Mario Van Peebles — Actor (27)
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Blowback (2000) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Blowback
director: Mark L. Lester actor: Mario Van Peebles / William James Remar …
other title: Whitmans Rückkehr
After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a professional assassin. He now seeks revenge on all those who participated in sentencing him to death.
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Full Eclipse (1993) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Full Eclipse
director: Anthony Hickox actor: Mario Van Peebles / Patsy Kensit …
other title: Eclisse letale / Eclipse total
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 crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a werewolf.
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Hard Luck (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Hard Luck
director: Mario Van Peebles actor: Wesley Snipes / Jackie Quinones …
other title: Hard Luck - Uno strano scherzo del destino / Má Sorte …
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
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Baadasssss! (2004) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Baadasssss!
director: Mario Van Peebles actor: Mario Van Peebles / Joy Bryant …
other title: O Retorno de Sweetback / La venganza de Sweetback …
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
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In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
In the Line of Duty: Street War
director: Dick Lowry actor: Ray Sharkey / Peter Boyle …
other title: Bandenkrieg
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 dead cop's partner, who is also the brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
10,000 Black Men Named George
director: Robert Townsend actor: Andre Braugher / Charles S. Dutton …
other title: Man nannte sie George
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 their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.
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Last Resort (1986) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Last Resort
director: Zane Buzby actor: Charles Grodin / Robin Pearson Rose …
other title: Club Sandwich / Locas vacaciones en el Caribe
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.
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Posse (1993) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Posse
director: Mario Van Peebles actor: Mario Van Peebles / Stephen Baldwin …
other title: Posse - La leggenda di Jessie Lee / Posse: A Vingança de Jessie Lee …
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.
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The Hebrew Hammer (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Hebrew Hammer
director: Jonathan Kesselman actor: Adam Goldberg / Judy Greer …
When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," it's up to the Hebrew Hammer to save the day. Together with Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, the Hammer takes no prisoners in his quest to hunt down the renegade Santa and make the holiday season safe for all.
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Multiple Sarcasms (2010) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Multiple Sarcasms
director: Brooks Branch actor: Timothy Hutton / Mira Sorvino …
other title: O Roteiro de Minha Vida
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ends in a divorce, the play is success and although his life is different than it was, he is happier.
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Heartbreak Ridge
director: Clint Eastwood actor: Clint Eastwood / Marsha Mason …
other title: Gunny / Elitesoldaten …
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.