Movies: Blaxploitation cinema

When a nightclub owner is murdered by gangsters after refusing to sell his business to the mob boss, his grieving fiancé enlists the help of a voodoo priestess to avenge his death....

Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside....

A rich but racist man is dying and hatches an elaborate scheme for transplanting his head onto another man's body. His health deteriorates rapidly, and doctors are forced to transplant his head onto the only available candidate: a black man from deat...

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When a minister's wife becomes possessed by Eshu, the Nigerian god of sexuality, an exorcist is called in to drive the evil spirit away....

An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural....

Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana....

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...

The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dang...

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

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

After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him....

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

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

A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying ...

Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davi...

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

Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them....

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure....

A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen....