Pam Grier displays the charms that made her a 70s icon of the blaxploitation movie. When Foxy Brown's undercover drug squad boyfriend is murdered after her bad-ass brother reveals his identity, she poses as a hooker to take revenge on The Man. Cue bucketloads of gratuitous sex and violence. Brilliant (say some)! find out more...

Irish Sicilian Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster and from running errands as a small boy, he graduates to becoming a trusted member of the "family". A stunning, violent and essential portrait of the Mafia's intimate details. An award winning film, superbly crafted by Scorsese. find out more...

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A posse of upstart homeboys with ill-fitting trousers are brought to book when the town's "original gangstas" (a bevy of '70's blaxploitation stars) join forces, after fifteen years of respectability, to clean up the streets and sort out the men from the boys. Tongue-in-cheek ghetto actioner. find out more...

The fact that this highly successful hip movie attracted attention because the hero, and much of the cast, was black, then a ground-breaking event in American film, shouldn't distract from the fact that it was also a high quality private eye flick with a great music score from Isaac Hayes. With some of the most amazing flared trousers to ever be seen the film now looks a classic period piece. To be watched. find out more...

One of the most successful blaxploitation movies of the 70s; Priest decides to sink everything into one big deal, the one that will get him out of the urban-poverty-crime nightmare. Harlem and its people are authentically depicted and both the action sequences and Curtis Mayfield's score are excellent. find out more...

Tsotsi is a hard-faced young hoodie with no family ties and fewer scruples, ruthlessly killing those that he robs, but when he steals a car with a baby in it his human side starts to emerge. We watch an alternative possible life emerge, his loveless past of physical abuse gradually submerged by his new found awareness of both family life around him and his own humanity. But is it too late to save him from the consequences of his past crimes and is the violence really gone? An Oscar winning film find out more...

Single dad O2 promises his young son, Junior, that he'll come back for him, not an easy task when the recently paroled ex-con is forced to go back outside the law after the lad is kidnapped in a carjacking. The resulting chase and shootout have left Junior in the hands of Meat, the vicious leader of a Syndicate. The only person who can or will help O2 get his son back is wily street-smart hustler Coco. Waist Deep is a high octane urban action flick, pure and simple. find out more...