El padrino de Harlem (1973)
Hail Caesar Godfather of Harlem!
Género : Acción, Crimen, Drama, Suspense
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 34M
Director : Larry Cohen
Sinopsis
En 1965 y después de haber pasado unos años en la cárcel, Tommy Gibbs, un muchacho de Harlem, vuelve a su barrio dispuesto a montar su propio negocio y a resarcirse de todas las vejaciones de las que ha sido objeto por parte de los blancos. Pronto entrará a formar parte de las mafias y controlará durante años el barrio negro.
Hotheaded laborer B.J. Hammer can't go long without ending up in a fight, and, after he comes out on top in a particularly impressive workplace scuffle, word of his brawling skills makes its way to Davis, a top boxing manager. Hammer is hired by Davis and begins a lucrative career in the ring, only to find out that his new employer wants him to throw a fight and take part in other illicit activities. Hammer reacts to this news violently, and the feud is on.
Sunset Boulevard is a lucrative place to work for the Black Baron, a pimp with a distinctive red and yellow Rolls Royce and plenty of girls on his books. He don't take no mess from his girls, his madam or his competitors and viciously defends his patch. First, he clobbers the Mob who attempt to move in on his patch. Second, he tracks down one of his girls who runs off with a suitcase full of his cash. Third, he disposes of two policemen. But by now he knows his pimping days are numbered, so after a final explosive gun battle he switches to being his alter ego, mild-mannered businessman Ron who lives out in the leafy suburbs with an unsuspecting wife and family.
A white cop and a black reporter join forces to investigate apparent vigilante killings in the South African underworld.
A corrupt General plans on smuggling one million US dollars out of the Banana Republic he dominates. Local revolutionaries plan on stealing the cash but are thwarted when a bandit leader they are working with double crosses them. A tough cop and her boyfriend help two of the female revolutionaries escape from prison hoping that they will lead them to the cash, which they plan on keeping for themselves.
With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed in Italy, Mr. Mean certainly fulfills audience expectations
An aspiring dancer and her two wicked sisters resent their mother's love for a foster daughter.
When a prominent abortion clinic owner goes missing along with a string of other black community leaders, her singing daughter and her fellow female biker gang members investigate.
Some ex-convicts who have recently gotten out of prison plan a series of highly organized robberies of some Las Vegas casinos.
The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the 'hood with dangerous drugs, the Black Godfather (Rod Perry) orders his minions to put an end to this perfidy.
A crime lord hires Velvet Smooth, the head of a detective agency, to find out who is stealing his business.
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
Ben and Beatrice Chambers discover that their son Norman is gay and so Ben is intent on setting him right.
A band of female pirates go undercover at a prison camp on a coffee plantation to rescue their leader's sister.
An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.
Un par de policías duros persiguen a los mafiosos que arreglaron una competencia de artes marciales y lesionaron a un amigo.
A racist white serial killer known only as "Mac" is wreaking havoc throughout San Francisco while wearing black makeup and an afro wig. Police lieutenant Frank Savage is hot on his trail when Mac begins to reveal his motivations for the killings and escalates their game of cat and mouse.
When an African-American biker gang is tricked into believing that a white biker gang is planning a war, all hell breaks loose.
Jeannie, una bonita chica de color, estaba en el auto de su novio probando drogas. Ella no era adicta, solamente una chiquilla experimentando nuevas travesuras. Ahora yace muerta bajo un montón de flores. Nick Allen, el padre de Jeannie, es agente federal y un hombre de acción. Nick consulta al director y este explica a Nick que la heroína es un negocio de billones de dólares con ramificaciones internacionales y el plan de organizar un gran golpe para exterminar a las grandes figuras claves del sindicato de estupefacientes en Marsella, se opone tanto a la política nacional como a las leyes internacionales y le prohíbe a Nick seguir investigando, pero Nick está decidido.
Wanting revenge on a street gang for a rape attack, four young girls get together, take kung-fu lessons, learn how to shoot, form a gang called the Black Alley Cats and search out the gang that attacked them.
A woman encounters thugs and drug dealers after traveling to Hong Kong to search for her missing brother.