Burden (2018)

Ray (2004)

Summary: The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

Release Date: October 29, 2004

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Taylor Hackford

Writers: Taylor Hackford

, James L. White

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Bristol Bay Productions, Anvil Films

Distributor: HBO Max, ION Television, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 75,331,600

International: $ 48,639,776

Amazing Grace (2006)

Summary: The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.

Release Date: February 23, 2007

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Michael Apted

Writer: Steven Knight

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Bristol Bay Productions, Ingenious Film Partners, Sunflower Productions

Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Cinevista Video, Facets Multimedia Distribution

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 21,250,683

International: $ 10,869,677

Mudbound (2017)

Summary: Two men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war.

Release Date: November 17, 2017

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Dee Rees

Writers: Virgil Williams

, Dee Rees

, Hillary Jordan

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: Armory Films, ArtImage Entertainment, Black Bear Pictures, Elevated Films (II), MACRO, MMC Joule Films, Zeal Media, Black Bear

Distributor: Netflix, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Respect (2021)

Summary: Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

Release Date: August 13, 2021

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Liesl Tommy

Writers: Tracey Scott Wilson

, Callie Khouri

Runtime: 2 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), BRON Studios, Creative Wealth Media Finance, Glickmania

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), United Artists Releasing, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,278,399

International: $ 8,604,424

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Harriet (2019)

Summary: The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.

Release Date: November 01, 2019

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Kasi Lemmons

Writers: Gregory Allen Howard

, Kasi Lemmons

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Martin Chase Productions, New Balloon, Perfect World Pictures, Stay Gold Features

Distributor: Focus Features, HBO Max

Countries: China, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 43,082,155

International: $ 264,862

Just Mercy (2019)

Summary: World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.

Release Date: January 10, 2020

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton

Writers: Destin Daniel Cretton

, Andrew Lanham

, Bryan Stevenson

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Endeavor Content, One Community, Netter Productions, Outlier Society, Fifth Season

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,001,502

International: $ 14,900,000

Meek's Cutoff (2010)

Summary: Settlers traveling through the Oregon desert in 1845 find themselves stranded in harsh conditions.

Release Date: April 15, 2011

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Writer: Jonathan Raymond

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Evenstar Films, Film Science, Harmony Productions

Distributor: Oscilloscope, The Criterion Channel, Topic

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 977,772

International: $ 227,485

The Slingshot (1993)

Summary: In 1920s Stockholm, young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother, and boxer brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them Roland makes slingshots, which he sells. His rebellious ways have won him his sc...

Release Date: June 03, 1994

Genre: Drama

Director: Åke Sandgren

Writers: Åke Sandgren

, Roland Schütt

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nordisk Film, SVT Drama, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Nordisk Film, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Denmark, Sweden, Czechia, Czech Republic

Language: Swedish

Domestic: $ 308,368

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

Summary: The life of Bettie Page, a 1950s pin-up model and one of the first sex icons in America, who became the target of a Senate investigation because of her risqué bondage photos.

Release Date: April 21, 2006

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Mary Harron

Writers: Mary Harron

, Guinevere Turner

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG

Production: HBO Films, Killer Films, John Wells Productions

Distributor: Picturehouse, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,415,082

International: $ 362,924

Flirting (1991)

Summary: Two freethinking teenagers - a boy and a girl - confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently.

Release Date: March 21, 1991

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: John Duigan

Writer: John Duigan

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kennedy Miller Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Vidmark Entertainment

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,415,396

Sweet Land (2005)

Summary: In 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications.

Release Date: July 31, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Ali Selim

Writers: Will Weaver

, Ali Selim

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: 120dB Films, Beautiful Motion Pictures LLC, Channel Z Films, LaSalleHolland, Liebermania

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,706,325

International: $ 137,212

Places in the Heart (1984)

Summary: In north Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Release Date: October 05, 1984

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Benton

Writer: Robert Benton

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Delphi II Productions, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: CBS/Fox, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Twilight Time, Disney Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 34,901,614

I, the Worst of All (1990)

Summary: This fact-based film examines the life of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna), a Roman Catholic nun from Mexico City who, in the midst of the Spanish Inquisition, established herself as an important New World philosopher, p...

Release Date: November 24, 1995

Genre: Drama

Director: María Luisa Bemberg

Writers: María Luisa Bemberg

, Antonio Larreta

, Octavio Paz

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: GEA Cinematográfica, Gea Cinematografica

Distributor: First Run Features

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 52,148

Antonia's Line (1995)

Summary: A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.

Release Date: February 02, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Marleen Gorris

Writer: Marleen Gorris

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bergen, Prime Time, Bard Entertainments, Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS), Stimuleringsfonds Nederlandse Culturele Omroepproducties, Co-Productiefonds Binnenlandse Omroep, Meteor Film Productions, Nederlands Filmfonds, Fonds Film in Vlaanderen, Eurimages, Investco NV, European Co-production Fund

Distributor: First Look International, The Sales Company, BMG Video, Film Movement, Fox Lorber, Image Entertainment

Countries: Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France

Language: Dutch

Movie budget: $ 1,500,000

Domestic: $ 4,228,275

International: $ 21,046