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A Piece of the Action is a 1977 American crime comedy directed by Sidney Poitier, who also stars with Bill Cosby. Poitier and Cosby play two professional thieves whose activities are known to a retired detective, who pressures them into working at a youth center and helping troubled young people. Th...
Which Way Is Up? is a 1977 American comedy directed by Michael Schultz and starring Richard Pryor. Pryor plays three roles: Leroy Jones, a California fruit picker, along with Leroy's father and son. The film follows Leroy's sexual relationships, family responsibilities, and growing involvement in la...
Penitentiary is a 1979 American prison film written and directed by Jamaa Fanaka. Leon Isaac Kennedy plays Martel Gordone, a man sent to prison after being wrongly accused and who becomes involved in the institution's boxing program. The film uses prison violence, boxing, and exploitation-film conve...
Greased Lightning is a 1977 biographical film directed by Michael Schultz and starring Richard Pryor as stock-car driver Wendell Scott. It portrays Scott's effort to compete in and gain recognition within a racing system that restricted opportunities for Black drivers. The film is based on Scott's c...
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh is a 1979 American sports comedy film starring Julius Erving. Its story follows a struggling basketball team that attempts to improve its season by recruiting players born under the astrological sign Pisces. The film combines professional basketball with an intentional...
Petey Wheatstraw is a 1977 American blaxploitation comedy-horror film directed by Cliff Roquemore. Rudy Ray Moore plays the title character, a stand-up comedian who makes a bargain with the devil in exchange for supernatural powers and the chance to pursue revenge. The film combines Moore's comic pe...
Disco Godfather is a 1979 American blaxploitation film directed by J. Robert Wagoner and starring Rudy Ray Moore. Moore plays a retired disco disc jockey who becomes involved in a violent conflict with a dealer responsible for distributing angel dust, a slang term for phencyclidine. The film combine...
Bare Knuckles is a 1977 action and crime film directed by Don Edmonds and starring Robert Viharo. Viharo plays a bounty hunter who pursues a serial killer, placing the story within the independent crime and exploitation films associated with the late 1970s. It is of interest to viewers studying peri...
Black Samurai is a 1977 blaxploitation martial-arts film directed by Al Adamson and starring Jim Kelly. Kelly plays a government agent who uses his fighting skills to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from a cult. The film combines spy-adventure plotting with hand-to-hand combat and exploitation-era g...
Mr. Mean is a 1977 action-crime film written, directed, and produced by Fred Williamson, who plays the title character. The story follows a professional killer hired to eliminate a Mafia leader whose fraudulent charitable organizations have angered organized-crime families; after accepting the assig...
Death Force is a 1978 Filipino-American blaxploitation action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago. James Iglehart plays a Vietnam veteran who is betrayed, left for dead, and later returns to seek revenge, giving the film the structure of a personal revenge story within a crime-action setting. It is o...
The Baron is a 1977 blaxploitation action film built around Calvin Lockhart's performance as a powerful Harlem crime figure. The character's control of the drug trade is threatened by betrayal within his organization and by rival criminals, making criminal power and internal conflict the film's cent...
[Blind Rage](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077243/) is a blaxploitation and martial-arts crime film directed by Efren C. Piñon. Its premise follows five blind martial artists recruited to rob a bank in Manila, making their training, coordination, and use of nonvisual skills central to the planned ba...
Abar, the First Black Superman is a 1977 American blaxploitation superhero film directed by Frank Packard and starring Tobar Mayo as John Abar. The story follows a bodyguard who receives a superpower elixir from scientist Dr. Kinkade after Kinkade's family moves into a racist neighborhood, then acts...
The Guy from Harlem is a 1977 American blaxploitation film directed by Rene Martinez Jr. It follows a private detective working in Harlem and uses a crime-action setup typical of independently made blaxploitation films of the period. The production is a low-budget entry in the genre, and retrospecti...
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