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Summary: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 16,400,000
Domestic: $ 95,860,116
International: $ 140,000,000
Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 250,000
Domestic: $ 46,808
International: $ 91,315
Summary: The heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Runtime: 2 h 25 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 85,000,000
Domestic: $ 57,490,508
International: $ 104,752,454
Summary: A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 389,757
International: $ 15,801,014
Summary: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her psychotic boyfriend.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Domestic: $ 91,335
International: $ 18,924,011
Summary: Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Countries: France, China
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 666,327
International: $ 4,543,228
Summary: While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,660,952
International: $ 12,992,272
Summary: A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Runtime: 2 h 47 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Domestic: $ 22,168
International: $ 207,042
Summary: An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,706,659
International: $ 10,700,442
Summary: Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 5,137,622
International: $ 9,135,411
Summary: About the young life and loves of artist Salvador Dalí, filmmaker Luis Buñuel and writer Federico García Lorca.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: R

Countries: United Kingdom, Spain
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,500,000
Domestic: $ 481,586
International: $ 285,981
Summary: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,000,000
Domestic: $ 25,842,377
Summary: A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 23,245,840
International: $ 3,371,000
Summary: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Runtime: 2 h 29 min
MPAA: G

Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 18,700,000
Domestic: $ 126,391
International: $ 8,508,793
Summary: A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 1,822,250
International: $ 4,029,508
Summary: A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,113,733
International: $ 4,702,165
Summary: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Japan, France
Language: Japanese
Domestic: $ 71,832
Summary: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English