Blaxploitation Film Listing
Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
(Columbia)
Cast: Kevin Hooks, Irene Cara, Moses Gunn, Robert Hooks
The 411: Romeo and Juliet, no better make that West Side Story retold.
Abby (1974)
(American International)
Cast: Carol Speed, William Marshall, Terry Carter
The 411: Blaxploitation rip-off of The Exorcist. A minister's wife is
possessed by a Nigerian god of sexuality.
Across
110th Street (1972)
(United Artists)
Cast: Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Quinn, Tony Franciosa
The 411: Three Black men rip off numbers money from the Italian mob.
Adios Amigo (1975)
(Atlas Films)
Cast: Fred (The Hammer) Williamson, Richard Pryor, Thalmus Rasulala
The 411: A buddy western where tough guy Williamson and scheming Pryor
team up.
Amazing
Grace (1974)
(United Artists)
Cast: Moms Mabley, Moses Gunn, Slappy White
The 411: It's comedian Moms Mabley against Baltimore City Hall.
The Arena (aka Naked Warriors) (1973
(New World Pictures)
Cast: Pam Grier, Margaret Markov, Lucretia Love, Paul Muller
The 411: Gladiators revolt against the Romans. There's arena fighting
with various swords, spears and other terrifying tools of death, all done
in full makeup and halter tops, with armor strategically placed so as
to not hide anything one might like to see poking out or bouncing around.
Our lovely ladies constantly strip down, suit up and dance nearly nude
a lot of the time. Plot, schmot! What's not to like? Buy
It!
Bare Knuckles (1977)
(TWE)
Cast: Gloria Hendry, Sherry Jackson, John Daniels
The 411: Bounty hunter meets Kung Fu killer.
Big Doll House (1971)
(New World)
Cast: Pam
Grier, Judy Brown, Sid Haig
The 411: A women's prison offers the director a good excuse to drop plot
and show T and A for 90 mins. It also has the added bonus of a great scene
where Pam Grier and another woman fight it
out in the mud of the rice fields (where the women are forced to toil).
Don't miss it!
Black Belt Jones (1974)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Jim Kelly, Gloria Hendry, Scatman Crothers
The 411: Kung Fu expert Jim Kelly (of Enter The Dragon fame), chops, knocks
and kicks the Mafia apart.
Black
Caesar (1973)
(AIP)
Cast: Fred (The Hammer) Williamson, Gloria Hendry, Julius W. Harris
The 411: Fred Williamson's homage to 1930s gangster flicks. One of the
more powerful films of the genre and worth the look and definitely the
listen - as James Brown sings: "Pay the cost to be the boss. Look
at me, you know what you see? You see a bad mutha."
Trivia: D'Urville Martin (director of the Dolemite films) appears here
as the swindling evangelist.
Black Gunn (1972)
(Columbia)
Cast: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Martin Landau
The 411: Jim Brown plays a LA night club owner who goes after the mob
when his brother is murdered.
Black
Mama, White Mama (1972)
(AIP)
Cast: Pam Grier, Sid Haig, Margaret Markov
The 411: Pam Grier is back in prison, but not for long. Taking a page
from the classic film, The Defiant Ones Grier escapes chained to a white
inmate.
Blacula (1972)
(AIP)
Cast: William Marshall, Denise Nicholas, Vonetta McGee
The 411: Count Dracula bites an African prince who ends up feeding off
of LA night club goers 200 years later.
Buck
and the Preacher (1972)
(Columbia)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee
The 411: Sidney Poitier plays a former cavalryman who leads a wagon train
of former slaves to freedom.
Car
Wash (1976)
(MCA)
Cast: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Antonio Fargas
The 411: Hi-jinx at a car wash. The Rose Royce hit song was better that
the movie.
Cleopatra
Jones (1973)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes
The 411: 6 foot 2 inch CIA agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson)
fights the LA mob.
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
(1975)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Albert Popwell
The 411: Having killed all the drug dealers in her own back yard, 6 foot
2 inch CIA agent Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) goes to Hong Kong to
fight and kill their drug dealers.
Coffy
(1973)
(API)
Cast: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui
The 411: Pam Grier sets things aright with the mobsters who tuned her
younger sister into a junkie. There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight
that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore.
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Junelle Allen
The 411: Further adventures of those Cotton Comes To Harlem cops, Coffin
Ed and Gravedigger Jones.
Cool Breeze (1972)
(MGM)
Cast: Thalmus Rasulala, Raymond St. Jacques, Judy Pace
The 411: An ex-convict and his brother plan a diamond heist to start a
black people's bank, but their plans go awry.
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
(MGM)
Cast: Raymond St. Jacques, Godfrey Cambridge, Redd Foxx, Calvin Lockhart
The 411: Detectives Coffin Ed and Gravedigger Jones search for a bale
of cotton which contains $87,000 of stolen money.
Dolemite (1975)
(Comedian Intl Enterprise Productions)
Cast: Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones
The 411: Dolemite has to deal with Willie Green, Mitchell and White, Mayor
Daly, and assorted production equipment used to film the movie; all in
an attempt to regain control of his nightclub. He is joined with his kung-fu
fighting whores, Queen Bee, and the Reverend in this heroic struggle.
Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)
(Dimension)
Cast: Bernie Casey, Rosalind Cash, Stu Gilliam
The 411: Blaxploitation version of the Robert Louis Stevenson's monster
classic.
Drum (1976)
(United Artist)
Cast: Ken Norton, Pam Grier, Fiona Lewis
The 411: In this sequel to Mandingo, Hollywood finally did what Muhammed
Ali couldn't, hang Ken Norton upside down and give his "black a--"
a good whippin.'
Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
(United Artist)
Cast: Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Glynn Turman, Godfrey Cambridge
The 411: The misadventures of a barber coping with his crazy family and
customers.
For Love of Ivy (1968)
(Cinerama)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges
The 411: A gambler wants to marry the black maid of a rich white family.
Foxy Brown (1974)
(American International Pictures)
Cast: Pam Grier, Peter Brown, Terry Carter
The 411: Pam Grier goes undercover as a hooker to kill the mobsters who
killed her boy friend. At one crucial moment Foxy saves herself by pulling
a concealed revolver out of her mighty Afro - absolutely one of the high
points of blaxploitation cinema. Right on, sweet sistah!
Friday Foster (1975)
(American International Pictures)
Cast: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge, Thalmus Rasulala
The 411: White racists are at it again. This time they're out to assassinate
a group of black leaders. The only thing they didn't count on was Friday
Foster (Pam Grier) using them for target practice. Any film in which Pam
takes a shower, a bath and does a love scene, almost certainly qualifies
as a must-see.
The Greatest (1977)
(Columbia)
Cast: Muhammed Ali, Ernest Borgnine, James Earl Jones, Robert Duvall
The 411: Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee, this is the autobiography
of Muhammed Ali.
Hell
Up from Harlem (1973)
(American International Pictures)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Julius W. Harris, Gloria Hendry
The 411: Having killed all the mobster in New York, Fred "The Hammer"
Williamson goes down to Florida to kill all of their mobsters in this
sequel to Black Caesar.
A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1978)
(New World Pictures)
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Glynn Turman
The 411: A young boy has trouble coping with the pressure of school and
his mother's new boyfriend.
Hit! (1973)
(MGM)
Cast: Billy Dee Williams, Paul Hampton, Richard Pryor
The 411: A federal agent declares his own war on drugs after his teenage
daughter dies from a drug overdose.
Hit Man (1972)
(MGM)
Cast: Bernie Casey, Pam Grier, Lisa Moore
The 411: A small time hood comes to the big city to avenge his brother's
murder.
Hot Potato (1976)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Jim Kelly, George Memmoli, Geoffrey Binney
The 411: An ambassador's daughter is kidnapped, and it's up to martial
arts expert Jim Kelly to kick apart the bad guys and rescue the damsel
before the closing credits.
I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973)
(United Artist)
Cast: Jim Brown, Christopher George, Rick Ely
The 411: The warning is on the lable. Jim Brown and Christopher George
escape from Devil's Island. What more do you want?
If He Hollers, Let Him Go (1968)
(Cinerama)
Cast: Dana Wynter, Raymond St. Jacques
The 411: An innocent man escapes from prison to clear his name with the
help of a night club singer.
I'm
Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
(United Artist)
Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes, Chris Rock, Jim
Brown
The 411: Spoof on the Blaxploitation genre
J.D.'s Revenge (1976)
(American International)
Cast: Glynn Turman, Joan Pringle, Lou Gossett Jr.
The 411: The spirit of a 1940s gangster possesses a modern day college
student and seeks revenge from his killer.
Legend of Nigger Charley (1972)
(Paramount)
Cast: Fred Williamson, D'Urville Martin
The 411: Nigger Charley is given his freedom by his dying owner, but an
overseer and bounty hunters have other ideas.
Let's Do It Again (1975)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Jimmie Walker
The 411: The comedy team of Poitier and the Cos get involved in a prize-fighting
scheme to net $50,000.
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
(Columbia)
Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Anthony Zerbe, Yaphet Kotto
The 411: A white cop in a small Southern town whips in a young black man
who returns years later seeking revenge.
Live and Let Die (1973)
(United Artist)
Cast: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Gloria Hendry, Julius W. Harris
The 411: It's, Bond, James Bond's exploitation of Blaxploitation. If Mr.
Big isn't The Man, I don't know who is.
The
Mack (1973)
(Cinerama)
Cast: Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor
The 411: Max Julien plays a pimp who battles the mob and crooked cops
on his way to the top.
Mandingo (1973)
(Paramount)
Cast: James Mason, Susan George, Ken Norton
The 411: Boxer Ken Norton plays a slave who a daughter of a Southern plantation
owner uses as a lover.
Man Friday (1976)
(Avco Embassy)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree
The 411: Blaxploitation's answer to Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe.
Mean Johnny Barrows (1976)
(Atlas Films)
Cast: Fred Williamson, Roddy McDowall, Elliott Gould
The 411: Fred "The Hammer" Williamson plays a returning vet
who gets involved with the mob after he fails at trying to earn an honest
living.
Melinda (1972)
(MGM)
Cast: Calvin Lockhart, Rosalind Cash, Jim Kelly
The 411: A DJ drops his girl friend for a beautiful mysterious
woman who turns up dead in his apartment. Suddenly the cops and the mob
are after him.
Norman...Is That You? (1976)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey, Tamara Dobson
The 411: Redd Foxx plays a flustered father who has trouble accepting
his gay son's lifestyle.
A Piece of the Action (1977)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, James Earl Jones
The 411: Poitier and the Cos are blackmailed by James Earl Jones
(Darth Vader to you) into helping out a local community center.
Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)
(American International)
Cast: William Marshall, Pam Grier, Don Mitchell
The 411: He's baack. Blacula is reincarnated, after a voodoo ceremony,
to rein terror near and far -- until tough gal Pam Grier shows up and
un-reincarnates him.
Shaft (1971)
(MGM)
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
The 411: Private detective John Shaft is hired by the black mobster to
get back his kidnapped daughter from white mobsters trying to take over
Harlem.
Shaft in Africa (1973)
(MGM)
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Frank Finlay, Vonetta McGee
The 411: Shaft is hired to go to Africa to bust up a modern slave ring.
Shaft's Big Score (1972)
(MGM)
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Drew Bundini Brown
The 411: Shaft is hired by the police to recover $250,000 of the mob's
money which was stolen by a numbers man to help Harlem. In the end, Shaft
makes the cops look like chumps, kills every mobster in sight and delivers
the money in Harlem where it will do the most good.
Shaft 2000 (2000)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa L. Williams, Richard Roundtree
The 411: Samuel L. Jackson makes an updated John Shaft in John Singleton's
homage to (not remake of) the early '70s action classic, picking up where
Richard Roundtree's legendary Shaft left off. Great lines, including:
"It's my duty to please the booty."
The Slams (1973)
(MGM)
Cast: Jim Brown, Judy Pace, Roland Harris
The 411: Jim Brown steals $1.5 million from the mob and destroys their
heroin shipment in the process, only to end up in jail after being double-crossed
by his partner.
Slaughter
(1972)
(MGM)
Cast: Jim Brown, Stella Stevens, Rip Torn
The 411: Ex-Green Beret Slaughter gets a chance to use his guerrilla skills
when his mother and father are murdered by the mob. Oh, and there is nudity,
which is No. 1 rule of this genre, including that of Stella Stevens (original
"The Nutty Professor" and others).
Slaughter's Big Ripoff (1973)
(MGM)
Cast: Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Brock Peters
The
411: They never learn. The mob kills one of Slaughter's friends, now they
must pay. Though the original is preferred by most, if only for some stunning
Stella Stevens nude scenes, this is pretty entertaining on its own terms.
Ed McMahon (of the Tonight Show) plays it straight in the bad guy role.
The Soul of the Nigger Charley (1973)
(MGM)
Cast: Fred Williamson, D'Urville, Denise Nicholas
The 411: Nigger Charley and his side-kick Toby, ride to the rescue of
free blacks kidnapped by ex-confederates.
The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973)
(United Artist)
Cast: Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly, Janet League
The 411: The CIA hires its first black agent only to use him as an agency
tour guide. The agent finally quits out of frustration and uses his covert
learned skills to train a group of urban revolutionaries.
Buy it.
Superfly
(1972)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, Sheila Frazier
The 411: He had a plan to stick it to "the man." A coke dealer
decides to quit after one last score. Great soundtrack!
Superfly T.N.T. (1973)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Roscoe Lee Brown
The 411: T.N.T. means Tain't Nothin' To It. They were right. 'Nuff said.
(Cinamation)
Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales
The 411: Sweetback becomes the target of a manhunt when he kills two cops
who beat up a young black activist. He bounces from hideout to hideout
before running for the border, all the while getting more booty than Shaft
and Superfly put together. The movie was so inflammatory by conservative
industry standards that it was "Rated X by an All White Jury,"
which the ads proudly touted.
It lags at times, there are endless scenes of Sweet Sweetback running through the city and the desert to escape the police, but the musical soundtrack by Earth, Wind & Fire is definitely down and the visuals are trippy.
(20th Century Fox)
Cast: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson
The 411: While being pursued by a bounty hunter, a gambler and a cowboy
find time to team up and deliver a huge bankroll to their dying boss'
wife.
That Man Bolt (1973)
(Universal)
Cast: Fred Williamson, David Lowell Rich, Byron Webster
The 411: Fred "the Hammer" Williamson plays a courier who gets
tricked into carrying the 
mob's
money. When Williamson finds out, it's "Hammer time" for the
mob.
Three The Hard Way (1975)
(United Artists)
Cast: Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly
The 411: Three of blaxploitation's bad asses team up to stop a
white supremacist from polluting the water supply with a substance fatal
only to blacks.
Three Tough Guys (1974)
(Paramount)
Cast: Lino Ventura, Fred Williamson, Issac Hayes
The 411: An ex-con man, priest and cop join forces to get the man that
cost the cop his badge.
...tick...tick...tick (1970)
(MGM)
Cast: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredic March
The 411: Jim Brown plays a black sheriff in a white Southern town who
arrest a wealthy young white man.
TNT
Jackson (1974)
(New World)
Cast: Jeanne Bell, Pat Anderson
The 411: Disguised as a hooker, TNT goes undercover in Hong Kong to find
her brother and kill a few Chinese mobsters for good measure.
Trouble Man (1972)
(20th Century Fox)
Cast: Robert Hooks, Paul Winfield, Ralph Waite
The 411: A trouble-shooter is called in to solve a turf war over a floating
crap game.
Truck
Turner (1974)
(American International)
Cast: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Nichelle Nichols
The 411: Isaac Hayes plays an ex-football star turned bounty hunter named
Mac "Truck" Turner. After he and his partner kill a violent
pimp named "Gator", all the pimps get together and a contract
is put out on Truck by none other than Gator's woman (Lt. Uhura to you).
When all the little fish fail to kill Truck, the biggest pimp of them
all makes an offer to have it done but for a big price.
Undercover Brother (2002)
(Universal)
Cast: Eddie Griffin, Chris Kattan, Denise Richards, David Chappelle, Aunjanue
Ellis, Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie
Howser), Chi McBride (Boston Public), Billy Dee Williams
The 411: The original lean, mean fightin' machine is gonna take on The
Man. Get down, 'cause this brother's all about action! Blaxploitation
homage and a hilarious nostalgia trip. Plus, it subtley takes on the racial
stereotypes and bias whites and blacks have. Listen to Undercover
Brother sound files and check out the trailer.
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
(Warner Bros.)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Harry Belafonte, Richard Pryor
The 411: Two factory workers hit the lottery only to have their winning
ticket stolen by the mob.
Watermelon Man (1970)
(Columbia)
Cast: Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons
The 411: A white businessman wakes up one morning to discover he's been
turned into the one thing he hates -- a black man.
Wattstax (1973)
(Columbia)
Cast: Isaac Hayes, The Staples Singers, Rev. Jessie Jackson
The 411: A concert film shot at the LA Coliseum.