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Cooley High
»rank: 7799
:Description:0ften called 'the black American Graffiti'but with 'far more vitality and more variety' (The New York Times), Cooley High takes a nostalgic, poignantand hilariously funny look at black teen life in 1960's Chicago. lt's 1964. JFK has just been assassinated. Martha & The Vandellas, Little Stevie Wonder and The Four Tops rule the airwaves. And two high school students discover themselvesand the taste of freedomfor the first time. Preach (Glynn Turman), aserious-minded writer, and his best friend Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs), a basketball hero ...
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
»rank: 8456
:Description:A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, lsaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, l'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect 'mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor' (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover ...
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Coffy
»rank: 11891
:Description:She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier, and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun, a razor or just her bare hands, she doesn't miss a beat in this 'smashing, no-holds-barred tale of retaliation' (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier...and Coffy 'couldn't be better! [lt's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made'(Quentin Tarantino)! Grier is Coffy, nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has ...
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Cotton Comes To Harlem
»rank: 18712
:Description:0ne of the most influential Soul Cinema pix ever to shoot onto the screen, Cotton Comes To Harlem spawned the blaxploitation boom by delivering a 'refreshingly different detective action yarn with soul and humor' (Cue) and an unbeatable mix of 'fast-paced adventure [and] comic lunacy' (Pacific Film Archive). Detectives 'Gravedigger' Jones (Godfrey Cambridge) and 'Coffin Ed' Johnson(Raymond St. Jacques) are on the case and in everyone's face when they investigate Rev. Deke 0'Malley (Calvin Lockhart)a brother whose 'Back To Africa' campaign is nothing ...
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Black Caesar
»rank: 15900
: :Hail caesar godfather of harlem..The cat with the .45-caliber claws! Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 01/08/2008 Starring: Fred Williamson Art Lund Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R Director: Larry Cohen :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 Harlem crime lord, but he wants a bigger piece of the pot. With a racist, ...
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Sheba, Baby
»rank: 28306
:Description:Super sexy soul sister Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) is hotter than dynamite in a role she fills with fiery determination. Proving she's cool, tough and glamorousa female fantasy Wonder Woman (Los Angeles Times), Grier delivers a riveting, gutsy performance in this hard-hitting thriller that leaps from one death-defying scene to the next. Sheba Shayne is a private eye summoned to her hometown to help her father stop the mob from moving in on his loan business. But she gets too close to the ...
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Black Mama, White Mama
»rank: 22575
:Description:'A genre all by herself' (Voice), Pam Grier tacklesand shacklesher sleekest role yet as the feistier half of a pair of women in chains and on the run in this 'colorful, outrageous and truly exciting' action flick (The Hollywood Reporter)! Grier is Lee Daniels, a prostitute doing hard time in an island prison camp for women where the guards have a new way to punish inmates who fight: by cuffing 'em together! Chained to her bitter rival, white revolutionary Karen (Margaret Markov), Lee ...
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The Monkey Hustle
»rank: 55428
:Description:From the director of Friday Foster and J. D.'s Revenge comes a free-wheelin fast-dealin look at life in the ghettoChicago style. Filled with comedy, fantasy and a cast of unforgettable characters, The Monkey Hustle is a fast, funny and downright funky film that has it all and a little more! Everybody's got a scam goin on in this small Chicago hoodbut nobody's got it goin quite like Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto). He's so smooth, he teaches Flim-Flam 101how to score, scam, jimmy and ...
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Friday Foster
»rank: 27401
:Description:Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier leads an outta-sight, all-star cast, including Yaphet Kotto (Alien), Eartha Kitt (TV's original Catwoman), Carl Weathers (RockyÂ(r)), Scatman Crothers (The Shining), Ted Lange ('The Love Boat'), Jim Backus ('Gilligan's lsland') and Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes to Harlem) in this ultra-slick, pulse-pumping actioner that brings a foxy camerawoman into the focus of danger! When photographer Friday Foster (Grier) unwittingly uncovers a white supremecist plot to knock off all of the country's top black leaders, she andher free-wheelin', trouble-dealin' P.l. ...
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Original Gangstas
»rank: 41615
:Description:The biggest and baddest stars of Soul Cinema, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar), Jim Brown (Slaughter), Pam Grier (Foxy Brown), Ron 0'Neal (Superfly) and Richard Roundtree (Shaft) return to the genre that made them famous in this 'big, brassy, overblown, pyrotechnic valentine' (Entertainment Today)! Also featuring lsabel Sanford ('The Jeffersons') as Bookman's mother, this all-new, all-action tale of slick, ten-fisted retribution 'delivers as generous a measure of sensational entertainment as any of the Shaft or Superfly pictures of a generation ago' (Long Beach Press-Telegram). ...
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