70's Black Movies: Our List with Over 100 Films

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Slaughter's Big Rip Off

Action, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Brock Peters, Dick Anthony Williams, Gloria Hendry, Jim Brown
Release Date
August 31, 1973
Synopsis

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.

Slaughter's Big Rip Off

Gordon's War

Action, Adventure, Crime, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
David Downing, Grace Jones, Ossie Davis, Paul Winfield, Tony King
Release Date
August 09, 1973
Synopsis

A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.

Gordon's War

Detroit 9000

Drama, Action, Crime, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Hari Rhodes, Herbert Jefferson Jr., Scatman Crothers, Vonetta McGee
Release Date
August 01, 1973
Synopsis

After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.

Detroit 9000

Cleopatra Jones

Action, Crime, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Antonio Fargas, Brenda Sykes, Michael Warren, Tamara Dobson, Albert Popwell
Release Date
July 13, 1973
Synopsis

Cleopatra Jones is assigned to crack down on drug trafficking in the United States and abroad. After she burns a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy is furious at the loss of her supply and vows to destroy her.

Cleopatra Jones

Scream Blacula Scream

Horror, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Bernie Hamilton, Pam Grier, Richard Lawson, William Marshall
Release Date
June 27, 1973
Synopsis

After a dying Voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her true heir is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Blacula the vampire off of a dealer, and uses voodoo to bring the vampire back to do his bidding. In turn, Blacula turns him into a vampire and makes him his slave. Meanwhile, a police officer with a large collection of African antiques and an interest in the occult investigates the murders caused by Blacula and his vampire horde.

Scream Blacula Scream

Super Fly T.N.T.

Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Robert Guillaume, Ron O'Neal, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sheila Frazier
Release Date
June 15, 1973
Synopsis

A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.

Super Fly T.N.T.

The Black Godfather

Action, Crime, Thriller, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Damu King, Rod Perry, Tony Burton
Release Date
September 03, 1974
Synopsis

The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.

The Black Godfather

Black Samson

Drama, Action, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Carol Speed, Marilyn Joi, Napoleon Whiting, Rockne Tarkington
Release Date
August 14, 1974
Synopsis

Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.

Black Samson

Mean Mother

Drama, Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Marilyn Joi
Release Date
August 01, 1974
Synopsis

Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.

Mean Mother
Black Cast
Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Flip Wilson, Harry Belafonte, Paula Kelly, Richard Pryor, Rosalind Cash, Roscoe Lee Browne, Sidney Poitier, Don Marshall
Release Date
July 26, 1974
Synopsis

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet -- which happens to hold a winning lottery ticket. Poitier also directed this classic 1970s comedy, which co-stars Harry Belafonte as Godfather figure Geechie Dan Beauford and Richard Pryor.

Uptown Saturday Night
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Black Cast
Mary Alice, Paul Benjamin, Ram John Holder, Rony Clanton
Release Date
July 17, 1974
Synopsis

A 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and committed petty crime before being sent to prison. After his release from prison he changes his life.

The Education of Sonny Carson

Three the Hard Way

Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Fred Williamson, Gordon Parks Jr., Jeannie Bell, Jim Brown, Sheila Frazier, Jim Kelly
Release Date
June 26, 1974
Synopsis

The story involves a white supremist plot to taint the United States water supply with a toxin that is harmless to whites but lethal to blacks. The only obstacles that stand in the way of this dastardly plan are Jim Brown, Fred Williamson and Jim Kelly, who shoot, kick and karate chop their way to final victory.

Three the Hard Way

TNT Jackson

Action, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw
Release Date
June 08, 1974
Synopsis

A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.

TNT Jackson

Black Eye

Action, Crime
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Black Cast
Fred Williamson, Teresa Graves
Release Date
May 17, 1974
Synopsis

An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.

Black Eye

Claudine

Comedy, Drama, Romance
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Black Cast
Diahann Carroll, James Earl Jones
Release Date
April 22, 1974
Synopsis

Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.

Claudine

Truck Turner

Drama, Action, Crime, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Annazette Chase, Isaac Hayes, Nichelle Nichols, Sam Laws, Scatman Crothers, Alan Weeks, Yaphet Kotto
Release Date
April 19, 1974
Synopsis

Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator, he finds himself confronted by the most vicious killers in the underground scene.

Truck Turner

Thomasine & Bushrod

Drama, Action, Crime, Western
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Black Cast
Glynn Turman, Joel Fluellen, Max Julien, Vonetta McGee
Directed By Black
Gordon Parks Jr.
Written By Black
Max Julien
Release Date
April 10, 1974
Synopsis

A pair of thieves operate in the American South between 1911 and 1915, stealing from rich, white capitalists, and giving to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites.

Thomasine & Bushrod

Foxy Brown

Action, Crime, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Antonio Fargas, Pam Grier, Terry Carter
Release Date
April 05, 1974
Synopsis

Unable to pay back the $20,000 he owes the mob, small-time hustler Link (Antonio Fargas) instead gives up the identity of an undercover cop (Terry Carter) who happens to be dating his sister, Foxy Brown (Pam Grier). When gangsters later kill the cop, Foxy is quick to make the connection and swears vengeance. Posing as a prostitute, and with the help of a group of neighborhood vigilantes, she gradually tracks down the hit men, their Mafia bosses and her own brother.

Foxy Brown

Blazing Saddles

Comedy, Western, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Cleavon Little
Release Date
February 07, 1974
Synopsis

A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lemar sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Blazing Saddles

Sugar Hill

Action, Crime, Horror, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Charles Robinson, Don Pedro Colley, Richard Lawson, Marki Bey
Release Date
February 01, 1974
Synopsis

When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats her to call upon Baron Zamedi, the Lord of the Dead, for help in gaining a gruesome revenge. In exchange for her soul, the Dark Master raises up a zombie army to do her bidding. The bad guys who thought they were getting away clean are about to find out that they're DEAD wrong.

Sugar Hill