Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a pay-off gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the racist society around him, both criminal and straight, he sees the acquisition of power as the solution to his rage.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
Shaft
Shaft's Big Score!
Shaft in Africa
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Blackenstein
Undercover Brother
Dolemite
Black Belt Jones
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
Bad, Black and Beautiful
Sheba, Baby
Cleopatra Jones
Boss Nigger
Let's Do It Again
A Slight Case of Murder
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
The Slams
Gordon's War
Black Dynamite
SIMILAR MOVIES
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1975
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.Shaft
IMDB 6.4 | Jun , 1971
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.Shaft's Big Score!
IMDB 6 | Jun , 1972
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.Shaft in Africa
IMDB 6.1 | Jun , 1973
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
IMDB 5.2 | Mar , 1971
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.Blackenstein
IMDB 3.1 | Aug , 1973
Eddie is a Vietnam veteran who loses his arms and legs when he steps on a land mine, but a brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs. Unfortunately an insanely jealous assistant (who has fallen in love with Eddie's fiance) switches Eddie's DNA injections, transforming him into a gigantic killer.Undercover Brother
IMDB 5.9 | May , 2002
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 behaves strangely in his presidential campaign, Undercover Brother is hired to work undercover for "The Man" and find what happened with the potential candidate.Dolemite
IMDB 5.9 | Apr , 1975
Dolemite is a pimp who was set up by Willie Greene and the cops, who have planted drugs, stolen furs, and guns in his trunk and got him sentenced to 20 years in jail. One day, Queen B and a warden planned to get him out of Jail and get Willie Green and Mitchell busted for what they did to him.Black Belt Jones
IMDB 5.9 | Jan , 1974
Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops ,played by Scatman Crothers. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 1988
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.Bad, Black and Beautiful
IMDB 3 | Jan , 1975
When Johnny Boyles is falsely accused of murdering his ex-boss, he turns to the unstoppable attorney, Eva Taylor, to help him plea his case.Sheba, Baby
IMDB 5.7 | Mar , 1975
Sheba, a Chicago private detective returns back home to Louisville, Kentucky, to help her father fight mobsters.Cleopatra Jones
IMDB 5.8 | Jul , 1973
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.Boss Nigger
IMDB 6.7 | Aug , 1975
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.Let's Do It Again
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1975
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.A Slight Case of Murder
IMDB 6.2 | Feb , 1938
Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with foreclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.The Spook Who Sat by the Door
IMDB 6.3 | Sep , 1973
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.The Slams
IMDB 6.2 | Sep , 1973
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.Gordon's War
IMDB 5.7 | Aug , 1973
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.Black Dynamite
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 2009
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.