Mario Van Peebles Movies

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...

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

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers...

In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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