blaxploitation cinema

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before ...

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.

With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener ...

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

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

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 ...

An apartment dweller goes on a search-and-destroy mission to kill the ruthless landlords who murdered his father.

A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.

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.

A crime lord hires Velvet Smooth, the head of a detective agency, to find out who is stealing his business.

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 Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. ...

A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated ...

Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution ring out of an upscale hotel in ...

A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon falls into the middle of a ...

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 ...

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

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

One of Cannon Films' two 1976 Italian-Israeli co-productions starring Lee Van Cleef and Leif Garrett (Gianfranco Parolini's Pistola di Dio was the other), this spaghetti western was ...

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

A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.

Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows ...

Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.

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