Robert Benton Movies

Ira Wells is an aged retired Los Angeles based private investigator, who is slightly overweight, needs to wear a hearing aid, has a bum leg and an ulcer-laden stomach, and…

The Human Stain is the story of Coleman Silk (Hopkins), a classics professor with a terrible secret that is about to shatter his life in a small New England town….

A retired ex-cop and private detective (Newman) who lives with a rich actor (Hackman) who is dying from cancer and his actress wife (Sarandon) gets mixed up in murder when…

Based loosely on the organized crime syndicates of the 20’s and 30’s, Billy Bathgate is the story of a young man’s rise from gopher to right hand man in Dutch…

Sully is a rascally ne’er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker’s compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with…

A rustic Oregon town is the backdrop for this tale of men and women touched by love’s inescapable spell. From Bradley, the hopeless romantic who looks for love in all…

Working in an Austin, Texas, beauty parlour in 1954, Nadine Hightower endeavours to retrieve some ‘art studies’ she injudiciously had taken. Her visit to the photographer leaves him dead and…

A group of naive boys find that life as desperadoes in the west is more serious that they understood when they embark on abortive careers in bushwhacking. Violence, betrayal, sombre…

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now…

George Bynum, a patient of Manhattan psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice, is brutally murdered. Soon afterward, Dr. Rice is visited by Bynum’s co-worker and mistress Brooke Reynolds and by the investigating…

Edna Spalding finds herself alone and broke on a small farm in the midst of the Great Depression when her husband the Sheriff is killed in an accident. A wandering…