Collection
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.
In release order
1972
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
1973
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
2000
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.
2019
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.
