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Cooley High
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Cooley High has frequently been compared to American Graffiti , and for good reason. Like that classic, Cooley High has a loose, multicharacter structure, autobiographical origins, and the rich texture of its time. Set in Chicago in 1964, the...
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Coffy
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
In the opening minutes of Coffy , Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he...
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
From Keenan Ivory Wayans, the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans's television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color ), comes I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the...
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Sheba, Baby
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Pam Grier combines big guns and fantastic '70s outfits in Sheba, Baby . After roughly 4,000 establishing shots of Chicago in the opening credits, private eye Sheba Shayne (Grier) immediately heads to Louisville, where thugs are leaning on her...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Based on Chester Himes's novel, this film marked actor-writer Ossie Davis's directing debut. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques play Himes's volatile police detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who are on the trail of white...
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Black Caesar
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Shot on the streets of New York, writer-director Larry Cohen captures the bustle and color of the city in this violent, low-budget crime film. Ambitious Tommy Gibbs (a swaggering, self-confident Fred Williamson) has risen from shoeshine boy to...
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Black Mama, White Mama
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Pam Grier in a women-in-prison movie? Why did no one think of this sooner? OK, they did. Several times. But this one is different. Black Mama, White Mama is a bizarre update of The Defiant Ones with a little Cool Hand Luke and Chained Heat ...
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Friday Foster
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Pam Grier is Friday Foster, a photographer's assistant at a glamour magazine assigned to cover the secret arrival of a reclusive black millionaire (Thalmus Rasula). "Just get your cute little behind out there and take your little pictures and...
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The Monkey Hustle
MGM
MGM
From the director of Friday Foster and J. D. s Revenge comes a free-wheelin fast-dealin look at life in the ghetto Chicago style. Filled with comedy fantasy and a cast of unforgettable characters The Monkey Hustle is a fast funny and downright...
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Original Gangstas
MGM (Video & DVD)
MGM (Video & DVD)
Larry Cohen scratched out some of the most memorably offbeat exploitation films of the 1970s, including two of the most energetic blaxploitation action classics: Black Caesar and its sequel, Hell Up in Harlem , which made a star of Fred...
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