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Blaxploitation - The Essential Titles

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1. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

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2. Shaft (1971)
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3. Hit Man (1972)

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4. Super Fly (1972)

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5. The Legend of Black Charley (1972)

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6. Hammer (1972)

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7. Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
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8. Across 110th Street (1972)
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9. Black Mama, White Mama (1973)

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10. Blacula (1972)

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11. Slaughter (1972)

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12. Trouble Man (1972)

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13. Black Caesar (1973)

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14. Blackenstein (1973)

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15. Cleopatra Jones (1973)

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16. Coffy (1973)

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17. Detroit 9000 (1973)

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18. Gordon's War (1973)

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19. The Mack (1973)

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20. Scream, Blacula, Scream (1973)

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21. Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)

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22. The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)

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23. Trick Baby (1972)

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24. Shaft in Africa (1973)
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25. Abby (1974)

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26. Black Belt Jones (1974)
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27. Black Eye (1974)

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28. The Black Godfather (1974)

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29. The Black 6 (1973)

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30. Foxy Brown (1974)

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31. Tough (1974)

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32. Space Is the Place (1974)

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33. Three the Hard Way (1974)
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34. TNT Jackson (1974)

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35. Truck Turner (1974)
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36. Sugar Hill (1974)

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37. Together Brothers (1974)

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38. Willie Dynamite (1974)

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39. Sheba, Baby (1975)

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40. The Black Gestapo (1975)

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41. Black Shampoo (1976)

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42. Boss (1975)

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43. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)

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44. Coonskin (1975)

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45. Darktown Strutters (1975)

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46. Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)

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47. Dolemite (1975)

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48. Mandingo (1975)

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49. The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)

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50. Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1976)



The urban 70's. Funk plays as cool black heroes beat the shit out of white villains. For example. That's blaxploitation, one of the most interesting subgenres of exploitation cinema. I haven't seen many blaxploitation films so this list is also a kind of checklist for myself.

October 24 2012: I added some new titles.

From Wikipedia:
Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is a film genre which emerged in the United States in the 1970s. It is considered an ethnic sub-genre of the general category of exploitation films. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, although the genre's audience appeal soon broadened to cross racial and ethnic lines. The term itself is a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation," and was coined in the early 1970s by the Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head, and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin. Blaxploitation films were the first to regularly feature soundtracks of funk and soul music as well as primarily black casts.


Essential titles 1971-1996.

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Comments

Posted: 3 years, 11 months ago at Jun 2 12:19
Love the list! Black Belt Jones, loved it. It's so bad its good! check that one out for sure. heh heh
Posted: 3 years, 11 months ago at Jun 2 12:21
Oh, and added a video for Velvet Smooth:
http://www.listal.com/video/10391964
Posted: 3 years, 11 months ago at Jun 3 10:05
Great list. Cleopatra Jones has a sequel, Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold.
Posted: 7 months ago at Oct 23 4:55
Three the Hard way should be wayyyy the hell up there!! not 25! Sheesh!!
Posted: 7 months ago at Oct 23 7:31
An excellent list. Thanks for turning me on to Black Gestapo and Space is the Place!
Posted: 7 months ago at Oct 23 7:50
magrurry: the list is a chronological look at the subgenre, not a 'best to worst' kind of listing. As you can see, I haven't even watched(=rated) most of them myself.
Posted: 7 months ago at Oct 24 19:31
Some of these I haven't seen myself so thanks for this list. I highly reccomend Cotton Comes To Harlem and it's sequel Come Back Charelston Blue.

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