Superfly (1972)

Superfly (1972) is a classic of the blaxploitation genre. It tells the story of a drug dealer who wants to make one last score and then escape the mean urban streets to retire in paradise. The narrative may not be that different from many other gangster flicks, but the funky fashions and out-of-sight soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield make this a stone-cold groove. Things do heat up, though, when our antihero says no to drugs just long enough to say yes to sex with ebony Sheila Frazier and ivory Polly Niles. He takes the former in the tub and the latter in the more traditional setting of a king-size bed. The world is black and white and our man is all over it.