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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) more movies like this

directed by Charles Haid
featuring Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll, Mare Winningham, Mario Van Peebles

This miniseries details the complex real-life relationship between Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill), author of the Declaration of Independence and his slave Sally Hemings (Carmen Ejogo). Fuelled by recent DNA evidence of the Hemings-Jefferson relationship, the miniseries sidesteps much of Jefferson's political life and instead focuses on the love ...

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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power

Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005) more movies like this

directed by Michael S. Bregman
featuring Jay Hernandez, Mario Van Peebles, Luis Guzman, Sean Combs, Michael Kelly, Jaclyn DeSantis

In this belated prequel to director Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama, gangster Carlito Brigante (Jay Hernandez) rises through the ranks of the New York underworld to establish himself as Spanish Harlem's most powerful kingpin. As the intoxication of ultimate power tightens its firm grip on the rising heroin czar, he soon learns that greed and ...

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The Hebrew Hammer

The Hebrew Hammer (2003) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Kesselman
featuring Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick, Mario Van Peebles, Peter Coyote

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 world in this satiric comedy. Mordechai Jefferson Carver (Adam Goldberg) is a super-cool Jewish detective who takes no mess and is always ready to do the right thing for his Torah-reading brothers. But Carver is a lone wolf ...

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Highlander: The Final Dimension

Highlander: The Final Dimension (1995) more movies like this

directed by Andy Morahan
featuring Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger, Mako, Martin Neufeld

Conner MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) returns in this, the third film in the Highlander series. MacLeod is an "Immortal," a 16th century Scottish soldier who has been both blessed and cursed with the gift of eternal life. After the death of his beloved wife (a common occurrence for him, but one he's never gotten used to), MacLeod travels to Japan ...

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New Jack City

New Jack City (1991) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles
featuring Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Allen Payne, Judd Nelson

The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the film's heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), a pair of tough, streetwise cops, the main focus is their target, drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes). A criminal businessman with no room ...

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Jaws: The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge (1987) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Sargent
featuring Michael Caine, Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles, Karen Young

This third sequel to the 1975 mega-hit Jaws returns Lorraine Gary to the role of Ellen Brody, widow of the Roy Scheider character from the first two films. When her son Sean, the current police chief of shark-plagued Amity Island, is killed by the beast, Ellen goes to the Bahamas to comfort her surviving son. Michael Brody (Lance Guest) and his ...

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Posse

Posse (1993) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Charles Lane, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Big Daddy Kane

Writer, director, and star Mario Van Peebles tried to correct historical misconceptions about African-Americans on the frontier with this action-packed western that's also an homage to spaghetti Westerns. During the Spanish-American War, a squadron of black soldiers led by Jesse Lee (Van Peebles) is assigned a dangerous mission behind enemy lines ...

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Ali

Ali (2001) more movies like this

directed by Michael Mann
featuring Jada Pinkett Smith, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver

Notoriously obsessive director Michael Mann and star Will Smith devoted nearly two years and over 100 million dollars from the coffers of Columbia Pictures and other financiers to creating this biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates ...

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Solo

Solo (1996) more movies like this

directed by Norberto Barba
featuring Jaime Gomez, Mario Van Peebles, Barry Corbin, Bill Sadler, Adrien Brody, Seidy Lopez, Abraham Verduzco

The American military-industrial complex has a blueprint for the perfect mechanical soldier. Unfortunately, the prototype, Solo (Mario Van Peebles), has responded appropriately to his programming (which requires him to reason things out on his own), with results that the designers didn't anticipate and don't like. For one thing, he objects to ...

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Gunmen

Gunmen (1994) more movies like this

directed by Deran Sarafian
featuring Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary, Patrick Stewart, Kadeem Hardison

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 quickly pops the fly in his mouth and spits it out. Then he leeringly laughs about it to the prisoner next door. Nope. This is not a bad undiscovered Sergio Leone spaghetti western. Rather it is the opening shot Deran Sarafin's ...

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Judgment Day (1999) more movies like this

directed by John Terlesky
featuring Ice-T, Suzy Amis, Linden Ashby, Mario Van Peebles

This sci-fi thriller finds the world in imminent danger when a collision in outer space sends huge pieces of interstellar debris on a path headed straight for Earth. A scientist has designed a system that would stop the largest meteor fragments from striking the earth, but a fanatical religious cult have made it their business to stop him. A ...

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Protector (1998) more movies like this

directed by Duane B. Clark
featuring Ben Gazzara, Mario Van Peebles, Rae Dawn Chong, Randy Quaid

A police detective gets in over his head after he falls in love with the moll of a recently murdered gangster. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Blowback (1999) more movies like this

directed by Mark L. Lester
featuring Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Stephen Caffrey

Mario Van Peebles and James Remar star in this action drama in which a police detective learns that a murderer he helped put behind bars has been released from prison. The CIA recruited the felon to work as a hired killer for the federal government, but his superiors dangerously underestimated his enthusiasm for this work; the murderer breaks free ...

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Crown Heights (2004) more movies like this

directed by Jeremy Kagan
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Howie Mandel

Racial tensions between Hasidic Jews and African-Americans come to a boil in the Crown Heights section of Queens in this powder-keg drama based on real-life events that took place in the summer of 1991. Over the course of three days, the tensions between the borough's racially divided citizens would result in a tragic explosion of murder, riots, ...

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In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992) more movies like this

directed by Dick Lowry
featuring Mario Van Peebles

After his partner is killed, a police officer's vow of vengeance threatens to expose a cocaine dynasty. All Movie Guide

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BAADASSSSS! (2004) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles
featuring David Alan Grier, Joy Bryant, Khleo Thomas, Nia Long, Ossie Davis, Paul Rodriguez, Rainn Wilson, T.K. Carter, Mario Van Peebles

In 1971, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles released his third film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which he wrote, directed, and scored. Despite boasting an all-black cast, an X rating, a low budget, and a decidedly non-Hollywood approach to moviemaking, the ground-breaking independent film went on to gross over ten million dollars while inspiring ...

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Mama Flora's Family (1998) more movies like this

directed by Peter Werner
featuring Cicely Tyson, Queen Latifah, Blair Underwood, Mario Van Peebles, Erika Alexander

This four-hour miniseries is based on author Alex Haley's continuing family saga. Covering the 1920s-1970s, the story centers on Mama Flora, the matriarch of a large black family who is determined to keep her brood together and close to their God during rapidly changing and tempestuous times. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002) more movies like this

directed by Robert Townsend
featuring Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Brock Peters, Carla Brothers

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. So in 1925, when journalist and political activist Asa Philip Randolph and railway car porter Ashley Totten formed the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, it was a ...

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Full Eclipse (1993) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Hickox
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Payne, Jason Beghe, John Verea

This interesting action-horror film stars Mario Van Peebles as a tough cop who becomes the latest recruit in a secret faction of the police which not only operates on the fringes of the law, but is also composed entirely of werewolves. Horror fans who choose to embrace the fundamental goofiness of this premise will find an interesting blend of ...

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Guardian (2001) more movies like this

directed by John Terlesky
featuring Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Ice-T

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 Gulf War. What he sees from behind a sand dune is some sort of mysterious excavation, but things go badly and Kross is discovered and wounded. He awakens with vague memories of a baby being born and stolen -- and with ...

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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout (2003) more movies like this

directed by Yves Simoneau
featuring Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Mario Van Peebles, Andrew Bryniarski, Oleg Taktarov

On February 28, 1997, a pair of heavily armed and heavily armored outlaws named Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Matasarenu, who had previously cut a crooked swath throughout the Los Angeles area as "The High Incident Bandits," botched the robbery of a bank in North Hollywood. The confrontation that followed has been described as the "most ...

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Hard Luck (2006) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles
featuring Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, Cybill Shepherd

An infamous ex-con on the road to redemption finds his quest unexpectedly complicated by the police, the mafia, and two of the nation's most vicious serial killers in a high octane crime thriller starring and directed by Mario Van Peebles and featuring Wesley Snipes and Cybill Shepherd. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

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Riot in the Streets (1997) more movies like this

directed by Alex Munoz, David C. Johnson, Galen Yuen, Richard Dilello
featuring Luke Perry, Cicely Tyson, Mario Van Peebles

This off-beat urban anthology offers four different views of the mayhem and destruction that came from the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The first vignette "Gold Mountain," directed by Galen Yuen, centers on a struggle between a traditional-minded Chinese storekeeper and his increasingly uncontrollable son, who is assimilating rapidly into American ...

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Crazy Six (1998) more movies like this

directed by Albert Pyun
featuring Burt Reynolds, Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Rob Lowe

In this espionage thriller, an endangered European crime lord's failed attempt at gaining power leaves him vulnerable to rivals' assassins. Desperate to preserve his life, he turns to an American agent for help. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Stag (1997) more movies like this

directed by Evan Tylor, Gavin Wildling
featuring Andrew McCarthy, John Stockwell, Kevin Dillon, Taylor Dayne, Mario Van Peebles

A group of ten men come together for a bachelor party that goes horribly wrong in this made-for-TV drama. Mario Van Peebles and John Stockwell star as old friends Michael and Victor, both of them successful, well-off young professionals. The latter is about to be married, so Michael throws him a lavish party complete with booze, drugs, a pair of ...

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