Mario Van Peebles Movies

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

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...

In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.

In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs,...

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

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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...