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. The films are characterized by their blaxploitation characteristics.
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.