Ben Shenkman Movies

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his...

Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his...

Plot kept under wraps.

Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the...

A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.

An insurance salesman gets mixed up with two gangsters in effort to make more money and provide for his family, but things don't go as he planned.

Forty Winks follows Fabio Berker, struggling Hypnotist in New York City, as he is blackmailed into being the world's first hypnotist hit man by a...

Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the New York City social scene have trouble meeting...

A man named Ethan, a retired true-crime podcaster, is forced to dive back into danger when his sister, Emily, mysteriously vanishes.

Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling...

It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews have a secret international plot to control...

Jordan meets Sarah on a blind date. His family announces they're moving, and his best friend is getting a quickie wedding. Jordan panics and breaks...