Cast: Paul Benjamin

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Paul Benjamin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Escape from Alcatraz

1979 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Don Siegel

Cast Clint Eastwood · Patrick McGoohan · Roberts Blossom · Jack Thibeau

Synopsis San Francisco, january 1960. Frank Morris (Clint Eastwood), a hardened con with a history of prison breaks, is sent to serve the rest of his life sentence at Alcatraz -- America's most infamously brutal and inescapable maximum security prison. Morris...

7.6

33K votes

7.6

33K votes

Do the Right Thing

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Synopsis It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria. Mookie, Sal's delivery boy, manages to always be at the...

7.3

12K votes

7.3

12K votes

The Station Agent

2003 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Tom McCarthy

Cast Patricia Clarkson · Peter Dinklage · Bobby Cannavale · Michelle Williams

Synopsis Peter Dinklage stars as handsome dwarf Fin McBride, who can work up far more passion for trains than people. When Fin’s train-store boss dies and leaves him an abandoned depot, Fin hopes solitude will at last be his. But his...

7.1

9K votes

7.1

9K votes

Across 110th Street

1972 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yaphet Kotto · Anthony Franciosa · Paul Benjamin

Synopsis Two New York City cops go after amateur crooks who are trying to rip off the Mafia and start a gang war.

6.2

571 votes

6.2

571 votes

Nuts

1987 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Barbra Streisand · Richard Dreyfuss · Karl Malden · Maureen Stapleton

Synopsis Barbra Streisand is a mad high-priced "escort" accused of murder, but whether she's mad as hell or mad as a hatter is the question in this courtroom drama, adapted from the play by Tom Topor. While her doting, willfully uncomprehending...

5.7

968 votes

5.7

968 votes

The Anderson Tapes

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Dyan Cannon · Martin Balsam · Christopher Walken

Synopsis A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is...

5.6

795 votes

5.6

795 votes

Vanishing Point (TV)

1997 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Charles Robert Carner

Cast Viggo Mortensen · Jason Priestley · Christine Elise · Steve Railsback

Synopsis Starring Viggo Mortensen before he became a star in LORD OF THE RINGS, VANISHING POINT is a remake of the 1971 cult classic. Mortensen plays Jimmy Kowalski, a former army ranger who learns that his pregnant wife has become quite...

5.4

111 votes

5.4

111 votes

The Deadly Trackers

1973 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Barry Shear · Samuel Fuller

Cast Richard Harris · Rod Taylor · Al Lettieri · Neville Brand

Synopsis Sheriff Sean Kilpatrick is a pacifist. Frank Brand is the leader of a band of killers. When their paths cross Kilpatrick is compelled to go against everything he has stood for to bring death to Brand and his gang. Through...

5.4

195 votes

5.4

195 votes

Friday Foster

1975 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Marks

Cast Pam Grier · Yaphet Kotto · Godfrey Cambridge · Thalmus Rasulala

Synopsis Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a...

5.3

53 votes

5.3

53 votes

The Super

1991 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction Rod Daniel

Cast Joe Pesci · Vincent Gardenia · Rubén Blades · Madolyn Smith Osborne

Synopsis Louie Kritski (Joe Pesci) is a New York slum landlord who is given 120 days to repair one of his apartment blocks. The problem for Louie is that he must live in the rundown block until the repairs are complete....

4.8

700 votes

4.8

700 votes

Back in the Day

2005 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction James Hunter

Cast Ja Rule · Ving Rhames · Tatyana Ali · Paul Benjamin

Synopsis Reggie Cooper (Ja Rule) is a young man from the rough side of the tracks who lives with his divorced, affluent father (Esposito) in order to avoid the gang activity that almost claimed his teenage life in his mother's neighborhood...

3.3

70 votes

3.3

70 votes

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The Breaks

1999 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Eric Meza

Cast Anthony Anderson · Isaiah Barnes · Max Becker · Paula Bel

Synopsis Adopted by a black family in L.A., Derrick grows up an Irish white boy who thinks he's black! When his mother catches him romantically entangled with a woman on her couch, he's thrown out with an ultimatum.

Not rated

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The Five Heartbeats

1991 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Robert Townsend

Cast Robert Townsend · Michael Wright · Leon · Harry Lennix

Synopsis The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.

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A Stranger Waits (TV)

1987 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Robert Michael Lewis

Cast Suzanne Pleshette · Tom Atkins · Paul Benjamin · Justin Deas

Synopsis A beautiful widow decides to rest in a mansion by the sea and begins an affair with a stranger. This man will prove to be a psychopath who will try to kill her.

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Mel Damski

Cast Karl Malden · Debrah Farentino · Conor O'Farrell · Carl Lumbly

Synopsis SFPD Captain Mike Stone investigates the disappearance of his old partner Steve Keller.

Not rated

Not rated

Drop Squad

1994 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction David C. Johnson

Cast Eriq La Salle · Vondie Curtis-Hall · Ving Rhames · Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis Political satire about an underground militant group that kidnaps African-Americans who have sold out their race. The story follows as the group led Curtis-Hall and Rhames kidnaps an advertising executive (La Salle) who has been providing advertising programs that belittles...

Not rated

Not rated

Direction Fielder Cook

Cast Arthur Hill · Ellen Barber · Paul Benjamin · Larry Butts

Synopsis In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent, and against all advice from his friends...

Not rated

Not rated

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (TV)

1987 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Mann

Cast Val Kilmer · Charles Durning · Sônia Braga · Kyra Sedgwick

Synopsis A veteran of World War I returns to the United States but cannot find his place in the society. For a small robbery he is condemned to ten years of prison...

Not rated

Not rated

The Atlanta Child Murders (TV)

1985 · Movie · 245 min. · United States

Direction John Erman

Cast Calvin Levels · Morgan Freeman · James Earl Jones · Rip Torn

Synopsis The city of Atlanta, Georgia, is terrorized by a rash of child murders occurring in its black community. When a black photographer is arrested for the crimes, controversy erupts over whether he is the actual killer or a scapegoat offered...

Not rated

Not rated