Jamaa Fanaka Movies

  • 1976
    Emma Mae

    Emma Mae

    Emma Mae

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    A naive young woman moves from the South to stay with her aunt and uncle in Compton. As an outsider, she struggles at first to find her footing, but...

    Emma Mae
  • 1979
    Penitentiary

    Penitentiary

    Penitentiary

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    A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to...

    Penitentiary
  • 1982
    Penitentiary II

    Penitentiary II

    Penitentiary II

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    An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his...

    Penitentiary II
  • 1975
    Welcome Home Brother Charles

    Welcome Home Brother Charles

    Welcome Home Brother Charles

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    After wrongly doing time in prison for murder, a man seeks revenge on a racist law enforcement system and the detective who framed him.

    Welcome Home Brother Charles
  • 1987
    Penitentiary III

    Penitentiary III

    Penitentiary III

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    A man is framed for murder and sent to prison. He is beaten and tortured, then forced to fight the prison's worst killer, a martial-arts fighting...

    Penitentiary III
  • 1991
    Street Wars

    Street Wars

    Street Wars

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    A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.

    Street Wars
  • 1972
    A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

    A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

    A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan

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    Jamaa Fanaka’s first project plays off the Blaxploitation’s genre conventions, an adaption of Goethe’s “Faust”...

    A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan
  • 2004
    Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

    Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

    Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

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    Written, directed, and produced by David Walker, MACKED, HAMMERED, SLAUGHTERED, & SHAFTED is an insightful examination of the blaxploitation film...

    Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted