Captain Phillips (2013)

The Lady in the Van (2015)

Summary: A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her van that's parked in his driveway.

Release Date: November 13, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Writer: Alan Bennett

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: BBC Films, Dream Cars, TriStar Productions

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,021,175

International: $ 31,366,512

The Ice Storm (1997)

Summary: In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

Release Date: November 26, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: Rick Moody

, James Schamus

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Good Machine, Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,038,061

Elegy (2008)

Summary: Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her tea...

Release Date: April 18, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Isabel Coixet

Writers: Nicholas Meyer

, Philip Roth

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lakeshore Entertainment

Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films, The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Red Envelope Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 3,581,642

International: $ 11,312,705

The Conversation (1974)

Summary: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Release Date: April 12, 1974

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writer: Francis Ford Coppola

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Directors Company, The Coppola Company, American Zoetrope, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, The Criterion Channel, Rialto Pictures, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,600,000

Domestic: $ 4,830,780

International: $ 34,170

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

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Delivery Man (2013)

Summary: An affable underachiever finds out he's fathered 533 children through anonymous donations to a fertility clinic 20 years ago. Now he must decide whether or not to come forward when 142 of them file a lawsuit to reveal his identity.

Release Date: November 22, 2013

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Ken Scott

Writers: Ken Scott

, Martin Petit

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Reliance Entertainment

Distributor: Touchstone Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, India, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 30,664,106

International: $ 22,456,240

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The Woman in the Window (1944)

Summary: A reserved professor meets a model and gets mixed up in murder.

Release Date: November 03, 1944

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Fritz Lang

Writers: Nunnally Johnson

, J.H. Wallis

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Christie Corporation, International Pictures (I)

Distributor: RKO Radio Pictures, Independent Releasing Organization, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Films sans Frontières

Country: United States

Language: English

Calendar Girls (2003)

Summary: Best friends Chris and Annie are members of a charitable institute. When Annie's husband succumbs to leukemia, the friends decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise funds for a local hospital.

Release Date: January 01, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Nigel Cole

Writers: Juliette Towhidi

, Tim Firth

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Harbour Pictures, Buena Vista International

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 31,041,759

International: $ 62,359,253

The Swimmer (1968)

Summary: A man spends a summer day swimming as many pools as he can all over a quiet suburban town.

Release Date: August 09, 1968

Genre: Drama

Directors: Frank Perry

, Sydney Pollack

Writers: Eleanor Perry

, John Cheever

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: M/PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures

Distributor: CBS, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television International, Box Office Spectaculars (II), Grindhouse Releasing, The Criterion Channel, GoodTimes Home Video, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Taste of Cherry (1997)

Summary: An Iranian man drives his car in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.

Release Date: November 26, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Writer: Abbas Kiarostami

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Abbas Kiarostami Productions, CiBy 2000, Kanun parvaresh fekri

Distributor: The Criterion Collection, Zeitgeist Films

Countries: Iran, France

Language: Farsi

Black Friday (2021)

Summary: A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.

Release Date: November 23, 2021

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Director: Casey Tebo

Writer: Andy Greskoviak

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: 13+

Production: MFW Manufacturing, The Warner Davis Company

Distributor: Screen Media Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Damage (1992)

Summary: A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.

Release Date: January 22, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: David Hare

, Josephine Hart

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Skreba Films, StudioCanal, European Co-production Fund, Channel Four Films, Canal+

Distributor: Majestic Films International, New Line Cinema, New Line Home Video, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,532,911

A Long Way Down (2014)

Summary: Four people meet on New Year's Eve, and form a surrogate family to help one another with the difficulties of their lives.

Release Date: June 05, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Pascal Chaumeil

Writers: Nick Hornby

, Jack Thorne

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wildgaze Films, BBC Films, DCM Productions

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, Magnolia Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,347

International: $ 7,244,595

Frankie and Johnny (1991)

Summary: Johnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a café beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined their romance will blossom.

Release Date: October 11, 1991

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Garry Marshall

Writer: Terrence McNally

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: 14A

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Communications Company, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 29,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,773,535

Kikujiro (1999)

Summary: A young, naive boy sets out alone on the road to find his wayward mother. Soon he finds an unlikely protector in a crotchety man and the two have a series of unexpected adventures along the way.

Release Date: June 05, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Writer: Takeshi Kitano

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bandai Visual Company, Nippon Herald Films, Office Kitano

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 200,920

International: $ 80,607

Mississippi Grind (2015)

Summary: Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's b...

Release Date: August 13, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Directors: Anna Boden

, Ryan Fleck

Writers: Anna Boden

, Ryan Fleck

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sycamore Pictures, Electric City Entertainment, Gowanus Projections, Story Ink

Distributor: A24, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 130,541

International: $ 292,205