Directed by Larry Cohen • 1972 • United States
Starring Yaphet Kotto, Andrew Duggan, Jeannie Berlin
Welcome to Beverly Hills, where upper-class white married couples like Bill and Bernadette (Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten) enjoy their happy life of wealth and privilege. But when an unstable Black criminal (Yaphet Kotto) invades their home, each will be forced to explore their own nightmares of lies and desire, as every perverse secret is exposed and nothing, they find, is ever really black and white. This is the daring, disturbing, and still controversial directorial debut of underground auteur Larry Cohen, one of the most audacious talents in modern American cinema.
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan • 1974 • United States
Starring Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks
In this high-octane thriller, Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes, who also composed the soundtrack) is a bounty hunter who’s tracking a sadistic pimp on the mean streets of Los Angeles. Armed with his brute ...
Directed by Arthur Marks • 1975 • United States
Starring Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge
The legendary Pam Grier stars as photojournalist Friday Foster in this adaptation of the 1970s comic strip of the same name. After being warned by her boss that her personal involvement in the sto...
Directed by Paul Schrader • 1978 • United States
Starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
Paul Schrader’s hard-nosed directorial debut features searing performances by comic great Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto. Fed up with the indignities of factory work, three disgru...
