Melvin Van Peebles Movies
- 2004
Baadasssss!
Baadasssss!6.5562004HD
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song."...
- 1970
Watermelon Man
Watermelon Man6.41970HD
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is...
- 1992
Boomerang
Boomerang5.71992HD
Marcus is a successful advertising executive who woos and beds women almost at will. After a company merger he finds that his new boss, the ravishing...
- 2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
BaadAsssss Cinema5.92002HD
With archive film clips and interviews, this brief look at a frequently overlooked historical period of filmmaking acts as an introduction rather...
- 1987
Jaws: The Revenge
Jaws: The Revenge4.0631987HD
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son,...
- 1993
Posse
Posse5.2861993HD
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches...
- 1995
Panther
Panther6.2571995HD
Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black...
- 2009
American Swing
American Swing5.12009HD
Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.
- 1969
Slogan
Slogan5.61969HD
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually...
- 2006
Hard Luck
Hard Luck5.5512006HD
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but...
- 1993
Last Action Hero
Last Action Hero6.4541993HD
Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack...
- 1970
SMUT
SMUT01970HD
Wide eyed Marty O Neil (Lee Homes) takes to the road on a quest to give his life meaning. When his motorcycle breaks down outside an adult bookstore...
- 1993
Farewell, Babylon!
Farewell, Babylon!01993HD
Arrabal's sixth film based on his novel from 1969 with the same name as the movie.
- 1977
Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning6.41977HD
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
- 2013
Peeples
Peeples5.52013HD
The story follows what happens when a child psychologist surprises his girlfriend by showing up at her political family's annual get-together at...
- 1968
The Story of a Three-Day Pass
The Story of a Three-Day Pass6.21968HD
Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a...
- 1973
Wattstax
Wattstax6.81973HD
A documentary film about the Afro-American Woodstock concert held in Los Angeles seven years after the Watts riots. Director Mel Stuart mixes footage...
- 1995
Fist of the North Star
Fist of the North Star4.31995HD
From the immensely popular FIST OF THE NORTH STAR comic book series, comes a new hero. The fate of mankind rests with superhuman warrior Kenshiro who...
- 2007
Blackout
Blackout6.12007HD
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of...
- 1997
Riot
Riot5.51997HD
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal...