Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, John Dullaghan, West Gale

Produced, directed, written, scored by, and starring Melvin Van Peebles, this landmark "blaxploitation" film was as controversial as it was popular for its then X-rated story of one African-American man's triumph over the Man. After beating a couple of white cops he witnessed brutalizing a local black revolutionary, sex show performer Sweetback ...

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The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Pierre Doris, Christian Marin, Nicole Berger, Harry Baird

Artfully squeezing every penny out of a grant from the French Cinema Center, Melvin Van Peebles made his directorial debut with Story of a Three-Day Pass. Harry Baird plays a black American GI, Turner, who falls in love with French mademoiselle (Nicole Berger). Upon his return from an idyllic weekend, Turner is demoted by his bigoted captain for ...

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Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Esther Rolle, Avon Long, Rhetta Hughes

Melvin Van Peebles' first film after his groundbreaking blaxploitation effort Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song was this photographed version of his Broadway musical Don't Play Us Cheap, in which a pair of Satan's helpers, in order to earn their horns, are dispatched to Harlem to crash into (and break up) a wild party. Don't Play Us Cheap received ...

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The Watermelon Man (1970) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Caine, D'Urville Martin, Mantan Moreland

African-American activist and actor Melvin Van Peebles directed this comedy-drama starring Godfrey Cambridge as Jeff Gerber, a white, middle class husband to Althea (Estelle Parson) and father of two who is also a mild bigot. One morning, Jeff wakes up to discover that he has become a black man overnight. After trying in vain to remove his new ...

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Gang in Blue (1996) more movies like this

directed by Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Cynda Williams

In this highly-charged police drama, Officer Michael Rhoades is becoming increasingly disturbed by the amount of white-on-black violence that has been escalating in his quiet town. He is especially disturbed that much of that interracial brutality is coming from the police. Rhoades calls they FBI but lacks sufficient hard evidence to warrant their ...

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Tales of Erotica (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bob Rafelson, Charles Zalien, Derrick Boatner, Ken Russell, Mani Kaul, Melvin Van Peebles, Nancy Stone, Paul Cox, Susan Seidelman
featuring Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes after hours to sample the hot tubs. The next, "The ...

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Identity Crisis (1990) more movies like this

directed by Melvin Van Peebles
featuring Mario Van Peebles, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Shelley Burch, Richard Fancy, Nicholas Kepros

This hip-hop comedy stars Mario Van Peebles as rapper Chilly D, who becomes possessed by the spirit of outrageous fashion designer Yves Malmaison (Richard Fancy). Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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