Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.
A black actor tries to make his own movie with an all-black cast, but to make it he's forced to borrow money from the Mafia.
