Slavesploitation
Films centring on and in most cases, ruthlessly exploiting the subject of the human slavery practised in the Old South & elsewhere.
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- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsJames MasonSusan GeorgePerry KingAn 1840s slaveowner trains one of his slaves to be a bare-knuckle fighter.Described by Quentin Tarantino as one of the few exploitation films made by a major studio, the film shows a rich stew of interracial violence and desire.
- DirectorGualtiero JacopettiFranco ProsperiStarsStefano SibaldiSusan HampshireDick GregoryTwo documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.After they were criticized as racist for their Africa Addio documentary, Prosperi and Jacopetti made this "mockumentary" exploration of Southern slavery as a supposed recompense. They ended up with one of the most racially inflammatory films ever made.
- DirectorRuss MeyerStarsAnouska HempelDavid WarbeckPercy HerbertStory of a slave revolt on a 19th-century Caribbean island.Russ Meyer's glorious vision of the slave trade - a veritable allegory of the cyclic violence that is our human condition.
- DirectorSteve CarverBurt KennedyStarsWarren OatesIsela VegaKen NortonA mid-19th-century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society.A sequel of sorts to Mandingo, in many ways more exploitative & offensive to delicate sensibilities than the first fim.
- DirectorQuentin TarantinoStarsJamie FoxxChristoph WaltzLeonardo DiCaprioWith the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.Tarantino crosses the slavesploitation pic with the Spaghetti Western, adds in a drop of Wagnerian myth and makes his first decent film since Jackie Brown.
- StarsLeVar BurtonRobert ReedJohn AmosA dramatization of author Alex Haley's family line from ancestor Kunta Kinte's enslavement to his descendants' liberation.The respectable face of 70s slavesploitation, the compulsive hit series based upon Alex Haley's fanciful memoir.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsJohn KitzmillerHerbert LomOlive MoorefieldIn the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation-owner brutalizes his slaves to the point that they have no other choice but to rebel. Always obedient, peaceful, honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.Big-budget 1960s German film of the classic novel.
- DirectorJ. Lee ThompsonStarsRoddy McDowallDon MurrayRicardo MontalbanIn a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.Slavery allegorized as an Apes film.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMargarita FischerJames B. LoweArthur Edmund CareweSlavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
- CreatorErnest KinoyStarsDebbi MorganDorian HarewoodPaul KosloThe dramatization of Alex Haley's family line from post Civil War America to the writer's search for his roots.Continues the story from the first series.
- DirectorHerbert J. BibermanStarsStephen BoydDionne WarwickOssie DavisA Kentucky slave fights for his freedom from cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins Davis and the other slaves in their revolt.Early antebellum exploiter starring, of all people, Dionne Warwick.
- DirectorJürgen GoslarStarsTrevor HowardRon ElyBritt EklandAs the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits.Mandingo clone starring ex-Tarzan Ron Ely.
- DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDjimon HounsouMatthew McConaugheyAnthony HopkinsIn 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.Spielberg's "tasteful" liberal drama slavesploitation? Well, not in the obvious sense, but he certainly exploits the subject as much as any filmmaker on this list, in a gambit to win Oscars and make bucks.
- DirectorJack WeisHerbert Janneke Jr.StarsKathy McKeeTim KincaidRobert PriestA story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era.Obscure grindhouse look at the old South.
- DirectorMario PinzautiStarsAntonio GismondoSerafino ProfumoMaria Rosaria RiuzziAn Old South plantation owner lusts after his female slaves.Spanish take on slavesploitation.
- DirectorMario PinzautiStarsMalisa LongoAntonio GismondoRita MannaIn the pre-civil war American south, Emanuelle, a plantation owner's daughter, while outwardly a dainty southern belle, brutally abuses the slaves in her charge. When her fiance is bitten by a snake, he falls for Emanuelle's beautiful African-American maid who's kindness and skill saved his life. Insanely jealous, Emanuelle continues her sadistic behaviour towards her charges, and when her fiance announces he plans to wed the maid, Emanuelle "gives" her to her even more brutal hired men, and her fiance is powerless to stop them. Can Emanuelle learn an important lesson in love before it's too late for everyone?70s erotic myth Emanuelle finds an antebellum telling.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael FassbenderIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.Sold as something new - but it's the latest in a line.
- DirectorVictor FlemingGeorge CukorSam WoodStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas MitchellA sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- DirectorJohn BerryStarsDorothy DandridgeCurd JürgensJean ServaisA Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
- StarsJonathan Rhys MeyersMalachi KirbyForest WhitakerAn adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots" chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.
- DirectorKevin HooksStarsLouis Gossett Jr.LeVar BurtonAvery BrooksOn Christmas Eve 1770, a young African warrior, who three years prior had been captured and sold into slavery in America, leads a desperate group of runaway slaves as they attempt to reach freedom in the North.
- DirectorRichard FleischerStarsMichael CainePeter UstinovKabir BediDr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsBryce Dallas HowardIsaach De BankoléDanny GloverA story of slavery, set in the southern U.S. in the 1930s.
- DirectorJohn KortyStarsCicely TysonEric BrownRichard DysartStory of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.