The Mack

Title: The Mack
Release Date: 4 April 1973
Runtime: 110 min
Genres: Crime, Drama
Director: Michael Campus
Actor: Max Julien, Don Gordon, Richard Pryor, Carol Speed, Roger E. Mosley, Dick Anthony Williams,William Watson, George Murdock, Juanita Moore, Paul Harris, Kai Hernandez, Annazette Chase, Junero Jennings, Lee Duncan, Stu Gilliam
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:11 am

Description: 
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes...

Foxy Brown

Title: Foxy Brown
Release Date: 5 April 1974
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 94 min
Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Jack Hill
Actor: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Sid Haig,Juanita Brown, Sally Ann Stroud, Bob Minor, Tony Giorgio, Fred Lerner, Judith Cassmore, H.B. Haggerty,Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:10 am

Description: 
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Coffy

Title: Coffy
Release Date: 13 June 1973
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 91 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Jack Hill
Actor: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus, Sid Haig, Barry Cahill,Lee de Broux, Ruben Moreno, Lisa Farringer, Carol Locatell, Linda Haynes, John Perak, Mwako Cumbuka, Morris Buchanan
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:11 am

Description: 
Coffy, an African American nurse, takes vigilante justice against inner city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.

Shaft

Title: Shaft
Release Date: 16 June 2000
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 99 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: John Singleton
Actor: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya,Toni Collette, Richard Roundtree, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Josef Sommer, Lynne Thigpen, Philip Bosco,Pat Hingle, Lee Tergesen, Daniel von Bargen
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 12:44 am

Description: 
New York City police detective John Shaft (nephew of the original 1970s detective) goes on a personal mission to make sure the son of a real estate tycoon is brought to justice after a racially-motivated murder.

Shaft

Title: Shaft
Release Date: 2 July 1971
Runtime: 100 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Gordon Parks
Actor: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Margaret Warncke, Joseph Leon, Arnold Johnson, Dominic Barto, George Strus
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:12 am

Description: 
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Jackie Brown

Title: Jackie Brown
Release Date: 25 December 1997
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 154 min
Genres: Crime, Thriller
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actor: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro,Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton, Tommy 'Tiny' Lister, Hattie Winston, Sid Haig, Aimee Graham, Ellis Williams, Tangie Ambrose
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 12:48 am

Description: 
A female flight attendant becomes a key figure in a plot between the police and an arms dealer.

The Black Gestapo

Title: The Black Gestapo
Release Date: March 1975
Runtime: 88 min
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Lee Frost
Actor: Rod Perry, Charles Robinson, Phil Hoover, Edward Cross, Angela Brent, Wes Bishop, Lee Frost,Donna Young, Charles Howerton, Rai Tasco, David Bryant, J. Christopher Sullivan, Colin Male, Gene Russell, Uschi Digard
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 7 August 2013 at 5:32 am

Description: 
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's ...

Mandingo

Title: Mandingo
Release Date: 25 July 1975
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 127 min
Genres: Action, Romance
Director: Richard Fleischer
Actor: James Mason, Susan George, Perry King, Richard Ward, Brenda Sykes, Ken Norton, Lillian Hayman, Roy Poole, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Paul Benedict, Ben Masters, Ray Spruell, Louis Turenne, Duane Allen, Earl Maynard
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:09 am

Description: 
A slave owner in the 1840s trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.

Coonskin

Title: Coonskin
Release Date: 20 August 1975
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 100 min
Genres: Animation, Crime, Drama
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Actor: Barry White, Charles Gordone, Scatman Crothers, Philip Michael Thomas, Danny Rees, Buddy Douglas, Jim Moore
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 30 September 2013 at 7:17 am

Description: 
A multi-layered satire of race relations in America. Live-action sequences of a prison break bracket the animated story of Brother Rabbit, Brother Bear, and Preacher Fox, who rise to the ...

Take a Hard Ride

Title: Take a Hard Ride
Release Date: 29 October 1975
Runtime: 103 min
Genres: Western
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Actor: Jim Brown, Lee Van Cleef, Fred Williamson, Catherine Spaak, Jim Kelly, Barry Sullivan, Dana Andrews, Harry Carey Jr., Robert Donner, Charles McGregor, Leonard Smith, Ronald Howard, Ricardo Palacios, Robin Levitt, Buddy Joe Hooker
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:09 am

Description: 
Rugged trail boss and reformed criminal Pike promises his honest wealthy employer Morgan that he will venture across the dessert to deliver $86,000 dollars in payroll money to a ranch in ...

Truck Turner

Title: Truck Turner
Release Date: 17 February 1975
Runtime: 91 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Actor: Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Nichelle Nichols, Sam Laws, Paul Harris, Charles Cyphers, John Kramer, Scatman Crothers, Dick Miller, Bob Harris, Jac Emil, Stan Shaw,Wendell Tucker
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 2 September 2013 at 4:08 pm

Description: 
Truck is a bounty hunter who gets a job to track down a guy named Gator. When he and his partner find him, a chase ensues and Gator is killed. This makes Gator's woman, Dorinda, very angry ...

Hell Up in Harlem

Title: Hell Up in Harlem
Release Date: December 1973
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 94 min
Genres: Crime, Drama
Director: Larry Cohen
Actor: Fred Williamson, Julius Harris, Gloria Hendry, Margaret Avery, D'Urville Martin, Tony King, Gerald Gordon, Bobby Ramsen, James Dixon, Esther Sutherland, Charles MacGuire, Ty Randolph
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 29 July 2013 at 10:19 pm

Description: 
A gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.

Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off

Title: Slaughter’s Big Rip-Off
Release Date: 4 March 1974
Runtime: 92 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Gordon Douglas
Actor: Jim Brown, Ed McMahon, Don Stroud, Brock Peters, Gloria Hendry, Dick Anthony Williams, Art Metrano, Judith Brown, Jacqueline Giroux, Eddie Lo Russo, Russ McGinn, Hoke Howell, Chuck Hicks,Russ Marin, Nick Benedict
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 29 July 2013 at 10:19 pm

Description: 
Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.

Hit!

Title: Hit!
Release Date: 23 May 1975
Runtime: 134 min
Genres: Action, Drama
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Actor: Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor, Paul Hampton, Gwen Welles, Warren J. Kemmerling, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton, Zooey Hall, Todd Martin, Norman Burton, Jenny Astruc, Yves Barsacq, Jean-Claude Bercq, Henri Cogan, Pierre Collet
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:10 am

Description: 
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug ...

Detroit 9000

Title: Detroit 9000
Release Date: 13 June 1975
Runtime: 106 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama
Director: Arthur Marks
Actor: Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco, Vonetta McGee, Ella Edwards, Scatman Crothers, Herbert Jefferson Jr.,Robert Phillips, Rudy Challenger, Sally Baker, Richard Bourin, Council Cargle, Bob Charlton, Regis Cordic, Jerry Dahlmann, June Fairchild
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:10 am

Description: 
Cops go after jewel thieves.

Across 110th Street

Title: Across 110th Street
Release Date: 23 March 1973
Runtime: 102 min
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Barry Shear
Actor: Frank Adu, Frank Arno, Joseph Attles, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Tina Beyer, Gerry Black,Samual Blue Jr., Norman Bush, Anthony C. Cannon, Maria Carey, Anthony Charnota, Dick Crockett, Keith Davis, George DiCenzo
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 1:11 am

Description: 
Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

The Big Doll House

Title: The Big Doll House
Release Date: 30 April 1971
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 95 min
Genres: Action, Drama
Director: Jack Hill
Actor: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 30 April 1971 at 12:00 am

Description: 
Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors.

The Bus Is Coming

Title: The Bus Is Coming
Release Date: July 1971
Runtime: 109 min
Genres: Drama
Director: Wendell Franklin
Actor: Mike B. Sims, Lonnie Bradford, Stephanie Faulkner, Burl Bullock, Tony Sweeting, Jack Wrangler,Sandra Reed, Robert Brubaker, Morgan Jones, Dick Ryal, Eddie Kendrix, Juan Russell, Wally Wood
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 2 September 2013 at 4:08 pm

Description: 
A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.

Carter’s Army (Black Brigade)

Title: Carter’s Army (Black Brigade)
Release Date: 27 January 1970
MPAA Rating: NOT RATED
Runtime: 70 min
Genres: Drama, War
Director: George McCowan
Actor: Stephen Boyd, Robert Hooks, Susan Oliver
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 27 January 1970 at 12:00 am

Description: 
A redneck officer is put in charge of a squad of black troops charged with taking an important bridge from the Nazis.

Black Dynamite

Title: Black Dynamite
Release Date: 13 January 2010
MPAA Rating: R
Runtime: 84 min
Genres: Action, Comedy
Director: Scott Sanders
Actor: Phyllis Applegate, Obba Babatundé, William Bassett, Troy Lindsey Brown, Fredella Calloway,Cheryl Carter, Juka Ceesay, Kevin Chapman, Tommy Davidson, Lucky Davis, Nicholas Earley, Richard Edson, T.J. Edwards, Jon Kent Ethridge, Mary Evans
Country: USA
Language: English
Last Updated: 16 July 2013 at 12:25 am

Description: 
Black Dynamite is the greatest African-American action star of the 1970s. When his only brother is killed by The Man it's up to him to find justice.