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Summary: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 16,400,000
Domestic: $ 95,860,116
International: $ 140,000,000
Summary: The heartwarming tale of Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who transcended from her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.
Runtime: 2 h 25 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 85,000,000
Domestic: $ 57,490,508
International: $ 104,752,454
Summary: While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: A former serial killer with Alzheimer's fights to protect his daughter from her psychotic boyfriend.
Runtime: 1 h 58 min
MPAA: TV-MA

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Domestic: $ 91,335
International: $ 18,924,011
Summary: A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 389,757
International: $ 15,801,014
Summary: An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,393,557
International: $ 14,033,031
Summary: I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,660,952
International: $ 12,992,272
Summary: An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 2,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,706,659
International: $ 10,700,442
Summary: Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 5,137,622
International: $ 9,135,411
Summary: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Runtime: 2 h 29 min
MPAA: G

Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 18,700,000
Domestic: $ 126,391
International: $ 8,508,793
Summary: A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 25,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,113,733
International: $ 4,702,165
Summary: A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: PG-13

Domestic: $ 1,822,250
International: $ 4,029,508
Summary: A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Runtime: 2 h 07 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 23,245,840
International: $ 3,371,000
Summary: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 704,919
International: $ 2,944,123
Summary: The 18th century literary genius Friedrich Schiller falls in love with the sisters Charlotte and Caroline von Lengefeld. After a passionate summer together in a menage a trois, jealousy and rivalry endanger their union.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: German
Domestic: $ 54,030
International: $ 2,358,115
Summary: A guidance counselor mistakenly sends out the wrong transcripts to Stanford University under the name of an over-achieving high schooler.
Release Date: January 11, 2002
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 1 h 22 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 18,000,000
Domestic: $ 41,076,018
International: $ 2,248,991
Summary: John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: R

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 27,276
International: $ 1,524,748
Summary: An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,171,257
International: $ 1,278,554