Screenplay: Melvin Van Peebles

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Melvin Van Peebles. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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1969 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Pierre Grimblat

Cast Serge Gainsbourg · Jane Birkin · Andrea Parisy · Daniel Gélin

Plot In Venice, forty-old-year old Serge Fabergé has just been given the best advertisement director award. While taking a walk on the Piazza San Marco, Serge meets Evelyn Nicholson, a twenty-three-year-old...

5.8

26 votes

5.8

26 votes

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song

1971 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Cast Simon Chuckster · Melvin Van Peebles · Hubert Scales · John Dullaghan

Plot The film tells the story of Sweetback (Van Peebles), an apolitical black sex performer who becomes a reluctant picaresque hero when he kills the two white policemen who brutalized a...

5.0

211 votes

5.0

211 votes

Sunlight (S)

1957 · Documentary · 10 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Plot 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.

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The Story of a 3-Day Pass

1968 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Cast Harry Baird · Nicole Berger · Pierre Doris · Christian Marin

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

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Greased Lightning

1977 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Michael Schultz

Cast Richard Pryor · Beau Bridges · Pam Grier · Cleavon Little

Plot The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper tier NASCAR race.

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Three Pickup Men for Herrick (S)

1957 · Documentary · 9 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Plot A portrait of a group of men hoping to be picked for day-labor jobs.

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Cinq cent balles (S)

1963 · Documentary · 12 min. · France

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

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

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Just an Old Sweet Song (TV)

1976 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Robert Ellis Miller

Cast Cicely Tyson · Robert Hooks · Beah Richards · Lincoln Kilpatrick

Plot A black family from Detroit takes a two-week vacation in the South. The trip changes their lives.

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Tales of Erotica

1996 · Movie · min. · United States

Direction Bob Rafelson · Ken Russell · Susan Seidelman · Melvin Van Peebles

Cast Sharon Angela · Richard Barboza · Hetty Baynes · Charles Gerbel

Plot A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

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Don't Play Us Cheap

1972 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Van Peebles

Cast Thomas Anderson · Jay Van Leer · Robert Dunn · Mabel King

Plot Film version of Melvin Van Peebles' Broadway musical. A pair of devil-bats take human form and crash a Harlem house party in an attempt to break it up. But somehow,...

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