The best Paul Benjamin’s movies

Paul Benjamin

Paul Benjamin

04/02/1938- 28/06/2019
Today we present the best Paul Benjamin’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Paul Benjamin’s movies.
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Escape From Alcatraz

Escape From Alcatraz
7.6/10
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/05/1969
  • Character: Bartender
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Do the Right Thing

Do the Right Thing
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/06/1989
  • Character: ML
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

Hoodlum

Hoodlum
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1997
  • Character: Whispers
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

Rosewood

Rosewood
7.2/10
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

Friday Foster

Friday Foster
6/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 25/12/1975
  • Character: Senator David Lee Hart
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 web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow".

The Station Agent

The Station Agent
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/01/2003
  • Character: Henry Styles
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.

Nuts

Nuts
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/11/1987
  • Character: Harry Harrison
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Across 110th Street

Across 110th Street
7/10
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Some Kind of Hero

Some Kind of Hero
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/04/1982
  • Character: Leon
A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

The Anderson Tapes

The Anderson Tapes
6.4/10
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.

Deadly Force

Deadly Force
4.9/10
Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend is killed by serial killer terrorizing L.A. Although almost nobody in his old home town is happy to see him back, Cooper pledges to bring the killer to justice before any more innocent people die.

Back in the Day

Back in the Day
4.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/05/2005
  • Character: Cody
A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.

The Breaks

The Breaks
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/02/1999
  • Character: Clerk
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.

Born to Win

Born to Win
5.7/10
A smart-mouthed junkie and a former hairdresser spends his days looking for just "one more fix".

Back to the Streets of San Francisco

Back to the Streets of San Francisco
6.3/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 27/01/1992
  • Character: Henry Brown
Mike Stone's back and his old partner, Steve Keller, is missing. So Mike heads up an investigation. At the same time, he is investigating another brutal murder. And he is trying to decide which of two inspectors shall he recommend for the position of Lieutenant; a woman who has a "Dirty Harry" tendency or a man who reminds him of Steve Keller.

Leadbelly

Leadbelly
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/05/1976
  • Character: Wes Ledbetter
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

The Meeting

The Meeting
9.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/05/1989
  • Character: Rashad
Fictional meeting between Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in Harlem in the early '60's.

Ascension Day

Ascension Day
8.2/10
  • Release: 02/02/2007
  • Character: Sam
A drama focused on Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia.

The Deadly Trackers

The Deadly Trackers
5.6/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 21/12/1973
  • Character: Jacob
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 his hunt into Mexico he is challenged by a noble Mexican Sheriff interested only in carrying out the law - not vengeance.

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