Best Late 70S
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A 1977 blaxploitation comedy-drama directed by Sidney Poitier, his third collaboration with Bill Cosby, in which two reformed criminals are blackmailed into mentoring at-risk youth.
A 1977 blaxploitation comedy directed by Michael Schultz, starring Richard Pryor in three distinct roles in an adaptation loosely based on Lina Wertmüller's 1972 Italian film The Seduction of Mimi.
A 1979 blaxploitation prison drama written and directed by Jamaa Fanaka, starring Leon Isaac Kennedy as a wrongly imprisoned man who uses boxing as his means of survival and eventual release.
A 1977 biographical blaxploitation drama directed by Michael Schultz, starring Richard Pryor as Wendell Scott, the first African American driver to win a major NASCAR race.
This 1979 sports comedy stars Julius Erving and features a struggling basketball team that turns its season around by recruiting Pisces players.
A 1977 blaxploitation comedy-horror film directed by Cliff Roquemore, starring Rudy Ray Moore as a stand-up comedian who bargains with the devil for supernatural powers and revenge.
Directed by J. Robert Wagoner and starring Rudy Ray Moore, this 1979 blaxploitation film follows a retired disco DJ who battles a deadly angel dust dealer.
A 1977 action film directed by Don Edmonds starring Robert Viharo as a bounty hunter pursuing a serial killer, released in markets overlapping with the late blaxploitation era.
A 1977 blaxploitation martial arts film directed by Al Adamson, starring Jim Kelly as a government agent who uses his fighting skills to rescue his kidnapped girlfriend from a cult.
A 1977 blaxploitation action film directed by and starring Fred Williamson, shot on location in Italy, featuring Williamson as a hitman caught between warring mob organizations.
A 1978 Filipino-American blaxploitation action film directed by Cirio H. Santiago, starring James Iglehart as a Vietnam veteran betrayed and left for dead who returns for revenge.
A 1977 blaxploitation action film starring Calvin Lockhart as a powerful Harlem crime figure whose control over the drug trade is threatened by internal betrayal and rival criminals.
A 1978 Filipino-American blaxploitation action film directed by Efren C. Piñon, notable for its unusual premise of five blind men recruited by a criminal organization to rob a military vault.
A 1977 blaxploitation superhero film in which a Black activist and community protector gains extraordinary abilities after a scientist injects him with an experimental superpower serum.
A 1977 low-budget blaxploitation film directed by Rene Martinez Jr. about a Harlem private detective, frequently cited by critics as among the weakest entries in the entire genre.
