Ben Shenkman
Biography: Benjamin Shenkman is an American actor, known for his roles in the comedy-drama series Royal Pains and the acclaimed HBO miniseries Angels in America, which earned him both Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 26, 1968
Deathday: N/A
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Pi
1998-07-10
Pi
Overview: A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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Quiz Show
1994-08-25
Quiz Show
Overview: Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-One.' However, when the show introduces the highly skilled contestant Charles Van Doren to replace Stempel, it compels Stempel to let out his frustrations and call out the show as rigged. Lawyer Richard Goodwin steps in and attempts to uncover the orchestrated deception behind the scenes.
Genres: History Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-25
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Chasing Sleep
2001-05-16
Chasing Sleep
Overview: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-16
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Just Like Heaven
2005-09-16
Just Like Heaven
Overview: Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-16
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Then She Found Me
2007-09-07
Then She Found Me
Overview: A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her biological mother, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-09-07
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2009-09-25
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Overview: After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is left looking for answers as to what went wrong.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-25
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Solitary Man
2009-09-07
Solitary Man
Overview: A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-07
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Breakfast with Scot
2007-11-16
Breakfast with Scot
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Blue Valentine
2010-12-26
Blue Valentine
Overview: 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, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-26
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The Key Man
2011-02-18
The Key Man
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-18
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Concussion
2013-01-17
Concussion
Overview: 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: she needs to be Eleanor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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Forty Winks
2022-03-19
Forty Winks
Overview: 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 mysterious woman who finds out his degree is fake.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-03-19
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Breathe In
2013-01-18
Breathe In
Overview: 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 their lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Camp Stories
1997-04-18
Camp Stories
Overview: A man named David Katz remembers the formative summer he spent as a kid in an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-18
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Table One
2000-01-01
Table One
Overview: Four friends (Stephen Baldwin, Michael Rooker, Luis Guzman and David Herman) who are misfits in the New York City social scene have trouble meeting available women. They come up with the idea of opening a trendy restaurant -- funding their new venture with the help of a local gangster -- in hopes of attracting a large female clientele. It's one comedy situation after another as they stumble through their various misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Thick as Thieves
1999-04-09
Thick as Thieves
Overview: 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 own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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30 Days
1999-09-15
30 Days
Overview: 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 up with Sarah by asking her to marry him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-15
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Joe Gould's Secret
2000-01-21
Joe Gould's Secret
Overview: Around 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-21
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People I Know
2002-11-21
People I Know
Overview: A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-21
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Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
2006-01-15
Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner
Overview: Filmmaker Freida Lee Mock explores the life and work of playwright Tony Kushner. Starting in 2001, when Kushner was mounting the production of his play Homebody/Kabul and running through 2004, as he worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign, got married to Mark Harris, worked with Maurice Sendak, and opened the Broadway musical Caroline, or Change.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-15
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The Conspiracy
2022-11-17
The Conspiracy
Overview: It’s an insidious, centuries-old conspiracy theory that continues to rear its ugly head today: Jews have a secret international plot to control the world. How do such preposterous ideas get started, and why do they flourish? Filmmaker Maxim Pozdorovkin orchestrates bold, striking animation and exceptionally talented voice artists to walk us through almost 250 years of anti-Semitic ideology, focusing on how times of uncertainty give rise to anxieties in marginalized populations, and how three Jewish family dynasties came to bear the brunt of irrational scapegoating.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-17
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Requiem for a Dream
2000-10-06
Requiem for a Dream
Overview: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-06
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Must Love Dogs
2005-07-21
Must Love Dogs
Overview: Sarah Nolan is a newly divorced woman cautiously rediscovering romance with the enthusiastic but often misguided help of her well-meaning family. As she braves a series of hilarious disastrous mismatches and first dates, Sarah begins to trust her own instincts again and learns that, no matter what, it's never a good idea to give up on love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-21
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Personal Velocity
2002-01-12
Personal Velocity
Overview: In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
2024-11-08
Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point
Overview: A family gathers on Christmas Eve for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on and tensions arise, one of the teenagers sneaks out with her friends to claim the wintry suburb for her own.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-08
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Americanese
2006-03-15
Americanese
Overview: Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding and Amerasian Aurora Crane struggle to let go. Torn apart by mismatched ideals, meddling friends, and the complexities of racial identities, they find other suitable mates but cannot stay away from each other
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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The Auction
2025-12-01
The Auction
Overview: Plot kept under wraps.
Genres: Thriller Action Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-12-01
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Roger Dodger
2002-05-09
Roger Dodger
Overview: A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-09
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Jesus' Son
2000-06-16
Jesus' Son
Overview: A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-16
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020-09-25
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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Eraser
1996-06-21
Eraser
Overview: U.S. Marshall John Kruger erases the identities of people enrolled in the Witness Protection Program. His current assignment is to protect Lee Cullen, who's uncovered evidence that the weapons manufacturer she works for has been selling to terrorist groups. When Kruger discovers that there's a corrupt agent within the program, he must guard his own life while trying to protect Lee's.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-21
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The Siege
1998-11-06
The Siege
Overview: 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 and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-06
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After
After
Overview: A man named Ethan, a retired true-crime podcaster, is forced to dive back into danger when his sister, Emily, mysteriously vanishes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
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Stella Shorts 1998-2002
2002-12-20
Stella Shorts 1998-2002
Overview: STELLA is a three-man comedy troupe from New York City, comprised of well-known comedians/actors Michael Showalter, David Wain, and Michael Ian Black. Though the three have made a living performing at comedy clubs, they are perhaps best known for their home-made short films. The STELLA SHORTS have garnered cult success because of their nonsensical plotlines, absurd dialogue, graphic sexual humor, sporatic violence, and sheer hilarity. This DVD showcases the trio's first twenty-three adventures, each one more bizarre and hysterical than the last. Highlights include: a game of whiffleball that goes terribly awry, an expedition to the South Pole (?) to meet Santa Claus, an edge-of-your-seat moustache-growing contest, a twisted "whodunit"-style murder mystery, and much, much more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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