Posts Tagged ‘blaxploitation’

Undercover Brother (2002)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Eddie Griffin | Chris Kattan | Denise Richards | Aunjanue Ellis | Dave Chappelle | Chi McBride | Neil Patrick Harris | Gary Anthony Williams | Billy Dee Williams | Jack Noseworthy | Robert Trumbull | J.D. Hall | William B. Taylor | Shauna MacDonald | Ron Pardo
Directors: Malcolm D. Lee
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An Afro-American organization, the B.R.O.T.H.E.R.H.O.O.D., is in permanent fight against a white organization, The Man, defending the values of the black people in North America. When the Afro-American candidate Gen. Warren Boutwell (Billy Dee Williams) has a weird behavior in his presidential campaign, the Undercover Brother (Eddie Griffin) is hired to work undercover in the white organization and find what happened with the potential candidate.

Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Music
Countries: USA
Actors: 50 Cent | Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje | Joy Bryant | Omar Benson Miller | Tory Kittles | Terrence Howard | Ashley Walters | Marc John Jefferies | Viola Davis | Sullivan Walker | Serena Reeder | Bill Duke | Mpho Koaho | Russell Hornsby | Joseph Pierre
Directors: Jim Sheridan
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A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.

Shaft (2000)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson | Vanessa L. Williams | Jeffrey Wright | Christian Bale | Busta Rhymes | Dan Hedaya | Toni Collette | Richard Roundtree | Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Josef Sommer | Lynne Thigpen | Philip Bosco | Pat Hingle | Lee Tergesen | Daniel von Bargen
Directors: John Singleton
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Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father’s money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who’s willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?

007 Live and Let Die (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Bernard Lee | Roger Moore | Yaphet Kotto | Jane Seymour | Clifton James | Julius Harris | Geoffrey Holder | David Hedison | Gloria Hendry | Lois Maxwell | Tommy Lane | Earl Jolly Brown | Roy Stewart | Lon Satton | Arnold Williams
Directors: Guy Hamilton
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When Bond investigates the murders of three fellow agents, he soon finds himself a target, evading the vicious assassins as he closes in on the powerful Kananga (Yaphet Kotto). Known as “Mr. Big,” Kananga is coordinating a globally threatening scheme using tons of self-produced heroin. As Bond tries to unravel the mastermind’s plan, he meet Solitaire (Jane Seymour), the beautiful Tarot card reader whose magical gifts are crucial to the crime lord. Bond, of course, works his own magic on her, and the stage is set for pulse-pounding action sequences involving voodoo, hungry crocodiles and turbo-charged speedboats.

Training Day (2001)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Ethan Hawke | Scott Glenn | Tom Berenger | Harris Yulin | Raymond J. Barry | Cliff Curtis | Dr. Dre | Snoop Dogg | Macy Gray | Charlotte Ayanna | Eva Mendes | Nick Chinlund | Jaime Gomez | Raymond Cruz
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
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In a city where streets are overrun by drug dealers, those who have sworn to uphold the law are breaking them to clean up the streets. Denzel Washington plays L.A.P.D detective Alonzo Harris, a veteran narcotics officer whose methods of enforcing the law are questionable, if not corrupt. ‘Training Day’ follows Harris as he trains rookie Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawk) over a period 24 hours. Ethical dilemmas arise for Hoyt as well as the audience as questions present themselves as to whether or not Harris’ methodology for ridding the streets of South Central Los Angeles of drugs is right or wrong.