Mario Van Peebles Movies

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story...

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a...

Salt-N-Pepa details the journey of Queensborough Community College students Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton as...

A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.

An attorney leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.

A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.

An electronics store erupts into chaos as four young Vietnamese gunmen storm the premises, setting the stage for the largest hostage situation in US...

In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, social media, fitting in, standing out, and finding...

Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by deep-rooted anger caused by the...

Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was...

A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a...

Bank robbers on the run from the police invade a mansion and take the owners hostage.

Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film...

After the Crown Heights riots, an orthodox Rabbi and a community activist help two youths--one a Hasidic Jew, the other African-American--form a...

Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.

Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery,...

After one burned dinner too many, a husband divorces his wife. She decides to return to acting and goes to France. There she meats a forgotten...

Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet...

A young man just released from prison and living with his sister crosses paths with two children, also brother and sister, who are on the run from...