Movies: Blaxploitation cinema

A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides....

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 when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her hu...

With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred William...

Low-budget adventure starring former baseball star James Iglehart as Savage, who is kidnapped by South American rebels. After a time, he sees their position and is joined by a female commando squad in battling the repressive government officials....

A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution....

Some ex-convicts who have recently gotten out of prison plan a series of highly organized robberies of some Las Vegas casinos....

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....

Two slave brothers, one black, one an albino, discover a treasure map which is taken from them by their foreman. They take it back but are pursued by the foreman. Originally, the foreman seeks the aid of two bounty hunters who pursue the protagonists...

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

Luke and his friend Rodan take a break from the city streets to train in kung fu in China. Whilst there, Rodan steals an ancient amulet which prevents an evil spirit from leaving his tomb. The evil spirit, now free, possesses somebody and follows the...

Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket....

On the last days of soul in Rio de Janeiro — Groove is everywhere in the night —, and Carlos and Tony have unfinished business. A tribute to Blaxploitation, the queer horror jam “His Body” chronicles the supernatural meeting of two ex-lovers on a nig...

In 1916, a group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana....

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

After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue....

A doctor in a Watts clinic takes his own medicine and becomes a monstrous white killer of hookers....

Tough streetwise private investigator Al Connors, who works in Florida but originally hails from Harlem, is hired by the CIA to guard a visiting African princess. Moreover, Connors uses all his sharp street smarts and fierce fighting skills to find a...

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers....

This low budget action film, originally titled "The Return of Dolemite", follows Rudy Ray Moore as Dolemite, who returns from Africa with superpowers gained from drinking Voodoo Juice....

Wildman Steve plays a bum who agrees to allow an experimental drug to be administered to him. What he doesn't realize is that the doctor who's doing the experiment is a criminal, trying to create an unstoppable thief that's immune to bullets. Steve g...