The best Melvin Van Peebles’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Melvin Van Peebles’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Melvin Van Peebles.
Watermelon Man
6.7/10
Jeff Gerber, a racist insurance agent and fitness freak, lives in a typical suburban neighborhood. But Jeff's bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight. As Jeff tries to come to terms with this unexplained phenomenon that has befallen him, he soon becomes the victim himself, when all of his friends and neighbors suddenly shun and harass him.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
5.5/10
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.
Redemption Road
5.6/10
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.
Gang in Blue
5.6/10
A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Farewell, Babylon!
5.9/10
Arrabal's sixth film based on his novel from 1969 with the same name as the movie.
