Full Metal Jacket (1987)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Summary: When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.

Release Date: May 12, 1968

Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Writers: Stanley Kubrick

, Arthur C. Clarke

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Stanley Kubrick Productions

Distributor: United Artists Television, United Artists, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,481,243

International: $ 6,297,205

The Boys in the Band (1970)

Summary: Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

Release Date: March 17, 1970

Genre: Drama

Director: William Friedkin

Writer: Mart Crowley

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema Center Films, Leo Films

Distributor: National General Pictures, CBS/Fox, CBS Media Ventures, Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel, AVCO Embassy Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,250,000

Domestic: $ 2,695

Platoon (1986)

Summary: Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.

Release Date: February 06, 1987

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Oliver Stone

Writer: Oliver Stone

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hemdale, Cinema '84, Cinema 86

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Vestron Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Carolco Television, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,530,565

International: $ 15,067

Great Freedom (2021)

Summary: In post-war Germany, liberation by the Allies does not mean freedom for everyone. Hans is repeatedly imprisoned under Paragraph 175, which criminalizes homosexuality. Over the decades, he develops an unlikely bond with his cellmat...

Release Date: May 06, 2022

Genre: Drama

Director: Sebastian Meise

Writers: Sebastian Meise

, Thomas Reider

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: FreibeuterFilm, Rohfilm, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Piffl Medien

Distributor: Mubi

Countries: Austria, Germany

Language: German

Domestic: $ 71,946

International: $ 146,565

Pawn Sacrifice (2014)

Summary: Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire.

Release Date: September 25, 2015

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Steven Knight

, Stephen J. Rivele

, Christopher Wilkinson

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Gail Katz Productions, MICA Entertainment, Material Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,436,633

International: $ 3,141,886

American Gangster (2007)

Summary: An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.

Release Date: November 02, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Steven Zaillian

, Mark Jacobson

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions, WR Universal Group

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 130,164,645

International: $ 139,590,785

I'm Not There (2007)

Summary: Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

Release Date: December 07, 2007

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Todd Haynes

Writers: Todd Haynes

, Oren Moverman

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Killer Films, John Wells Productions, John Goldwyn Productions, Endgame Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Celluloid Dreams, Dreamachine, Film & Entertainment VIP Medienfonds 4 GmbH & Co. KG (I), Grey Water Park Productions, Rising Star, Wells Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Dreamachine

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,017,609

International: $ 7,774,933

A Bronx Tale (1993)

Summary: An intense drama about a boy torn between his tough, hard-working father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss.

Release Date: October 01, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Robert De Niro

Writer: Chazz Palminteri

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: Price Entertainment, Penta Entertainment, Tribeca Productions

Distributor: USA Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,287,898

Redoubtable (2017)

Summary: In 1967, during the making of "La Chinoise," film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.

Release Date: September 13, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Michel Hazanavicius

Writers: Michel Hazanavicius

, Anne Wiazemsky

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: G

Production: Les Compagnons du Cinéma, La Classe Américaine, France 3 Cinéma, StudioCanal, Forever Group, Canal+, Ciné+, France Télévisions, La Région Île-de-France, Wild Bunch

Distributor: Cohen Media Group, Wild Bunch

Countries: France, Myanmar

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 11,110,000

Domestic: $ 82,264

International: $ 1,249,940

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

Summary: The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Release Date: October 16, 2020

Genres: Drama, Thriller, History

Director: Aaron Sorkin

Writer: Aaron Sorkin

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Amblin Partners, Aperture Media Partners, Double Infinity Productions, Kodiak Pictures, MadRiver Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Paramount Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Rocket Science, ShivHans Pictures

Distributor: Netflix

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, India

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

The Bikeriders (2023)

Summary: After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the...

Release Date: June 21, 2024

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Jeff Nichols

Writers: Jeff Nichols

, Danny Lyon

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Focus Features, Regency Enterprises, New Regency Productions, Tri-State Pictures, 20th Century Studios

Distributor: Focus Features

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,714,630

International: $ 14,254,940

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

Summary: Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William O'Neal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton.

Release Date: February 12, 2021

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Shaka King

Writers: Will Berson

, Shaka King

, Kenneth Lucas

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: BRON Studios, Bron Creative, MACRO

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,478,009

International: $ 2,000,000

Doctor Dolittle (1998)

Summary: A doctor discovers that he can communicate with animals.

Release Date: June 26, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Director: Betty Thomas

Writers: Hugh Lofting

, Nat Mauldin

, Larry Levin

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Davis Entertainment, Joseph M. Singer Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Network, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), The WB Television Network, Disney Channel, Disney+, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 71,500,000

Domestic: $ 144,156,605

International: $ 150,300,000

Vice (2018)

Summary: The story of Dick Cheney, an unassuming bureaucratic Washington insider, who quietly wielded immense power as Vice President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that are still felt today.

Release Date: December 25, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Adam McKay

Writer: Adam McKay

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Annapurna Pictures, Gary Sanchez Productions, Plan B Entertainment, The Third Floor

Distributor: Annapurna Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 47,836,282

International: $ 28,237,206

The Dreamers (2003)

Summary: A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots.

Release Date: February 20, 2004

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer: Gilbert Adair

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Fiction, Peninsula Films, Medusa Film, Tele+

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Television

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,532,228

International: $ 21,137,430