Can anyone recommend some good Blaxploitation movies?
Watching in the name of research.
- Shaft and Across 110th Street, although they're not considered Blaxploitation films by some (Shaft in Africa is more Blaxploitation than the original, but not nearly as good).
- Trouble Man
- Black Caesar
- Superfly
- Foxy Brown or Coffy for some Pam Grier goodness
- Cotton Comes to Harlem, directed by Ossie Davis
- Coolie High is of the era, but not really a Blaxploitation film in the strictest definition of the term - but it's most certainly worth a watch.
- Sugar Hill
- The Legend of Nigger Charlie / Boss Nigger
- Coon Skin (Animated Blaxploitation. If you can get past the obscure art direction, and racist characitures - it's actually pretty decent)
- Blacula
- The Spook who Sat by the Door
- Sidney Potier's directed stuff if you can get over the fact that Bill Cosby is in them (Uptown Saturday Night, Buck & the Preacher and Let's Do It Again)
- JD' Revenge
These are all ones I consider legitimately worthwhile. If you want some pure unadulterated fuckery, let me know and I'll drop some suggestions.