Adventure, Action, Crime
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.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Baron
Three the Hard Way
Hell Up In Harlem
Disco Godfather
BaadAsssss Cinema
The Black Gestapo
Trick Baby
Velvet Smooth
Black Samson
Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
The Black Godfather
Disco 9000
The Dynamite Brothers
Darktown Strutters
The Soul of Nigger Charley
Mean Johnny Barrows
Mean Mother
Melinda
Top of the Heap
Three Tough Guys
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Baron
IMDB 4.5 | Jan , 1977
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.Three the Hard Way
IMDB 6.3 | Jun , 1974
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.Hell Up In Harlem
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 1973
Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a modern-day tribute to the classic 30s gangster film. Fred Williamson is Tommy Gibbs, a fearless, bulletproof tough guy who blasts his way from the gutter to become the ultimate soul brother boss. Tommy steals a ledger with the name of every crooked cop and man in the city. Enlisting the aid of his father and an army of Harlem hoods, Gibbs goes from defense to offense, launching a deadly attack on his enemies that sets off a violent chain reaction from Harlem all the way to the Caribbean, climaxing in one of the hottest turf-war shoot-outs in Hollywood history.Disco Godfather
IMDB 5.5 | Sep , 1979
Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.BaadAsssss Cinema
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2002
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather than a complete record. It features interviews with some of the genre's biggest stars, like Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, and Richard Roundtree. Director Melvin Van Peebles discusses the historical importance of his landmark film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. For a contemporary perspective, the excitable Quentin Tarantino offers his spirited commentary and author/critic bell hooks provides some scholarly social analysis.The Black Gestapo
IMDB 4.4 | Mar , 1975
General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to start a protection squad to take more direct action. Ahmed fears this protection squad will just turn into a vigilante mob, and his prediction soon proves correct. Will Ahmed be able to wrest control back from the power-mad Kojah, or will he be the mob's next victim?Trick Baby
IMDB 5 | Dec , 1972
Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.Velvet Smooth
IMDB 3.4 | Jun , 1976
A crime lord hires Velvet Smooth, the head of a detective agency, to find out who is stealing his business.Black Samson
IMDB 5 | Aug , 1974
Noble nightclub owner Samson does his best to keep his neighborhood clean of crime and drugs. When vicious mobster Johnny Nappa tries to muscle in on Samson's territory, Samson takes a brave stand against Nappa and his flunkies.Baby Needs a New Pair of Shoes
IMDB 3.9 | Nov , 1974
In 1950s Harlem a vicious Italian gangster (Frank deKova) tries to muscle in on a black racketeer's (Paul Harris) numbers game.The Black Godfather
IMDB 4.6 | Sep , 1974
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.Disco 9000
IMDB 3.8 | Jul , 1976
Fass Black, an accomplished black man in Los Angeles, is bullied to play another record labels music at his disco club, but continually refuses because it ain't groovy enough.The Dynamite Brothers
IMDB 4.1 | May , 1974
Young black man teams up with a Chinese kung-fu expert to fight a drug ring.Darktown Strutters
IMDB 4.7 | Oct , 1975
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.The Soul of Nigger Charley
IMDB 4.3 | May , 1973
After the end of the Civil War, Charley fights against a group of Southern soldiers seeking to reignite the Confederacy.Mean Johnny Barrows
IMDB 5.5 | Nov , 1975
A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.Mean Mother
IMDB 3.1 | Aug , 1974
Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.Melinda
IMDB 4 | Aug , 1972
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. Things take a turn for the worse, though, when she is found dead in his apartment. It turns out that she was killed by the local mob, which is trying to frame him for the crime. With the police after him, he calls on some of his old acquaintances to help clear his name and avenge the woman's death.Top of the Heap
IMDB 5.9 | Jun , 1972
A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent personal crusade against criminals punctuated by feverish psychedelic dream visions.Three Tough Guys
IMDB 5 | May , 1974
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.