Blaxploitation Cinema Movies

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

Two Hustler cousins attempt to get over on an associate of theirs, but after the job they pulled goes wrong, the duo must leave their families and...

Set on a university campus in 1975, this film follows the lives of Q (a Black adoptee), her roommate Jam (the daughter of former Black Panthers), and...

Low-budget adventure starring former baseball star James Iglehart as Savage, who is kidnapped by South American rebels. After a time, he sees their...

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

Three couples meet up for a summer vacation weekend but secrets, lies, and hard truths come out to spoil the fun.

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.

Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.

A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops....

When Johnny Boyles is falsely accused of murdering his ex-boss, he turns to the unstoppable attorney, Eva Taylor, to help him plea his case.

In Africa, four native women join and are hired to find a wealthy man's son who has disappeared, and use the opportunity to get revenge on a gang of...

A Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.

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...

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

En route to an audition, aspiring actress Leila stops at a motel and hooks up with one of the locals. After swallowing a weed edible, she is flooded...

Black dude fleeces the mob, goes on the run. Whadaya need, a road map?

This production was originally staged for the Pepsico Summerfare Festival, The International Performing Arts Festival of the State University of New...

Taking place in the cold and hard winter of 1970 in the slums of Cleveland Ohio instead of the tranquil and pleasant 1967 Summer of Love in the...

A masked assailant in an organized crime ring mutilates his victims with a straight razor.

A documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Black actors in Italian cinema. With modern day...