Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

Starring

• Diana Ross
• Billy Dee Williams
• Richard Pryor
• Virginia Capers
• James T. Callahan
• Paul Hampton
• Sid Melton

Storyline
Pop star Diana Ross portrays legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday in this biographical drama. Beginning with Holiday's traumatic youth, the film depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay (Billy Dee Williams), her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.

The Black Six (1973)

Starring

• Gene Washington
• Carl Eller 
• Lem Barney 
• Mercury Morris 
• Willie Lanier 
• Joe Greene 
• Rosalind Miles 

Storyline
A black high school student is caught dating a white girl by the girl's brother. He and his biker gang beat the boy to death. The boy's brother, who is a member of a black biker gang, hears about it and comes to town to avenge his brother's death.

J.D.'s Revenge (1976)

Starring:

• Glynn Turman
• Louis Gossett Jr.
• Joan Pringle
• David McKnight 
• Alice Jubert 
• Jo Anne Meredith 
• Fred Pinkard 
• Julian Christopher 
• Carl W. Crudup

Storyline
He came back from the dead to possess a man's soul and get the vengeance he craved! A young law student (Glynn Turman) goes to a nightclub show where is is hypnotized. While under hypnosis he experiences a weird nightmare in which he has the feeling of being someone else.

During the days and weeks that follow, his physical appearance and voice chance dramatically and a weird new personality begins to possess him. In the slow motion movements of a nightmare, he finds his way to an abandoned meat-packing plant to find out why his mind and body have been taken over by a hoodlum who has been dead for thirty years.