The Black Connection (1974)

Starring:

• The Checkmates Ltd.
• Bobby Stevens
• Sonny Charles
• Sweet Louie
• Martha Washington
• Tommy Moe Raft
• Sergio Escobar

Storyline
Las Vegas drug dealer is in deep with the Italian mob over a large amount of missing cocaine. He must get creative to get out from under the mob before they take the ultimate course of action.

A Soldier's Story (1984)

Starring:

• Howard E. Rollins, Jr.
• Adolph Caesar
• Art Evans
• Denzel Washington
• David Alan Grier 
• Larry Riley
• David Harris 
• Robert Townsend 
• Patti LaBelle
• William Allen Young 
• Dennis Lipscomb

Storyline
A black Army investigator (Howard E. Rollins Jr.) travels to a remote military base in the heart of the Louisiana backwoods to look into the mysterious murder of a black sergeant toward the tail end of World War II. Once he arrives, the investigator discovers an Army regiment and an entire community that, despite the beginnings of integration, is still torn apart by race and segregation. He soon learns that on this base, trust is sparse, and secrets are a currency all their own.