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Best Urban movies

By Shawn Edwards, Co-Founder, African American Film Critics Association

Source: https://bit.ly/AAFCA-110IFatBE-Playlist
Source: https://bit.ly/AAFCA-110IFatBE-Article
Date: 2020-06-05
Tags: #theme #list-order #complete

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film, emerging in the United States during the early 1970s. The Los Angeles National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) head and ex-film publicist Junius Griffin coined the term from the words "black" and "exploitation."

Urban, Black, etc.

This list has been compiled by aggregating the movies in three different lists: The Deuce Top 20 (2007-08), The Deuce Top 20 (2008-09) and Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 Grindhouse Classics. The movies in this list all belong to classic international exploitatation/cult cinema movies.

Sources:
http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2007-08)
http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Deuce_Top_20_(2008-09)
http://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/Quentin_Tarantino%27s_Top_20_Grindhouse_Classics

General Movie Recommendations

https://www.theringer.com/movies/2021/1/25/22244344/cult-movies-ranking-top-50

https://www.filmsite.org/cultfilmsew.html

black movies

Only the classics!

blax·ploi·ta·tion
noun
The exploitation of black people, especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies

Favorite films show at the onion lab cinema plex

All the movies mentioned in Tarantino’s book ‘Cinema Speculation’

Taken from May 2003 issue of Entertainment Weekly