Mario Van Peebles - Movie Mafia

Movies

Jaws: The Revenge

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Isl...

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Heartbreak Ridge

A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he t...

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New Jack City

A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. ...

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Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "th...

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Identity Crisis

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

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Gunmen

A New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America....

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Sharpshooter

An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that ...

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Highlander III: The Sorcerer

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Jap...

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Love Kills

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

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Ali

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...

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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Seduced by the brutal New York underworld, future gangster legend Carlito Brigante enters a deadly c...

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Jim Brown: All-American

Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at t...

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3:15 the Moment of Truth

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And ...

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Hard Luck

Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A...

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Baadasssss!

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971...

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Solo

An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American...

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Posse

A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They ...

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Stag

An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host...

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All Things Fall Apart

50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside ...

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Multiple Sarcasms

Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beaut...

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Big Guns Talk: The Story of the Western

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

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The Hebrew Hammer

When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copi...

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Exterminator 2

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

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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright

The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed ex...

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Hotshot

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

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Valentine's Day

Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assi...

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The Street Lawyer

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

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Herschel

Profiling former Georgia running back Herschel Walker. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner overcame teena...

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Sweet Black Film: The Birth of the Black Hero in Hollywood

In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down wi...

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Full Eclipse

The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. ...

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Judgment Day

This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge p...

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American Warships

When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship...

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Outlaw Posse

1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hi...

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Gang in Blue

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

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South Bronx Heroes

A young man just released from prison and living with his sister crosses paths with two children, al...

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Sharksploitation

The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservatio...

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In the Line of Duty: Street War

In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New...

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Blowback

After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by th...

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Crazy Six

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

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We the Party

In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, soci...

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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sall...

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A Triumph of the Heart: The Ricky Bell Story

Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease...

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Tied to a Chair

After one burned dinner too many, a husband divorces his wife. She decides to return to acting and g...

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Los Locos

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

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Killers in the House

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

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The Making of Jaws The Revenge

A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew....

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Red Sky

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must...

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Last Resort

George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On ...

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Christmas Rescue

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

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Submerged

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

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Children of the Night

A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street p...

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Riot

In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a batt...

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Guardian

With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates i...

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Gang of Roses

In 1828 the town of Flat Ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be...

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Confessions of a Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha

A semi-autobiographical story about an adventurer whose journeys take him from Harlem to the high se...

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Panther

In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as ...

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The Facts of Life Down Under

Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned...

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Is That Black Enough for You?!?

A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making ...

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Immortal

Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, characters are left staring at their lives in...

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Rappin'

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

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Mantervention

Spencer turns to his best friend who's planned an unorthodox "mantervention" filled with debauchery ...

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Drumline: A New Beat

A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band....

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Raw Nerve

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

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Delivery Boys

The Delivery Boys, a New York squad of breakdancing young men who work for a local pizza place, ente...

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5th & Alameda

Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Der...

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Armed

A former U.S. marshal discovers that all of the survivors of his old unit are experiencing the same ...

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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)

Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his ...

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Seized

Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces ca...

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Run the Race

Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glor...

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The Cotton Club

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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10,000 Black Men Named George

In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open ques...

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A Letter to Dad

Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is ...

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Crown Heights

After the Crown Heights riots, an orthodox Rabbi and a community activist help two youths--one a Has...

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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: ...

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A Clear Shot

An electronics store erupts into chaos as four young Vietnamese gunmen storm the premises, setting t...

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Stompin' at the Savoy

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to s...

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The Child Saver

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

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Blue Bayou

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

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Crosscurrent

Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars...

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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for...

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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VH...

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The Price for Freedom

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

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The Real Malcolm X

CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, sug...

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Breakdown: 1975

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art....

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