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Blacksploitation Movies | Blake

by Wekesa • Created 13 years ago • Modified 13 years ago
A curation of Blacksploitation movies from the 70s ranked in order of personal favorites.
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  • 10 titles
  • Three the Hard Way (1974)

    1. Three the Hard Way

    19741h 29mR
    6.2 (1.9K)
    Blaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.
    DirectorGordon Parks Jr.StarsJim BrownFred WilliamsonJim Kelly
  • Pam Grier in Foxy Brown (1974)

    2. Foxy Brown

    19741h 32mR46Metascore
    6.5 (13K)
    A vigilante takes a job as a high-class prostitute to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
    DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierAntonio FargasPeter Brown
  • Richard Roundtree in Shaft (1971)

    3. Shaft

    19711h 40mR66Metascore
    6.6 (22K)
    A crime lord hires black private eye, John Shaft, to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
    DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnCharles Cioffi
  • Pam Grier in Coffy (1973)

    4. Coffy

    19731h 30mR60Metascore
    6.8 (14K)
    A nurse serves inner-city drug dealers with some vigilante justice after her sister becomes their latest victim.
    DirectorJack HillStarsPam GrierBooker BradshawRobert DoQui
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)

    5. The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    19731h 42mPG
    7.1 (1.7K)
    A black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
    DirectorIvan DixonStarsLawrence CookJanet LeaguePaula Kelly
  • Shaft's Big Score! (1972)

    6. Shaft's Big Score!

    19721h 44mR
    6.0 (3.8K)
    Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends.
    DirectorGordon ParksStarsRichard RoundtreeMoses GunnDrew Bundini Brown
  • Shaft in Africa (1973)

    7. Shaft in Africa

    19731h 52mR
    5.9 (3.4K)
    Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a modern slavery ring where young Africans are lured to Paris to do chain-gang work.
    DirectorJohn GuillerminStarsRichard RoundtreeFrank FinlayVonetta McGee
  • Ron O'Neal in Super Fly (1972)

    8. Super Fly

    19721h 31mR67Metascore
    6.4 (9K)
    The daily routine of cocaine dealer Priest who wants to score one more super deal and retire.
    DirectorGordon Parks Jr.StarsRon O'NealCarl LeeSheila Frazier
  • Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

    9. Cotton Comes to Harlem

    19701h 37mR
    6.4 (2.9K)
    Two Harlem cops investigate a robbery, believing that a reverend has staged it in order to steal the money he's collected for a local fundraiser.
    DirectorOssie DavisStarsGodfrey CambridgeRaymond St. JacquesCalvin Lockhart
  • Melvin Van Peebles in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

    10. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

    19711h 37mR71Metascore
    5.5 (6.1K)
    After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
    DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsMelvin Van PeeblesHubert ScalesJohn Dullaghan

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