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List of blaxploitation films. ... This is an alphabetical list of films belonging to the blaxploitation genre. ... Friday Foster (1975) [50] G
Despite the controversies, the film Blacula went on to be named one of Variety's Top 50 Movies of 1972 and to win Best Horror Film of 1972 by the Academy of Horror Films and Science Fiction Films. Crain went on to film the sequel Scream Blacula Scream; although it was not as successful, it is still considered a notable horror film (see below). [7]
Shaft (1971 film) Shaft in Africa; Shaft's Big Score! Shaolin Dolemite; Sheba, Baby; Slaughter (1972 film) Slaughter's Big Rip-Off; Solomon King (film) The Soul of Nigger Charley; Soul Soldier; Space Is the Place; Sparkle (1976 film) Speeding Up Time; The Spook Who Sat by the Door (film) Sugar Hill (1974 film) Super Fly T.N.T. Super Fly (1972 ...
Blaxploitation film classics such as 'Shaft,' 'Super Fly,' 'Cleopatra Jones' and 'Foxy Brown' conjured a Black Power movement that echoes today. 50 years on, movies anchored in messages of Black ...
Fire Walk With Me (1992) Released as a prequel to its television series predecessor, Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me indeed walks audiences back through the last week of tragic heroine, Laura Palmer ...
In US cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the Black civil rights movement, the black power movement, and the Black Panther Party, political and sociological circumstances that facilitated Black artists reclaiming their power of the Representation of the Black ...
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) – biographical comedy film about filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore, best known for portraying the character of Dolemite in both his stand-up routine and a series of blaxploitation films, starting with Dolemite in 1975 [69]
The only Tarantino film based on outside source material – in this case, Elmore Leonard’s 1992 book “Rum Punch” – “Jackie Brown” is a homage to blaxploitation films of yesteryear ...