Riot (1997)
Drama
Four real-life stories set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots intertwine to explore the shattering drama that changed the lives of everyone who experienced it.
Starring: Luke Perry, Mario van Peebles, Douglas Spain, Dante Basco
Director: Richard Di Lello, David C. Johnson, Alex Munoz, Galen Yuen
Gang in Blue (1996)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Josh Brolin, Cynda Williams, J.T. Walsh, Stephen Lang, Sean McCann, Melvin Van Peebles
Director: Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles
A Clear Shot (2019)
Drama | Thriller
An electronic store erupts into chaos as four gunmen storm the premises. Rick Gomez, Sacramento Police Departments' top negotiator, realizes he needs to talk down the gunmen and keep everyone safe, all while juggling government politics. The gunmen leader doesn't want to hurt anyone, but his brother is a different story. A peaceful surrender quickly turns this sleepy city into a national tragedy.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Mandela Van Peebles, Glenn Plummer, Marshal Hilton, Jessica Meza, David Fernandez Jr., Sandra Gutierrez
Director: Nick Leisure
Guardian (2001)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
With a spate of violence that rocks the inner city, L.A.P.D. and ex-Marine John Kross investigates its cause: a new drug called Chaos. With help from his partner Carpenter, they delve into the mystery, only to discover a link between the drug and a terrifying supernatural power unleashed during the gulf war, witnessed by Kross twelve years ago. Now, Kross must race against time to stop the destruction, battle his own demons and come to grips with his destiny as he discovers that his reality has been mapped by a power much greater than himself.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Ice-T, Dey Young, Karina Lombard
Director: John Terlesky
Armed / If (2018)
Action | Thriller
A former U.S. Marshall struggling to put his life together after a case gone wrong. A former colleague reappears in his life and explains all of the survivors of the man's unit are suffering the same symptoms and that there may be a larger conspiracy at hand.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, William Fichtner, Ryan Guzman, Lane Garrison, Dionne Warwick, Columbus Short, Jemma Dallender
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Blowback (2000)
Thriller
Whitman is a psychotic religious killer who was caught by Inspector Morell a former seminarian, whose religious knowledge led to Whitman's capture. Whitman was tried and sentenced to death. However, he was rescued by a secret government group who want to make him an assassin, however, Whitman escapes and decides to get back at the people who tried to stop his mission, the jury, the judge, the district attorney, who's Morrell's ex-wife. Morrell recognizes the killings as Whitman's style but how could it be when he's dead. The man who recruited Whitman posing as an FBI agent claims that they are looking for a copy cat but Morrell finds it hard to believe that it could no one other than Whitman.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar, Sharisse Baker-Bernard, Gladise Jiminez, David Groh
Director: Mark L. Lester
Protector / Valentine's Day (1998)
Action | Drama | Romance | Thriller
Detective Jack Valentine is reinstated from his desk job to go back onto the streets. His first assignment ends with the death of a mobster who was about to turn states evidence. The killing came as the mobster was with his girlfriend Alma. Jack suspects Alma of being involved – even more so when he finds her involved with one of the mob family, Michael. However he begins to fall for her himself and finds himself involved in the deadly game where not everything is what it seems.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Randy Quaid, Zehra Leverman, Rae Dawn Chong, Ben Gazzara, John Bourgeois
Director: Duane Clark
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Action | War
During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, Matt Lanter, Weronika Rosati, Emily Tennant
Director: Mario Van Peebles
USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016)
Action | War
During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 300 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Tom Sizemore, Thomas Jane, Matt Lanter, Weronika Rosati, Emily Tennant
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Mantervention / Sexcoach (2014)
Comedy
man·ter·ven·tion (mant r venSH n) Noun. – The process of getting over the ex and #ontothenext. Convinced that romance is dead after getting his heart broken, Spencer turns to his best friend who's planned an unorthodox mantervention filled with sex and debauchery to convert him from hopeless romantic to forever player, and in the process they discover that being in love is not so bad after all.
Starring: Chloe Bridges, Mindy Robinson, Josie Davis, Travis Van Winkle, Jillian Murray, Max Carver, Mario Van Peebles, Nick Roux
Director: Stuart Acher
Baadasssss! / How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass (2003)
Biography | Drama
Mario Van Peebles's half documentary/half homage to his father Melvin's 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Nia Long, Joy Bryant, Ossie Davis, Terry Crews, David Alan Grier
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Red Sky / Kerosene Cowboys (2014)
Action
Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
Starring: Bill Pullman, Shane West, Rachael Leigh Cook, Cam Gigandet
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Hard Luck (2006)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Two converging story lines involving corrupt cops ripping off drug dealers and serial killers are followed as former drug dealer Lucky, trying to go straight after doing a prison stint, gets entangled within by a series of bad breaks. Shepherd plays a sadistic and vindictive mother of a handicapped son who along with her young kung-fu kicking boyfriend, abducts and tortures people who she feels scorn her son. Lucky, caught up in a shootout between dealers and cops, grabs two briefcases with $500,000 and goes on the run and has the hard luck of happening upon the serial killer's cabin.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Jackie Quinones, Cybill Shepherd, James Hiroyuki Liao, Aubrey Dollar, Kevin Thoms, Mario Van Peebles
Director: Mario Van Peebles
Judgment Day (1999)
Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A giant meteor is expected to crash into Earth in a matter of days, a crash that would cause global devastation. There is only one chance to prevent impending doom. The government must find Dr. David Corbett (Linden Ashby), the creator of the Thor Project, a type of satellite system, and use his help to annihilate the fragment. But before Corbett can be contacted, he is kidnapped by militant religious cult leader Thomas Payne (Mario Van Peebles), a zealot who believes that judgment day is rightly upon us. The government is forced to enlist the help of Payne's archenemy Matthew Reese (Ice-T), a convicted killer, who is the only man who would know Payne's whereabouts. But will they have time to find Dr. Corbett and save the world? Find out in this fast-paced, action-packed thriller.
Starring: Ice-T, Suzy Amis, Mario Van Peebles, Coolio
Director: John Terlesky
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Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
Action | Comedy | Drama | War
A Marine Corp lifer, starting his last tour of duty before retirement, sees the bumpy road his life has taken become more complicated, due to feisty recruits, by-the-book officers and a salty ex-wife to whom he's still attracted.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marsha Mason, Mario Van Peebles, Everett McGill, Moses Gunn, Eileen Heckart
Director: Clint Eastwood
Ali (2001)
Biography | Drama | Sport
The life story of heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, following the champ's early days as Cassius Clay and his rise in sports and politics, including his controversial refusal to fight in the Vietnam War and his infamous comeback battles against Joe Frazier and George Foreman.
Starring: Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Mario Van Peebles, Ron Silver
Director: Michael Mann
New Jack City (1991)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
In the poverty-stricken slums of 1980s New York, ruthless "New Jack" gangster Nino Brown and his Cash Money Brothers build a criminal empire selling crack, while NYPD Lt. Stone forms an undercover unit of misfits to infiltrate the gang and bring it down.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson
Director: Mario Van Peebles
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American Warships (2012)
Action | War
When Modern Weapons Fail…It's Time To Bring In The Big Guns.
Starring: Mario Van Peebles, Carl Weathers, Johanna Watts, Nikki McCauley
Director: Thunder Levin
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Crime | Drama
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster, a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money.
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Mario Van Peebles, Andy Garcia, Luke Goss, Danny Pino, Bokeem Woodbine, Jordan Belfi, Corbin Bernsen, Gina Gershon
Director: R. Ellis Frazier
All Things Fall Apart (2011)
Drama | Sport
A drama centered on a promising football running back during his senior year in college.
Starring: 50 Cent, Mario Van Peebles, Lynn Whitfield, Ray Liotta
Director: Mario Van Peebles
