Melvin Van Peebles Movies

A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.

The second short film Melvin Van Peebles made in San Francisco before decamping for Europe is a striking portrait of a group of day labourers competing to secure a job.

A black man steals to afford to marry the woman he loves. After being released from prison, he returns in time to see his daughter’s wedding.

The comedic tale of two minions of the devil who crash a Harlem party thrown by Miss Maybell with high hopes of destroying its festive atmosphere. The first of the…

La permission A black American soldier is demoted for fraternizing with a white girl in France.

A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.

Jeff Gerber, an insurance agent, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. He is also both racist and a fitness freak. But Jeff’s bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people…

Melvin Van Peebles wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed and starred in this powerful and inflammatory attack on White America. After the body of a black man is discovered, Sweetback helps…