Soul Cinema: One Honky's Take

By: Tom Stoup

An ever-growing collection of every “blaxploitation” film I’ve seen, ranked.

Not featured due to lack of inclusion in MUBI’s database: Hot Potato, The Legend of Nigger Charley, Slaughter, Super Fly TNT

Several further titles are also not featured due to the list maker not agreeing with certain classification under the “blaxploitation” umbrella (IE Watermelon Man, Jackie Brown, Putney Swope, Inglorious Bastards, etcetera).

• 01
  Coffy
  Jack Hill
• 02
  Blacula
  William Crain
• 03
  Black Caesar
  Larry Cohen
• 04
  The Final Comedown
  Oscar Williams
• 05
  Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
  Melvin Van Peebles
• 06
  Truck Turner
  Jonathan Kaplan
• 07
  J.D.'s Revenge
  Arthur Marks
• 08
  Black Belt Jones
  Robert Clouse
• 09
  Sheba, Baby
  William Girdler
• 10
  Spook Who Sat by the Door
  Ivan Dixon
• 11
  The Mack
  Michael Campus
• 12
  Coonskin
  Ralph Bakshi
• 13
  Black Gunn
  Robert Hartford-Davis
• 14
  Friday Foster
  Arthur Marks
• 15
  Scream, Blacula, Scream!
  Bob Kelljan
• 16
  Shaft
  Gordon Parks
• 17
  Abar: Black Superman
  Frank Packard
• 18
  Hell Up in Harlem
  Larry Cohen
• 19
  The Thing With Two Heads
  Lee Frost
• 20
  Black Mama, White Mama
  Eddie Romero
• 21
  Five on the Black Hand Side
  Oscar Williams
• 22
  Boss Nigger
  Jack Arnold
• 23
  Foxy Brown
  Jack Hill
• 24
  Super Fly
  Gordon Parks Jr.
• 25
  Bucktown
  Arthur Marks
• 26
  That Man Bolt
  Henry Levin
• 27
  Hammer
  Bruce D. Clark
• 28
  Across 110th Street
  Barry Shear
• 29
  The Monkey Hustle
  Arthur Marks
• 30
  Cleopatra Jones
  Jack Starrett
• 31
  Dolemite
  D'Urville Martin
• 32
  Don't Play Us Cheap
  Melvin Van Peebles
• 33
  Bamboo Gods and Iron Men
  Cesar Gallardo