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It s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
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A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus operandi is shockingly violent and even more entertaining. Director Frankie Latina took four years to direct this lovingly constructed ode to disreputable genre flicks, all of it shot in his hometown of Milwaukee. He mashes together Blaxploitation, gore, Italian giallo, Japanese gangster flicks and much more into an irresistible guilty pleasure.
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This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend called Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. Black Dynamite is ready to seek his revenge and take The Man down.
5) Superfly
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Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
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He's a powder keg of black fury that's about to explode! The baddest kung-fu cat to ever appear on screen is coming to comics so you suckers better duck! Former CIA agent, international ladies man, and sworn ass-kicking enemy of The Man… he's Black Dynamite-and he's about to walk into the most dangerous journey of his life!
9) Shaft
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To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
10) Shaft
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While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...
12) Dolemite
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In prison on a frame-up by Willy Green, Dolemite, the famous nightclub entertainer, is offered an early release on the condition that he help the FBI bring down Green and his henchmen, who are terrorizing the city. Queen Bee joins the fight with her all-girl army of Kung Fu killers.
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"In this groundbreaking documentary from the Independent Film channel, filmmaker Isaac Julien takes us back to the early 70s and the explosion of blaxploitation films, today one of American cinema's most beloved cult genres. The original guilty pleasure, these fun and energetic films had all the action, comedy, sex and groovy music you could want in two hours worth of entertainment."--container.
14) Penitentiary
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"Leon Isaac Kennedy stars as Martel Gordone who, after unwittingly getting involved with a prostitute and attempting to save her from being assaulted by a John, which turns deadly, finds himself charged with a murder he didn't commit. Locked up in the state penitentiary, Martel is forced to fend for himself among hardened criminals, until he's introduced to the underground and lucrative world of in-prison boxing." -- Container.
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Welcome home, brother Charles: "A young black man is sent to prison, after being brutalized by a corrupt racist cop. Upon release, he takes deadly revenge against the cops, lawyers, and thugs who got him busted, using a most unusual weapon..."--Container.
Emma Mae: "The story of a naive young woman who moves from the Deep South to Watts. Initially finding herself at odds with her surroundings, Emma eventually gains acceptance from a local drug addict...
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When a courageous Black doctor and his family move into an upscale home in an unsuspecting white neighborhood, the welcoming party quickly turns bloody and ugly. As the bigotry becomes murderous, Dr. Kinkade discovers a trustworthy ally - Abar and his team of urban guerilla fighters. It's winner take all as Abar becomes spiritually guided by the memory of the great freedom fighters.
17) Penitentiary II
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Paroled after serving time for a murder he didn't commit, Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone decides to hang up his gloves and settle into a quite home life with his girlfriend. But Sweet soon finds that life on the outside isn't much easier than life in the "Big House."
20) Sugar Hill
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Diane 'Sugar' Hill avenges the mob's murder of her fiancé. She gets help from a voodoo priestess, Mama Maitresse, who conjures up the Lord of the Dead, who in turn raises zombies from the grave to get Sugar's revenge.
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