Topic: Blaxploitation

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Pam Grier · Samuel L. Jackson · Robert De Niro · Robert Forster

Plot Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is an attractive flight attendant who supplements her income by smuggling cash _into_ the country for an illegal arms dealer--until the day federal agents bust her....

Direction Xavier Burgin

Cast Jordan Peele · Keith David · Tony Todd · Paula Jai Parker

Plot An look at the history of black horror films and the role of African Americans in the film genre from the very beginning.

Direction Ralph Bakshi

Cast Barry White · Charles Gordone · Scatman Crothers · Philip Michael Thomas

Plot A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the...

Direction Byron Minns · Scott Sanders · Michael Jai White · LeSean Thomas

Plot Like the movie, the show is predominantly a parody of and tribute to blaxploitation cinema. The show continues the story of Black Dynamite and his crew of Bullhorn, Cream Corn,...

Direction Scott Sanders

Cast Michael Jai White · Nicole Sullivan · Mykelti Williamson · Salli Richardson-Whitfield

Plot This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black...

Direction Isaac Julien

Cast Jim Brown · Larry Cohen · Tamara Dobson · Ron Finley

Plot Filmmaker Isaac Julien uses film clips and interviews to illustrate the history of the so-called "blaxploitation" genre.

Direction Craig Brewer

Cast Eddie Murphy · London Worthy · Wesley Snipes · Craig Robinson

Plot The story of performer Rudy Ray Moore, who assumed the role of an iconic pimp named Dolemite during the 1970s.

Direction Perry Henzell

Cast Jimmy Cliff · Janet Bartley · Carl Bradshaw · Ras Daniel Hartman

Plot Ivanhoe Martin comes to the city to make it big singing Reggae. However, he finds life in the city to be harder than he thought...

Direction Ralph Nelson

Cast Jim Brown · George Kennedy · Fredric March · Lynn Carlin

Plot Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

Direction Jonathan Kaplan

Cast Isaac Hayes · Yaphet Kotto · Alan Weeks · Annazette Chase

Plot Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed....

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yaphet Kotto · Anthony Franciosa · Paul Benjamin

Plot Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

Direction Jack Hill

Cast Pam Grier · Booker Bradshaw · Robert DoQui · William Elliott

Plot Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing...

Direction Ivan Dixon

Cast Robert Hooks · Paul Winfield · Ralph Waite · William Smithers

Plot An inner-city point man is on the run from both the cops and the crooks in this streetwise blaxpolitation drama. T (Robert Hooks) is a combination pool shark, private detective,...

Direction Gordon Parks

Cast Richard Roundtree · Moses Gunn · Charles Cioffi · Gwenn Mitchell

Plot John Shaft is the ultimate in suave black detectives. He first finds himself up against Bumpy, the leader of the Black crime mob, then against Black nationals, and finally working...

Direction Gordon Parks Jr.

Cast Ron O'Neal · Carl Lee · Sheila Frazier · Julius Harris

Plot Youngblood Priest is an African-American drug dealer who specializes in selling cocaine and enjoys a luxurious lifestyle in Harlem. But he begins to realize that his life will soon end...

Direction John Coney

Cast Barbara Deloney · Sun Ra · Raymond Johnson · Erika Leder

Direction Larry Cohen

Cast Fred Williamson · Gloria Hendry · Art Lund · D'Urville Martin

Plot Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on...

Direction Ossie Davis

Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Raymond St. Jacques · Calvin Lockhart · Judy Pace

Plot The Charismatic black nationalist leader Rev Deke O'Malley is trying to sell the people of Harlem a dream. Invest $100 in his company and live in Africa. But cops Gravedigger...

Direction Jack Hill

Cast Pam Grier · Antonio Fargas · Kathryn Loder · Peter Brown

Plot A sexy black woman, Foxy Brown, seeks revenge when her government agent boyfriend Michael is shot down by gangsters led by the kinky couple of Steve Elias and Miss Katherine.

Direction Arthur Marks

Cast Hari Rhodes · Alex Rocco · Vonetta McGee · Ella Edwards

Plot Cops go after jewel thieves.