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Jackie Brown
»rank: 2292
: essential video:The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more 'rum' than 'punch' and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the ...
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Slaughter
»rank: 15016
: essential video:The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more 'rum' than 'punch' and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the ...
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Penitentiary 2
»rank: 15152
: essential video:The curiosity of Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown is Robert Forster's worldly wise bail bondsman Max Cherry, the most alive character in this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch. The Academy Awards saw it the same way, giving Forster the film's only nomination. The film is more 'rum' than 'punch' and will certainly disappoint those who are looking for Tarantino's trademark style. This movie is a slow, decaffeinated story of six characters glued to a half million dollars brought illegally into the ...
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Cotton Comes to Harlem
»rank: 784
: :Based on Chester Himes's novel, this film marked actor-writer 0ssie Davis's directing debut. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques play Himes's volatile police detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who are on the trail of white men who pulled an armed stickup at a Back to Africa rally in Harlem. The money belongs to the poor people who paid for a chance to return to the motherland--but was it really a stickup? 0r is the flashy preacher at the center of the ...
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Low Down Dirty Shame
»rank: 8702
: :Based on Chester Himes's novel, this film marked actor-writer 0ssie Davis's directing debut. Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques play Himes's volatile police detectives, Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, who are on the trail of white men who pulled an armed stickup at a Back to Africa rally in Harlem. The money belongs to the poor people who paid for a chance to return to the motherland--but was it really a stickup? 0r is the flashy preacher at the center of the ...
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Superfly
»rank: 18969
: :The pinnacle of blaxploitation movies, the 1972 Superfly stars Ron 0'Neal as a drug dealer who wants out of the business but decides to take out some enemies in the process. With its criminal hero, one might almost think this could be an existential crime movie, but no...it's really just an effective piece of pulp with a strong performance by 0'Neal, grim settings, cool direction by Gordon Parks Jr., and a famous soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. --Tom Keogh
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In Your Face
»rank: 18068
: :The pinnacle of blaxploitation movies, the 1972 Superfly stars Ron 0'Neal as a drug dealer who wants out of the business but decides to take out some enemies in the process. With its criminal hero, one might almost think this could be an existential crime movie, but no...it's really just an effective piece of pulp with a strong performance by 0'Neal, grim settings, cool direction by Gordon Parks Jr., and a famous soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. --Tom Keogh
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Black Belt Jones
»rank: 8710
:Description:A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.
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Black Sister's Revenge
»rank: 20568
:Description:A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.
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Scream Blacula Scream
»rank: 16981
:Description:A kung-fu expert battles the Mafia to save his karate studio from mob redevelopment in Watts area of L.A.
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