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Miss Jones is a gorgeous black amazon fighting for truth, justice and the American way - she's a fed. After she burns down a Turkish opium poppy field drug lord Mommy, a leather-clad dyke running downtown gangland, wants her dead. Meanwhile Doodlebug (Huggy from Starsky) wants independence for Afros, flares, platforms et al. High-kick-karate cartoon-style camp fun. find out more...

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...

It's been a long time coming and, while not as hard-hitting as Reservoir Dogs or as mirth-inducing as Pulp Fiction, "Jackie Brown" is (probably) Tarantino's finest movie yet. Adapted from novellist Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch, this is a sometimes painfully realistic trudge through the tawdry lives of several somehow-connected characters. The Jackie of the title (dazzlingly played by Pam Grier) is a world-weary, cash-smuggling air hostess trying to stay as far away as possible from both her scuzzy find out more...

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...

Written, directed, produced and starring Melvin Van Peebles as the hustler who finds himself in trouble with the law. Produced independently by "Yeah Production" company in the 1970's, this film has become one of the most important black American films ever made. Peebles plays Sweetback, who aimlessly wanders through life on a pleasure-seeking mission. When he witnesses a couple of cops beating up a black political activist, Sweetback is forced to go on the run in order to survive and ultimatel find out more...

TNT Jackson (playmate Jeanne Bell) is downtown in HK searching amongst pimps, pros and assassins to avenge her dead brother. She is a street-tough, kung fu kicking herself out of every tight corner. She is beauty and the beast, a sexy, seventies-chic chick in a classic action flick. find out more...

A timeless ant-war parable that looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green. This makes him an object of ridicule in his small town, where the locals call for the boy's head to be shaved. There is an interesting coda to this wonderful and unusual film: Producer Dore Schary and director Joseph Losey made it for RKO before the politically conservative Howard Hughes took over. Hughes hated the film's pacifist message, and did his best to sabotage it find out more...