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Summary: A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
Runtime: 1 h 21 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Summary: On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: Italy, France
Language: Italian
Domestic: $ 1,072,834
International: $ 6,237,011
Summary: A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Runtime: 1 h 29 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 87,000
Summary: A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: China, Hong Kong
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 1,890,247
Summary: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Runtime: 5 h 17 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Summary: Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.
Runtime: 2 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 5,603,158
Summary: At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Domestic: $ 783,969
International: $ 245,242
Summary: Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no goo...
Runtime: 1 h 18 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 53,715
International: $ 79,030
Summary: A woman gets obsessed with buying a television for her family.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Hong Kong, China
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 57,872
Summary: A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.
Runtime: 2 h 17 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 1,546,761
International: $ 13,212,236
Summary: A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: France, Vietnam
Language: Vietnamese
Domestic: $ 1,700,992
Summary: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 1,320,043
Summary: A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: G

Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 3,048,997
International: $ 5,642,863
Summary: 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
Runtime: 2 h 36 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Summary: In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 3,723,036
Summary: After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 65,000,000
Domestic: $ 56,569,702
International: $ 60,917,771
Summary: A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
Runtime: 3 h 06 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 20,093,330
International: $ 7,917