For Love Of Ivy (1968)

Starring:

• Sidney Poitier
• Abbey Lincoln
• Beau Bridges
• Nan Martin
• Lauri Peters
• Carroll O'Connor
• Leon Bibb
• Hugh Hurd
• Lon Satton

Storyline
He's a player. She's being played. Is true love in the cards? When high-rolling hustler Jack Parks (Poiter) is blackmailed into seducing a client's naive young housekeeper, love is the last thing on his mind. But Jack has never met anyone live Ivy Moore (Lincoln)...and now he's really beginning to care for her just as she discovers the truth.

Fight For Your Life (1977)

Starring:

• Robert Judd
• Catherine Peppers
• Lela Small
• Yvonne Ross
• Reggie Rock Bythewood

IMDB.com
This is a pretty nasty piece of work that is nevertheless well made and effective. Race, rape and revenge but much more too when a modest God fearing black family are set upon by three escaped convicts who don't seem to like each other much more than do their captives. Much racist abuse and humiliation, though this all gets reversed as the family regain the upper hand and the 'by the book' cop makes an exception and allows the revenge to run it's course. Vile, exciting, hateful and touching by turns this is a very unusual, though non the more likable piece of exploitation cinema. Absolutely no way this film would be even considered today let alone be made and yet, in its own way it draws attention to that unspeakable prejudice within us all.