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BLACK CINEMA(Blaxploitation)

Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation". Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music. These films starred primarily black actors. Variety magazine credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song with the invention of the blaxploitation genre. Others argue that the Hollywood-financed film Shaft is closer to being blaxploitation, and thus is more likely to have begun the genre.

Coffy

Coffy(Pam Grier) is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path

The MACK

Goldie(Max Julien) returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.

FRIDAY FOSTER

Friday Foster(Pam Grier), an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

Shaft

Cool black private eye John Shaft(Richard Roundtree) is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

Sweet Sweetback

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black prostitute(Melvin Van Peebles) goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

Hell Up In Harlem

Fred Williamson (Original Gangstas) is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss when he steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and man in the city. Enlisting the aid of his father and an army of Harlem hoods, Gibbs goes from defense to offense, launching a deadly attack on his enemies that sets off a violent chain reaction from Harlem all the way to the Caribbean, climaxing in one of the hottest turf-war shoot-outs in Hollywood history.

TRUCK TURNER

Isaac Hayes puts his gun where his groove is in his role a hard-case bounty hunter.

Across 110th Street

Anthony Quinn and Anthony Franciosa portray New York cops in this fierce thriller about a deadly robbery investigation on the mean streets of Harlem.

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