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Director
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2012
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Director
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2012
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A talented college running back fights to regain his health after being stricken with cancer, and grapples with the...
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Director
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2012
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Stricken with stage fright and saddled with debt, talented blues guitarist Bailey (Morgan Simpson) learns that he has just...
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Director
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2011
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The frustrated wife of a high-ranking British official abandons her marriage to salvage her stalled-out acting career, and...
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Billy Rust
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2011
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This documentary profiles former Georgia running back Herschel Walker. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner overcame teenage bouts...
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Narrator
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2011
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A frustrated architect tries his hand at being a playwright when his life hits a disheartening plateau. New York City, 1979:...
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Rocky
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2010
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The stunning story of the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history comes to the big screen in this high-stakes crime drama...
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2010
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2009
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James Remar and Melvin Van Peebles headline this relentlessly tense tale of a special ops sniper who reluctantly accepts one...
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2007
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Melvin Van Peebles created a new style of African-American filmmaking in 1971, when on a shoestring budget he made...
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2006
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An infamous ex-con on the road to redemption finds his quest unexpectedly complicated by the police, the mafia, and two of...
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Director, Producer
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2006
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Earl
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2005
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Melvin Van Peebles
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2004
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Director
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2004
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Racial tensions between Hasidic Jews and African-Americans come to a boil in the Crown Heights section of Queens in this...
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Paul Richards
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2004
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He's hip, he's fly, and he never mixes meat with dairy -- he's the world's first Jewish private eye, and he's out to save the...
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Mohammed
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2003
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On February 28, 1997, a pair of heavily armed and heavily armored outlaws named Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil...
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Henry
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2003
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Michael Mann of Miami Vice fame was the principle guiding force behind the CBS cop drama Robbery Homicide Division. In a...
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2002
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In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and...
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2002
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Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from...
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Malcolm X
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2001
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When the movie opens, John Kross (Mario Van Peebles) is a U.S. soldier on a covert mission deep inside Iraq on the eve of the...
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2001
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This miniseries details the complex real-life relationship between Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill), author of the Declaration of...
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James Hemings
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2000
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1999
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Detective Blair Valdez (Mario Van Peebles), a corrupt loose cannon on the police force, endangers his girlfriend Izabel...
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1999
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This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar...
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1999
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In this medium-length (53 minutes) French-U.S. documentary made for European television, black filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles...
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Narrator
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1998
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A police detective gets in over his head after he falls in love with the moll of a recently murdered gangster. ~ Sandra...
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1998
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New Age masseur Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has an appointment at the posh estate of widow Evelyn Heiss...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Poe Finklestein
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1998
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Director Peter Werner teams with screenwriters David Stevens and Carol Schreder to adapt author Alex Haley's sprawling novel...
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1998
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In this espionage thriller, an endangered European crime lord's failed attempt at gaining power leaves him vulnerable to...
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1998
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In this taut drama, a father fights to save his family from the desperate bank robbers who have taken over his newly...
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1998
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A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles...
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Michael
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1997
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This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles...
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Turner
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1997
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Mario Van Peebles wrote, produced, and starred in this follow-up to his 1993 Western Posse. Chance (Van Peebles) is a cavalry...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Chance
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1997
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In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of...
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Director
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1996
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The American military-industrial complex has a blueprint for the perfect mechanical soldier. Unfortunately, the prototype,...
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Solo
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1996
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Kane
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1995
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This controversial political drama semi-fictionalizes the history of the radical Black Panther Party, an African-American...
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Director, Producer
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1995
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This film opens with a big fat close-up of a sweaty prisoner with a fly (on a string) crawling on his face. The prisoner...
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Cole Parker
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1994
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A painful childhood still haunts Dan Donahue (Thom Mathews), the man at the heart of this moving drama inspired by real...
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1994
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This interesting action-horror film stars Mario Van Peebles as a tough cop who becomes the latest recruit in a secret faction...
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Max Dire
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1993
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Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the...
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Director, Jessie Lee
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1993
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After his partner is killed, a police officer's vow of vengeance threatens to expose a cocaine dynasty. ~ Rovi...
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Raymond Williamson
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1992
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Originally aired on CBS in 1992, Stompin' at the Savoy was produced and directed by Broadway choreographer and actress...
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1992
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The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this...
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Director
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1991
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Mario Van Peebles stars as football play Ricky Bell in this made-for-TV biopic. The film touches upon Bell's gridiron...
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Ricky Bell
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1991
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Alfre Woodard plays a Los Angeles DA who moves back to her home town of New Orleans. She does this so that her teenaged son...
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Jay Filley
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1990
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This hip-hop comedy stars Mario Van Peebles as rapper Chilly D, who becomes possessed by the spirit of outrageous fashion...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Chilly D
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1990
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In this thriller, a successful executive risks it all to help a street orphan get disentangled from the world of drugs. ~...
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1988
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Jake
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1987
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The made-for-TV Facts of Life Down Under was at once a spin-off of the TV sitcom The Facts of Life and a sequel to the 1982...
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1987
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Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the...
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1986
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George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island...
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1986
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Street gang member Jeff (Adam Baldwin) leaves the organization, seeking out a quieter existence. Meanwhile, gang leader Cinco...
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1986
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This drama chronicles the good deeds of a sociology student who, after doing research into women's crime, begins taking...
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1985
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Yvonne Erwin guests as Clair's sister Sarah, who shows up at the Huxtables to announce her engagement. Helpfully, Clair...
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1985
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In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl...
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1985
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Filmed independently in 1983, Runaways was released in 1985 under two alternate titles, South Bronx Heroes and Revenge of the...
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Tony
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1985
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"X"
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1984
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In one of the last breakdancing movies of the mid-'80s, two competing breakdancing teams have their eye on a $10,000 prize in...
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1984
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Combining electric song and dance performances with drama (both on and off screen), Francis Ford Coppola's The Cotton Club...
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1984
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Also known as Cross Current, The Cable Car Murder emulates the 1971 theatrical feature Tick, Tick, Tick by teaming a black...
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1971
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