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

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The Glove

Action, Adventure, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Release Date
December 01, 1979
Synopsis

In this actioner, a bounty hunter is assigned to bring back an enormous and angry ex-convict who wears a deadly glove made of leather and steal. Rock'em sock'em mayhem ensues.

The Glove
Black Cast
Muhammad Ali, Ossie Davis, Ron O'Neal, Alfre Woodard
Release Date
October 29, 1979
Synopsis

Muhammad Ali, in a rare acting role, plays Gideon Jackson, an ex-slave in 1870's Virginia who gets elected to the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. and battles other former slaves and white sharecroppers to keep the land they tended all their lives.

Freedom Road

Disco Godfather

Comedy, Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Carol Speed, Lady Reed, Rudy Ray Moore
Release Date
September 04, 1979
Synopsis

Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.

Disco Godfather

Pacific Inferno

War, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Jim Brown, Timothy Brown
Release Date
July 27, 1979
Synopsis

After the fall of the Philippines in World War II, the Japanese discover that Gen. MacArthur ordered millions of dollars in silver dumped in Manila Bay in order that it not fall into enemy hands. Among the prisoners the Japanese have taken are two American U.S. Navy deep-sea divers, whom they then force to dive in search of the sunken treasure.

Pacific Inferno

Way of the Black Dragon

Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Ron Van Clief
Release Date
December 28, 1978
Synopsis

Allison Wong gets abducted by a gang of drug smugglers with a nasty sideline business involving white slavery and prostitution. Interpol agent Bill Eaton, honest worker Chen, and Allison's brother join forces to take out the nefarious crime syndicate.

Way of the Black Dragon
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Black Cast
Charles Burnett, Henry G. Sanders
Release Date
November 14, 1978
Synopsis

Stan works in drudgery at a slaughterhouse. His personal life is drab. Dissatisfaction and ennui keep him unresponsive to the needs of his adoring wife, and he must struggle against influences which would dishonor and endanger him and his family.

Killer of Sheep

The Wiz

Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music
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Black Cast
Diana Ross, Lena Horne, Mabel King, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Richard Pryor, Ted Ross, Theresa Merritt
Release Date
October 24, 1978
Synopsis

A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of family together in a Harlem apartment, where a 24-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, she has, as Aunt Em teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and on with her life.

The Wiz

The Tattoo Connection

Action, Blaxploitation
Black Cast
Jim Kelly
Release Date
July 27, 1978
Synopsis

When a diamond is stolen in Hong Kong, the company insuring the diamond sends a former CIA agent to Hong Kong to retrieve it. Meanwhile, one of the thieves begins to have a change of heart because his girlfriend wants him to leave his criminal organization.

The Tattoo Connection

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Drama, Action, Thriller, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Barbara McNair, Sidney Poitier
Release Date
July 10, 1970
Synopsis

A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Comedy, Action, Crime, Blaxploitation
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Black Cast
Calvin Lockhart, Emily Yancy, Godfrey Cambridge, Judy Pace, Ossie Davis, Raymond St. Jacques, Redd Foxx
Release Date
May 27, 1970
Synopsis

Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.

Cotton Comes to Harlem
Black Cast
Billy Dee Williams, Glynn Turman, Moses Gunn, Richard Pryor, Robert Hooks, Rosey Grier
Release Date
January 27, 1970
Synopsis

The officer (Stephen Boyd) is put in charge of a squad of all black troops charged with the mission of blowing up an important hydro dam in Nazi Germany. Their failure would delay the Allies advance into Germany, thus prolonging the war. These African-Americans a have little military training, but Captain Beau Carter has no choice. He leads the rag-tag and they turn out to be heroic.

Carter's Army