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The Candy Tangerine Man
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  • Cast & Crew: John Daniels, Tom Hankerson
  • Directed by Matt Cimber
  • Synopsis: A respectable businessman leads an incredible double life. By day, he takes care of his family and business, but by night, he operates as one of the most powerful pimps on the Sunset Strip.
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
  • Genre: Dramas, Drama, Prostitution, Suspense, Switching Roles
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    Melinda
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    In this blaxploitation flick, a supercool deejay, stuck on himself, decides to get revenge after his girl friend is slaughtered in his apartment. He enlists the help of a friend to investigate the death. He then finds a tape that shows that implicates a mobster in the murder of a union leader. His girl died because she had the tape. Violence and martial arts action ensues
  • Rated R
  • Starring Jim Kelly, Calvin Lockhart & Rosalind Cash
  • 1972
  • Run time aprox 100 mins
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    Gangstresses
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    Brand Name:  Urban Ent
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    This video shows how females operate in the drug game. It also shows how hookers and female adult entertainers earn their bread. Mary J. Blige and Lil' Kim have cameos in this video. So does Az, Tupac Shakur, and Russell Simmons. While Mary makes the claim that she is a gangstress, she is in a different league.
  • Format: Color, NTSC
  • Rated: NR
  • Studio: Ground Zero Entertainment
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  • Color, NTSC
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    Trick Baby
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    Brand Name:  Iceberg Slim
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    If you thought Philadelphia, The 12 Monkeys and Tradin' Places were the only films other than The Philadelphia Experiment set in Philly, you're dead wrong. When it comes to grittyness, this early '70s film, which appears to be shot mostly in West Philly puts NYC to shame.... in terms of charactor and story development its also definitely *not* your typical blaxploitation film - - and this becomes clear the moment you realize that its actually an adaptation of a novel by Iceberg Slim, a writer who along with Donald Goines wrote about urban street life and told tales of hustlers and pimps long long before Shaft and Superfly. In fact, it was probably the realism of their books most likely that fueled the fantasy of that film genre.... The story is about the final days of a relationship between an aging hustler named Blue and his young counterpart/protege known as "White Folks" so named because he can pass for white, a bend which made their game all the more strong. While hated by most black folks because he looks like a white man, he is understood and protected by Blue - - and together their hustle and schemes seem almost righteous, because through Folks, Blue is able to engage in confidence games praying on greedy white people who believe they are about to get rich by exploiting black folk. Far from being jive talking hustlers, both are articulate and intelligent and have learned well from one another, making their game even stronger, til one day they hustle the wrong person putting a dirty cop and the mob on their tale, in the middle of the biggest hustle of their lifetime. Suddenly, its a race against time and the questions whether its time to get out of town or get out of the game. Great film, great locations, well acted, and a nice bluesy soundtrack. If you like this film, check out the novel by Slim, as well "Across 110th Street"
  • Run Time 1hr 34 min
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    Hitman
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    A lawyer whose brother was murdered winds up getting involved with gangsters and the world of porno movies
  • Starring :Bernie Casey & Pam Grier
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  • Run time Approx 95 Mins
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    Crazy Joe (1974)
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    Item # / SKU:  cj
    Inspired by the success of "The Godfather," this film about the life of Mafia gangster Joey Gallo starred Peter Boyle in the title role, along with Paula Prentiss, Fred Williamson, Rip Torn and, in his first film, Henry Winkler.
  • Rated R
  • Drama
  • Run Time 1 hr 40 min
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    Thomasine & Bushrod
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    Brand Name:  Gordon Parks
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    Thomasine & Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the story in this case was utterly fictional. Vonette McGee plays Thomasine, and Max Julien (who also wrote and coproduced the film) is Bushrod. They are a pair of thieves, operating in the southwest between 1911 and 1915. Fancying themselves as Robin Hoods and the White Establishment as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Thomas and Bushrod steal only from Caucasian capitalists, then distribute the booty to Mexicans, Native Americans and poor whites. George Murdock is the rednecked sheriff who dogs their trail. Virtually the entire production staff of Thomasine and Bushrod, from director Gordon Parks on down, was comprised of black talent.
  • Runtime: 95
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • Color: Color (Metrocolor)
  • Sound Mix: Mono
  • Certification: USA:PG
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    The Education of Sonny Carson
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    Brand Name:  Soul Cinema
    Item # / SKU:  8840
    Based on the autobiographical novel by Sonny Carson, this film traces the tragic descent of a talented young black teen from honor student to hardened criminal. Eventually imprisoned, he then has to cope with a racist and brutal police force. Rated R VHS & DVD
     
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    Ron O'Neal
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    Item # / SKU:  8841
    Superfly, starring Ron O'Neal, Carl Lee, and Sheila Frazier is one of the greatest films ever made in the 70's Black film genre. It is a ghetto drama set to the music of the late great Curtis Mayfield - an excellent soundtrack that brilliantly narrates the film and compells you to contemplate the ins & outs of innercity blues; the challenges Vs. Options or lack thereof. This movie is hitting from beginning to end and though often dismissed as blaxploitation, it's strong messages of changing ones predicament, allows it to escape this criticism. Ron O'Neal portrays a drug dealer by the name of Priest with the baddest vines, cars, and plenty of women. He decides that there is more to life than this. With the help of his main squeeze Georgie,he stages one last score to get out of the game despite strong opposition from his partner and other shady individuals that rely on his thriving drug business. Will he make it out? Buy the film and see for yourself! VHS & DVD Rated R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
     
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    Buck & The Preacher
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    Brand Name:  Sidney Poitier
    Item # / SKU:  9092
    Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to throw a posse of white nightriders off the trail of escaped slaves.
     
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    Paid in Full
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    Ace (Wood Harris) is a young man working in a dry cleaners in 1985 Harlem. His friend Mitch (Mekhi Phifer) sells cocaine, drives flashy cars, and has cash to burn. When Mitch goes to prison and a couple of coincidences leave Ace with a ball of cocaine in his pocket and customers waiting to buy, Ace decides to enter the drug-dealing business that he had previously shunned. He quickly rises to prominence as the cocaine kingpin of Harlem. When Mitch is released from prison, Ace brings him into the business as a partner, along with Mitch's volatile acquaintance from prison, Rico (Cam'ron). When violence erupts, Ace begins to question whether the money that his cocaine business has provided him is worth its cost.
    At first look, Paid In Full seems to retread a lot of territory that has already been covered in a slew of films about inner-city drug-dealing since the 1980's. There are a couple of things that set this film apart, however, and make it worth seeing. This film emphasizes the characters' development and inner struggles more, and the trappings of the gangsta lifestyle less, than most films on the same topic. And Paid In Full is based on a true story: the story of AZ, Rich Porter, and Alpo, three young men who controlled the cocaine trade in Harlem in the mid-1980's. (Called Ace, Mitch, and Rico, respectively, in the film.) Azie Faison, who was AZ back then, cooperated with the film and wrote an early version of the screenplay. He has since criticized the film for glamorizing the gangsta lifestyle too much and not being a strong enough cautionary tale. I don't find that Paid In Full glamorizes the lifestyle all that much, but its criticism of gangsta life is not heavy-handed either. Perhaps it is better that the film did not moralize as much as it could have because that tends to alienate the audience. You will have to see it and judge for yourself.
  • Run Time: 1hr 38min
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    The Mack
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    Brand Name:  Soul Cinema
    Item # / SKU:  8817
    a 1973 pimping epic, is at once a laughable, schlock classic and a harbinger of more serious black-themed films to come. Starring the now-forgotten Max Julien as Goldie, the preening ex-con whose dream is to rule the streets with a fine Cadillac and a fleet of topnotch hookers, this film is full of whip-crack, mostly improvised dialogue and hilarious stereotypes (the evil white cops, a wisdom-spouting blind man, and more trash-talkin' pimps than you could shake a walking stick at).
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  • Rated: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
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    SWEET SWEETBACKS BAADASS SONG
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    Brand Name:  Melvin Van Peebles
    Item # / SKU:  9097
    Produced, directed, written, scored by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, this landmark "blaxploitation" film was as controversial as it was popular for its then X-rated story of one African-American man's triumph over the Man. After beating a couple of white cops he witnessed brutalizing a local black revolutionary, sex show performer Sweetback (Van Peebles) has to go on the run. As he flees through decrepit South Central Los Angeles, Sweetback demonstrates his formidable potency through sex as well as violence, evading the police manhunt by any means necessary. As Sweetback runs off into the sunset, however, Van Peebles warns that the story, like the 1960s racial strife, isn't over.
     
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    Pam Grier
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    Item # / SKU:  8811
    Pam Grier in a women-in-prison movie? Why did no one think of this sooner? OK, they did. Several times. But this one is different. Black Mama, White Mama is a bizarre update of The Defiant Ones with a little Cool Hand Luke and Chained Heat thrown in for good measure. Grier stars as Lee Daniels, a pimp-and-drug-lord's moll who's looking for a way to escape both prison and her thug boyfriend. The dynamic Margaret Markov ably backs her as rich-girl-turned-revolutionary Karen Brent. The two meet in the friendliest Third World prison ever (Tickling games in the shower! What girlish fun!), and before you can say catfight they're chained together at the wrist. A quick prison break later, our feisty ladies are being chased all over the undefined tropical island by the police, revolutionaries, and dueling pimps. Director Jonathan Demme shares the story credit for this one, and his craftsmanship shows--Black Mama, White Mama hits every mandatory facet of the genre, including butt kicking, gunfire, an Evil Lesbian Prison Guard, gratuitously scanty clothing, and dressing up as nuns. Absolutely not to be missed. VHS & DVD
     
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    Coffy
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    Item # / SKU:  8842
    In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by a smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating. There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. Mob strong-arm Sid Haig (Spider Baby) cackles while dragging his victim (a strutting peacock pimp played by Nashville's Robert DoQui) behind a speeding car in a sadistic lynching, and Grier runs down one bad guy with a speeding car and takes care of another with a shotgun to the groin. Her next picture, Foxy Brown, was originally written as the sequel to Coffy
     
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    Hammer 1972
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    A rugged dockworker-turned-boxer rebels against his mob connections when they order him to throw his next fight.
  • Running Time 1 hr 32 mins
  • Rating: R
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    King of New York
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    Brand Name:  Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes, Larry Fishburne
    Item # / SKU:  kony
    This low-budget crime thriller has the feel of a major blockbuster and owes its roots to the hard-edged crime movies of the 1930s. Christopher Walken stars as a drug kingpin who is released from prison and vows to use his position and influence--and criminal enterprise--for charitable means. But a core group of New York cops are all over him and his gang, determined to go to war, whatever the cost, to bring him down. Eventually his empire--headquartered at, of all places, Donald Trump's Plaza Hotel--crumbles under the weight of double-crossing and a body count of open warfare with the cops. This is one of the most stylish films of the last decade, with a strong supporting cast (including Lawrence Fishburne, Wesley Snipes, and David Caruso) and some truly enthralling set pieces, including a stunning car chase and gunfight across a rain-soaked Queensboro Bridge. The film's tongue-in-cheek, over-the-top style offsets its nihilism; and its riveting visuals will have audiences hooked from beginning to end
  • Starring: Christopher Walken, Wesley Snipes & Larry Fishburne
  • Director: Abel Ferrara
  • Encoding: Region 1 (US and Canada only) Format: Color, Widescreen
  • Rated: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
  • Studio: Artisan Entertainment
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  • Schoolly D Music Video
  • Widescreen letterbox format
  • Run Time 106 Mins
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