Shaft in order

Legacy of the films and the television series of the same name dating from the 70s featuring a Harlem cop with unorthodox but effective methods. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics. 5 films, 8h 47m in all, in release order.

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   Shaft

   1971 · 100 min

   Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.

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   Shaft's Big Score!

   1972 · 105 min

   John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.

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   Shaft in Africa

   1973 · 112 min

   Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

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   Shaft

   2000 · 99 min

   New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

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   Shaft

   2019 · 111 min

   JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

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