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Cornbread Earl & Me
»rank: 13683
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Foxtrap / Movie
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The Messenger
»rank: 33130
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Bucktown
»rank: 15451
:Description:Fred Williamson (Black Caesar) proves once again he's the ultimate soul brotherdark, daring and ready for surprises. He and sexy co-star Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) heat up the sheets and the streets in this scintillating soul flick about a city ripped apart by prejudice, greed and plenty of gangsta action. Bucktown explodes like sparks and gasolinesetting small-town America on fire! Dean Johnson (Williamson) arrives in Bucktown to bury his murdered brother. He then takes over his brother's bar and everything that comes with ...
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Blacula
»rank: 12977
: :William Marshall, a Shakespearean actor with a rich baritone voice, enriches this otherwise bland blaxploitation vampire film with his strong, seductive performance. He's Manuwalde, a European-educated 18th-century African prince who appeals to the Count Dracula for help in ending the slave trade. Dracula, never known as a great emancipator, puts the bite on Manuwalde's troubles, dubs him 'Blacula' (the only time the name is uttered in the film), and imprisons him in a casket. Stirred to life, so to speak, centuries later in ...
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Cooley High
»rank: 15473
: :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 movie follows aspiring writer Preach (Glynn Turman) and local basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, who went on to star in Welcome Back, Kotter) as they wander their neighborhood, drifting in and out of their classes at Cooley Vocational High School. The two friends pull pranks, ...
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Scream Blacula Scream
»rank: 12786
: :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 movie follows aspiring writer Preach (Glynn Turman) and local basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, who went on to star in Welcome Back, Kotter) as they wander their neighborhood, drifting in and out of their classes at Cooley Vocational High School. The two friends pull pranks, ...
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Jd's Revenge
»rank: 14578
: :lt's been branded with the 'blaxploitation' label, but there is little that's exploitive in J.D.'s Revenge, a film of well-drawn, articulate characters dragged into a supernatural showdown. Glynn Turman (Cooley High) is especially fine as the sensitive and quiet lke, a determined student moonlighting as a cab driver, so wound up he's on the verge of cracking. Enter (literally) the ghost of J.D., a violent, vengeful gangster murdered in the opening moments. He could be lke's own Mr. Hyde, a dapper, flamboyant ladykiller ...
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Foxy Brown
»rank: 16259
:Description:She's brown sugar and spice...and if you don't watch it, she'll put you on ice! Delivering a performance worthy of 'the Queen of the genre' (Los Angeles Times), Grier portrays one of the screens first action heroines with humor, sensitivity and steely determination. This electrifying revenge thriller explodes with all the sex appeal and cooler-than-cool attitude of its irresistible leading lady. Foxy Brown (Grier) has found her soulmate in an undercover narcotics investigator, but when he is brutally murdered, she swears vengeance against ...
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Black Caesar
»rank: 19931
:Description:Fred Williamson is 'imposing, tough and unflappable' (The New York Times) as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick crime drama that became the smashhit of its genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up ln Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud, Tommy resorts to running 'errands' for The Man. But when a crooked cop beats him ...
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