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Coffy
Released: June 13, 1973
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Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Starring: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Sid Haig, Robert DoQui
Coffy is a nurse whose younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin. Coffy sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Foxy Brown
Released: April 5, 1974
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Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Starring: Pam Grier, Antonio Fargas, Peter Brown, Sid Haig
A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.
