Black Action Films

The Mack is one of the most deranged - and entertaining - of all the black action films. This is the hip-hop communities fave - for the clothes, cars,...

Black action film featuring Pam Grier as a woman whose drug dealing brother ratted on her undercover cop boyfriend to the mob. Subsequently, the cop is...

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The definitive 1972 black action film that started the genre off. Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., and stars Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, a drug dealer...

American action drama starring Pam Grier. Model-turned-photographer Friday Foster (Grier) is at Los Angeles airport to record the arrival of millionaire...

Coffy, a beautiful young nurse, is determined to exact revenge against the people responsible for turning her sister into a drug addict. She poses as a...

Black US youth grows up to be a gangster, eventually wiping out the leaders of the mafia, making him absolute ruler of the underworld. But pretty soon...

When his truck is hijacked and a bale of cotton stuffed with money is lost in the chase, Harlem is turned upside down by Gravedigger and Coffin Ed, the...

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Tamara Dobson plays Cleopatra Jones, an undercover narcotics agent, charged with bringing down the infamous drugs trafficker "Mommy" (Shelly Winters) after...

Director, writer and producer Spike Lee's film about the life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X, who emerged from the streets to become a powerful...

Pam Grier stars as a private investigator in this action feature. The film follows tough detective Sheba Shayne (Grier) as she leaves Chicago to help her...

Pierre Laffargue writes and directs this blaxploitation-infused French fantasy action film. After a heist in Paris goes horribly wrong, Senegal-born bank...

Pam Grier was the baddest nubian goddess on the block and the undisputed queen of the Blaxpoitation genre. This box set brings together three of her finest...

Don Chaffey directs this brutal 1970s western starring Richard Roundtree as a black soldier who kills an officer and deserts the army. On the run, he crosses...

Jim Brown, Fred Williamson, Jim Reilly and Richard Rowntree star in this classic black action film. Chuck, a karate promoter, is shot and wounded by hoodlums...

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Born in 1912 in Fort Scott, Kansas, the youngest of fifteen children in a poor tenant-farming family, Gordon Parks was working odd jobs in Minnesota when...

With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the early 1970s began to make films aimed toward the underserved...

Jack Hill stands as one of the great B-movie directors and influenced an aspiring filmmaker named Quentin Tarantino. The director who gave the world Coffy,...

In the early 1970s a type of film emerged that featured all-black casts; really cool soul, funk and disco soundtracks; characters sporting big guns, big...

Sweetback (Mario Van Peebles who also produces, edits and co-composes along with Earth, Wind & Fire) is an apolitical black sex performer who becomes...

Drama set on the night of the 1979 British election. The dead body of a pregnant woman is discovered and her husband, Delroy (Clint Dyer), finds himself...

BACK IN STOCK Ace funky soundtrack from the 1970's on Waxpoetics! Jam packed with funky drum breaks, frenzied hi-hats, wah wah guitar, killer groovy...

Soundtrack to the black action film by Rudy Ray Moore

Yes! This is the film from which the soundtrack was released by Grant Green on Blue Note. Denied a job because of his colour, Johnny Johnson joins a...

Fantastic blaxploitation film soundtrack featuring the amazing, uplifting Brothers Gonna Work it Out! Recommended! US CD IMPORT

We say: This is the best book on black action films available. They say: Dazzling, highly stylized, excessively violent and brimming with sex, Blaxploitation...

He's Bad... He's Mean... He's A Lovin' Machine!! When He's Mad... He's Mean... He's a Killing Machine! John Daniels stars as Jonathan Knight, the...

Curtis Mayfield scored and composed the music for this realist portrait of New York melting-pot style prison life in 1977 - with a music style featuring...

Classic funky blaxploitation soundtrack rarity that's even better than the well known Isaac Hayes soundtrack to the first Shaft film! A frenzy of horn...

A serious black action film. The Education of Sonny Carson is a 1974 film based on the best-selling autobiography of Sonny Carson who joined a gang and...

Sisters are doing it for themselves. Black action female trio of women sho nuff moves as they deal with drug dealers and the cops. It's camp, funky, it's...

Two essential movies that came under the 'Blaxploitation' genre in the mid-70s but are both movies that stepped way-out of the usual. Two killer films...

Pam Grier is Sheba Payne, no-nonsense (but always stylish) private detective searching out the mob. At the height of her career (after the success of Coffy...

Robert Hooks is 'Troubleman', super cool private eye who makes some nice moves and delivers some deadpan lines whilst Marvin Gaye's killer soundtrack plays...

Two essential black action films, both starring the great Jim Brown as hired gunman Jim Slaughter. "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" features James Brown's killer...

Fred Williamson (Jefferson Bolt) is a groovy mutha - Private Detective fighting a war against The Man. Stopping druglords, a hit with the ladies. Sounds...

Really funny and clever new update/version of black action films. Lots of on-purpose mike booms in shot, continuity slip-ups all with excellent Sharon...

Super heavyweight funky Blue Note sound from 72 with guitarist Green recording the soundtrack to this rare black action film. ''Battle Scene" is an enormous...

The three classic Black Action Films in one! Richard Roundtree stars in all three, soundtracks by (in order) Isaac Hayes, Gordon Parks and Johnny Pate....

Super funky soundtrack by Willie Hutch from the seminal 'Foxy Brown'!

Two of the best black action films in one double dvd set! "Cotton Comes To Harlem" is one of the funniest, sharpest, funkiest of them all. Based on a novel...

Multi-instrumentalist Adrian Younge makes his debut on Wax Poetics Records with his original score to the Michael Jai White comedy Black Dynamite....

Zeke Brown (Richard Pryor) and Jerry Bartkowski (Harvey Keitel) work at an auto plant in recession-hit Detroit. Aware that union membership no longer guarantees...

Low budget, tragicomic drama from acclaimed African-American director Charles Burnett. Set in South Central LA, the story focuses on Pierce Mundy (Everett...

Richard Pryor takes on three roles in this comic farce about a man whose life turns into a game of pinball when he's fired from his job. When he inadvertently...

Low-budget, realist feature drama, recently rediscovered and restored, from acclaimed African-American director Charles Burnett. Stan (Henry G Sanders)...

Super-rare soundtrack to the super-rare and highly controversial black action film banned for many years. Composed and conducted by Herbie Hancock.