Cast: Paul Benjamin
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Paul Benjamin. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 28
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
Deacons for Defense (TV)
2003 · Movie · 78 min. · United States
Direction Bill Duke
Cast Forest Whitaker · Chris Britton · Jonathan Silverman · Ossie Davis
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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.
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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.
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Back to the Streets of San Francisco (TV)
1992 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
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.
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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...
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys (TV)
1976 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
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...
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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...
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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...
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