swap_horiz Up Tight! 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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The Story of a Three-Day Pass

This 1967 romantic drama directed by Melvin Van Peebles follows a Black soldier in France, and is widely recognized as a...

Military Classic Drama Romance

7.6 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

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

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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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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

7

For Love of Ivy

*For Love of Ivy* is a 1968 romantic comedy directed by Daniel Mann, notable for having Sidney Poitier star and co-write...

Classic Comedy Urban Romance

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

9

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

10

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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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

12

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

14

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

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

A Change of Mind

A Change of Mind is a 1969 sci-fi drama starring Raymond St. Jacques as a white district attorney whose brain is transpl...

Sci Fi Classic Drama Identity

5.9 Mediocre

19

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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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