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It s 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney tries to keep his head down and his business thriving. His days moving stolen goods around the city are over. It s strictly the straight-and-narrow for him until he needs...
2) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
3) Shaft
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2000
Description
To stop a racist killer Shaft's got to track down the only eyewitness that can put the bad guy behind bars. As Shaft closes in, so does the danger. Up against corrupt cops and venomous druglords Shaft's out to make crime pay up.
4) Shaft
Series
Criterion collection volume 1130
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Description
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...
5) Car wash
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It's just a typical day in the lives of the employees, customers and passersby of a Los Angeles car wash - but what a day! There's a would-be robbery-an assembly line of the weirdest, baddest, shadiest characters you've ever met-and lots of booty-bumping music to pass the hours till quitting time.
6) Super fly
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Priest is a cocaine dealer who is just smart enough to know that there's no real future in dealing coke, and makes a proposal to his partner Eddie that would leave them with a million dollar profit each. But Scatter, the dealer who set Priest up in the cocaine trade, is both unwilling and unable to sell them that much product. As Priest looks for a new source for his big score, one of his underlings, Fat Freddie, is picked up by the police. Freddie...
7) Coffy
Description
A beautiful woman feigns drug addiction to discover and destroy the evil dealers responsible for her sister's death.
10) Blacula
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Blacula: African Prince Manuwalde, introduced to Count Dracula at a party, pleads for the Count's assistance in freeing his people from the slave trade. Dracula is so incensed at the request he vampirizes, curses, and imprisons Manuwalde in a coffin in the dungeon. Two hundred years later the contents of Castle Dracula are bought and shipped back to the US by antique dealers. Among these is Manuwalde's coffin. He is accidentally set free when this...
11) Superfly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Superfly is a remix of the iconic film that defined a genre through its characters, look, sound and feel. Told through the artistic lens of visionary, Director X, this newest take is set to a soundtrack curated by Future and modernized in the city of Atlanta. An action-packed film that follows Youngblood Priest, a cocaine kingpin who wants to get out of the drug game. Hoping for one last score, Priest and this partner travel to Mexico to arrange a...
12) Friday Foster
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Friday Foster is a young women working as a photojournalist, when she uncovers an assassination conspiracy against Black politicians.
13) The organization
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
The organization: Virgil Tibbs, the San Francisco homicide lieutenant, helps fight a drug ring and mob infiltration in the San Francisco police force.
Sheba, baby: Private eye, Sheba Shayne, is called on to help her father from losing his business to the mob.
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