Vonetta McGee
1) Shaft
Series
Criterion collection volume 1130
Language
English
Formats
Description
While the Black Power movement was reshaping America, trailblazing director Gordon Parks made this groundbreaking blockbuster, which helped launch the blaxploitation era and gave the screen a new kind of badder-than-bad action hero in John Shaft, a streetwise New York City private eye who is as tough with criminals as he is tender with his lovers. After Shaft is recruited to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a Harlem mob boss from Italian gangsters,...
2) Black August
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Inmate activist George Lester Jackson's short life became a flashpoint for revolution, igniting the bloodiest riot in San Quentin's history. In a story ripped from history's headlines, this film traces Jackson's spiritual journey and violent fate, from being sent up on a one-year-to-life sentence for robbing a gas station of $71 to galvanizing the Black Guerrilla Family with his incendiary book of letters, "Soledad Brother," to the fierce August day...
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A female bounty hunter who resumes an old romance with bandit Bushrod. Amid the changes transforming the country at the beginning of the twentieth century-cars replace horses and trails turn to roads-the 'wild' west of the 1900s is gradually being tamed. It's still a tough, hard place to make a living, but Thomasine and Bushrod are prepared to try. Hounded by Sheriff Bogardie, they proceed on a spree of bank robberies, sharing their loot with the...
5) Repo man
Series
Criterion collection volume 654
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
English
Formats
Description
About a weathered repo man in desolate downtown Los Angeles, and the nihilistic middle-class punk he takes under his wing. The job becomes more than either of them bargained for when they get involved in reclaiming a mysterious, and other worldly, Chevy Malibu with a hefty reward attached to it. Featuring the ultimate early-eighties L.A. punk soundtrack, this grungily hilarious odyssey is a politically trenchant take on President Reagan₂s domestic...
Series
Criterion collection volume 963
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Harry, a devilish charmer from the Deep South, turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Play Misty for me: Clint Eastwood stars as a radio disc jokey who becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan; The Eiger Sanction: A professional assassin is forced out of retirement in order to avenge a friend's murder in the Swiss Alps; Coogan's Bluff: An Arizona lawman whose unorthodox methods of capturing an escaped murderer anger a tough NYC police lieutenant; The Beguiled: A wounded soldier...
8) Blacula
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
An African prince stalks the city streets to satisfy his desire for blood.
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Mighty Peking man: An expedition of fortune hunters from Hong Kong find a giant creature from the Himalayas which is now living in the jungles of India with a young woman he has raised.
Detroit 9000: Jam-packed with nonstop action, sexy distractions and funky music, this hip crime story follows two Detroit cops, whose pursuit of a dangerous gang responsible for a high-society heist ignites a powder keg of corruption and violence!
Jack Hill's Switchblade...
11) Brothers
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1996, 1977]
Language
English
Description
The story of a black man falsely accused and incarcerated for a robbery he did not commit.
12) Shaft in Africa
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
Description
Detective John Shaft is persuaded by diplomats at the United Nations to track down a slave-trading operation. He travels undercover from Africa to France to catch a ring exploiting illegal immigrant labor. This is the third film in the Shaft series.
Publisher
S'more Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It's been six years since we last saw Christine Cagney and Mary Beth Lacey working together. During the intervening years, Cagney has been promoted to lieutenant -- and got married. Lacey has retired from the police force but is having trouble finding work. When circumstances bring them together again, they find their friendship and partnership are as strong as ever.
14) Blacula
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Blacula: African Prince Manuwalde, introduced to Count Dracula at a party, pleads for the Count's assistance in freeing his people from the slave trade. Dracula is so incensed at the request he vampirizes, curses, and imprisons Manuwalde in a coffin in the dungeon. Two hundred years later the contents of Castle Dracula are bought and shipped back to the US by antique dealers. Among these is Manuwalde's coffin. He is accidentally set free when this...