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The Shaft trilogy is composed of action-crime films centered on an African-American police detective named John Shaft, who over the course of the films have altercations with a variety of crime.

Shaft is a 2000 American action crime thriller film co-written, co-produced, and directed by John Singleton and starring Samuel L. Jackson in the title role with Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, ...

Shaft is back to find the murderer of an old friend on the cold hard city streets with a little help from his new friends. Private investigator John Shaft is recruited to go undercover to break up a ...

the year before, followed by Sweet Sweetback’s Badaasssss Song. Then came Shaft. The MGM film starred Richard Roundtree as a new kind of hero, private detective John Shaft. It hit movie screens ...