swap_horiz Diamonds Alternatives

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Super Fly

Gordon Parks Jr. directed this 1972 film about a cocaine dealer trying to retire, establishing it as one of the most ico...

Classic Crime 1970S Harlem

8.6 Great

2

Space Is the Place

Space Is the Place is a 1974 Afrofuturist science-fiction film by John Coney, starring Sun Ra and his Arkestra in a cosm...

Music Sci Fi Classic 1970S

7.8 Good

3

The Cool World

The Cool World is Shirley Clarke's 1963 Harlem gang drama, preserved in the National Film Registry and scored by Mal Wal...

Classic Drama Crime 1960S

7.2 Good

4

Death of a Snowman

Also released as *Soul Patrol*, this 1978 South African action film directed by Christopher Rowley blends blaxploitation...

Action Classic Crime Urban

6.6 Fair

5

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Ralph Nelson directed this 1970 drama starring Jim Brown as a newly elected Black sheriff facing deep racial tension and...

Classic Drama Crime 1970S

6.6 Fair

6

Trouble Man

Trouble Man is Ivan Dixon's 1972 crime thriller starring Robert Hooks as fixer Mr. T, remembered for Marvin Gaye's self-...

Action Drama Detective Crime

6.5 Fair

7

Brother John

Brother John is a 1971 Sidney Poitier drama by James Goldstone, with Quincy Jones music and a mysterious return to rural...

Classic Drama Mystery 1970S

6.5 Fair

8

The Candy Tangerine Man

The Candy Tangerine Man is Matt Cimber's 1975 Los Angeles blaxploitation film about John Daniels's pimp figure, the Blac...

Classic Crime Urban 1970S

6.4 Fair

9

Charley One-Eye

Charley One-Eye is Don Chaffey's 1973 British-American Western starring Richard Roundtree as a Black Union Army deserter...

Classic Drama 1970S Western

6.4 Fair

10

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

This 1970 crime thriller is the sequel to In the Heat of the Night, featuring Sidney Poitier reprising his role as Detec...

Classic Detective Mystery Crime

6.4 Fair

11

Shaft (2000)

Shaft is a 2000 action thriller directed by John Singleton, starring Samuel L. Jackson as John Shaft with Richard Roundt...

Action Crime 2000S Sequel

6.2 Fair

12

Book of Numbers

Book of Numbers is Raymond St. Jacques's 1973 crime film about a 1930s Arkansas numbers racket and his only work as dire...

Classic Crime Gangster 1970S

6.1 Fair

13

The Slams

The Slams is a 1973 prison-action film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, starring Jim Brown as a robber hiding stolen loot be...

Action Classic Crime 1970S

6.0 Fair

14

Solomon King

Solomon King is a 1974 independent blaxploitation film produced, written, co-directed, and starring Sal Watts, later res...

Action Classic Crime 1970S

5.5 Mediocre

15

Cool Breeze

Cool Breeze is Barry Pollack's 1972 MGM heist film starring Thalmus Rasulala, a blaxploitation remake of The Asphalt Jun...

Action Drama Crime Heist

5.2 Mediocre

16

Zebra Killer

William Girdler directed this 1974 crime thriller starring Austin Stoker as a police captain attempting to stop a violen...

Classic Crime Thriller 1970S

5.2 Mediocre

17

Black Samurai

Black Samurai is a 1977 martial arts spy film by Al Adamson, starring Jim Kelly and based on Marc Olden's paperback hero...

Action Classic 1970S Spy

5.1 Mediocre

18

Hangup

*Hangup* is a 1970s American blaxploitation crime film notable for following the violent and corrupt exploits of two pol...

Classic Drama Crime 1970S

4.9 Poor

19

Black Snake

Black Snake is Russ Meyer's 1973 Barbados-shot slavery exploitation film and his only direct attempt at the blaxploitati...

Action Classic 1970S Period

4.8 Poor

20

Death Dimension

Also known as *Black Eliminator*, this 1978 martial arts blaxploitation film stars Jim Kelly as a secret agent fighting...

Action Classic 1970S Spy

4.6 Poor