

Votes: 6,852 | Gross: $0.24M

51. 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

52. The Dolemite Explosion (2002)

Not Rated | 76 min | Action

From the baddest black action hero of all time; more bone-breaking, more name-taking, more booty-shaking and more love-making. Dolemite is back from Africa with his all-girl kung-fu army.

Director: Frank Pinnock | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Jerry Jones, James Evans, Kenneth Ivan

Votes: 115

53. 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

54. 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

55. 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

56. Death Dimension (1978)

R | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi

The Pig has a plan to eradicate some people with a freeze bomb that instantly freezes people to death. It is up to Detective Ash to stop him and protect the woman with the secret to the ice... See full summary »

Director: Al Adamson | Stars: Jim Kelly, Harold Sakata, George Lazenby, Terry Moore

Votes: 759

57. Melinda (1972)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Frankie Parker, a womanizing DJ in LA, meets new girl in town, Melinda, falling hard for her. When she's murdered in his apartment, he is framed for it - an ex-girlfriend and a karate class to help find her killer and clear his name.

Director: Hugh A. Robertson | Stars: Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Vonetta McGee, Paul Stevens

Votes: 317

58. 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

59. The Tattoo Connection (1978)

R | 90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

An American insurance investigator goes to Hong Kong to retrieve a famous diamond stolen by a local criminal organization.

Director: Tso Nam Lee | Stars: Jim Kelly, Sing Chen, Tao-Liang Tan, Nami Misaki

Votes: 484

60. 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

61. 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

62. One Down, Two to go (1982)

R | 89 min | Action, Drama

A pair of tough cops go after the mob who rigged the martial arts tournament and injured their buddy.

Director: Fred Williamson | Stars: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Jim Kelly, Richard Roundtree

Votes: 660

63. The Mack (1973)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama

59 Metascore

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

64. Willie Dynamite (1974)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama

A social worker tries to get a pimp to change his ways.

Director: Gilbert Moses | Stars: Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker

Votes: 1,313 | Gross: $0.48M

65. Slaughter (1972)

R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama

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.

Director: Jack Starrett | Stars: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn, Cameron Mitchell

Votes: 1,314

66. 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

67. 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

68. Black Mama White Mama (1973)

R | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

59 Metascore

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

69. Super Fly (1972)

R | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

67 Metascore

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: 8,603

70. 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

71. 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

72. 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

73. 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

74. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

R | 97 min | Action, Crime, Drama

71 Metascore

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.

Director: Melvin Van Peebles | Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster

Votes: 5,868 | Gross: $15.18M

75. Watermelon Man (1970)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

60 Metascore

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

76. 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

77. 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

78. 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

79. Car Wash (1976)

PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

71 Metascore

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

80. Cooley High (1975)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

72 Metascore

In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.

Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis

Votes: 5,548

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. Gordon's War (1973)

R | 90 min | Adventure, Crime

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.

Director: Ossie Davis | Stars: Paul Winfield, Carl Lee, David Downing, Tony King

Votes: 449 | Gross: $0.82M

85. Solomon King (1974)

R | 110 min | Action, Adventure

CIA trained detective Solomon King has to use all of his dirty tricks and experiences to get revenge on the person responsible for the murder of his girlfriend. A trail leads him to a desert in the Middle East.

Directors: Jack Bomay, Sal Watts | Stars: Sal Watts, James Watts, Felice Kinchelow, Samaki Bennett

Votes: 181

86. 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

87. Big Time (1977)

PG | 96 min | Comedy

A small time con-artist gets between the FBI and a suitcase filled with money. (Josiah Howard, "Blaxploitation Cinema: The Essential Reference Guide.")

Director: Andrew Georgias | Stars: Christipher Joy, Tobar Mayo, Jayne Kennedy, Roger E. Mosley

Votes: 34

88. 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

89. 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

90. Emma Mae (1976)

R | 100 min | Drama

A Naive Country Girl from Mississippi comes to town with an aunt to the Big City. She takes up with her family and goes out with them and meets a guy. A loser, pill-popping head nothing who... See full summary »

Director: Jamaa Fanaka | Stars: Jerri Hayes, Ernest Williams II, Charles D. Brooks III, Eddie Allen

Votes: 495

91. 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

92. Get Christie Love! (1974–1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Adventures of sexy & sassy black undercover cop Christie Love.

Stars: Teresa Graves, Dennis Rucker, Charles Cioffi, Scott Peters

Votes: 336

93. Get Christie Love! (1974–1975)
Episode: Death on Delivery (1974)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

A beautiful young Bahamian woman who is a courter for a counterfeiting gang is killed at the airport. When Christie finds out that the ring has never seen this woman, she decides to ... See full summary »

Director: Edward M. Abroms | Stars: Teresa Graves, Charles Cioffi, Stephen McNally, Alex Rocco

Votes: 17

94. Get Christie Love! (1974–1975)
Episode: The Deadly Sport (1975)

TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama

Captain Ryan, the new by-the-books police chief takes office and he doesn't respond too well to all the press Christie has been getting lately. To dampen her spirits, the chief assigns her ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Warren | Stars: Teresa Graves, Jack Kelly, Brenda Scott, Michael Pataki

95. Fuerza mortal (1980)

90 min | Action, Crime

Mr. Boulois is presented with a key to a Grand Central Station locker containing a million dollars, which will be his if he survives the ordeal. He's then blindfolded, bundled onto a ... See full summary »

Director: Max H. Boulois | Stars: Max H. Boulois, Tom Hernández, Guillermo Antón, Virginia Mataix

Votes: 25

96. 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

97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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



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