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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: 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: "Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic..." Flannery O'Connor, 1958. Shy, funny, devout, disabled--word...
Runtime: 1 h 37 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 750,000
Summary: A cranky, retired author reluctantly embarks on a final book tour to help out a young publisher.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min

Language: English
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
Summary: A college English teacher suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: German
Domestic: $ 54,030
International: $ 2,358,115
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: 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 man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
Release Date: November 08, 1990
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000
Summary: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: A chronicle of the life, work and mind that created the Cthulhu mythos.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Wyrd
Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A dramatized documentary investigating accusations that "Forbidden Love" author Norma Khouri made up her biographical tale of a Muslim friend who was killed for dating a Christian.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Australia
Language: English
Summary: Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never before seen and never repeated. The film charts the development of Burroughs' unique literary style ...
Release Date: April 11, 1984
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000
Domestic: $ 5,142,858
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 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: An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Domestic: $ 14,648,076
Summary: An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,171,257
International: $ 1,278,554
Summary: In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: R

Country: Ireland
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 133,411
International: $ 26,441