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    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...
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  • This is an alphabetical list of films belonging to the blaxploitation genre. Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aaron...
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  • Foxy Brown (film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    Foxy Brown is a 1974 American blaxploitation action film written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Pam Grier as the title character who takes on a gang...
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  • Black Dynamite (category Blaxploitation films)
    Black Dynamite is a 2009 American blaxploitation action comedy film starring Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, and Salli Richardson. The film was directed...
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    Antonio Fargas is an American actor known for his roles in 1970s blaxploitation and comedy movies, as well as his portrayal as Huggy Bear in the 1970s...
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  • Blaxploitation horror films are a genre of horror films involving mostly black actors. In 1972, William Crain directed what is considered to be the first...
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    she achieved fame for her starring roles in a string of 1970s action, blaxploitation and women-in-prison films for American International Pictures and New...
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  • Jackie Brown (category Blaxploitation films)
    Niro appear in supporting roles. Jackie Brown pays homage to 1970s blaxploitation films, particularly Coffy and Foxy Brown, both of which also starred...
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  • Gayniggers from Outer Space (category Blaxploitation films)
    artist Morten Lindberg. The film is a parody of the science fiction and blaxploitation genres. The film follows a group of intergalactic homosexual black men...
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  • in the Spaghetti Western The Great Silence and went on to appear in blaxploitation films such as Hammer, Melinda, Blacula, Shaft in Africa, Detroit 9000...
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  • and clothes designer best known for his role as Goldie in the 1973 blaxploitation film The Mack. Julien was born in Washington, DC on July 12, 1933. He...
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  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (category Blaxploitation films)
    I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a 1988 American blaxploitation parody film written, directed by and starring Keenen Ivory Wayans in his directorial debut. Featured...
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  • during the 1970s blaxploitation era, most notably starring as Abby Williams in the American International Pictures 1974 blaxploitation horror film Abby...
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  • Nu Blaxploitation is an album by the American musician Don Byron, released in 1998. He is credited with his band, Existential Dred. Byron supported the...
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  • Shaft (1971 film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    Shaft is a 1971 American blaxploitation crime action thriller film directed by Gordon Parks and written by Ernest Tidyman and John D. F. Black. It is an...
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    in 1973's James Bond film Live and Let Die; and Helen Bradley in the blaxploitation film Black Caesar, and the sequel, Hell Up in Harlem. Born in Jacksonville...
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    was a top sports star during the decade, and become a leading man in blaxploitation and action films beginning in the 1970's. WIlliamson played in college...
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  • The Mack (category Blaxploitation films)
    The Mack is a 1973 American blaxploitation crime drama film directed by California native Michael Campus and starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. The...
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    which was directed by Dennis Hopper. Black exploitation films, or "blaxploitation" films, are made with black actors, ostensibly for black audiences,...
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  • Coffy (category Blaxploitation films)
    Coffy is a 1973 American blaxploitation action thriller film written and directed by Jack Hill. The story is about a black female vigilante played by Pam...
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  • Willie Dynamite (category Blaxploitation films)
    Willie Dynamite is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Gilbert Moses and starring Roscoe Orman, Diana Sands, Thalmus Rasulala, Joyce Walker...
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  • Sparkle (1976 film) (category Blaxploitation films)
    he'd been seeing who posed no enduring threat to his masculinity. "Blaxploitation films are notable for the ways they frequently situate "normative" black...
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    film as director, the crime drama Jackie Brown (1997), paid homage to blaxploitation films. Tarantino wrote and directed the martial arts films Kill Bill:...
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  • They Cloned Tyrone (category Blaxploitation films)
    un-produced scripts. It was conceived as a "genre-bending" homage to the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s, featuring elements of satire, mystery, horror, science...
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    Reflections on Blaxploitation: Actors and Directors Speak, By David Walker, Andrew J. Rausch, Chris Watson - Page 205 BLAXPLOITATION FROM A TO Z New...
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    Americans for the purpose of trying to attract a new audience with blaxploitation film. These films were almost exclusively crime films following the...
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    linked from here.) Underground (2016 TV series) Blaxploitation and Slavesploitation List of blaxploitation films List of films about revolution List of films...
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    including his debut Curtis (1970) and the soundtrack for the 1972 blaxploitation film Super Fly. The soundtrack was noted for its socially conscious...
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    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (category Blaxploitation films)
    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by...
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  • the 1970s TV series S.W.A.T. Perry also played leading roles in two blaxploitation movies in the mid-1970s: The Black Godfather (1974) and The Black Gestapo...
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