# ✊🏿 FILMS - BLACK CINEMA ## Round #1 - Blaxploitation - [x] Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) 5.5 97m ⛬✊🏿 - [x] Darktown Strutters (1975) 90m 4.8 - [x] Scream Blacula Scream (1973) 🔪 5.6 96m - [x] Abby (1974) 5.5 89m 🔪 - [x] Blackenstein (1973) 3.4 78m 🔪 - [x] Dr. Black, Mr. Hide (1976) 87m 5.2 🔪 - [x] J. D.'s Revenge (1976) 6.0 96m 🔪 - [x] Bucktown (1975) 6.1 94m - [x] Friday Foster (1975) 6.0 90m - [x] Foxy Brown (1974) 92m 6.5 - [x] Petey Wheatstraw (1977) 99m 6.1 - [x] Alabama's Ghost (1973)🔪 4.9 96m - [x] Trouble Man (1972) 99m 6.7 ✊🏿 - [x] Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970) 97m 6.5 ✊🏿 - [x] Cleopatra Jones (1973) 5.9 89m - [x] The Candy Tangerine Man (1975) 95m 6.1 - [x] Sheba, Baby (1975) 5.6 90m - [x] Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975) 94m 5.6 - [x] Detroit 9000 (1973) 6.3 106m - [x] Black Belt Jones (1974) 6.2 85m - [x] Dolemite (1975) 5.6 90m ♻️ mp ✊🏿 - [x] Top of the Heap (1972) 90m 6.3 ⭐✊🏿 - [x] The Human Tornado (1976) 96m 6.1 mp ⭐✊🏿 - [x] TNT Jackson (1974) 72m 4.7 ⭐ - [x] Devil’s Express (1976) 83m 4.9 - [x] Poor Pretty Eddie (1975) 85m 5.4 - [x] Black Dynamite (2009) 85m 7.4 amz ⭐✊🏿 - [x] The Muthers (1976) 4.9 83m - [x] Three the Hard Way (1974) 6.2 89m ⭐✊🏿 - [x] Black Mama, White Mama (1973) 5.5 87m - [x] The Thing with Two Heads (1972) 4.5 91m - [x] Solomon King (1973) 4.7 110m mp ⭐✊🏿 - [x] Lialeh (1974) 76m 5.1 🍆 ⭐ - [x] They Cloned Tyrone (2023) 122m 6.6 Netflix ⭐ - [x] Black Samurai (1976) 4.7 88m - [x] Boss Nigger (1974) 87m 6.3 ⭐ - [x] Bones (2001) 96m 4.4 🔪 - [x] The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) 102m 7.1 ⭐✊🏿 - [x] Trick Baby (1972) 93m 6.7 ⭐ - [x] Wattstax (1973) 103m 7.7 - [x] Car Wash (1976) 6.8 97m ✊🏿 - [x] Uptown Saturday Night (1974) 6.6 104m ✊🏿 - [x] The Arena (1974) 5.2 83m - [x] The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) 98m 5.9 ⭐ - [x] The Brother From Another Planet (1984) 6.7 108m - [x] Superfly (1972) 91m 6.4 ⭐✊🏿 - [x] Willie Dynamite (1973) 102m 6.3 ⭐✊🏿 - [x] Bone (1972) 6.7 95m ⭐ - [x] The Mack (1973) 110m 6.6 ⭐ Blaxploitation - [ ] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) 6.8 88m ⭐ - [ ] Putney Swope (1969) 84m 6.8 kan ⭐ - [ ] Sounder (1972) 105m 7.5 - [ ] Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) 7.3 135m Netflix - [ ] Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 118m 7.2 Netflix Neo-blaxploitation - [ ] I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) 6.8 88m - [ ] The Blackening (2022) 🔪⭐ 6.0 97m - [x] Bones (2001) 96m 4.4 🔪 - [ ] Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 118m 7.2 Netflix - [x] Black Dynamite (2009) 85m 7.4 amz ⭐✊🏿 - [x] They Cloned Tyrone (2023) 122m 6.6 Netflix ⭐ Pam Grier - [x] Black Mama, White Mama (1973) 5.5 87m - [ ] The Big Bird Cage (1972) 5.9 88m ⭐ - [ ] Hit Man (1972) 5.7 90m - [x] The Arena (1974) 5.2 83m - [x] Sheba, Baby (1975) 5.6 90m - [x] Coffy (1973) 6.8 90m - [x] Bucktown (1975) 6.1 94m - [x] Friday Foster (1975) 6.0 90m - [x] Foxy Brown (1974) 92m 6.5 Shaft - [x] Shaft (1971) 6.6 100m - [ ] Shaft’s Big Score! (1972) 6.0 104m - [ ] Shaft in Africa (1973) 5.9 112m - [ ] Shaft (2000) 99m 6.0 - [ ] Shaft (2019) 6.4 111m Blaxploitation Westerns - [x] Boss Nigger (1974) 87m 6.3 ⭐ - [x] The Legend of Nigger Charley (1972) 98m 5.9 ⭐ - [ ] The Soul of Nigger Charley (1973) 5.2 109m - [ ] Take a Hard Ride (1975) 5.7 103m - [ ] Buck and the Preacher (1972) Cirio H. Santiago - [x] TNT Jackson (1974) 72m 4.7 ⭐ - [x] The Muthers (1976) 4.9 83m - [ ] Ebony, Ivory, and Jade (1976) 4.6 Jim Kelly - [x] Black Samurai (1976) 4.7 88m - [x] Three the Hard Way (1974) 6.2 89m ⭐✊🏿 - [ ] Melinda (1972) 5.8 109m ⭐✊🏿 - [ ] Hot Potato (1976) 3.8 87m - [x] Black Belt Jones (1974) 6.2 85m Rudy Ray Moore - [ ] Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 118m 7.2 Netflix - [ ] Monkey Hustle (1977) 90m 5.2 - [x] Disco Godfather (1979) 5.2 98m mp ⭐ - [x] Petey Wheatstraw (1977) 99m 6.1 - [x] Dolemite (1975) 5.6 90m ♻️ mp ✊🏿 - [x] The Human Tornado (1976) 96m 6.1 mp ⭐✊🏿 Even More Blaxploitation - [ ] Melinda (1972) 5.8 109m ⭐✊🏿 - [ ] Mandingo (1975) 127m 6.4 - [ ] Bamboozled (2000) 136m 6.6 - [ ] She's Gotta to Have It (1986) ⭐ 84m 6.8 - [ ] School Daze (1988) 121m 6.1 - [ ] Thank God It’s Friday (1978) 89m 5.4 - [ ] Bone (1972) 6.7 95m ⭐ - [ ] Come Back Charleston Blue (1972) 6.4 100m - [ ] Slaughter (1972) 5.9 92m - [ ] Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973) 5.8 94m - [ ] Killer of Sheep (1978) - [ ] Truck Turner (1974) ♻️ 6.9 91m - [ ] That Man Bolt (1973) 5.8 103m - [ ] Penitentiary (1979) 99m ✊🏿 - [ ] Big Score (1983) - [ ] Black Gunn (1972) 97m - [ ] Vampira (1974) 88m 4.4 - [ ] Death Dimension (1978) 4.3 88m - [ ] Lady Cocoa (1975) - [ ] The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976) 111m 6.8 - [ ] The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) 5.3 102m - [ ] Cool Breeze (1972) 5.4 101m - [ ] A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977) - [ ] Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) - [x] Ganja and Hess (1973) - [x] Across 110th Street (1972) - [x] Cooley High (1975) - [x] Blacula (1972) 5.7 93m - [x] The Beast Must Die (1974) 5.6 93m - [x] Sugar Hill (1974) 5.8 91m Doc - [ ] Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022) Netflix Black Horror - [x] Bones (2001) 96m 4.4 🔪 - [ ] The Blackening (2022) 🔪⭐ - [ ] Antebellum (2020) 5.8 105m 🔪⭐ - [ ] Ghetto Goblin (2013) 4.5 72m 🔪 - [ ] Slice (2018) 82m 4.6 🔪 - [x] Abby (1974) 89m 5.5 🔪 - [x] Def By Temptation (1990) 5.0 95m 🔪 Race Films / Early Black Cinema - [ ] Within Our Gates (1920) - response to D.W. Griffith ⭐74m - [ ] The Scar of Shame (1929) 86m - [ ] Paul Robeson Body and Soul (1925) - [ ] The Blood of Jesus (1941) - [ ] The Emperor Jones (1933) - [x] Hallelujah (1929) - [x] Stormy Weather (1943) Spike Lee - [ ] She's Gotta to Have It (1986) ⭐ 84m 6.8 - [ ] School Daze (1988) 121m 6.1 - [ ] Bamboozled (2000) 136m 6.6 - [x] Do the Right Thing (1989) - [ ] Crooklyn (1994) - [ ] Jungle Fever (1991) - [ ] Girl 6 (1996) LA Rebellion - [ ] Daughters of the Dust (1991) ⭐ - [ ] Killer of Sheep (1978) ⭐ - [ ] To Sleep with Anger (1990) - [ ] My Brother’s Wedding (1983) Afrofuturism - [x] Black Panther (2018) - [x] Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) - [ ] Born in Flames (1983) - [ ] The Brother From Another Planet (1984) - [ ] See You Yesterday (2019) - [x] Space is the Place (1974) Prince - [ ] Purple Rain (1984) - [ ] Under the Cherry Moon (1986) Foreign - [ ] Black Girl (1966) 60m ⭐ - [x] Touki Bouki (1973) - [ ] Crumbs (2015) Black Experience / Racism - [ ] Imitation of Life (1959) 125m 7.8 ⭐ - [ ] Pinky (1949) 102m 7.2 ⭐ - [ ] Mississippi Burning (1988) - [ ] A Raisin in the Sun (1961) - [ ] White Dog (1982) - [x] The Intruder (1962) 84m - [ ] Sounder (1972) - [ ] The Birth of a Nation (1915) Even More: - [ ] Deep Cover (1992) 108m 7.1 - [ ] Action Jackson (1988) 96m 5.5 - [ ] Watermelon Man (1970) 6.7 100m - [ ] Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975) 4.8 91m ✊🏿 - [ ] Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 118m 7.2 Netflix - [ ] Gayniggers from Outer Space (1992) 26m 5.8 - [x] Talk to Me (2007) 118m 7.3 ⭐ - [ ] Dear White People (2014) 108m 6.2 - [ ] The Black Klansman (1966) - [ ] A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But A Sandwich - [ ] Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One (1968) 75m ⭐ - [ ] Melinda (1972) - [ ] The Watermelon Woman (1996) - [ ] Sugar Cane Alley (1983) - [ ] The Woman King (2022) - [ ] Lilies of the Field (1963) - [ ] Cabin in the Sky (1943) 98m - [ ] MoonLight (2016) - [ ] Fruitville Station (2013) - [ ] Dear White People (2014) - [ ] Losing Ground (1982) - [ ] Leadbelly (1976) - [ ] Illusions (1982) - [ ] Home of the Brave (1949) - [ ] Fresh (1994) - [ ] Suzanne, Suzanne (1982) - [ ] Hoop Dreams (1994) - [ ] I Am Not Your Negro (2016) - [ ] Black Orpheus (1959) - [ ] Pootie Tang - [ ] Undercover Brother - [ ] What Happened To Miss Simone (2015) - [ ] Hidden Figures (2016) - [ ] Da 5 Bloods (2020) - [ ] Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) - [ ] If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) - [ ] The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011) - [ ] Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) - [ ] Bless Their Little Hearts (1983) - [ ] Miss Juneteenth (2020) - [ ] Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) - [ ] Poetic Justice (1993) - [ ] Pariah (2011) - [ ] Dead Presidents (1995) - [ ] Bright Road (1953) - [ ] The St. Louis Blues - [ ] Island in the Sun (1957) - [ ] The Battle of Algiers (1966) - [ ] To Sir, With Love (1967) - [ ] The Learning Tree (1969) - [ ] Uptown Saturday Night (1974) - [ ] A Soldier's Story (1984) - [ ] New Jack City (1991) - [ ] Juice (1992) - [ ] Selma (2014) - [x] Sorry to Bother You (2018) - [x] Candyman (2021) - [x] Ganja & Hess (1973) - [x] Cooly High (1975) - [x] Carmen Jones (1954) - [x] In the Heat of the Night (1967) - [x] Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) - [x] Shaft (1971) - [x] The Color Purple (1985) - [x] Glory (1989) - [x] House Party (1990) - [x] Malcom X (1992) - [x] Eve's Bayou (1997) - [x] 12 Years a Slave (2013) - [x] Get Out (2017) - [x] Blackkklansman (2018) https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2019-12-28/l-a-rebellion-classic-bless-their-little-hearts-is-now-on-video https://letterboxd.com/oh_dae_su/list/top-100-blaxploitation-movies-as-rated-by/by/popular/ Definitive Blaxploitation List (in Chronological Order) https://www.imdb.com/list/ls066690694/?sort=user_rating,desc Interesting African American Auteurs/Films from 1930s through 1980s Blaxploitation L.A. Rebellion Film Movement Modern African American Auteurs/Films from 1990s to 2020 - [ ] The Blood of Jesus (1941) - [ ] Cabin in the Sky (1943) - [ ] Paisan (1946) - [ ] Pinky (1949) - [ ] Island in the Sun (1957) - [ ] Imitation of Life (1959) - [ ] A Patch of Blue (1965) 105m - [ ] Black Sun (1964) 95m 6.8 🌏 Black Directors, Black Masterpieces, LA Rebellion, Blaxploitation, or Black Experience Black Film as a Genre What qualifies as a "black" movie? Made by black people, stars black people, marketed to black people? A black cast, made by black director, for a black audience? Any film subject of black people or has a predominate black cast? A film with the participation and/or representation of black people? relationship of African-Americans or blacks from the African Diaspora? How do you define a 'black' movie? https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-10-19-0510190174-story.html The Ultimate Blaxploitation Movies List https://letterboxd.com/thedude1973/list/the-ultimate-blaxploitation-movies-list/ Black Life on Film https://letterboxd.com/adam_davie/list/black-life-on-film/ 🔪 = horror ♻️ = rewatch ⭐= priority 🌏= foreign 🎄= holiday ❗= list ⛬ = ur 🍆 = erotic ✊🏿= black director Key People: - [ ] Pam Grier (Coffy, Friday Foster, The Big Bird Cage) - [ ] Fred Williamson (Black Caeser, Three the Hard Way, Bucktown) - [ ] Richard Roundtree (Shaft) - [ ] Thalmus Rasulala (Friday Foster, Blacula, Bucktown) - [ ] Tamara Dobson (Cleopatra Jones) - [ ] Marlene Clark (Ganja & Hess, Black Mamba) - [ ] Jim Brown (Slaughter, Black Gunn, Three The Hard Way) - [ ] Gloria Hendry (Live and Let Die, Black Belt Jones) - [ ] Vonetta McGee (Blacula, Detroit 9000) - [ ] Ron O'Neal (SuperFly) Soundtracks - [ ] Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man - [ ] Roy Ayers - Coffy - [ ] Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly - [ ] Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner - [ ] Various - Solomon King - [ ] Bernard Purdie - Lialeh (1974) - [ ] Herbie Hancock - THE SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR (1973) https://www.okayplayer.com/originals/best-blaxploitation-films-soundtracks.html Books - [ ] Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema