BLAXPLOITATION Watchlist 1973
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- DirectorMatt CimberStarsRobert HowardCindy DalyMikel AngelA high school student, who is a person of colour, is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother seeks revenge.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsPam GrierMargaret MarkovSid HaigA Black prostitute and a white revolutionary must form an uneasy alliance when they are busted out of prison, then pursued by guerrillas, bounty hunters and the Army.
- DirectorRaymond St. JacquesStarsRaymond St. JacquesPhilip Michael ThomasFreda PayneTwo waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
- DirectorEdward J. LaksoHerbert L. StrockStarsTerry CarterGwenn MitchellKyle JohnsonAbout a college/high school teacher who tries to intervene and rescue his student who is being pursued by the law. The professor happens to have sexual intercourse with at least two different women on his way to save his student.
- DirectorDon ChaffeyStarsRichard RoundtreeRoy ThinnesNigel DavenportA black, Union Army deserter and his crippled American Indian hostage form a strained partnership in the interests of surviving the advancing threats of a racist bounty hunter and neighboring bandits.
- DirectorArthur MarksStarsAlex RoccoHari RhodesVonetta McGeeAfter 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.
- DirectorRick BaxterWilliam GreavesStarsMuhammad AliGeorge ForemanJoe FrazierBehind-the-scenes documentary chronicling the Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali.
- DirectorAlex MarchStarsMichael LernerPaul Le MatVal AveryTensions arise when a previously all-white firehouse gets its first black fireman.
- DirectorOscar WilliamsStarsGodfrey CambridgeClarice TaylorLeonard JacksonIn contrast to most of the violence-laden "blaxploitation" films of the period, this low-budget effort eschews exploitation for humanity and domestic drama. Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
- DirectorClyde HoustonStarsChuck DanielJuanita MooreDenise DeniseA wealthy nightclub owner struggles to reconcile his country upbringing with his city environs.
- DirectorOssie DavisStarsPaul WinfieldCarl LeeDavid DowningFour Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.
- DirectorLarry CohenStarsFred WilliamsonJulius HarrisGloria HendryA gangster in Harlem must rescue his ex-wife, who has been kidnapped by the Mafia.
- DirectorSidney J. FurieStarsBilly Dee WilliamsRichard PryorPaul HamptonA Federal Agent, whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose, is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
- DirectorLouis de WittStarsKen GampuJoe LopezAbigail KubekaWhen a mysterious gangster starts sabotaging soccer team The Eagles' chance at winning the upcoming championship final, there is only one man who can save the day...Joe Bullet.
- DirectorMichael CampusStarsMax JulienDon GordonRichard PryorGoldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up King of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
- DirectorAl AdamsonLeón KlimovskyStarsDobie GrayDennis SafrenLuciana PaluzziTwo US soldiers desert from the Vietnam war and go their separate ways. Both of them reach Europe and become involved in the criminal underworld, and eventually reunite in Rome with plans to escape to Canada.
- DirectorBill BrameStarsPhilomena NowlinPeter JacobRonald WardenDreams of Hollywood stardom fade quickly for a young black woman (Philomena Nowlin) when she finds her path to film stardom littered with sleazy deal makers and broken promises. Miss Melody Jones begins to question her sense of purpose.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsJim BrownJudy PaceRoland Bob HarrisEverybody is after the money stolen by Hook before he ended up in prison, including the villainous head guard Capt. Stambell.
- DirectorLarry G. SpanglerStarsFred WilliamsonD'Urville MartinDenise NicholasAfter the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.
- DirectorIvan DixonStarsLawrence CookJanet LeaguePaula KellyA black man plays 'uncle Tom' in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American revolt.
- DirectorRon O'NealStarsRon O'NealRoscoe Lee BrowneSheila FrazierA Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
- DirectorHenning SchellerupStarsRoger E. MosleyWilliam SmithMichael PatakiA Black hit man poses as a Baptist preacher in a ghetto church. He decides to take over the local rackets.
- DirectorHenry LevinDavid Lowell RichStarsFred WilliamsonByron WebsterMiko MayamaTo take a briefcase from Hong Kong to Mexico City, via Los Angeles, is it necessary to call on that man - Bolt? With the number of dangerous spies and gangsters who are after that briefcase, maybe Jefferson Bolt is not enough.
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsGreydon ClarkTom JohnigarnJacqulin ColeA white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides.