Penitentiary (1979)

Starring:

• Leon Isaac Kennedy
• Thomas M. Pollard 
• Donovan Womack 
• Floyd 'Wildcat' Chatman 
• Badja Djola 
• Ian Foxx 
• Gloria Delaney 
• Hazel Spears 
• Wilbur 'Hi-Fi' White

Storyline
Hitchhiker Martel "Too Sweet" Gordone (Leon Isaac Kennedy) gets a lift from prostitute Linda (Hazel Spears) in her van and travels with her to meet her clients. After a fight breaks out with the men, Gordone is knocked unconscious and awakens to find he has been wrongly charged with murder. As a way to protect himself in prison, Gordone starts fighting other inmates. This leads him to discover an underground boxing tournament, with the top prize being a prison release.

The Glove (1979)

Starring:

• John Saxon
• Roosevelt Grier
• Joanna Cassidy

Storyline
Sam Kellog (John Saxon) is a modern-day bounty hunter in Los Angeles who decides to track down Victor Hale (Rosey Grier), a vicious, heavy-set ex-convict with a $20,000 bounty on his head, who is killing former prison guards with a leather-laced steel glove in revenge for them beating him with the same instrument while he was imprisoned.

Hollow Image (1979, TV Movie)

Starring:

• Robert Hooks 
• S. Pearl Sharp
• Dick Anthony Williams
• Hattie Winston 
• Morgan Freeman 
• Anna Maria Horsford 

Storyline
A black New York career girl, who has made it big in the fashion world, is torn between her new life "downtown" and her roots in Harlem with an old boyfriend still living there.