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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)

NC-17 ★ 5.1/10 98 min Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller United States English
Director: Melvin Van Peebles
Screenplay by: Melvin Van Peebles
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The Film that THE MAN doesn't want you to see!

Description

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.

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Top Cast

Simon Chuckster
Simon Chuckster Beetle
Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles Sweetback
Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles The Young Sweetback
John Dullaghan
John Dullaghan Commissioner
John Amos
John Amos Biker
Lavelle Roby
Lavelle Roby
Rhetta Hughes
Rhetta Hughes Old Girlfriend
Norman Fields
Norman Fields

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Appears on 9 Curated Movie Lists

Canon Institutions

1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2024)
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die #471
Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #1090
Essential Criterion Collection
Criterion Collection #82
National Film Registry
National Film Registry #714
The Film Foundation (by Martin Scorsese)
The Film Foundation #734

Critic Curated

Rolling Stone - The 100 Best Movies Of The 1970s
Rolling Stone #54
Slates The New Black Film Canon The 75 Greatest
Slate Magazine #07

Genre Curation

100 American Independent Films by BFI
British Film Institute #85
Top 100 Blaxploitation Movies as Rated by the Letterboxd Community
Letterboxd #60

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