The best Benny Safdie’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Benny Safdie’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Benny Safdie.
Licorice Pizza
7.1/10
The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
Good Time
7.3/10
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
7.3/10
Film adaptation of 1970 young adult novel of the same name.
Pieces of a Woman
7/10
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
Person to Person
5.7/10
Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day.
Goldman v Silverman
6.5/10
Rod Goldman and Al Silverman are street performers who work the tourist scene of Times Square. Goldman gets no respect and Silverman is the first one to make sure of that.
Yeast
5.9/10
A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships.
Solid Gold
5.7/10
SOLID GOLD is an experiment in street performance and how to be seen. It's about a Golden Man in the streets and subways of New York, who tries and that's all that matters.
Money on the Street: The Making of Uncut Gems
A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more.
Meet the Filmmakers: Josh and Benny Safdie
7.2/10
Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and shorts.
A Hot Two Weeks: The Making of Heaven Knows What
The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes. "This behind the scenes look at the film features revealing interviews with Arielle, the Safdies and most heartbreaking footage of the real Ilya on set during the shoot. This is a must watch." - Ion Cinema
There's Nothing You Can Do.
6/10
The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies.
The Acquaintances of a Lonely John
6.2/10
This is the story of a lonely man named John. He wanders through the city into various acquaintances of varying levels of niceness. He sees a lot of people but sometimes they just don't want to be bothered with him.
John's Lonely Trip to Coney Island
John embarks on a trip to Coney Island for a day of fun and happiness. Things don't quite work out as planned.
The Pure and the Damned
7.7/10
Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘The Pure and the Damned’ music video from the soundtrack of Good Time (2017) featuring Iggy Pop.
What To Do When Choking
A short film by Ben Safdie.
If You See Something, Say Something
A short film by JoshSafdie.
The Ralph Handel Story
Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself to actual nightclubs for several of these abysmal routines, lending a curious note of authenticity to the counterfeit documentary.
Into the Woods with Mark
A film by Ben Safdie.
John's Gone
6.2/10
John's Gone is a fever dream comedy about John's World soon after his mother passes away. He sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches, and is prematurely thrust into the cruel wasteland that is the world around him. He is surrounded by people who don't speak his language, junk he piles up in his apartment filled with cultural beacons he ignores with idea of a potential sale. He is punch drunk (not with love) but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's Gone. Written by Josh and Benny Safdie
