Mario Van Peebles Movies

The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for...

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

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

In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, social media, fitting in, standing out, and finding...

Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...

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

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

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...

In this gritty cops-and-crooks drama, two detectives hunt a gang leader suspected of murdering a New York cop. The detectives enlist the help of the...

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

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

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

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...

Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to...

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

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

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...

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...

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