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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: 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 journey of Michael Padovic, an American professor who arrives with his wife, Helene, at a Portuguese convent where he expects to find the documents needed to prove his theory: Shakespeare was born in Spain; not in England.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG

Countries: Portugal, France
Language: English
Domestic: $ 52,609
Summary: After years of being home schooled by hippie parents, Emerson is enrolled at his local high school. The intelligent and androgynous youth confounds his classmates and captures the attention of his English teacher. The teacher-stud...
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 750,000
Domestic: $ 11,445
Summary: A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,252,100
International: $ 239,858
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: Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 362,649
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: 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: 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: 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: Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'.
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 318,816
International: $ 10,281
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
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: 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: 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: 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: Kevin suffers from a Morquio's syndrome, which weakens his heart and stunts his growth. Maxwell has dyslexia and towers above his classmates. The two couldn't be more different, but, when Kevin is asked to help Maxwell, they soon ...
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,652,246
Summary: This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its member...
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,305
Summary: Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 301,360