Let's Do It Again
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
Melinda
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.
Hammer
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
The Human Tornado
Dolemite comes to the rescue of Queen Bee, whose nightclub is threatened by the Mafia.
Super Fly
Priest, a suave top-rung New York City drug dealer, decides that he wants to get out of his dangerous trade. Working with his reluctant friend, Eddie, Priest devises a scheme that will allow him to make a big deal and then retire. When a desperate street dealer informs the police of Priest's activities, Priest is forced into an uncomfortable arrangement with corrupt narcotics officers. Setting his plan in motion, he aims to both leave the business and stick it to the man.
Emma Mae
A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but soon falls into the middle of a community of rebellious youth. She soon becomes more and more aware of the social injustices of the big city.
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
When fellow operatives and friends disappear during a mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones comes to help. She discovers the disappearance involves The Dragon Lady, a feared lipstick lesbian who runs a casino and the local drug trade.
Def by Temptation
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Trick Baby
Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Three the Hard Way
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.
Aaron Loves Angela
Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family wants one of their own to associate with the others. As the pair rebel against the prejudices of their families, they soon find the conflict spreading out to their friends and neighbors, until the hatred threatens to spiral out of control.
Boss Nigger
Two black bounty hunters ride into a small town out West in pursuit of an outlaw. They discover that the town has no sheriff, and soon take over that position, much against the will of the mostly white townsfolk.
Black Heat
Kicks Carter is a streetwise policeman whose beat is Las Vegas. A crime gang is running guns, selling drugs, loan-sharking, and running a prostitution ring out of an upscale hotel in the city and Kicks is trying to put them out of business. But the interference of a woman reporter is making his job more difficult.
Disco Godfather
Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.
Cotton Comes to Harlem
Harlem's African-American population is being ripped off by the Rev. Deke O'Malley, who dishonestly claims that small donations will secure parcels of land in Africa. When New York City police officers Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson look into O'Malley's scam, they learn that the cash is being smuggled inside a bale of cotton. However, the police, O'Malley, and lots of others find themselves scrambling when the money goes missing.
Welcome Home Brother Charles
After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.
Death Promise
An apartment dweller goes on a search-and-destroy mission to kill the ruthless landlords who murdered his father.
Hit!
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Five on the Black Hand Side
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
Death Journey
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
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Sidney Poitier
Director
Bill Cosby
as
Billy Foster
Ossie Davis
as
Elder Johnson
John Amos
as
Kansas City Mack
Val Avery
as
Lt. Bottomley
Bruce D. Clark
Director
Charles Lampkin
as
Big Sid
Gene LeBell
as
Referee
Wesley Gale
as
Ernie Hudson
as
Bo
Jack Kelly
as
Capt. Ryan
Jerry Jones
as
Detective 'Pistol Pete' Blakeley
Gordon Parks Jr.
Director
Floyd Levine
as
Police
Charles Bail
Director
Han Chiang
as
Bobby Canavarro
as
Lin Ma Chen
Albert Popwell
as
Matthew Johnson
Norman Fell
as
Stanley Nagel
Bill Nunn
as
Dougy
Kadeem Hardison
as
'K'
Samuel L. Jackson
as
Minister Garth
Larry Yust
Director
Ted Lange
as
Melvin the Pimp
Don Fellows
as
Phillips
Corbin Bernsen
as
Boy
Victor Brandt
as
Guard
Alex Rocco
as
Lt. Di Nisco
Kevin Hooks
as
Aaron
Robert Hooks
as
Beau
Neil Summers
as
Clayton's Man
William Smith
as
Jed Clayton
Carmen Zapata
as
Margarita
R.G. Armstrong
as
Mayor Griffin
Regina Carrol
as
Valerie
Russ Tamblyn
as
Ziggy
Fitz Houston
as
(as Fitzhugh Houston)
Keith David
as
Club Patron
John Casino
as
Cowboy
Ossie Davis
Director
Teddy Wilson
as
Barry
J.D. Cannon
as
Calhoun
Eugene Roche
as
Lt. Anderson
Reatha Grey
as
Carmen
Charles Bonet
as
Charley Roman
Tony Liu
as
Master Ying
Sidney J. Furie
Director
Henri Cogan
as
Bornou
Warren J. Kemmerling
as
Dutch Schiller
Noble Willingham
as
Warden Springer
Henry G. Sanders
as
Barber Shop patron
Glynn Turman
as
Gideon
Carl Franklin
as
Marvin
Fred Williamson
Director
Sam Coppola
as
Detective Johnson
Nick Dimitri
as
Thug
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