swap_horiz Monkey Hustle Alternatives

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Let's Do It Again

Let's Do It Again is a 1975 American crime comedy directed by Sidney Poitier, with Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack and the...

Crime Comedy Gambling 1975

7.3 Good

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Cotton Comes to Harlem

Cotton Comes to Harlem is Ossie Davis's 1970 Harlem crime comedy, adapted from Chester Himes and often cited as an early...

Detective Crime Comedy Harlem

7.2 Good

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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 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

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Watermelon Man

Watermelon Man is Melvin Van Peebles's 1970 studio comedy about a racist white salesman who wakes up Black, starring God...

Drama Satire Comedy Race

7.0 Good

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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is Keenen Ivory Wayans's 1988 directing debut, notable for parodying blaxploitation with Jim Bro...

Satire Crime Comedy Parody

6.9 Fair

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Cornbread, Earl and Me

Cornbread, Earl and Me is a 1975 American coming-of-age drama by Joseph Manduke, notable as Laurence Fishburne's film de...

Drama Community Youth Crime

6.8 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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Come Back, Charleston Blue

Come Back, Charleston Blue is a 1972 Harlem crime comedy, Mark Warren's sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem, with music by...

Detective Crime Comedy Sequel

6.5 Fair

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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

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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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The River Niger

The River Niger is a 1976 film adaptation of Joseph Walker's Tony-winning play, notable for James Earl Jones, Cicely Tys...

Drama Community Family Crime

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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Five on the Black Hand Side

Five on the Black Hand Side is Oscar Williams's 1973 family comedy, adapted by Charlie L. Russell from his 1969 play as...

Drama Community Family Comedy

5.8 Mediocre

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Countdown at Kusini

Countdown at Kusini is a 1976 Nigerian-American action drama directed by Ossie Davis and financed by Delta Sigma Theta s...

Action Drama International Crime

5.2 Mediocre

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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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No Way Back

No Way Back is a 1976 blaxploitation film written, directed by and starring Fred Williamson as private eye Jesse Crowder...

Action Drama Crime Thriller

4.6 Poor

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Black Heat

Black Heat is a 1976 American blaxploitation action film by Al Adamson, starring Timothy Brown as Las Vegas detective Ki...

Action Drama Detective Crime

4.0 Poor

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Black Shampoo

Black Shampoo is a 1976 American blaxploitation and sexploitation film by Greydon Clark, recasting Shampoo around a Blac...

Action Drama Crime Revenge

3.8 Poor