My Left Foot (1989)

House of Flying Daggers (2004)

Summary: A romantic police captain breaks a beautiful member of a rebel group out of prison to help her rejoin her fellows, but things are not what they seem.

Release Date: January 14, 2005

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Feng Li

, Bin Wang

, Yimou Zhang

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Beijing New Picture Film, China Film Co-Production Corporation, Edko Films, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,050,094

International: $ 81,813,851

Funny Girl (1968)

Summary: The life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein.

Release Date: September 19, 1968

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: William Wyler

Writer: Isobel Lennart

Runtime: 2 h 31 min

MPAA: G

Production: Columbia Pictures, Rastar Productions, Polyphony Digital

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,100,000

Domestic: $ 52,223,306

International: $ 2,333

The Artist (2011)

Summary: When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

Release Date: January 20, 2012

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Writer: Michel Hazanavicius

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Studio 37, La Petite Reine, La Classe Américaine, Jouror Productions, uFilm, Canal+, CinéCinéma, France Télévisions, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: France, Belgium, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 44,671,682

International: $ 88,799,489

Columbus (2017)

Summary: A Korean-born man finds himself stuck in Columbus, Indiana, where his architect father is in a coma. The man meets a young woman who wants to stay in Columbus with her mother, a recovering addict, instead of pursuing her own dreams.

Release Date: August 04, 2017

Genre: Drama

Director: Kogonada

Writer: Kogonada

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Depth of Field, Nonetheless Productions, Superlative Films

Distributor: Topic, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,017,107

International: $ 77,110

88 - MetaScore

Brooklyn (2015)

Summary: An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Release Date: November 25, 2015

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: John Crowley

Writers: Nick Hornby

, Colm Tóibín

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 38,322,743

International: $ 24,079,412

Three Colors: Blue (1993)

Summary: A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

Release Date: September 08, 1993

Genres: Drama, Music, Mystery

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Writers: Krzysztof Kieslowski

, Krzysztof Piesiewicz

, Agnieszka Holland

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: MK2 Productions, CED Productions, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Eurimages

Distributor: Miramax, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, Poland, Switzerland

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,324,974

International: $ 196,197

Murderball (2005)

Summary: Quadriplegics, who play full-contact rugby in wheelchairs, overcome unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.

Release Date: August 05, 2005

Genres: Documentary, Sport

Directors: Henry Alex Rubin

, Dana Adam Shapiro

Writer: Dana Adam Shapiro

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Paramount Pictures, MTV Films, Participant, A&E IndieFilms, EAT Films

Distributor: MTV Films, THINKFilm

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,750,211

Domestic: $ 1,531,154

International: $ 220,741

Grizzly Man (2005)

Summary: A devastating and heart-rending take on grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October of 2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska.

Release Date: September 30, 2005

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Lions Gate Films, Discovery Docs, Real Big Production, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Discovery Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,178,403

International: $ 886,353

Imitation of Life (1959)

Summary: An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.

Release Date: April 02, 1959

Genre: Drama

Director: Douglas Sirk

Writers: Eleanore Griffin

, Allan Scott

, Fannie Hurst

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal International Pictures (UI)

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

85 - MetaScore

Mona Lisa (1986)

Summary: A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.

Release Date: June 13, 1986

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Neil Jordan

Writers: Neil Jordan

, David Leland

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: HandMade Films, Palace Production

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,794,184

85 - MetaScore

The Savages (2007)

Summary: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.

Release Date: January 17, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Tamara Jenkins

Writer: Tamara Jenkins

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Lone Star Film Group, This Is That Productions, Ad Hominem Enterprises, Cooper's Town Productions, Savage Productions., Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,623,082

International: $ 4,030,139

85 - MetaScore

Atonement (2007)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Release Date: January 11, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Ian McEwan

, Christopher Hampton

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Relativity Media

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, France, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 50,927,067

International: $ 78,338,994

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Release Date: September 20, 1985

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Paul Schrader

Writers: Paul Schrader

, Leonard Schrader

, Chieko Schrader

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zoetrope Studios, Filmlink International, Lucasfilm, M Company, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Tristone Entertainment Inc.

Distributor: Warner Bros., The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 437,547

International: $ 132,449

Lantana (2001)

Summary: The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.

Release Date: March 08, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Ray Lawrence

Writer: Andrew Bovell

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: MBP (Germany), Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), The New South Wales Film and Television Office

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: Australia, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,623,189

International: $ 11,124,261

Volver (2006)

Summary: After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn't resolve during her life.

Release Date: January 26, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Writer: Pedro Almodóvar

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Canal+ España, El Deseo, Ministerio de Cultura

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 7,450,000

Domestic: $ 12,899,867

International: $ 72,705,984

Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

Summary: A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Release Date: November 21, 2008

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Mike Leigh

Writer: Mike Leigh

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Film4, Ingenious Film Partners, Special Treats Production Company, Summit Entertainment, Thin Man Films, UK Film Council, Film Four

Distributor: Miramax, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,512,016

International: $ 15,184,586