Across 110th Street 1972  R, 102 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Barry Shear
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Richard Ward, Antonio Fargas, Norma Donaldson, Tim O'Connor
When three gang members in Harlem steal $300,000 from the Mafia, a blood bath results as they are tracked down by both the Mafia and the police.
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Car Wash 1976  PG, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Schultz
Cast: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, The Pointer Sisters, Bill Duke, Antonio Fargas, Brooke Adams, Clarence Muse, Jack Kehoe, DeWayne Jessie, Pepe Serna, Melanie Mayron, Garrett Morris
A day in the multiracial lives of customers and employees of the Dee-Luxe Car Wash in L.A. is the basis for this 1970s' ensemble piece. Cheapskate Mr. B. (Sully Boyar) owns the car wash, and those who work or hang out there include T.C. (Franklyn Ajaye), Irwin (Richard Brestoff), Marsha (Melanie Mayron), a taxi driver (George Carlin), and a preacher (Richard Pryor)–all of whom provide entertainment about one day in the '70s.
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Cisco Pike 1972 R, 94 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bill L. Norton
Cast: Gene Hackman, Karen Black, Kris Kristofferson, Viva, Harry Dean Stanton, Roscoe Lee Browne, Severn Darden, Antonio Fargas, Joy Bang, Allan Arbus
Cisco Pike (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star-fallen-on-bad-times who gets blackmailed and is forced by a corrupt cop (Gene Hackman) into selling marijuana.
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 Cleopatra Jones 1973  G, 89 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Jack Starrett
Cast: Tamara Dobson, Shelley Winters, Brenda Sykes, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Bill McKinney, Dan Frazer, Esther Rolle, Stafford Morgan, Albert Popwell, Angela Gibbs, John Alderman
This could be a nice twist with a sexy female agent–but! Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) is sent in to fight world drug trade. The nemesis is played by Shelley Winters...a stretch! Lots of violence.
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Conrack 1974  PG, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Hume Cronyn, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas, Ruth Attaway, James O'Rear, MacArthur Nelson, William Hunter III, Kathy Turner, LaCrisia Hardee
Based on Pat Conroy's book "The River is Wide," this story involves young Pat Conroy's (Jon Voight) experiences when he goes to an isolated island off the South Carolina Coast where he is assigned a teaching job in 1967. Conroy soon discovers that most of his Black students are either illiterate or retarded, but, unlike his fellow teachers, he steps up to the plate and teaches his students useful lessons that will help them in life.
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Cornbread, Earl and Me 1975 PG, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Manduke
Cast: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Jamaal Wilkes, Antonio Fargas, Laurence Fishburne, Charles Lampkin, Thalmus Rasulala, Bill Henderson, Sandy Ward, Stefan Gierasch, Vince Martorano, Logan Ramsey, Stack Pierce
Black basketball star Nathaniel "Cornbread" Hamilton (Jamaal Wilkes) is on his way out of the ghetto as the recipient of a basketball scholarship. His dream is shattered when he is accidentally killed by the police after being mistaken for an armed rapist. The police cover-up and ensuing courtroom drama is insightfully depicted.
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Crimewave 1985  PG-13, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
The XYZ Murders
Director: Sam Raimi
Cast: Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Sheree J. Wilson, Edward R. Pressman, Bruce Campbell, Antonio Fargas, Frances McDormand, Julius Harris, Richard Bright, Reed Birney, John Hardy
You have to watch closely to have any chance of understanding this one, which involves flashbacks by a Nerd framed for a murder while he sits in the electric chair.
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 Foxy Brown 1974 R, 91 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Comedy
Director: Jack Hill
Cast: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Terry Carter, Kathryn Loder, Harry Holcombe, Sid Haig, Juanita Brown, Sally Ann Stroud, Bob Minor, Tony Giorgio, Fred Lerner, Boyd "Red" Morgan, Judith Cassmore, H.B. Haggerty
After Foxy Brown's (Pam Grier) boyfriend Michael (Terry Carter) is slain, she vows revenge. Foxy goes undercover as a hooker working for Katherine Wall (Kathryn Loder) who heads up a drug cartel. Her efforts to try to infiltrate the mob and find the murderer of Michael leads to an overabundance of violence.
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Howling VI: The Freaks 1991  R, 102 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Hope Perello
Cast: Brendan Hughes, Michele Matheson, Sean Gregory Sullivan, Antonio Fargas, Carol Lynley, Jered Barclay, Bruce Payne, Carlos Cervantes
The low budget shows through, but this is one of the more unusual and entertaining entries of the series. When a drifter werewolf (Brendan Hughes) heads into a desert town ahead of a circus filled with monsters/freaks, he sets out to subdue the dastardly vampire.
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Huckleberry Finn 1975 TV, 78 min.
Genre: Family
Director: Robert Totten
Cast: Ron Howard, Antonio Fargas, Jack Elam, Merle Haggard, Donny Most, Royal Dano, Dee Carroll, Rance Howard, Clint Howard, Jean Howard
This is a pretty good version of the Mark Twain classic tale. The Howard family plays many of the parts as Ron is Huck in this TV production. Fargas is the runaway slave Jim, as Huck and Jim raft down the Mississippi River. Most of the social bite of Twain's story is missing.
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka 1988  R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Cast: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Jim Brown, Isaac Hayes, Antonio Fargas, Steve(2) James, John Vernon, Clu Gulager, Clarence Williams III, Damon Wayans
In typical Keenen Ivory Wayans style, satire reigns in this very funny movie about the 1970s treatment of blacks in film.
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village 1976 R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Mazursky
Cast: Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Lou Jacobi, Jeff Goldblum, Antonio Fargas, Don Brenner, Mike Kellin
Written and directed by Paul Mazursky, this is a semi-autobiography about life among actors living in Greenwich Village in the 1950s.
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Putney Swope 1969 R, 84 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Downey Sr.
Cast: Arnold Johnson, Laura Greene, Allen Garfield, Antonio Fargas, Mel Brooks, Pepi Hermine, Stan Gottlieb, Allan Arbus
By a fluke, Black advertising man Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is elected head of his agency, and he immediately makes changes that rock the "soul" of the industry.
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 Shaft 1971 R, 100 min.
Genre: Action / Drama / Thriller
Director: Gordon Parks
Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi, Christopher St. John, Gwenn Mitchell, Lawrence Pressman, Antonio Fargas, Arnold Johnson, Shimen Ruskin, Joseph Leon, Victor Arnold, Sherri Brewer, Rex Robbins, Camille Yarbrough, Margaret Warncke
After the teenage daughter of Black, Harlem gangster Bumpy Jonas (Moses Gunn) is kidnapped by the White Mafia, private investigator John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) sets out to track her down. There has been no demand for ransom, and Shaft has no clues as to who actually did the kidnapping when he enters his action-packed investigation through New York City. Isaac Hayes' theme song for this film won the Academy Award for Best Song.
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Shakedown 1988 R, 96 min.
Genre: Action
Director: James Glickenhaus
Cast: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Antonio Fargas, Blanche Baker, Tom Waits, John C. McGinley, Paul Bartel, George Loros, Shirley Stoler
A public defender (Peter Weller) and a cop (Sam Elliott) are both convinced that a drug dealer, who is accused of murdering a policeman, is innocent of the charge. They team up to uncover the truth, and the truth is corruption. Top-of-the-line stunts.
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Streetwalkin' 1984  R, 85 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Freeman
Cast: Melissa Leo, Dale Midkiff, Antonio Fargas, Julie Newmar, Annie Golden, Leon, Randall Batinkoff, Deborah Offner, Khandi Alexander, Julie Cohen
Cookie (Melissa Leo) escapes from an unhappy home and ends up as a prostitute in NYC working for the evil Duke (Dale Midkiff). Good grief.
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The Suburbans 1999  R, 81 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Director: Donal Lardner Ward
Cast: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Ben Stiller, Craig Bierko, Tony Guma, Donal Lardner Ward, Amy Brenneman, Will Ferrell, Bridgette Wilson, Jerry Stiller, Robert Loggia, Dick Clark, Amy Brenneman, Brian Chlebowski, Perrey Reeves, Antonio Fargas
Members of a 1980s' band, The Suburbans (Donal Lardner Ward, Tony Guma, Craig Bierko, and Will Ferrell), reunite at a wedding. They are spotted by talent scout Cate (Jennifer Love Hewitt) who was a fan of theirs as a kid. Cate wants the members to make a comeback and tries to convince them to sign a contract with her record producing bosses Jay (Ben Stiller) and Speedo (Jerry Stiller).
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Unconditional Love 1999  R, 105 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Steven Rush
Cast: John Kennedy Horne, Tracey Ross, Henry Silva, Miles O'Keeffe, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Leo Rossi, Antonio Fargas, Adrian Zmed, Robert Culp, Robert Miano
Reporter Joe Kirkman (John Kennedy Horne) is a crusader against slum conditions. When his good friend and mentor (Sheryl Lee Ralph) is murdered, Joe–with many roadblocks in the way–investigates while the bad guys are out to kill him. Poor in many respects.
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| 1. Across 110th Street (1972)
2. Car Wash (1976)
3. Cisco Pike (1972)
4. Cleopatra Jones (1973)
5. Conrack (1974)
6. Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)
7. Crimewave (1985)
aka: Broken Hearts and Noses
aka: The XYZ Murders
8. Escape (1980)
9. Foxy Brown (1974)
10. Howling VI: The Freaks (1991)
11. Huckleberry Finn (1975)
12. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
13. Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976)
14. Pretty Baby (1978)
15. Putney Swope (1969)
16. Shaft (1971)
17. Shakedown (1988)
18. Streetwalkin' (1984)
19. The Suburbans (1999)
20. Unconditional Love (1999)
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