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Hammer [watch the movie]
Fred Williamson IS Hammer, a dock worker who forges a new career as a prizefighter, unaware that his manager is crooked until he finds his girlfriend kidnapped in order to ensure that he’ll take a dive in an important fight. It’s up to The Hammer to figure out a way to save his girl and his honor.

Hell Up In Harlem [watch the movie]
Wounded crimelord Tommy Gibbs (Fred Williamson) escapes a hit attempt orchestrated by a corrupt D.A., and he has to fight against threats from outside and in for his organization to survive.

Friday Foster [watch the movie]
Based on an adventure comic strip star, Pam Grier is Friday Foster, a freelance photographer who uncovers a sinister plot to assassinate several prominent black leaders. Also starring Yaphet Kotto, Eartha Kitt, Ted Lange and Jim Backus.

Black Mama, White Mama [watch the movie]
Pam Grier is in prison for prostitution. Margaret Markov is in prison for running with anarchists. Neither of them can stand to take any crap from The Man who runs this penitentiary, so they escape - but they’re stuck chained together, on the run from Sid Haig.

Civil Brand [watch the movie]
A modern-day take on the problems in a female penitentiary, starring LisaRaye McCoy, Lark Voorhies, N’Bushe Wright, Monica Calhoun and Mos Def.

J.D.’s Revenge [watch the movie]
Crime kingpin J.D. Walker (David McKnight) is shot dead on Bourbon Street in the mid-1940s, but his ghost possesses a college kid named Ike (Glynn Turman) to go after a minister (Louis Gossett Jr.) who played a role in his death.

Anna Lucasta [watch the movie]
Eartha Kitt is a waterfront prostitute who foils her greedy brother-in-law’s plans by falling in love with the rich man he’d arranged a marriage with, but when someone from her best-forgotten past returns to her life (Sammy Davis Jr.), there’s bound to be trouble.

Hollywood Shuffle [watch the movie]
Robert Townsend’s highly amusing satire of Hollywood and how it treats black people in the casting process. Featuring Keenen Ivory and Damon Wayans before they hit it big.

The Monkey Hustle [watch the movie]
Rival street hustlers Daddy Foxx (Yaphet Kotto) and Goldie (Rudy Ray Moore) have to put their turf war aside in order to make sure their Chicago neighborhood isn’t destroyed by the construction of an expressway.

Out of Sync [watch the movie]
LL Cool J is The Saint, the best DJ in town, who’s got a gambling debt he can’t pay back. When the cops pressure him to get close to a drug pusher for intel, he gets involved with the bad guy’s girlfriend, which is not a smart play.

Caught Up [watch the movie]
Bokeem Woodbine only wants to open a nightclub, but when his financial meeting turns out to be a bank robbery, he gets jail time for his trouble. Once he’s released, he gets involved with a woman (Cynda Williams) with an ex-boyfriend who wants them both dead.

State Property [watch the movie]
Beanie Sigel is sick and tired of his life of poverty, so he has to take on Jay-Z for control of the Philadelphia underground drug scene.