Black Emmanuelle

Black Emanuelle
US film poster
Directed by	Albert Thomas
Produced by	Mario Mariani
Written by	Bitto Albertini Ambrogio Molteni
Starring	Emanuelle Karin Schubert Angelo Infanti Isabelle Marchall Gabriele Tinti
Music by	Nico Fidenco
Cinematography	Carlo Carlini
Edited by	Vincenzo Tomassi
Production company	San Nicola Produzione Cinematografica Flaminia Produzioni Cinematografiche Emaus Films
Distributed by	Fida Cinematografica (Italy) Stirling Gold (US) Columbia-Warner Distributors (UK)
Release date	27 November 1975
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Italy Spain
Language	Italian

Black Emanuelle (Italian: Emanuelle nera) is an Italian softcore sexploitation film from 1975 directed by Bitto Albertini. Black Emanuelle follows an erotic adventure of Mae Jordan (Laura Gemser), a globe-trotting, hedonistic investigative journalist and photographer known to her readers as "Emanuelle". This Africa set film was shot mostly in Kenya.

Black Emanuelle was made to cash in on the success of the French film Emmanuelle with Sylvia Kristel, which was released the year before, the one "M" in the name of the lead character was deliberately omitted to avoid copyright claims.

By 1976 came two Black Emanuelle follow-ups, one in title (Black Emanuelle 2 by Albertini) and one in plot (Emanuelle in Bangkok, a.k.a. Black Emanuelle 2, by Joe D'Amato), also triggering four quasi-sequels from 1977 to 1978 by D'Amato (under the title Emanuelle) and two Emanuelle women in prison films by Bruno Mattei in 1982 and 1983.

Black Emanuelle 2 differs greatly in plot than the first film, featuring Israeli actress Shulamith Lasri as Emanuelle Richmond, a supermodel going through a state of amnesia and locked in a mental institution in New York. The lead actor, as in the first film, is Angelo Infanti.

Albertini's later movie, Il Mondo dei sensi di Emy Wong (1977, starring Chai Lee) was released as Emanuelle Gialla and Yellow Emanuelle in some markets.