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Mario Van Peebles


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Mario Van Peebles - what members say


  • Raw Nerve
  • Raw Nerve review by A customer from Midlands ,England.
    Rated - 1.0 stars Too much bad language. 24 August 2005
    ...the F word,as well as being unable to fathom out the plot.A poor example of Mario Van Peebles acting ability. Not worth the money it cost to make!!. ...   Read customer review
  • Jaws 4 - The Revenge
  • Jaws 4 - The Revenge review by MAVERICK from Knottingley
    Rated - 1.0 stars A TOOTHLESS ADDITION......IT SUCKS! 25 April 2009
    ...ced with the original Shark explosion from the first classic film, and even has Mario Van Peebles survive the Jaws of the Shark, it's just pathetic. If you really must hunt down...   Read customer review
  • Highlander 3
  • Highlander 3 review by from East Yorkshire
    Rated - 3.0 stars This one should have being called Highlander 2 5 May 2005
    ... it seems to ignore the story line of the second completely. And I thought that Mario Van Peebles was very good at playing the sadistic villain. Hope you enjoy the film as much ...   Read customer review

Mario Van Peebles - filmography


  • Hard Luck on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Wesley Snipes,  Cybill Shepherd
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer (Snipes) tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife (Shephard) hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 1,822 member
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  • The Hebrew Hammer on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Adam Goldberg,  Judy Greer,  Andy Dick
    Director: Jonathan Kesselman
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The Hebrew Hammer stars Adam Goldberg in the title role of this holiday farce as a handsome Orthodox stud and man of action who is called upon to save Hanukkah. When Santa Claus' evil son Damian (Dick) is pushed over the edge by his father's liberal policies, he murders the Christian patriarch and, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 157 members
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  • Ali on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Will Smith,  Jamie Foxx,  Jon Voight
    Director: Michael Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Michael Mann's ALI manages to be an informative look at the career of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and an entertaining and moving portrait of the man. The action begins with the brash young Cassius Clay's surprising victory over Sonny Liston. The film depicts Clay's conversion to Islam, his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 15,666 members
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  • Guardian on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  James Remar,  Ice-T
    Director: John Terlesky
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    An inner city thriller with a supernatural twist, GUARDIAN stars Mario Van Peebles as an LA cop named John Kross. Kross was in the Marines during the Gulf War, where he witnessed the release of a deadly supernatural force. Now, he and his partner Carpenter (James Remar) have discovered that the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 82 members
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  • Raw Nerve on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Nicolette Sheridan,  Zach Galligan
    Director: Avi Nesher
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When nervous rookie cop Ethan Lang (Galligan) freezes during a holdup/shootout, two other officers die. NYPD compatriot Blair Valdez (Van Peebles) covers up the kid's fatal failure. Much later, when Lang has become a law professor, Valdez comes back to collect on the favor. He's facing an internal ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 82 members
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  • Blowback on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  James Remar,  Sharisse Baker
    Director: Mark L. Lester
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Detective Don Morrell (Van Peebles - POSSE) thinks he can finally close a painful chapter in his life when he witnesses the state execution of the serial killer Claude Whitman (Remar - HELLRAISER V). But when members of the jury that delivered the death sentence fall victim to a series of brutal ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 86 members
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  • Judgement Day on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Ice-T,  Suzy Amis,  Linden Ashby
    Director: John Terlesky
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Deep in space, a meteor collides with a giant asteroid. If fragments from the crash strike earth all life will be eliminated. The government hires Dr. Richard Secor (David Wells)--developer of the THOR anti-meteor device--to stop the impending storm of flaming stone. Everything would be fine, if ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 138 members
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  • Valentine's Day on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Randy Quaid,  Rae Dawn Chong
    Director: Duane Clark
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Tony Denisio, a member of the Massimo crime family has agreed to turn state's evidence but has refused official police protection. Luckless Detective Jack Valentine (Mario van Peebles) has been assigned to protect him and no sooner arrives at his assignment only to see the crime boss blown away in ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 38% from 57 members
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  • Love Kills (1998)
    Starring: Loretta Devine,  Lucy Liu,  Mario Van Peebles
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Van Peebles -- one of the hardest working men in Hollywood -- stars as Poe Finklestein, a smooth-talking con man determined to get his hands on the ample assets of Evelyn Weiss, a recently-widowed trophy wife (Warren). However, he soon learns that he's at the back of a long line of relatives and ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 19% from 12 members
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  • Crazy Six on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Burt Reynolds,  Rob Lowe,  Mario Van Peebles
    Director: Albert Pyun
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In a futuristic Europe where anarchy reigns, a turf war erupts between powerful crime families who supply the warring nations and guerrilla factions with the necessary armaments--and other black market accouterments.
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 113 members
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  • Stag on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Andrew McCarthy,  Jennifer McShane
    Director: Gavin Wilding
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    A bachelor party goes awry when a stripper is killed after a party game goes horribly wrong. The ten men vow to stick to the same story but there is one problem, there is another stripper who's not so keen to go along with their plan.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 122 members
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  • Fist Of The North Star on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Gary Daniels,  Christopher Penn,  Costas Mandylor
    Director: Tony Randel
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Based on the graphic novel "Hokuto No Ken" by Buronson & Tetsuo Hara, this live-action sci-fi action epic is an apocalyptic adventure centring on a man who must reverse the cataclysmic conditions of his world. Nietzschean hero Kenshiro wanders the wastelands of a neo-medieval future. He also ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 490 members
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  • Panther (1995)
    Starring: Ralph Ahn,  Joe Don Baker,  Angela Bassett
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Panther is a semi-historic film about the origins of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. The movie spans about 3 years (1966-68) of the Black Panther's history in Oakland. Panther also uses historical footage (B/W) to emphasize some points
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 13 members
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  • Full Eclipse (1994)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Patsy Kensit,  Bruce Payne
    Director: Anthony Hickox
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After his partner's suicide, a cop (Mario Van Peebles) seeks counseling only to be recruited into the Pack, a special group of vigilante cops. Injecting a secret serum into their veins, these cops transform into ferocious, unstoppable werewolves who attack and destroy criminals in the streets. But ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 307 members
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  • Highlander 3 on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Christopher Lambert,  Mario Van Peebles,  Deborah Unger
    Director: Andy Morahan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The 'Highlander' saga continues, with Mario Van Peebles joining the action as a villain. Christopher Lambert reprises his role as Connor MacLeod, the ancient Scotsman. Van Peebles is Kane, an ancient fighter who seeks revenge for being imprisoned for 400 years.
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 5,073 members
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  • Posse on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Stephen Baldwin,  Richard Jordan
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This shoot-'em-up revisionist Western traces the little-known legend of black cowboys in the Old West, who participated in settling the frontier and played an unrecognised role in U.S. history. During the Spanish-American War, a multi-racial group of U.S. soldiers go on a dangerous mission under ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 492 members
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  • New Jack City on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Wesley Snipes,  Ice-T,  Judd Nelson
    Director: Mario Van Peebles
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Drug baron Nino Brown and his gang hit the streets with the highly addictive drug, crack. Taking over a town building they set up their own crack factory, but all is not lost. Two renegade cops infiltrate the operation and plan Brown's downfall.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 3,077 members
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  • Hotshot (1987)
    Starring: Jim Youngs,  Pele,  Billy Warlock
    Director: Rick King
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Jaws 4 - The Revenge on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Lance Guest,  Lorraine Gary
    Director: Joseph Sargent
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The now widowed Ellen Brody must re-live the horrors of the past when she moves to the Bahamas to be with her marine biologist son Michael. The nightmares start when her grand-daughter is attacked by a Great White Shark...
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 3,778 members
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  • Heartbreak Ridge - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Marsha Mason,  Everett McGill
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: £2.49
    Clint Eastwood takes a revisionist approach to his tough-guy persona once again in HEARTBREAK RIDGE. As he had done in TIGHTROPE and PALE RIDER, and as he would do even more memorably in UNFORGIVEN, Eastwood probes beneath the surface of his prototypical character, a man who feels most at ease amid ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 298 members
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  • Heartbreak Ridge on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Marsha Mason,  Everett McGill
    Director: Clint Eastwood
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Clint Eastwood takes a revisionist approach to his tough-guy persona once again in HEARTBREAK RIDGE. As he had done in TIGHTROPE and PALE RIDER, and as he would do even more memorably in UNFORGIVEN, Eastwood probes beneath the surface of his prototypical character, a man who feels most at ease amid ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,944 members
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  • Delivery Boys on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Mario Van Peebles,  Joss Marcano,  Tom Sierchio
    Director: Ken Handler
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Three pizza house 'Delivery Boys' enter the All-City Breakdance Championship. Their main rivals force a girl who works in the pizza house to arrange long deliveries where strange and bizarre things occur... anything to prevent the 'Delivery Boys' from competing!
    2 stars out of 5 32% from 34 members
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  • Multiple Sarcasms
    Starring: Timothy Hutton,  Mira Sorvino,  Dana Delany
    Director: Brooks Branch
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It's New York, 1979. Gabriel Richmond is a talented architect with a seemingly rich life as he has a caring wife, loving daughter and life long friends. Yet, he spends most days in the movie theater, hiding out from work, escaping into a fictional world where he can more readily relate to the made ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 35% from 2 members
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Mario Van Peebles facts

5 most recent films

Redemption Road - 3.0 stars
Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha - 3 stars
Hard Luck - 2.5 stars
The Hebrew Hammer - 2.5 stars
Baadasssss! - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Heartbreak Ridge - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Heartbreak Ridge - 3.5 stars
New Jack City - 3.0 stars
Ali - 3.0 stars
Baadasssss! - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha - 3 stars
Hotshot - 3 stars
In The Line Of Duty - Street War - 1.0 stars
Love Kills - 1.0 stars
South Bronx Warriors - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Ice-T - 5 times - show films
Charles Lane - 4 times - show films
Salli Richardson - 4 times - show films
Wesley Snipes - 4 times - show films
Richard Jordan - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Mann - 3 times - show films
Tony Randel - 3 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 3 times - show films
Jonathan Kesselman - 2 times - show films
John Terlesky - 2 times - show films