Baadasssss! (2003), Black Dynamite (2009), Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971), Truck Turner (1974), Coffy (1973), Trouble Man (1972), The Mack (1973), Coonskin (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Blaxploitation movies.
Storyline: In contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. 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 joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, family, social satire, 1970s, race relations, gender roles ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four short, moralistic horror vignettes (a la EC Comics) that deal with mostly black characters. The framing story introduces three youths out to pick up a drug shipment at a funeral parlor from the strange director, Mr. Simms. As the three punks wind their way through the parlor, Mr. Simms tells them the last stories of some of his more interesting clients.—Renee Ann Byrd <byrdie@wyrdbyrd.org>
Plot Keywords: horror, anthology, comedy, supernatural, urban, social commentary, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley) summons the undead with voodoo to help a woman (Marki Bey) fight killer gangsters.
Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, exploitation, revenge, supernatural, 1970s, b-movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Naive Country Girl from Mississippi comes to town with an aunt to the Big City. She takes up with her family and goes out with them and meets a guy. A loser, pill-popping head nothing who is involved with the local street gang. She Falls in love with him, but he gets arrested and goes to jail. With the $5K bail over his head, she tries a couple of ways both good and bad to raise money to get him out only to learn he really is a loser and doesn't love her. She proves for a Country Girl she is smart and resourceful.—Thicknigg@yahoo.com
Plot Keywords: drama, crime, independent film, female lead, social issues, race, poverty ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a five year old inner city kid witnesses the murder of a kind police officer, he is struck mute. However, his older brother and his gang refuse to let the murder of their friend and mentor go unsolved and they decide to band together and crack the case.—Ryan M. Burgos
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, mystery, thriller, brotherhood, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon the local police are intimidating Duke with threats of violence. Duke refuses to pay the bribes they demand, so then he and his lady friend Aretha are threatened and attacked by the crooked cops. Rather than take them on himself, Duke calls on his old pal Roy. Roy brings a few buddies to Bucktown, and they bring justice to the small town. With the cops out of the way, Duke lets his guard down. Then the situation gets out of hand again. Finally, Duke must settle the score himself.—veloc <velo_00@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, revenge, violence, corruption, urban ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tommy comes from a forced rest period due to injuries suffered in Harlem's gang warfare. With the help of his girl, he will reorganize his gang, and overcome his rival gang leaders, through extreme acts of violence and death.—Artemis-9
Plot Keywords: crime, action, sequel, 1970s, urban, gangster, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money.During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for Shame's expulsion from the force. He must also deal with two women, Angela, a beautiful old flame, and Peaches, his energetic but annoying sidekick.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: action, comedy, crime, urban, detective, violence, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: John Shaft is persuaded by threats of physical force, the promise of money, and the lure of a pretty tutor, to assume the identity of a native-speaking itinerant worker in Africa. His job is to help break a racket that is smuggling immigrants into Europe then exploiting them. But the villains have heard that he is on his way.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: action, crime, adventure, detective, 1970s, sequel, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York Police Detective John Shaft is the lead detective on a sensitive case, a young black man is severely beaten. The man's companions tell Shaft that their friend humiliated the one who was spouting racial slurs at him. Shaft confronts him and he says he's Walter Wade Jr. , the son of a wealthy man. Shaft finds that he has the ID of a woman who's a waitress at the bar where Wade and the guy who was attacked were. When Wade continues to hurl racist comments, Shaft smacks him. Shaft later learns because of his actions Wade was granted bail and fled. Two years later, Wade returns and Shaft arrests him. At his hearing when the judge grants him bail, that's when Shaft throws his badge at the judge. He then sets out to get Wade by finding the waitress. Wade in the meantime asks a drug dealer named Peoples Hernandez to find the waitress and make sure she doesn't talk.
Plot Keywords: action, crime, thriller, sequel, detective, new york, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A white faceless corporate despot known only as "The Man", has the power to unleash a terrifying top-secret weapon: an irresistibly packaged psycho-hallucinogenic drug that will reduce the entire population to mindless zombies. but black folks have soul. But with enough funky sense of style, a smooth way with the ladies and an absolute hunger for justice, with his Bruce Lee moves, Cadillac attitude and an arsenal of outrageous disguises and gadgets, Undercover Brother is recruited by the group of Good Guys, know as the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D. an all-black justice league to foil the Man's plan to derail a Colin Powell-like presidential candidate, and Undercover Brother's undercover exploits keep the slim plot moving. But while he and his sassy cat-fighting partner known as Sistah Girl tries to find out what's going on, the leader's ruthless right arm, Mr. Feather, discovers the conspiracy's sexy secret weapon, Penelope Snow.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, spy, satire, humor, crime, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After an aging voodoo priestess dies, her arrogant son Willis Daniel's believes he is next in line to lead. He is outraged when Lisa, his mother's adopted apprentice is chosen as the leader. Willis seeks revenge by reviving the African prince Blacula but soon finds that he cannot control him.—charmardee-smith
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, supernatural, sequel, cult film, 1970s, african american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An 18th century African statesman is transformed into a vampire, cursed with the name Blacula, and entombed in Dracula's Castle after he fails to convince the Count to support him in his cause to end the slave trade. Two hundred years later, a pair of interior decorators transport his coffin to L.A. where he awakes with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. As Blacula pursues a woman who resembles his long dead wife, her brother-in-law, a pathologist, investigates the string of carnage that follows in the vampire's wake.—Molly Rose Steed
Plot Keywords: horror, vampire, supernatural, gothic, 1970s, classic, resurrection ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marvin Bookman is a small shop owner in Gary, Indiana, USA. After he sees a drive-by shooting of Laurie Thompson's son by a local gang, he gives up the license number of the car to the police. The gang doesn't like this so they go to the store and rough him up. Soon, John Bookman comes to town to set the wrong things right. With the help of Laurie and his old friend Jake, they attempt to take back the streets and show the new breed of gang members what the true originals can do.—Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
Plot Keywords: action, crime, drama, gangster, violence, revenge, street ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.—page8701
Plot Keywords: prison, action, drama, boxing, crime, social injustice, 1970s ...
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