After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put
two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work
together under boiling political pressure.
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terça-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2015
segunda-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2015
Blacula (1972)
Blacula is the story of Manuwalde, an African Prince. This movie
presents a modern version of the classic Dracula story in a very
chilling and inventive way. In 1780, after visiting Count Dracula,
Manuwalde is turned into a vampire and locked in a coffin.. The scene
shifts to 1972, when two antique collectors transport the coffin to Los
Angeles. The two men open the coffin and unleash Blacula on the city of
Los Angeles. Blacula soon finds Tina, who is his wife, Luva,
reincarnated, and gains her love. Tina's friend, Dr. Gordon, discovers
Blacula is a vampire and hunts him down.
quinta-feira, 29 de janeiro de 2015
Black Caesar (1973)
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 payoff 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. He performs a free-lance hit on a Mob contract to attract
the attention of the head of a Mafia family. Reluctantly accepted into
'The Family,' he grows increasingly autonomous and aggressive,
eventually starting a gang war.
quarta-feira, 28 de janeiro de 2015
Shaft (1971)
Private detective John Shaft is hired by Harlem mobster Bumpy Jonas to
find his kidnapped daughter. Bumpy has no idea who might have taken her
but isn't as forthcoming as he could be about his situation. When his
first lead peters out - he thought it might be Black power advocates who
took the girl - he acts on information from NYPD Lt. Vic Androzzi that
outside mobsters are in town and might be trying to take over various
illegal businesses in Harlem.
quarta-feira, 21 de janeiro de 2015
Super Fly (1972)
Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will
soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape
from the life by making his biggest deal yet, converting the coke to
cash and running off to start a new life. The problem is that the Mob
does not have a retirement plan and will give him a choice of staying
and selling for them or dying if they find out his intentions.
terça-feira, 20 de janeiro de 2015
Mandingo (1975)
Slave owner Warren Maxwell insists that his son, Hammond, who is busy
bedding the slaves he buys, marry a white woman and father him a son.
While in New Orleans, he picks up a wife, Blanche, a "bed wench," Ellen,
and a Mandingo slave, Mede, whom he trains to be a bare-knuckle
fighting champion. Angered that Hammond is spending too much time with
his slaves, Blanche beds down Mede.
sexta-feira, 16 de janeiro de 2015
Coffy (1973)
Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is
severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of
vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and
mobsters who cross her path.
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