Blaxploitation films

2012 film by Quentin Tarantino

1973 film directed by Guy Hamilton

1997 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical crime film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee, loosely based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It also features Harry Belafonte's last performance before his death in April 2023. Set in the 1970s in Colorado Springs, Colorado, it follows the first African-American detective in the city's police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux

1971 American blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks

In American cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre that began in the 1960s and flourished throughout the early to mid 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the black civil rights movement and the black power movement, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated black artists reclaiming their power of the representation of the black ethnic identity in the arts. The term blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words Black and exploitation, coined by Junius Griffin, president of the Beverly Hills–Hollywood

1978 film by Sidney Lumet

1975 American historical melodrama film

1988 film by Craig R. Baxley

Blacula is a 1972 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William Crain. It stars William Marshall in the title role about an 18th-century African prince named Mamuwalde, who is turned into a vampire (and later locked in a coffin) by Count Dracula in the Count's castle in Transylvania in the year 1780 after Dracula refuses to help Mamuwalde suppress the slave trade. The film co-stars Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Gordon Pinsent and Thalmus Rasulala.

2023 film by Juel Taylor

2019 film directed by Craig Brewer

1974 film by Jack Hill

1972 film by Gordon Parks

1971 film by Melvin Van Peebles

Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam Grier who seeks violent revenge against a heroin dealer responsible for her sister's addiction.

2001 film directed by Louis C.K.

2002 film by Malcolm D. Lee

2009 film directed by Scott Sanders

2018 film directed by Babak Najafi

1973 film by John Guillermin

1992 film by Morten Lindberg

1974 blaxploitation film by Ralph Bakshi

2022 film directed by Krystin Ver Linden

1976 film by Joe D'Amato

1972 blaxploitation film by Gordon Parks, Jr.

1976 American comedy film by Michael Schultz

1972 film by Barry Shear

1988 film by Keenen Ivory Wayans

2001 film directed by Ernest Dickerson

1973 film by Larry Cohen

1973 film by Jack Starrett

1970 film directed by Ossie Davis

1963 film by Shirley Clarke

1972 film by Eddie Romero

1970 film by Gordon Douglas

1974 film by Robert Clouse

1974 blacksploitation film directed by Jack Arnold

2018 film directed by Director X

1973 film by Larry Cohen

1975 film directed by Charles Bail

Dolemite is a 1975 American blaxploitation crime comedy film and is also the name of its principal character, played by Rudy Ray Moore, who co-wrote the film and its soundtrack. Moore, who started his career as a stand-up comedian in the late 1960s, heard a rhymed toast about an urban hero named Dolemite from a regular at the record store where he worked, and decided to adopt the persona as an alter ego in his act.

1973 film by Ivan Dixon

1974 film by Joe D'Amato, Steve Carver

1974 film by William Girdler

1978 film by Al Adamson

1972 film by Ivan Dixon

1970 film by Ralph Nelson

1973 film

1974 film by Jonathan Kaplan

1975 blaxploitation action film directed by William Girdler

1973 film by Russ Meyer

1977 film by Sidney Poitier

1976 film by Arthur Marks

1975 film by Sidney Poitier

2000 film by Craig Ross

1974 film by Duccio Tessari

1974 film by Sidney Poitier

Blackenstein (also known as Black Frankenstein on its theatrical release poster and whose actual on-screen title is Blackenstein the Black Frankenstein) is a 1973 American blaxploitation horror film directed by William A. Levey, and starring John Hart, Ivory Stone, Andrea King, Roosevelt Jackson, Joe De Sue, Nick Bolin and Liz Renay. It is loosely based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Released on August 3, 1973, it was made in an attempt to cash in on the success of Blacula; released the previous year by American International Pictures. However, Blackenste

1972 film by Lee Frost