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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
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Summary: Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France...
Runtime: 2 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 55,038
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Summary: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 60,902
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Summary: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 704,919
International: $ 2,944,123
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Summary: An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,393,557
International: $ 14,033,031
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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
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Summary: Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebe...
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,021,751
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Summary: The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: Bengali
Domestic: $ 77,820
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Summary: The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Italy, West Germany
Language: Italian
Domestic: $ 596,694