Coffy

"After watching something shitty, the only way to fix that problem is COFFY." Ian West on Letterboxd

The film that made Pam Grier a star and added a cult film to blaxploitation cinema. With a timeless soundtrack by funk maestro Roy Ayers and plenty of cool one-liners, COFFY paints a pessimistic picture of the American metropolis of the 1970s.

"This is the end of your life, you motherfuckin' dope pusher!" When Coffy isn't shooting drug dealers in the face, she works as an overtired nurse in a hospital. She hates nothing more than drug-related crime, of which her underage sister was a victim. And because she knows that the police and politicians are too involved to do anything serious about it, she has to take matters into her own hands. It's just a shame that she spends her free time with a policeman and a politician of all people...