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Blaxploitation

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  • Jim Brown in Tick, Tick, Tick (1970)

    1. Tick, Tick, Tick

    19701h 40mG
    6.7 (1.4K)
    Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected Sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the deep south.
    DirectorRalph NelsonStarsJim BrownGeorge KennedyFredric March
    ...tick...tick...tick... (1970, January 9th)
  • Halls of Anger (1970)

    2. Halls of Anger

    19701h 36mR
    5.9 (467)
    An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transferred there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
    DirectorPaul BogartStarsCalvin LockhartJanet MacLachlanJeff Bridges
    Halls of Anger (1970, April 29th)
  • The Landlord (1970)

    3. The Landlord

    19701h 52mPG75Metascore
    6.9 (3.3K)
    Naïve 29-year-old Elgar Enders buys a building in a black Brooklyn ghetto to evict the tenants and upgrade it. But instead, he grows fond of the tenants and falls in love with a mixed-race girl while his wealthy parents disapprove.
    DirectorHal AshbyStarsBeau BridgesLee GrantDiana Sands
    The Landlord (1970, May 20th)
  • Watermelon Man (1970)

    4. Watermelon Man

    19701h 40mR60Metascore
    6.7 (3.1K)
    Jeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
    DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsGodfrey CambridgeEstelle ParsonsHoward Caine
    The Watermelon Man (1970, May 27th)
  • Black Angels (1970)

    5. Black Angels

    19701h 27mR
    4.3 (195)
    When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
    DirectorLaurence MerrickStarsDes RobertsJohn King IIILinda Jackson
    Black Angels (1970, October 14th)
  • The Big Doll House (1971)

    6. The Big Doll House

    19711h 35mR
    5.8 (3.3K)
    Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors.
    DirectorJack HillStarsRoberta CollinsPam GrierJudith Brown
    The Big Doll House (1971, April 30th)
  • Black Chariot (1971)

    7. Black Chariot

    19711h 30m
    Young black man joins a black nationalist group, which is betrayed by a turncoat.
    DirectorRobert GoodwinStarsBernie CaseyBarbara ORichard Elkins
    Black Chariot (1971, June) *lost
  • Speeding Up Time (1971)

    8. Speeding Up Time

    19711h 30m
    4.6 (24)
    A poet seeks revenge on the criminal responsible for the death of his mother.
    DirectorJohn EvansStarsWinston ThrashPamela DoneganEllen Brown
    Speed Up Time (1971, July 16th)
  • Women in Cages (1971)

    9. Women in Cages

    19711h 21mR
    5.0 (2.1K)
    American women prisoners in a foreign country. Sex and action.
    DirectorGerardo de LeonStarsJudith BrownRoberta CollinsJennifer Gan
    Women In Cages (1971, October 20th)
  • The Organization (1971)

    10. The Organization

    19711h 46mPG-13
    6.0 (2.4K)
    In San Francisco, Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs helps a group of idealistic vigilantes expose a drug ring controlled by powerful businessmen.
    DirectorDon MedfordStarsSidney PoitierBarbara McNairGerald S. O'Loughlin
    The Organization (1971, October 20th)
  • Honky (1971)

    11. Honky

    19711h 32mR
    5.0 (168)
    Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.
    DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsBrenda SykesJohn NealsonMaia Danziger
    Honky (1971, November 26th)
  • Fritz the Cat (1972)

    12. Fritz the Cat

    19721h 18mNot Rated54Metascore
    6.2 (15K)
    In the late 1960s, a pretentious, womanizing young cat drops out of college, starts a riot in Harlem, hits the road with an ex-girlfriend and gets mixed up with domestic terrorists.
    DirectorRalph BakshiStarsSkip HinnantRosetta LeNoireJohn McCurry
    Fritz The Cat (1972, January 25th)
  • Embassy (1972)

    13. Embassy

    19721h 30mPG
    5.0 (160)
    A Russian spy penetrates into the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon to try to kill a Soviet defector under asylum there.
    DirectorGordon HesslerStarsRichard RoundtreeChuck ConnorsMarie-José Nat
    Embassy (1972, February)
  • Georgia, Georgia (1972)

    14. Georgia, Georgia

    19721h 31mR
    6.6 (137)
    Georgia, an African-American singer, travels to the Swedish city of Stockholm for a performance. There, she meets an American deserter and soon they have fallen in love. But Georgia's friend and assistant, Alberta, warns her to stick to her own kind.
    DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsDiana SandsDirk BenedictMinnie Gentry
    Georgia, Georgia (1972, March 10th)
  • Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier in Buck and the Preacher (1972)

    15. Buck and the Preacher

    19721h 42mGP65Metascore
    6.6 (2.9K)
    A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
    DirectorsSidney PoitierJoseph SargentStarsSidney PoitierHarry BelafonteRuby Dee
    Buck and the Preacher (1972, March 17th)
  • Christopher St. John in Top of the Heap (1972)

    16. Top of the Heap

    19721h 30mR
    6.3 (448)
    A D.C. black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.
    DirectorChristopher St. JohnStarsChristopher St. JohnPaula KellyFlorence St. Peter
    Top of the Heap (1972, June 2nd)
  • A Place Called Today (1972)

    17. A Place Called Today

    19721h 43mX
    4.2 (86)
    Racial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.
    DirectorDon SchainStarsJ. Herbert Kerr Jr.Lana WoodCheri Caffaro
    A Place Called Today (1972, June 15th)
  • The Hot Box (1972)

    18. The Hot Box

    19721h 28mR
    4.7 (440)
    Hot action and lust in the steamy tropical jungle, as heroines break out of a women's prison and start a local revolution.
    DirectorJoe ViolaStarsCarmen ArgenzianoAndrea CaganMargaret Markov
    The Hot Box (1972, June 23rd)
  • Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques in Come Back Charleston Blue (1972)

    19. Come Back Charleston Blue

    19721h 40mPG
    6.4 (381)
    Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
    DirectorMark WarrenStarsGodfrey CambridgeRaymond St. JacquesPeter De Anda
    Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972, June 29th)
  • Sign of Aquarius (1970)

    20. Sign of Aquarius

    19701h 35mR
    5.1 (93)
    A group of hippies who live together in a communal apartment are arrested during a peace demonstration. Upon their release, they return home to discuss plans for another demonstration. That evening in a nightclub, the hippies watch as the mother of a young patron, Donna, arrives to take her home, in an effort to remove her from bad company. Sonny, one of the hippie group, passes Donna a note with the address of the communal apartment. Later at the apartment, a young woman experiences a bad LSD trip in which she "gives birth" to a huge egg. Donna arrives and is introduced to LSD during a musical ritual called "Om Pax Om." The next morning the hippies sell newspapers on a street corner. That evening Sonny and Donna go walking and encounter a gangster drug dealer and his friends, who proceed to beat up Sonny for refusing to become a dealer. The next day, after the second peace demonstration, the pushers wait in the alley for Sonny, and when he appears, they shoot at him but accidentally hit Donna instead. The group conducts a solemn procession through the streets carrying Donna's body.
    DirectorRobert J. EmeryStarsPaul ElliotGabe LewisJim Coursar
    Ghetto Freaks (1972, June) *re-marketed as blax, c:1970
  • Ray Milland and Roosevelt Grier in The Thing with Two Heads (1972)

    21. The Thing with Two Heads

    19721h 31mPG
    4.5 (3K)
    Doctors are forced to transplant the head of terminally ill, arthritic racist surgeon Maxwell Kirshner onto the body of African American Death Row inmate Jack Moss because there is no other donor.
    DirectorLee FrostStarsRoosevelt GrierRay MillandDon Marshall
    The Thing with Two Heads (1972, July 19th)
  • Bone (1972)

    22. Bone

    19721h 35mR
    6.7 (1.5K)
    When a criminal breaks into the Beverly Hills home of a wealthy couple having marital problems, he unwillingly provides the spouses with an unlikely resolution to their conflicts as well as a solution to his own secret problem.
    DirectorLarry CohenStarsYaphet KottoAndrew DugganJoyce Van Patten
    Bone (1972, July)
  • Teda Bracci, Andres Centenera, Marissa Delgado, Vic Diaz, Anitra Ford, Subas Herrero, Karen McKevic, and Carol Speed in The Big Bird Cage (1972)

    23. The Big Bird Cage

    19721h 28mR
    5.9 (3.2K)
    Blossom (Pam Grier) and Django (Sid Haig) are thieving mercenaries who engineer a prison break from the outside.
    DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAnitra FordCandice Roman
    The Big Bird Cage (1972, July)
  • The Night of the Strangler (1972)

    24. The Night of the Strangler

    19721h 28mR
    4.8 (413)
    In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.
    DirectorJoy N. Houck Jr.StarsMicky DolenzJames RalstonMichael Anthony
    The Night of the Strangler (1972, October 1st)
  • Hickey & Boggs (1972)

    25. Hickey & Boggs

    19721h 51mPG
    6.3 (1.5K)
    Two Los Angeles private eyes follow a missing woman to her bank loot.
    DirectorRobert CulpStarsBill CosbyRobert CulpTa-Ronce Allen
    Hickey and Boggs (1972, October 4th)

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