Ben Shenkman
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1968-09-26
Locus Natus: New York City, New York, USA
Et ut: Бен Шенкман
Pi
A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
release : 1998.07.10popularis : 16.246
Quiz Show
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show,...
release : 1994.08.25popularis : 15.04
Chasing Sleep
A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
release : 2001.05.16popularis : 8.429
Just Like Heaven
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts...
release : 2005.09.16popularis : 22.912
Then She Found Me
A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an...
release : 2007.09.07popularis : 9.443
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is...
release : 2009.09.25popularis : 6.034
Solitary Man
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
release : 2009.09.07popularis : 11.584
Breakfast with Scot
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.
release : 2007.11.16popularis : 7.027
Blue Valentine
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However,...
release : 2010.12.26popularis : 12.851
The Key Man
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.
release : 2011.02.18popularis : 6.25
Concussion
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more:...
release : 2013.01.17popularis : 15.043
Forty Winks
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...
release : 2022.03.19popularis : 4.5
Breathe In
When a foreign exchange student arrives in a small upstate New York town, she challenges the dynamics of her host family's relationships and alters...
release : 2013.01.18popularis : 16.219
Camp Stories
A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
release : 1997.04.18popularis : 5.737
Table One
Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the New York City social scene have trouble meeting...
release : 2000.01.01popularis : 1.881
Thick as Thieves
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...
release : 1999.04.09popularis : 7.384
30 Days
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...
release : 1999.09.15popularis : 1.791
People I Know
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
release : 2002.11.21popularis : 11.447
Joe Gould's Secret
Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the...
release : 2000.01.21popularis : 4.091
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his...
release : 2006.01.15popularis : 1.625
The Conspiracy
It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews have a secret international plot to control...
release : 2022.11.17popularis : 2.278
Requiem for a Dream
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
release : 2000.10.06popularis : 18.055
Must Love Dogs
Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As...
release : 2005.07.21popularis : 14.145
Personal Velocity
In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
release : 2002.01.12popularis : 3.94
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
A rambunctious extended family descends upon their small Long Island hometown for the holidays where hijinks, generational squabbles, and family...
release : 2024.11.14popularis : 4.828
Americanese
Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling...
release : 2006.03.15popularis : 1.475
Roger Dodger
A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets...
release : 2002.05.09popularis : 19.709
Jesus' Son
A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
release : 2000.06.16popularis : 8.628
The Trial of the Chicago 7
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
release : 2020.09.25popularis : 16.591
Eraser
U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee...
release : 1996.06.21popularis : 20.994
The Siege
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...
release : 1998.11.06popularis : 13.774