Les cinq cent balles
A boy sees a 500-franc note under a sewer grate and tries to retrieve it.
The Story of a Three Day Pass
Turner, a black American soldier, is given three days leave in Paris. Not knowing what to do with himself, he goes to a nightclub where he meets a French girl named Miriam. Their romance blossoms, but their love affair is darkened by Turner's impending departure and the specter of racial prejudice.
Don't Play Us Cheap
As an African American family and friends gather in an apartment for a house party, two mischief-making devil-bats take human form in order to break up the party.
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
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.
Sunlight
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.
Three Pickup Men for Herrick
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.
Watermelon Man
A racist insurance agent lives in a typical suburban neighborhood, but his bigoted world of taunting and harassing black people on and off the job is turned upside down when his skin inexplicably turns dark overnight.
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Melvin Van Peebles
Director
Florita Peres
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Christian Marin
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Hotelman / L'hôtelier
Esther Rolle
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Miss Maybell
Joe Tornatore
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John Amos
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Biker
Jerry Jones
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Landfill Laborer
Ethelreda Leopold
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Pedestrian
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