Movies: Josh Safdie

Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk s...

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 sho...

The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS....

A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more....

A fugitive thriller set during Halloween. Plot TBA....

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships....

A post-modern dark-comedy about a lazy teenage male who struggles to find his element. He is helped along the way by an animal therapist and a store clerk....

A group of isolated neighbors in their small and secluded town in the northern Canadian territories during a snowstorm....

This is a story about him, who lives above an older Hindi man, who lives above a delinquent British guy, who lives on top of her. It is the back of her head that he is in love with....

An alien in a crowded land searched for some semblance of companionship after losing all of its friends....

A documentary chronicling the production of Daddy Longlegs....

This is a Film about Slater's Friend. A camera crew follows a man by the name of Philbert Powell around on his journey from the supermarket to his job as a video store clerk. Philbert encounters adventures with many people all who happen to be named ...

Betting, boxing, and boozing: this is the weird, true story of the time Norman Mailer confronted James Toback to argue about the difference between bourbon and scotch, setting off a years-long rivalry that climaxed in a stare-down during a tense Jets...

Trophy Hunter, a short, fake documentary about illegal wildlife trade that Josh and Benny made for the Turtle Conservancy in 2012. It features the late great New York icon Glenn O’Brien visiting an eccentric Chinese collector....

The story behind the acclaimed film, "Heaven Knows What," directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, and inspired by the life of Arielle Holmes....

A love story about two music-obsessed twenty-somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an era-defining decade....

John embarks on a trip to Coney Island for a day of fun and happiness. Things don't quite work out as planned....

This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker....

A horror film inspired by cults and Los Angeles in the late 1970s....

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...