Movies by Mario Van Peebles
As part of the cast:
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American Warships (2012)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Carl Weathers, Johanna Watts …
Directed by: Thunder Levin
Not to be confused with the blockbuster Battleship, it's up to the "USS Iowa" to fend off an army of alien invaders who are out to destroy the planet in this low-budget sci-fi thriller.
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We the Party (2012)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Michael Jai White …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles directs this dramedy that explores the ups and downs of a group of high school friends trying to negotiate their way through the sometimes treacherous waters of…
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All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Cast: Ray Liotta, 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes…
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Multiple Sarcasms (2010)
Cast: Timothy Hutton, Mira Sorvino, Dana Delany …
Directed by: Brooks Branch
In 1979, architect Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) begins questioning his existence, avoiding work and escaping into the fictional world of movies. When he starts writing a play examining the…
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Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Andy Garcia, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: R. Ellis Frazier
This indie crime drama features Aidan Quinn as Charlie Wright, an über-wealthy Los Angeles financial guru who sneaks off to Mexico after his vast business enterprise is exposed as a…
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A Letter to Dad (2009)
Cast: Thom Mathews, John Ashton, Corin Nemec …
Directed by: John Harwood, Johnny Remo
Armed with plans to propose to the woman he loves, Dan Donahue (Thom Mathews) steadies himself to pop the question. But for some reason, he can't get past the pent-up anger he still…
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Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential (2009)
Cast: Michael Beckwith, Mario Van Peebles, Iyanla Vanzant …
Directed by: Mikki Willis
Take an intimate, insight-filled journey with spiritual guru Michael Beckwith -- founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center -- as he imparts his wisdom, experience and the practical…
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Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)
Cast: Stephanie Weeks, Mario Van Peebles, Glen Turner …
Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles
Written, directed and produced by Melvin Van Peebles, this comedic tall tale of a love story also stars the 75-year-old filmmaker as the title character, in a slightly autobiographical epic…
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How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It) (2007)
Cast: Spike Lee, Melvin Van Peebles, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Joe Angio
Joe Angio's award-winning documentary chronicles the remarkable career of influential African-American filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Through archival footage and interviews, the film…
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Sharpshooter (2007)
Cast: Al Sapienza, Mario Van Peebles, Bruce Boxleitner …
Directed by: Armand Mastroianni
Special Ops sniper Dillon (James Remar) is about to retire until his government contact (Mario Van Peebles) persuades him to take on one last case. It's supposed to be the…
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That's Black Entertainment: Celebrating Legendary Black Actors (2006)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Paul Robeson, John Laurie …
Directed by: Walid Khaldi
This documentary examines African-American films from the 1920s through the 1950s with a particular focus on the film Jericho (1937), starring Paul Robeson as a black corporal who is…
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That's Black Entertainment: Celebrating Legendary Black Westerns (2006)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Spencer Williams Jr., Herb Jeffries …
Directed by: Walid Khaldi
Narrated by actor Mario Van Peebles, this program looks at African Americans in the Western film genre between the 1920s and the 1950s, focusing on the musical Western The Bronze Buckaroo…
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That's Black Entertainment: Celebrating Legendary Black Comedians (2006)
Cast: Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Dusty Fletcher, Freddie Robinson …
Directed by: Josh Binney, Walid Khaldi
Honoring African-American films from the 1920s through the 1950s, this documentary explores comedies of the period and pays particular attention to the vaudeville numbers of Boarding House…
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Hard Luck (2006)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Aubrey Dollar, Noah Fleiss …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles directs and co-stars in this fast-paced action-thriller in which seemingly disparate stories converge in an explosive climax that pushes everyone's luck to the limits.…
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Cast: Jay Hernandez, Mario Van Peebles, Luis Guzmán …
Directed by: Michael Scott Bregman
In this prequel to Brian De Palma's 1993 hit, young Carlito Brigante is seduced by the power of New York's underworld. Assisted by his two partners in crime, Carlito is fast on his…
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Ebony Elegance (2004)
Cast: James Earl Jones, Sidney Poitier, Mario Van Peebles …
Award-winning black actors are showcased in this collection of nuanced films. In Mark of the Hawk, Sidney Poitier struggles with issues of racial equality in modern-day Africa. In The River…
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The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
Cast: Adam Goldberg, Judy Greer, Andy Dick …
Directed by: Jonathan Kesselman
This hilarious tribute to the Blaxploitation genre stars Adam Goldberg as Mordechai, an Orthodox Jewish "superhero detective" who joins the Jewish Justice League to stop the evil machinations…
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Gang of Roses (2003)
Cast: Kimberly "Lil' Kim" Jones, Stacey Dash, Macy Gray …
Directed by: Jean-Claude La Marre
This hip-hop style Western with an all-female cast is set in the 1800s in the town of Flatridge, where a group of outlaws in search of buried treasure has taken over the town. During their…
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44 Minutes (2003)
Cast: Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Yves Simoneau
This drama is based on the true story of a fateful shoot-out between L.A.P.D. officers and two heavily armed (and armored) bank robbers in North Hollywood in 1997. On that day, two gunmen…
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Baadasssss! (2003)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, David Alan Grier, Nia Long …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles pays homage to his father, Melvin, by playing him in this account of how the famous director made his 1970s opus Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, about a black man…
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10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Cast: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Robert Townsend
During the Depression, gainful employment is practically nonexistent for African-Americans. The only available jobs are as porters for the Pullman Rail Company (which pays blacks one-third of…
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Crown Heights (2002)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Howie Mandel, Jeremy Blackman …
Directed by: Jeremy Paul Kagan, Jeremy Kagan
In the summer of 1991, racial tensions between African Americans and Hasids in a Brooklyn community reached a boiling point when a Jewish man accidentally killed a black child with his car.…
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Guardian (2001)
Cast: James Remar, Mario Van Peebles, Ice-T …
Directed by: John Terlesky
In this direct-to-video thriller, Gulf War veteran turned Los Angeles cop John Kross (Mario Van Peebles) and his partner (James Remar) find themselves combating a hot new street drug that may…
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Ali (2001)
Cast: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight …
Directed by: Michael Mann
From his epic victories to his anti-war stance, Muhammad Ali stirred controversy during the decades in which he ruled the ring. This biopic centers on the boxing legend's personal and…
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Blowback (2000)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Sharisse Baker-Bernard …
Directed by: Mark L. Lester
Inspector Don Morrell (Mario Van Peebles), a former seminarian, had used his religious training to help catch serial killer Claude Whitman (James Remar). But now, Whitman has been released…
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Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000)
Cast: Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll …
Directed by: Charles Haid
This Hallmark television miniseries explores the complicated relationship between former president Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill) and his slave Sally Hemings (Carmen Ejogo), who maintained a…
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Judgment Day (1999)
Cast: Ice-T, Suzy Amis, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: John Terlesky
With a giant meteor on course to obliterate planet Earth, the U.S. military crafts a plan to destroy the space rock with a high-tech weapon. But the only human being who can operate it has…
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Raw Nerve (1999)
Cast: Zach Galligan, Cheryl James, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Avi Nesher
Mario Van Peebles stars as Blair, a tough cop used to doing anything, even ignoring the law, to get his way. Good and evil collide as a shady business deal begins to sour.
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Protector (1998)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Randy Quaid, Rae Dawn Chong …
Directed by: D. B. Clark
Undercover cop Jack Valentine (Mario Van Peebles) and his partner, Phil Kelly (Randy Quaid), are on the most dangerous assignment of their careers. The D.A. (Rae Dawn Chong) needs Jack's…
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Love Kills (1998)
Cast: Louise Fletcher, Alexis Arquette, Lesley Ann Warren …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Charismatic con artist Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has his eye on the fortune of recently widowed trophy wife Evelyn Weiss (Lesley Ann Warren). But if Poe wants the money, he'll…
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Crazy Six (1997)
Cast: Rob Lowe, Mario Van Peebles, Ice-T …
Directed by: Albert Pyun
Rob Lowe is Crazy Six, an American junkie who heads to Eastern Europe to get away from the drama he's gotten himself into at home. But action follows Six wherever he goes, and it…
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Stag (1997)
Cast: John Stockwell, Mario Van Peebles, Jerry Stiller …
Directed by: Gavin Wilding
Michael throws his friend Victor an epic bachelor party -- a bonanza of strippers, booze and drugs with their pals Daniel, Timan and drug dealer Pete. But after one of the strippers ends up…
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Riot (1997)
Cast: Dante Basco, Mario Van Peebles, Kieu Chinh …
Directed by: Richard Di Lello, David C. Johnson, Alex Munoz …
Four individual stories offer multicultural perspectives -- from an Asian liquor store owner to a white L.A.P.D. officer to a black man returning to South Central -- surrounding the racially…
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Solo (1996)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, William Sadler, Barry Corbin …
Directed by: Norberto Barba
When an android soldier built by the military develops a crisis of conscience and bucks an order that would cause the deaths of innocent civilians, the cyborg warrior soon finds himself on…
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Gang in Blue (1996)
Cast: Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams, J.T. Walsh …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
When African-American cop Michael Rhoades (Mario Van Peebles) goes after bigoted police officers, he discovers an organized racist brotherhood on the force. With little evidence, the FBI…
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Panther (1995)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, James Russo, M. Emmet Walsh …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
During the 1960s, Oakland, Calif., became a war zone as the Black Panthers battled police. Mario Van Peebles directed this sprawling history of the Panthers. Though the story is…
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Highlander 3: The Final Dimension (1994)
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Kara Unger …
Directed by: Andy Morahan, Andrew Morahan
After killing the Japanese sorcerer with whom Scotsman Connor MacLeod had been training, the evil immortal Kane is entombed in an underground cave for 500 years. Now, Kane has resurfaced in…
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Posse (1993)
Cast: Pam Grier, Stephen Baldwin, Tone Loc …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Try this flick for a new spin on the classic Western. A cadre of outlaws tear through the West, hell-bent on glory and revenge. But this time, the desperados are mainly black. Mario Van…
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Full Eclipse (1993)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Patsy Kensit, Bruce Payne …
Directed by: Anthony Hickox
Max (Mario Van Peebles) is a good cop in a bad city. But when his life begins a downward spiral, he becomes a prime candidate for a new elite crime-fighting force -- a group of super-cops…
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Gunmen (1993)
Cast: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary …
Directed by: Deran Sarafian
Against their wills, a bounty hunter and a con man team up to battle an elite squad of mafia assassins to obtain a $400 million treasure of stolen drug money. And even if they manage to…
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Urban Crossfire (1992)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey, Peter Boyle …
Directed by: Dick Lowry
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…
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New Jack City: Special Edition (1991)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a drug dealer at the dawn of the crack cocaine epidemic, enriches himself and enslaves his people via an inner-city crack factory. Meanwhile, cop Scotty Appleton…
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Triumph of the Heart (1991)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Susan Ruttan, Lane R. Davis …
Directed by: Richard Michaels
A poignant story in the mode of "Brian's Song" and "Something for Joey". This is the tale of Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle…
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Identity Crisis (1989)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Melvin Van Peebles …
Directed by: Melvin Van Peebles
Melvin Van Peebles helmed this slapstick comedy written by his son, Mario, who plays rapper Chilly D, a man inhabited by two disparate souls. When French fashion designer Yves Malmaison…
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Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Cast: Lorraine Gary, Lance Guest, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael (Lance Guest),…
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Hot Shot (1986)
Cast: Pele, Jim Youngs, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Rick King
Jimmy Kristidis (Jim Youngs) is an egotistical up-and-coming soccer player who dreams of being as good as his idol, Brazilian pro Santos (Pelé). Jimmy gets his break when he and his…
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Everett McGill …
Directed by: Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood stars as tough-as-nails sergeant and war vet Tom Highway, who's assigned to whip a platoon of unruly new Marines into shape as he faces his own often-humorous battles with…
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Last Resort (1986)
Cast: Charles Grodin, Steve Levitt, Mimi Lieber …
Directed by: Zane Buzby
Lured by a travel agent's flowery descriptions of the deluxe accommodations at Club Sand, the harried George Lollar (Charles Grodin) drags his family to the Caribbean, where the beds…
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3:15 (1986)
Cast: Adam Baldwin, Deborah Foreman, Scott McGinnis …
Directed by: Larry Gross
Jeff Hannah (Adam Baldwin), a member of the high school gang the Cobras, wearies of his violent life and leaves the gang. A year later, he is targeted by his former friends after he refuses…
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Rappin' (1985)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Charles Grant, Rutanya Alda …
Directed by: Joel Silberg
Just out of lockup, rapper John Hood (Mario Van Peebles) discovers that his girlfriend (Tasia Valenza) is living with a gang leader (Charles Grant) hired by a land developer to evict tenants…
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South Bronx Heroes / The Black Six / The Black Gestapo / Velvet Smooth (1985)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Joe Greene, Rod Perry …
In this set of four urban action features, a heroic ex-con battles a child pornographer, six men fight a deadly and racist biker gang, community policing goes to deadly extremes, and a female…
As a director:
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We the Party (2012)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Michael Jai White …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles directs this dramedy that explores the ups and downs of a group of high school friends trying to negotiate their way through the sometimes treacherous waters of…
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All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Cast: Ray Liotta, 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
50 Cent stars as gifted college running back Deon in this touching drama. Deon's world turns upside down when an unexpected crisis jeopardizes his professional ambitions -- and causes…
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Redemption Road (2010)
Cast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson, Kiele Sanchez …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
When a compulsive fear of performing threatens to derail his career, white bluesman Jefferson Bailey sets off on a life-changing drive from Austin, Texas, to Huntsville, Ala., accompanied by…
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Hard Luck (2006)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Aubrey Dollar, Noah Fleiss …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles directs and co-stars in this fast-paced action-thriller in which seemingly disparate stories converge in an explosive climax that pushes everyone's luck to the limits.…
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The First Amendment Project (2004)
Cast: Robert Vaughn, Al Franken, Bill O'Reilly …
Directed by: Chris Hegedus, John Walter, Mario Van Peebles …
How the entertainment industry tackles the subject of civil liberties and free speech goes on trial, so to speak, in this documentary by The Sundance Channel and Court TV. Filmmakers Chris…
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Baadasssss! (2003)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, David Alan Grier, Nia Long …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Mario Van Peebles pays homage to his father, Melvin, by playing him in this account of how the famous director made his 1970s opus Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, about a black man…
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Love Kills (1998)
Cast: Louise Fletcher, Alexis Arquette, Lesley Ann Warren …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Charismatic con artist Poe Finklestein (Mario Van Peebles) has his eye on the fortune of recently widowed trophy wife Evelyn Weiss (Lesley Ann Warren). But if Poe wants the money, he'll…
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Gang in Blue (1996)
Cast: Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams, J.T. Walsh …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
When African-American cop Michael Rhoades (Mario Van Peebles) goes after bigoted police officers, he discovers an organized racist brotherhood on the force. With little evidence, the FBI…
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Panther (1995)
Cast: Mario Van Peebles, James Russo, M. Emmet Walsh …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
During the 1960s, Oakland, Calif., became a war zone as the Black Panthers battled police. Mario Van Peebles directed this sprawling history of the Panthers. Though the story is…
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Posse (1993)
Cast: Pam Grier, Stephen Baldwin, Tone Loc …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Try this flick for a new spin on the classic Western. A cadre of outlaws tear through the West, hell-bent on glory and revenge. But this time, the desperados are mainly black. Mario Van…
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New Jack City: Special Edition (1991)
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne …
Directed by: Mario Van Peebles
Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a drug dealer at the dawn of the crack cocaine epidemic, enriches himself and enslaves his people via an inner-city crack factory. Meanwhile, cop Scotty Appleton…