Mario Van Peebles Movies

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

A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.

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...

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

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...

At 10:20 pm, on a foggy December 25th in 1951, a bomb exploded under their small shotgun-style home on the outskirts of Mims, Florida - directly...

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

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,...

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal...

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

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

A writer on a deadline to finish her first Hollywood thriller seeks solace in her home. Life imitates art as she becomes convinced her neighbor is...

In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his recently deceased...

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

Profiling former Georgia running back Herschel Walker. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner overcame teenage bouts with bullying for being overweight and...

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

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...

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...

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

An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.