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Ganja & Hess

Ganja & Hess is Bill Gunn's 1973 experimental Black horror film with Duane Jones and Marlene Clark, screened at Cannes a...

Drama Horror Vampire 1973

8.3 Great

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Uptown Saturday Night

Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 American crime comedy directed by Sidney Poitier, later selected for the U.S. National F...

Crime Comedy 1974 Buddy

7.2 Good

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The Education of Sonny Carson

The Education of Sonny Carson is a 1974 American drama by Michael Campus, adapted from activist Sonny Carson's autobiogr...

Drama Youth Crime Biography

6.5 Fair

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J.D.'s Revenge

J.D.'s Revenge is a 1976 American blaxploitation horror film by Arthur Marks, starring Glynn Turman as a law student pos...

Supernatural Horror Crime Possession

6.5 Fair

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Willie Dynamite

Willie Dynamite is a 1973 blaxploitation drama by Gilbert Moses, released in New York in 1974 as the first Zanuck-Brown...

Action Drama Crime 1974

6.2 Fair

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Black Mama, White Mama

Black Mama, White Mama is Eddie Romero's 1973 women-in-prison film starring Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, shot in the P...

Action International Female Lead Prison

6.0 Fair

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Three Tough Guys

Three Tough Guys is a 1974 Italy-France-U.S. crime action film by Duccio Tessari, starring Lino Ventura, Isaac Hayes and...

Action International Crime 1974

5.5 Mediocre

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Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold is a 1975 sequel directed by Charles Bail, taking Tamara Dobson's federal agent t...

Action International Spy Female Lead

5.5 Mediocre

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The Thing with Two Heads

This 1972 science fiction film features the absurd premise of a racist white surgeon's severed head being transplanted o...

Sci Fi Classic Horror Comedy

5.3 Mediocre

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Black Eye

Black Eye is a 1974 American neo-noir blaxploitation film directed by Jack Arnold, starring Fred Williamson as Los Angel...

Action Drama Detective Crime

5.2 Mediocre

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The Klansman

The Klansman is a 1974 American racial-conflict drama directed by Terence Young, notable for O. J. Simpson's feature-fil...

Drama Crime Thriller Race

5.2 Mediocre

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Together Brothers

Together Brothers is a 1974 American crime drama directed by William A. Graham, notable for Barry White's only complete...

Drama Youth Crime Revenge

5.2 Mediocre

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Jive Turkey

Jive Turkey is a 1974 American blaxploitation crime film, also released as Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes, centered on a...

Action Drama Crime Period

5.0 Mediocre

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Lord Shango

Lord Shango is a 1975 American blaxploitation horror film, a religion-themed genre entry with Marlene Clark among its pr...

Drama Supernatural Horror Revenge

5.0 Mediocre

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Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes

Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes is the alternate title for Jive Turkey, a 1974 blaxploitation crime film about gambling a...

Action Drama Crime Gambling

4.8 Poor

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Emma Mae

Emma Mae is a 1976 Jamaa Fanaka film, later retitled Black Sister's Revenge, notable as a UCLA-era LA Rebellion work abo...

Drama Community Crime Female Lead

4.8 Poor

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Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde is a 1976 William Crain blaxploitation horror film, notable for recasting Jekyll and Hyde through Be...

Drama Supernatural Horror Monster

4.7 Poor

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Honey Baby, Honey Baby

Honey Baby, Honey Baby is a 1974 American action film by Michael Schultz, sending Diana Sands and Calvin Lockhart into a...

Action International Comedy Female Lead

4.5 Poor

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Black Starlet

Black Starlet is a 1974 American blaxploitation drama, also known as Black Gauntlet, about a Black actress trying to bre...

Drama Crime Female Lead 1974

3.8 Poor

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Blackenstein

Blackenstein is William A. Levey's 1973 blaxploitation horror film, a Frankenstein variant made after the success of Bla...

Independent Supernatural Horror Monster

3.5 Poor