La Chinoise (1967)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Release Date: January 27, 1989

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Chris Gerolmo

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Image Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,603,943

Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)

Summary: A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.

Release Date: November 25, 1987

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: John Hughes

Writer: John Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Hughes Entertainment

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS, HBO Max, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 49,530,280

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

Summary: When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.

Release Date: December 20, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Roberto Benigni

Writers: Vincenzo Cerami

, Roberto Benigni

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Melampo Cinematografica, Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica

Distributor: New Films International, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Miramax International, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,563,264

International: $ 172,535,749

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

Summary: In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of physical, mental, and sexual torture.

Release Date: January 10, 1976

Genres: Drama, Horror

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Writers: Pier Paolo Pasolini

, Sergio Citti

, Pupi Avati

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés

Distributor: Peppercorn-Wormser Film Enterprises, Zebra Films, The Criterion Collection, Water Bearer Films, HBO Max, The Voyager Company

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Come and See (1985)

Summary: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Release Date: September 03, 1985

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Elem Klimov

Writers: Ales Adamovich

, Elem Klimov

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Belarusfilm, Mosfilm

Distributor: Sovexportfilm, Seagull Films, International Film Exchange (IFEX), Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 71,909

International: $ 20,857,739

Gothic (1986)

Summary: The Shelleys visit Lord Byron and compete to write a horror story.

Release Date: April 10, 1987

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Ken Russell

Writers: Stephen Volk

, Lord Byron

, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Virgin Vision

Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Front Row Entertainment, Lionsgate, Mill Creek Entertainment, Sepulchre Productions, Tubi TV, Vestron Pictures, Vestron Television, Vestron Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 916,172

Airplane! (1980)

Summary: After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must land a commercial airplane full of passengers safely.

Release Date: July 02, 1980

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Jim Abrahams

, David Zucker

, Jerry Zucker

Writers: Jim Abrahams

, David Zucker

, Jerry Zucker

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Howard W. Koch Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 83,453,539

Porky's (1981)

Summary: In 1954, a group of Florida high-school guys try to help their buddy lose his virginity, which leads them to seek revenge on a sleazy nightclub owner and his redneck sheriff brother for harassing them.

Release Date: March 19, 1982

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bob Clark

Writer: Bob Clark

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Astral Bellevue Pathé, Melvin Simon Productions

Distributor: CBS/Fox, Home Box Office (HBO), USA Network, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Porky's

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 111,289,673

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

Summary: Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Release Date: December 06, 1991

Genre: Documentary

Directors: Fax Bahr

, George Hickenlooper

, Eleanor Coppola

Writers: Fax Bahr

, George Hickenlooper

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zaloom Mayfield Productions, American Zoetrope

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Paramount Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,318,449

Nothing But Trouble (1991)

Summary: A businessman and his friends are captured by a sadistic judge and his equally odd family in a bizarre mansion in the backwoods.

Release Date: February 15, 1991

Genre: Comedy

Director: Dan Aykroyd

Writers: Peter Aykroyd

, Dan Aykroyd

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Applied Action, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Lifetime, Shout Select, Shout! Factory, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,479,793

Greaser's Palace (1972)

Summary: A strange man named Jesse who can revive life and walk on water comes into a surreal and cruel western town.

Release Date: November 08, 1973

Genres: Comedy, Western

Director: Robert Downey Sr.

Writer: Robert Downey Sr.

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Greaser's Palace Ltd.

Distributor: Cinema 5 Distributing, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Scorpion Releasing, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Dark City (1998)

Summary: A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Release Date: February 27, 1998

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Alex Proyas

Writers: Alex Proyas

, Lem Dobbs

, David S. Goyer

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mystery Clock Cinema, New Line Cinema

Distributor: Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, United Paramount Network (UPN), Warner Home Video

Countries: Australia, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,378,331

International: $ 12,821,985

Split Second (1992)

Summary: In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Release Date: May 01, 1992

Genres: Action, Crime, Horror

Director: Tony Maylam

Writer: Gary Scott Thompson

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Challenge Film Corporation, Entertainment, Muse Productions, XYZ Funding N.V.

Distributor: Victor Films, InterStar Releasing, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MVD Visual, Tubi TV

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,430,822

The Frighteners (1996)

Summary: After a tragic car accident that kills his wife, a man discovers he can communicate with the dead, and he uses that gift to con people. However, when a demonic spirit appears, he may be the only one who can stop it from killing th...

Release Date: July 19, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Peter Jackson

Writers: Fran Walsh

, Peter Jackson

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, WingNut Films

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Fox Network, HBO Max, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: New Zealand, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,759,216

International: $ 12,600,000

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994)

Summary: A group of teenagers get into a car crash in the Texas woods on prom night, and then wander into an old farmhouse that is home to Leatherface (Robert Jacks) and his insane family of cannibalistic psychopaths.

Release Date: September 22, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Horror

Director: Kim Henkel

Writers: Kim Henkel

, Tobe Hooper

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Ultra Muchos Productions, River City Films, Genre Pictures

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Scream Factory, Action Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Domestic: $ 185,898

The Godfather Part II (1974)

Summary: The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

Release Date: December 18, 1974

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Francis Ford Coppola

, Mario Puzo

Runtime: 3 h 22 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, The Coppola Company, American Zoetrope

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Godfather

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,834,595

International: $ 127,324

Willow (1988)

Summary: A young farmer is chosen to undertake a perilous journey in order to protect a special baby from an evil queen.

Release Date: May 20, 1988

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Ron Howard

Writers: George Lucas

, Bob Dolman

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Lucasfilm, Imagine Entertainment

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Fox Network, Columbia TriStar Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Disney+, Lucasfilm, Showtime Networks, Universal Pay Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,269,863