Blaxploitation


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Classics


Across 110th Street
(1972, directed by Barry Shear
starring: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Antonio Fargas)

The Big Bird Cage
(1972, directed by Jack Hill
starring: Pam Grier, Anitra Ford, Sid Haig)

The Big Doll House
(1971, directed by Jack Hill
starring: Judy Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Sid Haig)

Black Caesar
(1973, directed by Larry Cohen
starring: Fred Williamson, art Lund, Julius Harris, D’Urville Martin)

Blacula
(1972, directed by William Crain
starring: William Marshall, Denise Nicholas, Vonetta McGee, Elisha Cook, Jr.)

Cleopatra Jones
(1973, directed by Jack Starrett
starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Bill McKinney, Esther Rolle)

Cleopatra Jones & the Casino of Gold
(1975, directed by Charles Ball
starring: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell)

Coffy
(1973, directed by Jack Hill
starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, Allan Arbus, Sid Haig)

Come Back, Charleston Blue
(1972, directed by Mark Warren, based on characters created by Chester Himes
starring: Raymond St. Jacque, Godfrey Cambridge, Jonelle Allen)

Cotton Comes to Harlem
(1970, directed by Ossie Davis, based on the novel by Chester Himes
starring: Raymond St. Jacque, Godfrey Cambridge, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx, Cleavon Little)

Foxy Brown
(1974, directed by Jack Hill
starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Sid Haig)

Friday Foster
(1975vdirected by Arthur Marks
starring: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala, Eartha Kitt, Jim Backus, Scatman Crothers, Ted Lange, Paul Benjamin, Julius Harris, Carl Weathers)

Get Christie Love!
(1974, TV Movievdirected by William A. Graham
starring: Teresa Graves, Harry Guardino, Louise Sorel)

Hammer
(1972, directed by Bob Clark (III)
starring: Fred Williamson, Vonetta McGee, Bernie Hamilton)

The Harder They Come
(1973, directed by Perry Henzell
starring: Jimmy Cliff, Janet Barkley, Carl Bradshaw, Ras Daniel Hartman)

Let’s Do it Again
(1975, directed by Sidney Poitier
starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Jimmie Walker, Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, Julius Harris)

A Piece of the Action
(1977, directed by Sidney Poitier
starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones, denise Nicholas, Ja’net Dubois)

Shaft
(1971, directed by Gordon Parks
screenplay by Ernest Tidyman, based on his novel
starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman)

Shaft’s Big Score!
(1972, directed by Gordon Parks
screenplay by Ernest Tidyman
starring: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown, Julius Harris, Joe Santos)

Shaft in Africa
(1973, directed by John Guillermin, screenplay by Stirling Silliphant
starring: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee)

Sheba, Baby
(1975, directed by William Girdler
starring: Pam Grier, Austin Stoker, D'Urville Martin)

Super Fly
(1972, directed by Gordon Parks Jr.
starring: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor)

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssssss Song
(1971, directed by Melvin Van Peebles
starring: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Rhetta Hughes, John Amos, Mario Van Peebles)

Three Tough Guys
(1974, directed by Duccio Tessari
starring: Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes, Fred Williamson, Paula Kelly)

Truck Turner
(1974, directed by Jonathan Kaplan
starring: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Nichelle Nichols)

Uptown Saturday Night
(1974, directed by Sidney Poitier
starring: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Flip Wilson, Richard Pryor, Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Roscoe Lee Browne)

The Watermelon Man
(1970, directed by Mario Van Peebles
starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Howard Caine, Estelle Parsons, D'Urville Martin)


The Modern Revival


Action Jackson
(1988, directed by Craig Baxley
starring: Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone, Bill Duke, Robert Davi)

Dead Presidents
(1995, directed by The Hughes Brothers
starring: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N’Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez, Bokeem Woodbine)

I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
(1988, directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans
starring: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja’net DuBois, Clu Gulager, Kadeem Hardison, Damon Wayans)

Jackie Brown
(1997, directed by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
starring: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert DeNiro)

New Jack City
(1991, directed by Mario Van Peebles
starring: wesley Snipes, Ice T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Vanessa Williams, Thalmus Rasulala)

Original Gangstas
(1996, directed by Larry Cohen
starring: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Isabel Sanford, Richard Roundtree, Ron O’Neal, Robert Forster, Charles Napier, Wings Hauser)

Panther
(1995, directed by Mario Van Peebles
starring: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Joe Don Baker, Courtney B. Vance, Bobby Brown, Nefertiti, Chris Rock, Richard Dysart, M. Emmett Walsh, Dick Gregory, Jerry Rubin, Robert Culp)

Posse
(1993, directed by Mario Van Peebles
starring: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin Charles Lane (II), Tom »Tiny« Lister Jr., Big Daddy Kane, Billy Zane, Blair Underwood, Melvin Van Peebles, Tone Loc, Pam Grier, Isaac Hayes)

A Rage in Harlem
(1991, directed by Bill Duke, based on the novel by Chester Himes
starring: Forest Whitaker, Gregory Hines, Robin Givens, Danny Glover, Zakes Mokae, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins)

Set It Off
(1996, directed by F. Gary Gray
starring: Jada Pinkett, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, Kimberly Elise, John C. McGinley, Blair Underwood)Back to home


Fernsehfilme


Get Christy Love (1974-75, ABC starring: Teresa Graves)

Shaft 1973, CBS, part of the Tuesday Night Movies wheel
starring: Richard Roundtree, Ed Barth)

The Young Rebels (1970
starring: Louis Gossett, Jr., Rick Ely, Hilary Thompson, Alex Henteloff)

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