swap_horiz Leadbelly Alternatives

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Super Fly

Super Fly is a 1972 crime drama directed by Gordon Parks Jr. The film follows Priest, a Harlem cocaine dealer, as he att...

Classic Crime 1970S Harlem

8.6 Great

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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

Don't Play Us Cheap

Adapted from an off-Broadway play, this 1973 film directed by Jeff Kelly depicts two devils attempting to ruin a Harlem...

Classic Comedy Party 1970S

7.2 Good

4

Shaft's Big Score!

Shaft's Big Score is a 1972 sequel directed by Gordon Parks, with Richard Roundtree returning and Parks composing the sc...

Classic Detective Crime 1970S

6.9 Fair

5

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

12

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

13

Slaves

Slaves is a 1969 slavery drama directed by Herbert Biberman, starring Dionne Warwick in her screen acting debut alongsid...

Classic Drama 1960S Period

5.9 Mediocre

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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

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Together for Days

Directed by Michael Schultz, this 1972 romantic drama explores the social challenges and intense backlash faced by a whi...

Classic Drama Urban Romance

5.5 Mediocre

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Diamonds

*Diamonds* is a 1975 American crime film directed by Menahem Golan, notable for starring Robert Shaw and featuring blaxp...

Action Classic Crime 1970S

5.4 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

18

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

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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

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Death Drug

*Death Drug* is a 1978 American blaxploitation horror film directed by Oscar Williams, featuring Philip Michael Thomas a...

Music Classic Drama 1970S

4.5 Poor