The Best Of Soul Cinema

The Good Guy From Harlem (1977)

Category: Action & Adventure | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Loye Hawkins, Cathy Davis, Patricia Fulton

Black private eye Al Connors (Loye Hawkins) faces his most dangerous job yet when he is asked to protect a visiting African princess. Connors' cases have taken him through the seamy underside of life ... more

Abar: Black Superman (1977)

Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Tobar Mayo, Roxie Young, J. Walter Smith

Sci-fi-flavored entry in the blaxploitation genre about a black scientist who becomes so fed up with the racism he and his family are forced to endure on a daily basis that he develops a serum that transforms ... more

BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)

Category: Documentary | Director: Isaac Julien | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

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The early 1970s saw the rise of a new breed of screen hero: tough, anti-establishment, sexually raw...and black. Follow the evolution of "blaxploitation" action cinema with this funk-filled documentary ... more

How To Eat Your Watermelon In White Company (And Enjoy It) (2005)

Category: Documentary | Director: Joe Angio | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee

The iconic life of filmmaker, novelist, actor, musician, and theatrical producer Melvin Van Peebles, is the focus of this enlightening documentary. Through interviews with son Mario, Spike Lee, Gil Scott-Heron, ... more

Black Devil Doll (2007)

Category: Horror | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Natasha Talonz, Heather Murphy, Christine Svendsen

"Child's Play" meets "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" in this offbeat terror tale about an executed African-American serial killer who is reincarnated in the body of a ventriloquist's dummy. Now, a woman and ... more

Old School Soul 4-Movie Pack

Category: Action & Adventure | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Richard Pryor

Four-disc boxed set includes "Black Brigade," "Deadly Impact," "White Fire," and "Black Cobra 2."

Warhead (1977)

Category: Action & Adventure | Rated: PG | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: David Janssen, Karin Dor, Christopher Stone

A ripped-from-the-headlines actioner pits nuclear expert David Janssen against both Israeli soldiers and Arab terrorists in an effort to disarm an accidentally launched nuclear warhead. Is it possible ... more

Ransom Money (1970)

Category: Action & Adventure | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Broderick Crawford, Gordon Jump, Rachel Romen

An evil mastermind abducts the son of a wealthy widower and holds the boy for a $1 million ransom. L.A. detective Broderick Crawford is called on to the case and tries some of the kidnapper's methods ... more

Funeral For An Assassin (1977)

Category: Action & Adventure | Rated: PG | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Vic Morrow, Peter van Dissel, Gaby Getz

Riveting thriller stars Vic Morrow as a killer-for-hire whose latest target, a British politician, is his toughest assignment to date...and possibly his last. To operate incognito, Morrow hatches a plan ... more