Rear Window (1954)

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

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

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,062,098

Ratatouille (2007)

Summary: A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous Paris restaurant.

Release Date: June 29, 2007

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Directors: Brad Bird

, Jan Pinkava

Writers: Brad Bird

, Jan Pinkava

, Jim Capobianco

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, The Walt Disney Company, ABC Family, Disney Channel, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), FX Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 150,000,000

Domestic: $ 206,445,654

International: $ 417,283,726

The Lady Eve (1941)

Summary: A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Release Date: March 21, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Preston Sturges

Writers: Monckton Hoffe

, Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios, The Criterion Channel, Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Aftersun (2022)

Summary: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she d...

Release Date: November 18, 2022

Genre: Drama

Director: Charlotte Wells

Writer: Charlotte Wells

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: BBC Film, British Film Institute (BFI), Screen Scotland, Tango Entertainment (III), PASTEL, BBC Films

Distributor: A24

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Turkey, Philippines, Netherlands

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,658,790

International: $ 6,939,775

Yi Yi (2000)

Summary: Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Edward Yang

Writer: Edward Yang

Runtime: 2 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: 1+2 Seisaku Iinkai, Atom Films, AtomFilms, Basara Pictures, Pony Canyon

Distributor: WinStar Cinema, Fox Lorber, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Taiwan, Japan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 1,136,776

International: $ 59,442

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

Summary: Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

Release Date: December 17, 2003

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien

, Fran Walsh

, Philippa Boyens

Runtime: 3 h 21 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, The Saul Zaentz Company

Distributor: Fathom Events, Embracer Group, HBO Max, MGM Worldwide Television, New Line Home Entertainment, New Line Home Video

Countries: New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Middle Earth

Movie budget: $ 94,000,000

Domestic: $ 381,878,219

International: $ 756,389,318

Before Midnight (2013)

Summary: We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

Release Date: June 13, 2013

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Richard Linklater

Writers: Richard Linklater

, Julie Delpy

, Ethan Hawke

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Faliro House Productions, Venture Forth, Castle Rock Entertainment

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

Countries: United States, Greece

Language: English

Franchise: Before

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,114,627

International: $ 12,595,887

Days of Heaven (1978)

Summary: A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

Release Date: October 06, 1978

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Terrence Malick

Writer: Terrence Malick

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Pioneer, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,446,749

International: $ 44,184

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Summary: An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.

Release Date: October 24, 1962

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: John Frankenheimer

Writers: Richard Condon

, George Axelrod

, John Frankenheimer

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: M.C. Productions

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, NBC, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,200,000

Domestic: $ 2,757,256

Marriage Story (2019)

Summary: A stage director and his actor wife struggle through a grueling divorce that pushes them to their personal and creative extremes. Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying toget...

Release Date: December 06, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Noah Baumbach

Writer: Noah Baumbach

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Heyday Films, Netflix

Distributor: The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,600,000

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Summary: A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

Release Date: January 25, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson

, Upton Sinclair

Runtime: 2 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Vantage, Miramax, Ghoulardi Film Company

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,222,514

International: $ 35,964,359

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Summary: A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.

Release Date: January 10, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Directors: Ethan Coen

, Joel Coen

Writers: Joel Coen

, Ethan Coen

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: CBS Films, StudioCanal, Anton, Mike Zoss Productions, Scott Rudin Productions

Distributor: CBS Films, CBS Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,235,319

International: $ 19,726,838

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

Summary: Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

Release Date: May 29, 1947

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Robert E. Sherwood

, MacKinlay Kantor

Runtime: 2 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Nelson Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,100,000

Domestic: $ 23,650,000

International: $ 17,133