Looking for Eric (2009)

Explorers (1985)

Summary: A boy obsessed with '50s sci-fi movies about aliens has a recurring dream about a blueprint of some kind, which he draws for his inventor friend. With the help of a third kid, they follow it and build themselves a spaceship. Now w...

Release Date: July 12, 1985

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Director: Joe Dante

Writer: Eric Luke

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: MCA/Universal Home Video, Shout Select, Shout! Factory, TBS Superstation, TNT, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,873,044

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Summary: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Release Date: October 11, 1974

Genre: Horror

Director: Tobe Hooper

Writers: Kim Henkel

, Tobe Hooper

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Vortex

Distributor: Bryanston Distributing, New Line Cinema, Universal Television, Elite Entertainment, MCA TV, Universal Domestic Television, NBC Universal Television Distribution, Dark Sky Films, Netminds, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Movie budget: $ 140,000

Domestic: $ 30,859,000

International: $ 1,378

Super 8 (2011)

Summary: During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.

Release Date: June 10, 2011

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: J.J. Abrams

Writer: J.J. Abrams

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Bad Robot

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, FX Network

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 127,004,179

International: $ 133,091,807

Play (2011)

Summary: An astute observation based on real cases of bullying. In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the ...

Release Date: November 11, 2011

Genre: Drama

Director: Ruben Östlund

Writers: Erik Hemmendorff

, Ruben Östlund

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

Production: Coproduction Office, Film i Väst, Plattform Produktion, Sonet Film AB

Countries: Sweden, France

Language: English

-7 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

Summary: Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.

Release Date: October 25, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Craig Brewer

Writers: Scott Alexander

, Larry Karaszewski

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Davis Entertainment, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Deliverance (1972)

Summary: Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

Release Date: August 18, 1972

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: John Boorman

Writers: James Dickey

, John Boorman

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Elmer Enterprises

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), National Broadcasting Company (NBC), DiscoVision, RCA (II), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

-7 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Riders of Justice (2020)

Summary: Markus goes home to his teenage daughter, Mathilde, when his wife dies in a train crash. All appears to be a tragic accident until a mathematics geek, who was also a fellow passenger on the train, and his two colleagues show up.

Release Date: May 21, 2021

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Writers: Anders Thomas Jensen

, Nikolaj Arcel

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Zentropa Entertainments, Film i Väst, Zentropa International Sweden, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Nordisk Film Distribution, Yousee, TV2 Danmark, Sveriges Television (SVT), Yleisradio (YLE), MEDIA Programme of the European Union

Distributor: Magnolia Home Entertainment

Countries: Denmark, Sweden, Finland

Language: Danish

Movie budget: $ 5,300,000

Domestic: $ 77,115

International: $ 1,923,746

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)

Summary: A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Release Date: January 19, 2009

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: John Krasinski

Writers: John Krasinski

, David Foster Wallace

Runtime: 1 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: SALTY Features, Woodshed Entertainment

Distributor: IFC Films, Independent Film Channel (IFC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 33,745

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Summary: The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.

Release Date: June 18, 2010

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Lee Unkrich

Writers: John Lasseter

, Andrew Stanton

, Lee Unkrich

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: G

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Character Voices International

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Franchise: Toy Story

Movie budget: $ 200,000,000

Domestic: $ 415,004,880

International: $ 652,311,221

Game Night (2018)

Summary: A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves entangled in a real-life mystery when the shady brother of one of them is seemingly kidnapped by dangerous gangsters.

Release Date: February 23, 2018

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Directors: John Francis Daley

, Jonathan Goldstein

Writer: Mark Perez

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Access Industries, Aggregate Films, Davis Entertainment, Dune Entertainment, New Line Cinema

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 37,000,000

Domestic: $ 69,268,230

International: $ 48,500,000

The Final Terror (1983)

Summary: A group of rangers go camping on unfamiliar forest grounds. All's well until the group members start getting killed by a cunning killer in the woods.

Release Date: July 14, 1983

Genre: Horror

Director: Andrew Davis

Writers: Jon George

, Neill D. Hicks

, Ronald Shusett

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Arkoff International

Distributor: 905 Entertainment, CBS, Home Box Office (HBO), Shout! Factory, Tubi TV, Vestron Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Marius (1931)

Summary: Marius is faced with a choice whether to fulfill his passion by sailing the seas or stay and marry the woman he loves.

Release Date: April 13, 1933

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Alexander Korda

Writer: Marcel Pagnol

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films Marcel Pagnol

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Siritzky International Pictures Corporation, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 8,262

The Groomsmen (2006)

Summary: A groom (Ed Burns) and his four attendants wrestle with issues related to friendship and maturity a week before the big day.

Release Date: September 22, 2006

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Edward Burns

Writer: Edward Burns

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Marlboro Road Gang Productions, Bauer Martinez Studios, Blue Rider Pictures

Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 128,911

International: $ 690,059

Havoc (2005)

Summary: Two affluent suburban girls clash with the Latino gang culture of East Los Angeles.

Release Date: October 16, 2005

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Barbara Kopple

Writers: Stephen Gaghan

, Jessica Kaplan

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Media 8 Entertainment, Stuhall Productions, S.R.O. Entertainment AG

Distributor: Shout Select, Shout! Factory

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000