Mario Van Peebles
Date of Birth: 15 Jan 1957
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 59 (Actor), 17 (Director), 6 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Titles you haven't rated - Actor (59) | Director (17) | Writer (6) | Creator (1)
- Welcome to the Newpocalypse (2018) - S5 E1
- A New Life (2018) - S5 E2
- The End of Everything (2018) - S5 E13
- Six Months Later (2021) - S4 E6
- Stay (2021) - S4 E7
- Little White Lies (2022) - S4 E12
- Fresh Start (2022) - S4 E13
- School Ties (2022) - S4 E14
- Fingers Crossed (2022) - S4 E15
Will Smith and director/writer Michael Mann take you into the heart and life of the boxer, the legend and, more importantly, the man. (Columbia Pictures)
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Mario Van Peebles directs an honest and revealing portrait of his pioneering father Melvin. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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By creating The Hebrew Hammer, writer/director Kesselman has brought to life a character rarely seen in Hollywood or off-Hollywood films: a sexy and powerful Jewish action hero. (ContentFilm)
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) - Direct-to-Video
From the producer of "Scarface" and "Carlito's Way" comes the gritty, urban-action film Carlito's Way: Rise to Power, the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal New York underworld, he enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin... (Universal)
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A chronological collage of Melvin Van Peebles, a beyond-Renaissance man. (Film Forum)
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A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude. (imdb)
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After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels. (imdb)
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A crime lord ascends to power and becomes megamanical while a maverick police detective vows to stop him. (imdb)
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Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod awakens from a peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician comes seeking the Highlander. (imdb)
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Hard Luck (2006) - Direct-to-Video
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer (Snipes) tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife (Shepherd) hides a sadistic and vicious streak. (imdb)
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Mario Van Peebles stars as an android killing weapon designed by the military and utilized to enter into a Latin American war to destroy the rebels - natives fighting simply to maintain their freedom. Contrary to his programming, he develops an affinity for the villagers and decides to help them fight back. This lets his creators bring him back and ultimately leads to one of them being given more powerful circuitry to defeat him. (imdb)
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400 million dollars are hidden in a boat in some harbor in South America, hidden by Dani Servigo's brother. When his brother gets killed, Dani is a wanted man - by undercover DEA agent Cole Parker and also by Armor O'Malley, who is working for drug boss Loomis. Together, Servigo and Parker search for the boat. (imdb)
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Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group who want to make him an assassin, however, Whitman escapes and decides to get back at the people who tried to stop his mission, the jury, the judge, the district attorney, who's Morrell's ex-wife. Morrell recognizes the killings as Whitman's style but how could it be when he's dead. (imdb)
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The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang. (imdb)
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On the night of a big fashion show, world-famous French designer Yves Malmaison is poisoned. The same night, the very same people are trying to kill Chilly D, a member of the popular rap group The Funky Four. As Fancy dies on the street, a midget witch (whom he did a favor to by handing her a beer earlier in the night) tries to do something to save him... (imdb)
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Sharpshooter (2007) - TV Movie
A trained military assassin wanting out from his lifestyle and always looking over his shoulder because he has numerous enemies. He's an excellent marksman that never misses and he takes on one more job.
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Full Eclipse (1993) - TV Movie
A group of cops who are able to transform into werewolves using a special drug, battle crime on the streets of LA.
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Crazy Six (1998) - Direct-to-Video
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade. (imdb)
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44 Minutes (2003) - TV Movie
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes. (imdb)
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With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. (imdb)
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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 for the men who lynched his father. (imdb)
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Children of the Night (1985) - TV Movie
Fact-based drama about a sociology graduate (Kathleen Quinlan) who starts working with teen prostitutes in Hollywood. The film does not draw back on its depiction of the brutality that the teens face nor of the exploitation that occurs from the pimps and johns ho use them. Pat Benatar's song "Hell Is For Children" is used to set the film's theme. (imdb)
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Gabriel Richmond is a talented architect with a seemingly rich life as he has a caring wife, loving daughter and life long friends. Yet, he spends most days in the movie theater, hiding out from work, escaping into a fictional world where he can more readily relate to the made up characters. When fiction shines a mirror on his own life, an inspired Gabriel begins writing a play not-so-loosely based on his reality, examining all of the relationships that make his life what it is.
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A gang of boys under the Brooklyn Bridge are united by their common interest in break dancing. Some work as pizza delivery boys, hence they call themselves the "Delivery Boys". (imdb)
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Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here "the cobras" rule the school and everyone in it. Everyone except for Jeff Hanna. Once the most feared member of the Cobras, Hanna got sick of fighting and got out of the gang for good. But now The Cobras have brutalized his newfound girlfriend and threatened to kill him for his disloyalty. (imdb)
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Mama Flora's Family (1998) - TV Movie
Flora became involved with Lincoln. She began to feel used by him, after experiencing him shun and shame her in front of his rich contemporaries. She finally refused to sleep with him anymore, which prompted her sudden eviction from the house. When it was found that she was pregnant with Lincoln's child, his rich family paid her to leave Mississippi to avoid scandal, and never come back. Flora took this offer, and planned to go to Memphis, Tennessee. (Wikipedia)
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An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest. (imdb)
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Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, they are left to face the consequences of their action. (imdb)
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010) - Direct-to-Video
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money. (imdb)
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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. (imdb)
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A drama centered around a promising football running back during his senior year in college. (imdb)
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Gang in Blue (1996) - TV Movie
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
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In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
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American Warships (2012) - Direct-to-Video
The USS Iowa stands strong against an alien invasion. (lostinlodos)
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George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun. (imdb)
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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 one-hit wonder director who's also looking for a chance to make a comeback. (imdb)
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Crosscurrent (1971) - TV Movie
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 shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain. (imdb)
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Crown Heights (2004) - TV Movie
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 hip-hop group to heal their neighboorhood.
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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) - TV Movie
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
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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 their child pornographer foster parents. (imdb)
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The Facts of Life Down Under (1987) - TV Movie
Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine. (imdb)
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Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
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Drumline: A New Beat (2014) - TV Movie
Danielle (Dani) Bolton, an upper class Brooklyn girl, defies her parents in order to attend a college in Georgia so she can join - and revitalize - their once-prominent drumline. (imdb)
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A young woman and her friends, who've been targeted by kidnappers, must do everything they can to survive after their limo is forced off the road and plunged into a canal. (imdb)
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A former U.S. Marshal discovers that all of the survivors of his old unit are experiencing the same symptoms simultaneously and that there may be a larger conspiracy at hand.
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Superstition (2017) - TV Series
The supernatural drama centers around the Hastings family, owners of the only funeral home in the mysterious town of La Rochelle, Georgia. The family also acts as the keepers of the town's dark secrets and history. (imdb)
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) - TV Movie
Union activist Asa Philip Randolph's efforts to organize the black porters of the Pullman Rail Company in 1920s America (IMDb).
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In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert. (imdb)
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The Child Saver (1988) - TV Movie
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
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A former special forces agent's son is kidnapped and must now wipe out three dangerous crime syndicates, if he wants to see his son alive again. (imdb)
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Salt-N-Pepa (2021) - TV Movie
Salt-N-Pepa will tell the story of nursing students Cheryl "Salt" James and Sandra "Pepa" Denton, who fell into the world of rap and hip hop, after recording for a friend's school project. (imdb)
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Z Nation (2014) - TV Series
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A cop lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder. (imdb)
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A Million Little Things (2018) - TV Series
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Rude Awakening (1998) - TV Series
Billie Frank is a former teen soap star trying to sober up. With the help of her friends and the support of Alcoholics Anonymous, Billie tries to manage her temper and her addictions. (Google)
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