Mario Cain Peebles Marx (born January 15, 1957) is a Mexican-born American director and actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films. He is son of filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Van Peebles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Release Date1990-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Mr. Carsley
Episode Count3
Vote Count695
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
Release Date2015-09-21
Charactersd Frank Davenport
Episode Count1
Vote Count2549
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.
Release Date2007-07-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Agent Randall Harrison
Episode Count3
Vote Count238
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
Release Date1987-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Dancer
Episode Count3
Vote Count196
A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his throne.
Release Date2015-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Uncle Ray
Episode Count5
Vote Count757
The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
Release Date1984-09-20
Charactersd Garvin
Episode Count1
Vote Count491
Three years after the zombie virus has gutted the country, a team of everyday heroes must transport the only known survivor of the plague from New York to California, where the last functioning viral lab waits for his blood.
Release Date2014-09-12
Charactersd Martin Cooper
Episode Count1
Vote Count960
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
Release Date1986-09-15
Charactersd Andrew Taylor
Episode Count4
Vote Count77
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
Release Date1995-03-26
Charactersd Captain William Clark
Episode Count1
Vote Count235
A group of friends from Boston who feel stuck in life experience an unexpected wake-up call after one of their friends dies unexpectedly.
Release Date2018-09-26
Charactersd Ronald
Episode Count6
Vote Count149
Sammo Law spins, kicks, and chops his way through crime as a one-man police force in Los Angeles. He's a tough law enforcer who comes to the U.S. in search of a former friend and protegée — and gets drafted as part of the LAPD.
Release Date1998-09-26
Charactersd Jake Cord
Episode Count1
Vote Count109
Walter Sherman, an Iraq War veteran, has the extraordinary ability to help people find the unfindable.
Release Date2012-01-12
Charactersd Fontana
Episode Count1
Vote Count181
Unemployed alcoholic ex-soap-opera actress Billie Frank tries to go sober and become a writer but continues to struggle with her self-destructive habits; her relationships with other members of Addictions Anonymous, her neighbor Dave, and her mother Trudy are explored.
Release Date1998-08-01
Charactersd Marcus Adams
Episode Count20
Vote Count5
Cameron Black is the world's greatest illusionist. At least, that's what people used to call him—before his greatest secret was exposed and his career destroyed. Even worse, Cameron has good reason to believe this was no accident.
Release Date2018-03-11
Charactersd Bruce Conners
Episode Count1
Vote Count248
Anthology series of stand alone episodes about Americans in Paris and the sometimes tragic and sometimes uplifting relationships, trysts and loves they find there.
Release Date1996-04-19
Charactersd Mac
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Soul Food: The Series is a television drama that aired Wednesday nights on Showtime from June 28, 2000 to May 26, 2004. Created by filmmaker George Tillman, Jr. and developed for television by Felicia D. Henderson, Soul Food is based upon Tillman's childhood experiences growing up in Wisconsin, and is a continuation of his successful 1997 film of the same name. Having aired for 74 episodes, it is the longest running drama with a predominantly black cast in the history of North American prime-time television.
Release Date2000-06-28
Charactersd Quentin James
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives.
Release Date1987-07-17
Charactersd Jake
Vote Count1186
The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious malefactor named The Dredge.
Release Date2017-10-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Isaac Hastings
Episode Count12
Vote Count46
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Release Date1986-12-05
Charactersd Corporal 'Stitch' Jones
Vote Count1134
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Release Date1984-12-14
Charactersd Dancer
Vote Count447
A group of mostly black infantrymen return from the Spanish-American War with a cache of gold. They travel to the West where their leader searches for the men who lynched his father.
Release Date1993-05-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Jesse Lee
Vote Count91
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.
Release Date2001-12-10
Charactersd Malcolm X
Vote Count1885
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.
Release Date1995-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Stokely Carmichael
Vote Count47
Deceived that he had won the Prize, Connor MacLeod wanders through the world; however, he is awakened from his peaceful life when an entombed immortal magician, Kane, escapes and comes seeking the Highlander.
Release Date1994-11-29
Charactersd Kane
Vote Count555
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Release Date1991-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Stone
Vote Count608
An assassin working for the CIA decides to take one final job before quitting only to find out that he is the target of his CIA boss.
Release Date2007-10-11
Charactersd Flick
Vote Count25
Spencer turns to his best friend who's planned an unorthodox "mantervention" filled with 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.
Release Date2014-09-05
Charactersd Steve
Vote Count25
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.
Release Date2001-06-12
Charactersd Detective Kross
Vote Count11
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
Release Date2020-10-13
Charactersd Mzamo
Vote Count195
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
Release Date2000-02-13
Charactersd James Hemings
Vote Count6
A black matriarch in the early 20th century is determined to free her children from the bonds of prejudice.
Release Date1998-11-08
Charactersd Luke
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Three college buddies travel to Key Largo for what promises to be the best spring break ever... until they end up stranded on a deserted island being hunted by starved, bloodthirsty vampires.
Charactersd Leonard
The story of an American soccer player trying to make it big who turns to Pele, the greatest soccer player of all time, for guidance.
Release Date1987-01-23
Charactersd Winston
Vote Count6
An attorney leaves his high-priced firm to work for the less fortunate.
Release Date2003-01-01
Charactersd Mordecai Green
Vote Count1
Charactersd estrella
Seduced by the brutal New York underworld, future gangster legend Carlito Brigante enters a deadly circle of greed and retribution. Assisted by his two brothers-in-crime, Carlito is on the fast track to becoming Spanish Harlem's ultimate kingpin. He quickly learns, however, that the only way to survive at the top is through loyalty to his friends and respect for the rules of the street.
Release Date2005-09-27
Charactersd Earl
Vote Count81
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 convicted murderer (Ice-T) with ties to the group must now join forces with an FBI agent (Suzy Amis) to free the scientist from the cult's clutches and prevent millions of needless deaths. Mario Van Peebles and Linden Ashby appear in supporting roles
Release Date1999-11-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Thomas Payne
Vote Count25
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.
Release Date2016-02-12
Charactersd Hector
Vote Count59
In 1828 the town of Flat Ridge is over run by a band of outlaws looking for lost treasure said to be buried somewhere in town. In their quest for dominance, the outlaws kill Sally, a prostitute who happens to be the sister of Rachel and a former member of the disbanded Rose Gang. With the weight of grief on her heart, Rachel decides to shed her new found religious faith to bring vengeance upon her sister's killers. After laying Sally to rest, Rachel goes in search of her former posse to assist her in avenging her sister's death.
Release Date2003-10-10
Charactersd Jessie Lee
Vote Count26
A girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
Release Date2014-10-27
Charactersd Mr. Bolton
Vote Count117
Epic television miniseries exploring the complicated relationship of Thomas Jefferson and slave Sally Hemings, who conducted a 38 year love affair, spanning an ocean, ultimately producing children, grandchildren, and lots of controversy.
Release Date2000-02-13
Charactersd James Hemings
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Release Date2003-06-05
Charactersd Henry Jones
Vote Count116
When an alien force wages war on Earth, only the crew of the USS Iowa - the last American battleship, stands in their way.
Release Date2012-05-15
Charactersd Captain Winston
Vote Count67
Profiling former Georgia running back Herschel Walker. The 1982 Heisman Trophy winner overcame teenage bouts with bullying for being overweight and having a severe stutter.
Release Date2011-09-07
Charactersd Narrator
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date2014-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Jason Zimmerman
Vote Count71
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose rationale to the gold leaves a trail of dead bodies.
Release Date2024-03-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Chief
Vote Count13
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.
Release Date1984-09-14
Charactersd X
Vote Count51
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
Release Date2006-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Captain Davis
Vote Count81
When a psychotic Santa tries to destroy Chanukah by hypnotizing Jewish children with bootlegged copies of the Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life," it's up to the Hebrew Hammer to save the day. Together with Mohammed, head of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front, the Hammer takes no prisoners in his quest to hunt down the renegade Santa and make the holiday season safe for all.
Release Date2003-12-05
Charactersd Mohammed Ali Paula Abdul Rahim
Vote Count67
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Release Date1996-09-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Charactersd Michael Rhoades
Vote Count13
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, social media, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
Release Date2012-04-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Charactersd Sutton
Vote Count14
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
Release Date1992-04-19
Charactersd Walter
A writer on a deadline to finish her first Hollywood thriller seeks solace in her home. Life imitates art as she becomes convinced her neighbor is going to kill her.
Charactersd Uncle Harold
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.
Release Date2010-12-28
Charactersd Agent Hobbs
Vote Count44
Director Mario Van Peebles chronicles the complicated production of his father Melvin's classic 1971 film, "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." Playing his father in the film, Van Peebles offers an unapologetic account of Melvin's brash and sometimes deceptive conduct on the set of the film, including questionable antics like writing bad checks, tricking a local fire department and allowing his son, Mario, to shoot racy sex scenes at the age of 11.
Release Date2004-05-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Melvin Van Peebles
Vote Count62
An android fighting-machine is charged with destroying a small brigade of rebels in a Latin American war who are fighting to maintain their freedom and protect their village. Contrary to his programming, Peebles decides to stay and assist the rebels in their plight. Having gained this information, his "creators" develop a more powerful android to try and defeat him.
Release Date1996-08-23
Charactersd Solo
Vote Count87
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.
Release Date1998-01-01
Charactersd Jack Valentine
Vote Count9
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills millionaire.
Release Date1999-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Poe Finklestein
Vote Count4
A New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America.
Release Date1993-05-21
Charactersd Cole Parker
Vote Count83
The Delivery Boys, a New York squad of breakdancing young men who work for a local pizza place, enter a breakdance contest in the hopes of winning a $10,000 prize. The Devil Dogs, a rival group of breakdancers, arrange for the Delivery Boys to be sent on unusual pizza deliveries to delay them. Can the Delivery Boys navigate these strange, sexually charged deliveries and make it to the breakdancing contest in time?
Release Date1985-04-02
Charactersd Spider
Vote Count6
After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels.
Release Date1971-03-31
Charactersd The Young Sweetback
Vote Count119
THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.
Release Date2020-04-08
Charactersd (archive footage)
In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Release Date1997-11-01
Charactersd Dirty Mao
Vote Count22
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 him to look at himself and his life in a new way.
Release Date2011-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Eric
Vote Count63
In April 1992, following the notorious Rodney King verdict, the streets of Los Angeles became a battlefield, the backdrop to four personal intertwined stories.
Release Date1997-04-27
Charactersd Turner
Vote Count12
Reeling from his mother’s death and his father’s abandonment, Zach, an All-State athlete, finds glory on the football field, working to earn a college scholarship and the brothers’ ticket out of town. When a devastating injury puts Zach—and his dreams—on the sidelines, David laces up his track cleats to salvage their future and point Zach toward hope.
Release Date2019-02-22
Charactersd Pastor Baker
Vote Count70
A former U.S. marshal discovers that all of the survivors of his old unit are experiencing the same symptoms simultaneously and there may be a larger conspiracy at hand.
Release Date2018-09-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Chief
Vote Count23
The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a werewolf.
Release Date1993-11-27
Charactersd Max Dire
Vote Count54
George Lollar takes his family on vacation with "Club Sand", a shoddy and untrustworthy company. On their tropical island, they find soldiers everywhere, an unhelpful staff, inhospitable accomodation and undesirable holiday makers, but everyone except for George manages to have fun in the sun.
Release Date1986-03-31
Charactersd Pino
Vote Count19
An accidental death at a bachelor party spurs a night of shooting, kidnapping and murder in the host's home.
Release Date1997-04-01
Charactersd Michael Barnes
Vote Count17
After a psychotic religious killer is captured and sentenced to death, he is instead recruited by the US government and trained to become a professional assassin. He now seeks revenge on all those who participated in sentencing him to death.
Release Date2000-03-10
Charactersd Insp. Don Morrell
Vote Count16
Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams. But on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by deep-rooted anger caused by the father who abandoned him as a boy. Dan confronts his feelings of bitterness head on as he pours his heart out in a letter to his father.
Release Date2009-07-27
Charactersd Norman
Vote Count4
Gabriel is a man who on the surface has it all-successful professional life as an architect, a beautiful wife, Annie, and a devoted young daughter, Elizabeth. But slowly it dawns on him that he is not really happy. Gabriel decides that he wants to write a play about the sorry state of his life. He quits his job, gets a pushy literary agent friend to represent him and starts writing. Although his marriage ends in a divorce, the play is success and although his life is different than it was, he is happier.
Release Date2010-05-07
Charactersd Rocky
Vote Count17
A young man just released from prison and living with his sister crosses paths with two children, also brother and sister, who are on the run from their child pornographer foster parents.
Release Date1985-10-01
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Dialogue
Charactersd Tony
Vote Count6
A sociology graduate student researches her doctoral thesis on female crime by interviewing street prostitutes. Shocked by her findings, she offers her own apartment to teenage prostitutes seeking refuge from the streets, many of whom are rejected by their parents and are dependent on their pimps.
Release Date1985-10-25
Charactersd Roy Spanish
Vote Count8
A cop, who is losing his sanity, lures his girlfriend and his former partner into the dangers of arson, robbery, and murder.
Release Date1999-09-16
Charactersd Detective Blair Valdez
Vote Count7
Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here the cobras rule the school and everyone in it. Everyone except for Jeff Hanna.
Release Date1986-01-31
Charactersd Whisperer
Vote Count32
In the Wild West of the 1800s, a gunman is hired to take a group of emotionally-challenged people across the desert.
Release Date1997-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Chance
Vote Count6
A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.
Release Date1989-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Chilly D
Vote Count8
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain
Release Date1971-11-19
Charactersd Raphael
Vote Count1
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
Release Date1990-01-15
Charactersd Jay Filley
Vote Count1
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 brother of the gangster. There's nothing civil about this war that has two brothers squaring off against each other. The strong cast includes Mario Van Peebles, Ray Sharkey and Peter Boyle.
Release Date1992-10-25
Charactersd Raymond Williamson
Vote Count9
An ex-con and break-dancer helps save a neighborhood from a greedy developer while trying to win a rap contest.
Release Date1985-05-10
Charactersd John
Vote Count14
Thrown into the face of death only to emerge unharmed, characters are left staring at their lives in the face with uncertainty and fear like they've never imagined.
Release Date2019-10-16
Charactersd Carl
Vote Count9
An electronics store erupts into chaos as four young Vietnamese gunmen storm the premises, setting the stage for the largest hostage situation in US history. Rick Gomez, SAC PD's top hostage negotiator, quickly realizes that his job is not simply to talk down the gunman and keep everyone safe, but must also juggle the politics of an arrogant sheriff and a trigger-happy SWAT commander to prevent a national tragedy.
Release Date2020-05-01
Charactersd Gomez
Vote Count6
Blair, Tootie, Natalie, Jo, Beverly Ann, and Andy visit the land down under. Blair and Jo are warned of a planned jewel heist; Beverly Ann visits a beau from many years ago; Natalie is stranded in the outback; and Tootie meets a Yale student who pretends to be a young Aborigine.
Release Date1987-02-15
Charactersd David Johnson
Vote Count3
Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery, Sara loses her child. Returning home, she is shocked to find Derek there with a gun, but things are not as they seem. Determined to do penance for a lifetime of bad choices, Derek places himself in Sara's power, and Sara, who has been viciously abused by men in the past, takes the opportunity for vengeance. As they grow to know each other, they both will form a lifesaving bond or kill each other first!
Release Date2011-04-09
Charactersd Trevor
Vote Count3
At 10:20 pm, on a foggy December 25th in 1951, a bomb exploded under their small shotgun-style home on the outskirts of Mims, Florida - directly under their bedroom. It was both Christmas Day, and Harry and Harriette's 25th wedding anniversary.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Harry T. Moore
A semi-autobiographical story about an adventurer whose journeys take him from Harlem to the high seas and back again
Release Date2008-08-22
Charactersd Pirate Captain
Vote Count1
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. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact Pullman porters were often called "George" by white passengers, which was considered a racial slur.
Release Date2002-02-24
Charactersd Ashley Totten
Vote Count9
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.
Release Date2025-12-18
Charactersd Self - Director, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (archive footage)
Vote Count28
A documentary about the making of director Michael Mann's feature film "Ali".
Release Date2001-12-12
Charactersd Self
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making of new superstars to the craft of rising auteurs.
Release Date2022-10-09
Charactersd Self
Vote Count36
The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and audiences' undying fascination with these misunderstood creatures.
Release Date2024-10-12
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
Jim Brown: All-American is a 2002 documentary film directed by Spike Lee. The film takes a look at the life of NFL hall-of-famer Jim Brown. The film delves into his life—past, present and future—focusing on his athletic career, acting and activism. Many people from Hollywood and sports backgrounds were interviewed for the film. Members of Brown's family were also interviewed for the film.
Release Date2002-03-22
Charactersd Self
Vote Count6
Interviews and film clips re-create the glorious history of the American western.
Release Date1997-07-27
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
A behind the scenes look on Jaws The Revenge with interviews from the cast and crew.
Release Date1987-07-10
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you’ll see this week. For our third tape, we’re diving into the most controversial, hotly debated topic of all time: HORROR SEQUELS! Thank you for your generous support during these difficult times. And remember: “This makes Guns N’ Roses look like THE BRADY BUNCH.”
Release Date2020-05-06
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
In 1971, director Melvin Van Peebles turned the figure of the black hero in US cinema upside down with Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song: the story of the making of a seminal movie that initiated the Blaxploitation movement, a short-lived but highly influential sub-genre in the years that followed.
Release Date2022-03-16
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has any connection to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.
Release Date2003-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2525
Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty percent of the planet's population, the crew of a lone naval destroyer must find a way to pull humanity from the brink of extinction.
Release Date2014-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Release Date2004-09-22
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Episode Count1
Vote Count5132
A riveting police drama about the men and women of the Chicago Police Department's District 21 who put it all on the line to serve and protect their community. District 21 is made up of two distinctly different groups: the uniformed cops who patrol the beat and go head-to-head with the city's street crimes and the Intelligence Unit that combats the city's major offenses - organized crime, drug trafficking, high profile murders and beyond.
Release Date2014-01-08
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Episode Count1
Vote Count2599
The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) are an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States and overseas. The show focused on the original and founding charter, Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original, often referred to by the acronym SAMCRO, Sam Crow, or simply Redwood Charter. The charter operates both legal and illegal businesses in the small town of Charming, California. They combine gun-running and a garage, and involvement in porn film industry. Clay, the charter president, likes it old school and violent; while Jax, his stepson and the club's VP, has thoughts about changing the way things are done. Their conflict has effects on both the club and their personal relationship, especially when Jax goes on a personal quest to cleanse the SAMCRO name and image.
Release Date2008-09-03
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Episode Count1
Vote Count3298
There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell.
Release Date2011-10-23
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Episode Count3
Vote Count2491
Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes face personal and professional challenges as they navigate their paths as artists and individuals. Surrounding them, and often complicating their lives, are their family, friends and, in some cases, lovers, as well as the up-and-coming performers and songwriters trying to get ahead in the business.
Release Date2012-10-10
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Episode Count3
Vote Count252
A successful New York entrepreneur lives a double life as the head of a drug empire that serves only the rich and influential, all while wanting to escape the underworld and keep his family safe.
Release Date2014-06-07
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Episode Count1
Vote Count1295
Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.
Release Date2021-07-18
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Episode Count4
Vote Count220
Facing an existential threat that could bring down the Crime Lab, a brilliant team of forensic investigators must welcome back old friends and deploy new techniques to preserve and serve justice in Sin City.
Release Date2021-10-06
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Episode Count1
Vote Count318
A relentless LAPD cop becomes obsessed with taking down the master thief behind a string of daring heists — and only one can come out on top.
Release Date2026-05-14
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Episode Count2
Vote Count91
A year after the death of his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty, Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare disorders. However, he soon finds that his old life is not done with him yet.
Release Date2025-01-26
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Episode Count1
Vote Count64
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
Release Date1987-09-16
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Episode Count1
Vote Count37
A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of his parents' hotel, he threatens to expose the Rayburns' dark secrets and shameful past, pushing his siblings to the limits of family loyalty.
Release Date2015-03-20
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Episode Count2
Vote Count400
Star is a tough-as-nails young woman who came up in the foster care system and decides one day to take control of her destiny. She tracks down her sister, Simone, and her Instagram bestie, Alexandra, and together, the trio journeys to Atlanta with the hope of becoming music superstars.
Release Date2016-12-14
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Episode Count1
Vote Count142
In the early 1990s in New York, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic, a visionary musician named Bobby Diggs aka The RZA begins to form a super group of a dozen young, black men, who will eventually rise to become one of the unlikeliest success stories in American music history.
Release Date2019-09-04
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Episode Count5
Vote Count300
Mayor Tom Kane sits like a spider at the center of Chicago's web of power; a web built on a covenant with the people. They want to be led, they want disputes settled, jobs dispensed, and loyalties rewarded. If he achieves all this through deception and immorality, so be it. As long as he gets the job done, they look the other way. Yet despite being the most effective mayor in recent history, a degenerative brain disorder is ripping everything away from him. He can't trust his memory, his closest allies, or even himself.
Release Date2011-10-21
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Episode Count5
Vote Count140
An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", chronicling the history of an African slave, Kunta Kinte sold to America and his descendants.
Release Date2016-05-30
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Episode Count4
Vote Count178
As the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and cracking conspiracies. But when his beautiful wife, Laila, is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of the most compelling mysteries in human history, stretching around the world and back centuries.
Release Date2013-02-14
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Episode Count1
Vote Count60
Two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past – a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake.
Release Date2023-11-01
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Episode Count1
Vote Count51
Gabriel's Fire is an American television series that ran on ABC in the USA in 1990–1991. A revamped version of the series, entitled Pros and Cons, aired briefly the following season.
Release Date1990-09-12
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Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann. Schindel has been nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Release Date2002-09-27
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Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Release Date2016-09-22
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Vote Count665
Top of the Hill is a short-lived political drama series aired by CBS as part of its 1989 fall lineup.
Release Date1989-09-21
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Episode Count1
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In Tennessee, Bailey, a debt-straddled blues guitarist, is escorted across the state by a man named Augy so that he can collect his recently deceased grandfather's estate. A drama focused on an individual's spiritual redemption.
Release Date2011-08-26
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Vote Count11
Salt-N-Pepa details the journey of Queensborough Community College students Cheryl “Salt” James and Sandra “Pepa” Denton as they enter the world of rap and hip hop, after recording a song for their friend Hurby Azor. Salt-N-Pepa made a huge impact as one of the first all-female rap groups, changing the look of hip hop and being unafraid to talk about sex and share their thoughts on men. The movie follows the group as they become the first female rap act to go platinum and experience ground-breaking success with multiple awards, including a Grammy award – paving the way for all female rappers to follow. The film will feature performances of Salt-N-Pepa’s greatest hits, including: “Let’s Talk About Sex”, “What a Man”, “Shoop” and “Push It”. The movie stars GG Townson as Cheryl “Salt” James, Laila Odom as Sandra “Pepa” Denton, Cleveland Berto as music producer “Hurby Azor,” Jermel Howard as rapper “Treach” and Monique Paul as “DJ Spinderella.”
Release Date2021-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
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Vote Count16
Living Single is an American television sitcom that aired for five seasons on the Fox network from August 22, 1993, to January 1, 1998. The show centered on the lives of six friends who share personal and professional experiences while living in a Brooklyn brownstone. Throughout its run, Living Single became one of the most popular African-American sitcoms of its era, ranking among the top five in African-American ratings in all five seasons. The series was produced by Yvette Lee Bowser's company, Sister Lee, in association with Warner Bros. Television. In contrast to the popularity of NBC's "Must See TV" on Thursday nights in the 1990s, many African American and Latino viewers flocked to Fox's Thursday night line-up of Martin, Living Single, and New York Undercover. In fact, these were the three highest-rated series among black households for the 1996–1997 season.
Release Date1993-08-29
Episode Count1
Vote Count53
Travel through time via music and comedy drawn from the forty-year library of the legendary, but fictional, musical variety show called “Sherman's Showcase.”
Release Date2019-07-31
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Sonny Spoon is a detective program aired in the United States on the NBC television network in 1988. The series was created by Michael Daly, Dinah Prince, Stephen J. Cannell and Randall Wallace and produced by Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
Release Date1988-02-12
Episode Count15
Vote Count2
Release Date2005-02-01
Episode Count3
CBS News looks at Malcolm X, focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965, suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The film intercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family, friends, colleagues, scholars, and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being Elijah Muhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS details his death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou, Dick Gregory, and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was our manhood," eulogized Ossie Davis.
Release Date1992-11-18
Vote Count1
After one burned dinner too many, a husband divorces his wife. She decides to return to acting and goes to France. There she meats a forgotten one-hit wonder director who's also looking for a chance to make a comeback.
Release Date2011-05-27
After the Crown Heights riots, an orthodox Rabbi and a community activist help two youths--one a Hasidic Jew, the other African-American--form a hip-hop group to heal their neighboorhood.
Release Date2004-01-01
Vote Count1
Ricky Bell, an all-pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who died of a rare muscle disease in the prime of his career. The plot centers on Bell's relationship with a father-less handicapped boy, and his efforts to be a big brother to him. The boy ends up being an inspiration for Bell when his disease makes the athlete more afflicted than the boy.
Release Date1991-04-02
Vote Count10
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
Release Date1988-01-18
Vote Count2
A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday-themed wedding in a desperate last attempt to win her back.
Release Date2023-12-14
Vote Count2
Bank robbers on the run from the police invade a mansion and take the owners hostage.
Release Date1998-11-11
Vote Count1
Melvin Van Peebles was one of the first black directors to challenge the white establishment in his films, which include "Watermelon Man" and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song." In this documentary, the life of Van Peebles is discussed, including his work not only in film, but also as a novelist, actor, musician, stock trader and even Air Force pilot. Interview subjects include Gil Scott-Heron, Spike Lee and Melvin's son and fellow filmmaker, Mario Van Peebles.
Release Date2005-04-07
Vote Count5
