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No man is an island. But one man is a movie, a cartoon and a kung fu master all rolled into one.

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The Beast Must Die is a 1974 British horror and mystery film starring Calvin Lockhart, Marlene Clark and Peter Cushing.
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Famous for a 30-second interactive gimmick near the end of the film where a countdown clock appears on screen, inviting the audience to guess which character is the werewolf before the finale.
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BLACK DYNAMITE is the greatest African-American action star of the 1970s. When his only brother is killed by The Man, it's up to him to find justice.
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Directed by Scott Sanders, the 2009 action comedy stars Michael Jai White as a former CIA agent seeking revenge for his brother’s murder, uncovering a conspiracy targeting the Black community along the way.
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J.D.'s Revenge (1976) is a cult-classic thrillerwith Glynn Turman possessed by a vengeful 1940s gangster.
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Welcome Home, Brother Charles (also released as Soul Vengeance) is a 1975 independent blaxploitation film directed by Jamaa Fanaka as a UCLA student project shot on location in Watts and South Central Los Angeles with community members.
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The film stars Marlo Monte as Charles Murray, a young Black small-time drug dealer in Los Angeles who is wrongfully targeted, brutally assaulted, and nearly castrated by a corrupt, racist police officer.
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Yoruba magic rumbles with Christianity in this independent supernatural drama and horror film starring Marlene Clark.
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Mapressa Dawn, best remembered for starring in Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro). Facing stereotypical roles and racial discrimination in the US, she moved to Europe where her success broke racial barriers, paving the way for generations of Black actresses in international film.
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Tina Turner's role in the Birtish musical drama Tommy was originally built around casting Mick Jagger or David Bowie for the role. Turner originally turned it down due to its dark nature, but director Ken Russell felt her explosive stage energy and persona fit perfectly.
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Fred Williamson the way you like him. He's got to get back $15 million of the governments bucks ripped off by 5 of the baddest dudes of the century...... and all five are blind!
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Blind Rage (1976/1978) features a criminal conspiracy that recruits a team of five blind martial artists and fighters to pull off a multi-million-dollar bank heist.
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Blackenstein is a 1973 low-budget blaxploitation horror film directed by William A. Levey and loosely inspired by Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel Frankenstein.
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Released just one year after The Exorcist (1973), Abby adapted the demonic possession formula and is considered a  pioneering, culturally unique intersection of 1970s Black-led cinema and supernatural horror.
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Ganja & Hess (1973), directed by Bill Gunn, is a landmark avant-garde art-horror film and a cornerstone of Black independent cinema.  The film uses vampirism and an unquenchable thirst for blood as a complex metaphor for addiction, generational trauma, and spiritual emptiness.
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Blacula, Dracula's soul brother! The 1972 horror film is  celebrated as a pioneering force in Black horror. Star William Marshall portrayed Prince Mamuwalde, marking the first time a Black vampire was featured as a lead in a major Hollywood feature.
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Daddy Rich, played by the great Richard Pryor,  is a flamboyant, money-preaching televangelist, in the 1976 classic comedy Car Wash. Even though Pryor's appearance is a brief, high-energy cameo rather than a lead role, it became one of the most memorable parts of the film.
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The 1974 blaxploitation action film Three the Hard Way, directed by Gordon Parks Jr., holds major cultural and genre significance.
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It was the first time three major Black action icons, Jim Brown, Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, and martial arts star Jim Kelly, shared the big screen together as leading heroes.
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Rudy Ray Moore self-financed his 1975 blaxploitation hit Dolemite using money he saved from selling X-rated party records out of his car. #blaxploitation #comedy
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