Mario Van Peebles Movies

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

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...

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...

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

A semi-autobiographical story about an adventurer whose journeys take him from Harlem to the high seas and back again

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

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

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...