Mario Van Peebles Movies

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter,...

A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.

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 documentary about the making of director Michael Mann's feature film "Ali".

Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.

A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers...

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on...

Three college buddies travel to Key Largo for what promises to be the best spring break ever... until they end up stranded on a deserted island being...

The Delivery Boys, a New York squad of breakdancing young men who work for a local pizza place, enter a breakdance contest in the hopes of winning a...

The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.

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...

Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, characters are left staring at their lives in the face with uncertainty and fear like they've...

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...

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

The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of...

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...

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

After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a...