Mario Van Peebles Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday-themed wedding in a desperate last attempt to win her back.

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

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