Ben Shenkman Movies

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...

The lives of Eric, an ex hockey player, and his partner Sam, are thrown into turmoil when they are forced to take in Scot, a flamboyant 11-year-old.

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...

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

In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.

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

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.

After starting a painting business right before the housing crash, a filmmaker drives over 35,000 miles to track down the people who saw it coming...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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