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Molière (2007)

Summary: To satisfy his creditors, a witty actor reinvents himself as a satirical playwright, with uproarious, yet bittersweet, results.

Release Date: January 31, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Biography

Director: Laurent Tirard

Writers: Laurent Tirard

, Grégoire Vigneron

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fidélité Productions, France 2 Cinéma, France 3 Cinéma, Wild Bunch, Canal+, TPS Star

Distributor: Wild Bunch, Sony Pictures Classics

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 635,733

International: $ 10,243,134

Esther Kahn (2000)

Summary: A Jewish girl in 19th-century London dreams of becoming a stage actress.

Release Date: November 23, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Writers: Emmanuel Bourdieu

, Arnaud Desplechin

, Arthur Symons

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Why Not Productions, Les Films Alain Sarde, France 3 Cinéma, Arts Council of England, Canal+, British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB), British Screen Productions

Distributor: Wellspring Media

Countries: France, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 23,371

Lost and Love (2015)

Summary: A man's epic 14 year search for his son crosses paths with another man who shares a similar story.

Release Date: March 20, 2015

Genre: Drama

Director: Sanyuan Peng

Writer: Sanyuan Peng

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

Production: Chongqing Film Group, Focus Films, Good Friends Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 188,817

International: $ 34,741,360

Pauline & Paulette (2001)

Summary: Pauline is a 'little girl of 66 years old'. She is intellectually disabled and been cared after by her sister Martha. When Martha dies, her two younger sisters, Paulette and Cecile have to make a decision on the best place for Pau...

Release Date: June 27, 2001

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Lieven Debrauwer

Writers: Jacques Boon

, Lieven Debrauwer

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Canal+, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, K-Star, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF), Staccato Films, TF1 International, Vlaamse Radio en Televisie (VRT)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Belgium, France, Netherlands

Language: Dutch

Domestic: $ 139,789

International: $ 255,386

Author! Author! (1982)

Summary: While facing the stress of his original play being produced on Broadway, playwright Ivan Travalian deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.

Release Date: June 18, 1982

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Israel Horovitz

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 13,111,101

King Lear (1987)

Summary: A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.

Release Date: April 03, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Richard Debuisne

, Jean-Luc Godard

, Norman Mailer

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions

Countries: United States, Bahamas, France, Switzerland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 61,821

International: $ 23,197

The Extra Man (2010)

Summary: A man who escorts wealthy widows in New York's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring playwright under his wing.

Release Date: January 27, 2011

Genre: Comedy

Directors: Shari Springer Berman

, Robert Pulcini

Writers: Robert Pulcini

, Jonathan Ames

, Shari Springer Berman

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: 3 Arts Entertainment, Likely Story, Wild Bunch

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures, HBO Max, Magnolia Home Entertainment, Peacock, Tubi TV

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 453,377

International: $ 196,249

Weeds (1987)

Summary: A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter.

Release Date: October 16, 1987

Genre: Drama

Director: John D. Hancock

Writers: Dorothy Tristan

, John D. Hancock

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), Kingsgate Films

Distributor: Home Box Office Home Video (HBO)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,325,444

Being Julia (2004)

Summary: Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.

Release Date: February 18, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: István Szabó

Writers: W. Somerset Maugham

, Ronald Harwood

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Serendipity Point Films, First Choice Films, Hogarth Productions, Myriad Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, HBO Max, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United States, Hungary, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,739,049

International: $ 6,600,122

The Arbor (2010)

Summary: Portrayal of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar.

Release Date: April 25, 2010

Genres: Drama, Documentary, Biography

Director: Clio Barnard

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Artangel Media, UK Film Council

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 21,620

International: $ 104,562

Wilde (1997)

Summary: The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.

Release Date: May 01, 1998

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Brian Gilbert

Writers: Julian Mitchell

, Richard Ellmann

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Samuelson Productions, Dove International, NDF International, Capitol Films, BBC Films, The Greenlight Fund

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Dove International

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,158,775

Humor Me (2017)

Summary: With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community.

Release Date: January 12, 2018

Genre: Comedy

Director: Sam Hoffman

Writer: Sam Hoffman

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Production: Fugitive Films, Spitting Cobra Films

Distributor: Shout! Factory

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 40,099

Children of Paradise (1945)

Summary: The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

Release Date: November 15, 1946

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Marcel Carné

Writer: Jacques Prévert

Runtime: 3 h 09 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma

Distributor: Tricolore, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 36,986

International: $ 7,920

Game 6 (2005)

Summary: Combining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.

Release Date: April 28, 2007

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sport

Director: Michael Hoffman

Writer: Don DeLillo

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Serenade Films, Double Play, Vox3 Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 129,664

The Producers (1967)

Summary: A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.

Release Date: November 10, 1968

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Mel Brooks

Writer: Mel Brooks

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: G

Production: Crossbow Productions, Springtime Productions, U-M Productions

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Magnetic Video, Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, PolyGram Video, Rialto Pictures, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, Sony Pictures Television, HBO Max, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 941,000

Domestic: $ 328,673

International: $ 46,851

My Dinner with Andre (1981)

Summary: Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

Release Date: October 11, 1981

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Wallace Shawn

, Andre Gregory

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Saga Productions Inc., The Andre Company

Distributor: Fox Lorber Home Video, HBO Max, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,073

Romantic Comedy (1983)

Summary: A successful playwright employs a new female writing partner, and it's love on first sight, but it happens to be the day he gets married. They both suppress their feelings for each other in order to form a successful writing partn...

Release Date: October 07, 1983

Genre: Comedy

Director: Arthur Hiller

Writer: Bernard Slade

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG

Production: TAFT Entertainment Pictures, The Mirisch Corporation, United Artists

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, YouTube Movies

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,857,733

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Summary: Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.

Release Date: July 13, 1984

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Frank Oz

Writers: Tom Patchett

, Jay Tarses

, Frank Oz

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: G

Production: Henson Associates (HA), TriStar Pictures, Delphi II Productions, Henson Associates (HA)

Distributor: ABC Family, CBS, CBS/Fox, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Jim Henson Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, Turner Classic Movies (TCM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Muppets

Domestic: $ 25,534,703

International: $ 729

Salome's Last Dance (1988)

Summary: On Guy Fawkes Day 1892 Oscar Wilde goes to a performance of his controversial, banned play 'Salome'. The 'theatre' is a brothel and the performers are prostitutes.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Ken Russell