Summary: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

Release Date: March 29, 1963

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Evan Hunter

, Jeanne Saintenoy

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, Universal Pictures

Distributor: Fathom Events, DiscoVision, MCA Videocassette, MCA Videodisc Inc., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Peacock, RCA (II), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

Release Date: December 18, 1975

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, William Makepeace Thackeray

Runtime: 3 h 05 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Peregrine, Hawk Films, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Rebecca (1940)

Summary: A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.

Release Date: June 07, 2024

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Daphne Du Maurier

, Robert E. Sherwood

, Joan Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Selznick International Pictures

Distributor: United Artists, Eagle-Lion Films, Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, The Criterion Collection, ABC Video Enterprises, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,288,000

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Summary: An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.

Release Date: November 25, 2009

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Wes Anderson

Writers: Roald Dahl

, Wes Anderson

, Noah Baumbach

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Indian Paintbrush, New Regency Productions

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,002,919

International: $ 37,088,840

Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

Summary: Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.

Release Date: July 02, 1993

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: William Shakespeare

, Kenneth Branagh

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Renaissance Films, American Playhouse Theatrical Films, BBC Films

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 22,549,338

Family Plot (1976)

Summary: A phony psychic and her cab driver boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir.

Release Date: April 09, 1976

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Ernest Lehman

, Victor Canning

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Home Box Office (HBO), MCA Home Video, MCA Videocassette, MCA/Universal Home Video, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,490,375

The Witches (1990)

Summary: A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.

Release Date: May 25, 1990

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Director: Nicolas Roeg

Writers: Roald Dahl

, Allan Scott

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: G

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment, Jim Henson Productions, The Jim Henson Company

Distributor: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 10,360,553

International: $ 2,811

James and the Giant Peach (1996)

Summary: An orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.

Release Date: April 12, 1996

Genres: Adventure, Family, Animation

Director: Henry Selick

Writers: Roald Dahl

, Karey Kirkpatrick

, Jonathan Roberts

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Allied Filmmakers, Skellington Productions Inc., DiNovi Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Cartoon Network, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, PBS Kids Sprout, Disney+

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,946,127

Marnie (1964)

Summary: Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

Release Date: July 17, 1964

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Winston Graham

, Jay Presson Allen

, Pierre-François Caillé

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Summary: Charlie, a young boy from an impoverished family, and four other kids win a tour of an amazing chocolate factory run by an imaginative chocolatier, Willy Wonka, and his staff of Oompa-Loompas.

Release Date: July 15, 2005

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Director: Tim Burton

Writers: Roald Dahl

, John August

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 150,000,000

Domestic: $ 206,459,076

International: $ 268,509,687

Matilda (1996)

Summary: A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.

Release Date: August 02, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Director: Danny DeVito

Writers: Roald Dahl

, Nicholas Kazan

, Robin Swicord

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG

Production: TriStar Pictures, Jersey Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), TriStar Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 36,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,459,416

International: $ 1,337

Matilda: The Musical (2022)

Summary: An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.

Release Date: December 25, 2022

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Matthew Warchus

Writers: Dennis Kelly

, Tim Minchin

, Roald Dahl

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Working Title Films, Netflix, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

The BFG (2016)

Summary: An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.

Release Date: July 01, 2016

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Melissa Mathison

, Roald Dahl

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Walden Media, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Dreamworks Pictures, Location HQ

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, India, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 140,000,000

Domestic: $ 55,483,770

International: $ 139,759,641

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)

Summary: Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.

Release Date: October 16, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Karel Reisz

Writers: John Fowles

, Harold Pinter

, Karel Reisz

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: R

Production: Juniper Films

Distributor: United Artists, CBS/Fox, WGN, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,890,068

My Cousin Rachel (2017)

Summary: A young Englishman plots revenge against his late cousin's mysterious, beautiful wife, believing her responsible for his death. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

Release Date: June 09, 2017

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Roger Michell

Writers: Roger Michell

, Daphne Du Maurier

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Free Range Films, Searchlight Pictures, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Hotstar

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,716,368

International: $ 6,483,800

The Sister (2020)

Summary: Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions.

Release Date: January 22, 2021

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

Production: Euston Films

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Midnight Lace (1960)

Summary: In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.

Release Date: November 25, 1960

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: David Miller

Writers: Ivan Goff

, Ben Roberts

, Janet Green

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Arwin Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)

Summary: To stall a witch plotting to eat him, a boy reads her horror tales dealing with a collegian's resurrection of a mummy, a murderous cat, and an artist's pact with a gargoyle.

Release Date: May 04, 1990

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: John Harrison