Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Jamaal Wilkes
Directed By: Joseph Manduke

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Maurizio Bonuglia, Christopher Connelly, Nick Dimitri, Arlene Golonka, Peter Gonneau
Directed By: Fred Williamson

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Val Avery, Peter Brown (IX), Christopher Connelly, Sandy Cummings, Michael Dante

William Marshall, a Shakespearean actor with a rich baritone voice, enriches this otherwise bland blaxploitation vampire film with his strong, seductive performance. He's Manuwalde, a European-educated 18th-century African prince who appeals to the Count Dracula for help in ending the slave trade. Dracula, never known as a great emancipator, puts the bite on Manuwalde's troubles, dubs him ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: William Marshall, Vonetta McGee, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent
Directed By: William Crain

Cooley High has frequently been compared to American Graffiti, and for good reason. Like that classic, Cooley High has a loose, multicharacter structure, autobiographical origins, and the rich texture of its time. Set in Chicago in 1964, the movie follows aspiring writer Preach (Glynn Turman) and local basketball star Cochise (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, who went on to star in ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Glynn Turman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Garrett Morris, Cynthia Davis, Corin Rogers
Directed By: Michael Schultz

It's been branded with the "blaxploitation" label, but there is little that's exploitive in J.D.'s Revenge, a film of well-drawn, articulate characters dragged into a supernatural showdown. Glynn Turman (Cooley High) is especially fine as the sensitive and quiet Ike, a determined student moonlighting as a cab driver, so wound up he's on the verge of cracking. Enter (literally) ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Glynn Turman, Louis Gossett Jr., Joan Pringle, Carl W. Crudup, James Watkins
Directed By: Arthur Marks

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: William Marshall, Don Mitchell, Pam Grier, Michael Conrad, Richard Lawson
Directed By: Bob Kelljan

Fred Williamson (Black Caesar) proves once again he's the ultimate soul brotherdark, daring and ready for surprises. He and sexy co-star Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) heat up the sheets and the streets in this scintillating soul flick about a city ripped apart by prejudice, greed and plenty of gangsta action. Bucktown explodes like sparks and gasolinesetting small-town America on fire! Dean Johnson ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Fred Williamson; Pam Grier; Thalmus Rasulala; Tony King; Bernie Hamilton
Directed By: Arthur Marks

She's brown sugar and spice...and if you don't watch it, she'll put you on ice! Delivering a performance worthy of "the Queen of the genre" (Los Angeles Times), Grier portrays one of the screens first action heroines with humor, sensitivity and steely determination. This electrifying revenge thriller explodes with all the sex appeal and cooler-than-cool attitude of its irresistible leading lady. ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder
Directed By: Jack Hill

Fred Williamson is "imposing, tough and unflappable" (The New York Times) as a street kid who muscles his way into the big-time mob racket in this super-slick crime drama that became the smashhit of its genre and spawned a successful sequel (Hell Up In Harlem). Tommy Gibbs (Williamson) has always had it tough. Growing up on the streets without a father and trying to make his mother proud, Tommy ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Fred Williamson; Gloria Hendry; Art Lund; D'Urville Martin; Julius Harris
Directed By: Larry Cohen