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Directed by: John Coney
Stars: Sun Ra, Raymond Johnsonm, Christopher Brooks, Barbara Deloney, Erika Leder
After years missing in the far reaches of space, Sun Ra returns to Earth aboard a music-powered spaceship. He has discovered a distant planet where the atmosphere vibrates differently — a place untouched by earthly racism, violence, and historical oppression. His mission is to offer Black people an…
Directed by: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Susan Hampshire
Two documentary filmmakers appear to travel back through time into the pre-Civil War American South, carrying their cameras into a society built on slavery. Rather than following one central character, Goodbye Uncle Tom moves through a series of staged encounters, presenting the slave economy as an entire world…
Directed by: Eric Louzil
Stars: Gene LeBrock, Kellee Bradley, David Crane, William J. Kulzer, Kascha (as Kascha LePriol)
Fresh out of prison, drifter John Whitecloud returns home carrying old wounds and a score to settle with a corrupt county sheriff tied to his brother’s death. But personal revenge is soon overshadowed by a greater threat lurking in the nearby wilderness. Hidden in the forests, a heavily…
Directed by: Jesús Franco
Stars: Ursula Buchfellner, Al Cliver, Antonio Mayans, Antonio de Cabo, Bertrand Altmann, Gisela Hahn, Muriel Montossé, Aline Mess
When famous actress Laura Crawford is kidnapped and taken to a remote tropical island, her agent hires hardened mercenary Peter Weston to deliver the ransom and bring her back alive. But the exchange quickly collapses, leaving Laura stranded in a hostile jungle far more dangerous than her captors…
Directed by: George Armitage
Stars: Katherine Cannon, Joyce Williams, Pegi Boucher
Three young interns—Spring (Kathy Cannon), Lynn (Pegi Boucher), and Lola (Joyce Williams)—embark on their medical careers in a bustling Los Angeles hospital. Sharing an apartment rented from their sleazy landlord Dewey (Paul Hampton), the women navigate a mix of personal and professional challenges. Spring becomes romantically involved with…
Directed by: José Bénazéraf
Stars: Alphonse Beni, Claudie Bregeon, Alain Tissier, Gilles Geisweiller, Gilda Arancio, Claudine Beccarie, Joëlle Coeur, Monique Duval, Noëlle Louvet, Nadine Perles
Black Love (1973) — also known by its provocative original French title L’homme qui voulait violer le monde (The Man Who Wanted to Rape the World)— is a bold, genre-blending film by legendary French provocateur José Bénazéraf, marking his transition into more explicit territory. Set against the politically…
Directed by: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Stars: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere, Moise Tshombe, Richard Gordon Turnbull, Ian Yule
Africa: Blood and Guts (original title: Africa Addio) is a harrowing and controversial documentary that captures the turbulent aftermath of colonial rule across the African continent during the 1960s. Directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, the film presents a raw, unfiltered look at the collapse of European…
Directed by: Paul Nicolas
Stars: Linda Blair, Sybil Danning, John Vernon, Stella Stevens, Tamara Dobson, Sharon Hughes, Greta Blackburn, Nita Talbot, Louisa Moritz, Jennifer Ashley, Jody Medford, Mae E.…
Linda Blair plays Carol, a young woman who must serve 18 months in prison after accidentally killing a man. The prison turns out to be brimming with decadence, corruption, and sleaze; the other female inmates are sadistic and the guards and warden are no better. Racial tensions are…
Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles
Stars: Melvin Van Peebles, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, Simon Chuckster, Rhetta Hughes, Lavelle Roby
Sweet Sweetback is a black orphan who, having grown up in a private club, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black community, His employer gives him up to two white cops, whom he ends…
Directed by: Bill Morroni
Stars: Todd Fortune, Pat Gallagher, Brenda Pope, Greg Sachs, Edenia Scudder, Sabino Villa Lobos, Kristin Caruso
After losing his father in a car accident, poor little Corey Gorey, a timid seventh-grader, can't seem to catch a break. And as Corey relocates to a new neighbourhood, forced to live with his abusive alcoholic stepmother Betty and unbearable stepbrother Biff, the suffering continues. However, when Biff…
Directed by: Lina Wertmüller
Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Mariangela Melato, Riccardo Salvino, Isa Danieli, Aldo Puglisi
A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but has to bear with her bad mood. One day she wakes up late in the afternoon and asks…
Directed by: Jalo Miklos Horthy
Stars: Fleurette Carter, Jacque Lynn Colton, Monica Davis, Harold Heagey, Sharon Kent, Linda Lavell
The story of three women and the circumstances that led each to get involved in prostitution as call girls. THE HOOKERS is one of those cheap black and white exploitation movies of the 1960s that attempts to be an expose of a controversial subject matter but in fact…
Directed by: Peter George
Stars: Gail Neely, Robert Harden, Barry Brenner, Dawn Wildsmith, Joel Hile, Bobbie Bresee
A California beach is ruled by different criminal gangs, the most ruthless being the "Surf Nazis", a gang lead by a guy who calls himself 'Adolf. When a young black man named Leroy keeps a gang member from stealing an old lady's bag, he is brutally murdered by…
Directed by: Gerry O’Hara
Stars: Kate O’Mara, Paul Freeman, Edward Judd, Bob Sherman, Frances Kearney, Beth Porter, Diane Fletcher, Freda Bamford, Melissa Stribling, Jean Gilpin
This is an interesting film that presents the viewer with many socially taboo questions. Lesbianism is scratched at but nothing profound is said and even less is said about racism since the hippy lady's screen time was limited--that subplot was really unnecessary. The spotlight really rests on O'Mara…
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, José Legarreta
El Topo decides to confront warrior masters on a transformative desert journey he begins with his six-year-old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gun-slinger in black, riding a horse through a…
Directed by: Richard Robinson, David Worth
Stars: Leslie Uggams, Shelley Winters, Michael Christian, Ted Cassidy, Slim Pickens
A wrong turn on a jazz singer’s road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Directed by: Joy N. Houck Jr.
Stars: Micky Dolenz, James Ralston, Michael Anthony, Chuck Patterson, Susan McCullough, Katie Tilley, Ann Barrett
In New Orleans, a man learns that his sister has a black lover and is pregnant. He throws her away and, a bit later, she is murdered by a mysterious killer with a peace-sign belt buckle, who disguises the murder as suicide. Her friend Vince and a black…
Directed by: Joe D’Amato
Stars: Lilli Carati, Annie Belle, Laura Gemser, Al Cliver
An English soldier (Cliver) returns home from the Zulu war with the daughter of a tribal king (Gemser) as his slave (a gift that he was given for saving the kings life). The spoils of war, ya know? While he's been gone, his wife has been having an…
Directed by: Michel Gast
Stars: Christian Marquand, Antonella Lualdi, Fernand Ledoux, Renate Ewert, Marina Petrova, Jean Sorel, Gisèle Gallois
In the American South, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Johnny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light that he is able to pass himself off as Caucasian and find…
Directed by: Sheldon Renan
Composed of archival material and exclusive footage, Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader's shocking and eye-opening documentary of carnage, madness, and mayhem focuses, with an unapologetic sincerity, on the factual depiction of violence in the industrialised nation of the United States. Featuring a juxtaposition of detailed accounts of terrible…
