Blaxploitation Cinema Movies

Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred...

To make money, a Los Angeles street-fighter goes to work for gangsters.

A trio of runaway slaves evade authorities in the Old West.

An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.

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...

Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.

With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the...

A black hairdresser's sexual escapades with married customers lead to a confrontation with a jealous mobster.

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...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach...

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

In 1970s America, three African-American siblings on the run from the police take refuge at an abandoned Tennessee Ranch, unaware their hideout is on...

A singer returns to her hometown and puts together a team of fighters to go after local gangsters.

A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.

A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.

Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.

Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus...

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values...