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Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Comedy,
Documentary,
Action,
CrimeActors Ron Leibman,
David Selby,
Sheila Frazier,
Pat Hingle,
Dan Frazer,
Arny FreemanRating65%
The film opens with archival footage from a press conference where NYPD officers Dave Greenberg and Robert Hantz are lauded by Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy commends them for the sheer volume of drugs and weaponry that the two cops have removed from the streets., 1h33
Directed by Gordon Parks,
Gordon Parks, Jr.,
Gordon Parks Jr.Origin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Musical,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Gangster filmsActors Ron O'Neal,
Sheila Frazier,
Carl Lee,
Julius Harris,
Charles McGregor,
John WilliamsRating63%
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is an up-and-coming cocaine dealer in New York City. On his way to a meeting point in Harlem early one morning he is mugged by two junkies. Priest beats one up and gives chase to the other, beating him until he gets the money back. Afterwards, Fat Freddie and Nate Adams, Priest's main dealers, turn up at his apartment to make their payments. , 1h58
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Biography,
Comedy,
Historical,
RomanceThemes Films about slavery,
Films about racismActors Avery Brooks,
Kent Broadhurst,
Joe Seneca,
Mason Adams,
Michael Tolan,
Art EvansRating3%
Solomon Northup's Odyssey is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man in Saratoga, New York who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery (see slavery in the United States). Northup was intelligent, skilled in carpentry, and was able to play music. He was enslaved in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before he was released., 2h6
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Drama,
BiographyThemes Films about music and musicians,
Le blues,
Musical filmsActors Roger E. Mosley,
Paul Benjamin,
Madge Sinclair,
Albert Hall,
Art Evans,
Ernie HudsonRating71%
The story follows Leadbelly during the early years when he worked to be a far famed singer/composer. In flashbacks, it follows his first marriage, his going to different places including a brothel, and recounts the many times he got into trouble with the law, including landing in jail for an accidental murder he never meant to commit., 1h44
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Action,
Adventure,
CrimeActors Richard Roundtree,
Moses Gunn,
Drew Bundini Brown,
Joseph Mascolo,
Julius Harris,
Joe SantosRating60%
While New York is never at a loss for criminal activity, things take a turn for the worse when the corrupt co-owner of a funeral parlor and insurance agency kills his partner, a personal friend of John Shaft, only to discover that the money he was planning to steal to pay his gambling debts is missing. He makes a deal with the mobster he owes (Joseph Mascolo) to split the business but also makes the same deal with crime lord Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn). The bullets start flying when the hoods find they've been played against each other, and Shaft is forced to clean up the mess., 1h40
Directed by Gordon ParksOrigin USAGenres Thriller,
Action,
Adventure,
CrimeActors Richard Roundtree,
Moses Gunn,
Christopher St. John,
Charles Cioffi,
Antonio Fargas,
Lawrence PressmanRating65%
John Shaft, a private detective, is informed that some gangsters are looking for him. Police Lt. Vic Androzzi meets Shaft and unsuccessfully tries to get information from him on the two gangsters. After Androzzi leaves, Shaft spots one of the men waiting for him in his office building. He commandeers the first gangster, forcing him into his office where the second gangster is waiting. After a quick fight, Shaft dodges one of them who goes out the window, while the other surrenders and reveals to him that Bumpy Jonas, the leader of a Harlem-based organized crime family, wanted Shaft brought uptown to Harlem for a meeting., 1h52
Directed by Paul Baxley,
Milton George KatselasOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Action,
CrimeActors Michael Moriarty,
Yaphet Kotto,
Susan Blakely,
Héctor Elizondo,
Dana Elcar,
Bob BalabanRating66%
Patty Butler (Susan Blakely), an attractive young female police officer, is pretending to be a runaway girl with the nickname of "Chicklet." She has been given permission by the Department to be the live-in girlfriend of Thomas "Stick" Henderson (Tony King), a suspected drug dealer, so that they can gather evidence against him. To back up her cover story, Detective Bo Lockley (Michael Moriarty) has been given an almost impossible assignment: without being told she is actually an undercover officer, he is instructed to spend a few weeks trying to find this young runaway "Chicklet," who is believed to be somewhere in New York City. By Bo's actions of openly looking around and trying to find her, this will end up being reported back to Stick, which should convince him that his girlfriend really is a runaway., 1h10
Origin USAGenres Drama,
CrimeThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Tom Pittman,
Malcolm Atterbury,
Peter Leeds,
Stanley Adams,
Byron Foulger,
Ron GansRating34%
Marv Grant is a high school student who lives with his deadbeat, alcoholic father. At school he begins dating the attractive Betty Alexander (Virginia Aldridge), who eventually manipulates him into writing her English class term paper for her. Marv does this, but the subterfuge is easily uncovered by the professor. Betty fails the class, and the professor withdraws his recommendation from Marv's college application, without which Marv has no chance of earning a scholarship. In anger, Betty throws Marv over and returns to her old boyfriend, Vince, revealing that she had only been using Marv from the beginning., 1h31
Directed by Don SiegelOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
Noir,
CrimeActors James Whitmore,
John Cassavetes,
Sal Mineo,
Virginia Gregg,
Malcolm Atterbury,
Mark RydellRating65%
After a rumble between New York City street gangs, the Hornets and Dukes, a youth is taken captive and threatened with a zip gun by Lenny Daniels, one of the Hornets. The act is witnessed by a neighbor, McAllister, who tells the cops., 1h14
Directed by Philip LeacockOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
CrimeActors Cloris Leachman,
Ross Martin,
Ned Beatty,
Dabney Coleman,
Dana Elcar,
Louise LathamRating67%
Bob Mitchell (Dabney Coleman) and his wife Jean (Cloris Leachman) are driving through the hot Arizona desert on their way home to Los Angeles. A detour has taken them 100 miles out of the way down a deserted road...because Jean insisted on taking photographs of a particular area to take back to their daughter. Bob is irritated by the delay in getting home - and after throwing a few jabs at Jean, the two stop at a roadside cafe/inn called the Arroyo Motel. It's a rundown claptrap and aside from the cook Jim Cutler (Ross Martin) and one customer named Tom (Ned Beatty), the place is empty.But the two travelers are hungry and the diner will do for now. To their surprise, both Jim and Tom are hostile and downright rude to them. The situation makes Jean uncomfortable. She tries to call home using the payphone but the line is busy.