Melvin Van Peebles
10 titles
Filmography
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Sunlight
(1957)
Taking Care of Terrific
(1988)Enid introduces the young boy she babysits to the eccentric residents of the local park, but a good deed gone awry lands them all in trouble.

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
(1971)A landmark of Black and American independent cinema that would send shock waves through the culture, Melvin Van Peebles’s revolutionary second feature film—made on Van Peebles’s own terms with the filmmaker acting as producer, director, writer, composer, editor, and star—created the prototype for what Hollywood would eventually co-opt and make into the blaxploitation hero.

Wattstax
(1973)Featuring highlights of a seven-hour concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 1972, this amazing documentary celebrates a musical event, the seventh annual Watts Summer Festival.

How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
(2005)Forty-five years after the release of “Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,” Mario Van Peebles looks back at the illustrious career of his father.

Calm at Sunset
(1996)Set in a New England town, a young man drops out of college to follow family tradition and become a fisherman, despite disapproval from his relatives.

Terminal Velocity
(1994)A skydiving instructor falls hard for one of his students.

True Identity
(1991)Concealing his true identity, a struggling actor hides from mobsters

The Shining
When a family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, they find there may be no escape in this haunting story of madness, memory, and violence.

Gang in Blue
(1996)A black police officer discovers a group of white supremacist police officers who have allowed their racism to turn them into murderous vigilantes.