The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Mystic River (2003)

Summary: The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.

Release Date: October 15, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Clint Eastwood

Writers: Brian Helgeland

, Dennis Lehane

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 90,135,191

International: $ 66,460,000

Zodiac (2007)

Summary: Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Release Date: March 02, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: David Fincher

Writers: James Vanderbilt

, Robert Graysmith

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Phoenix Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Hotstar, Netflix, The Criterion Channel, Pluto TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,080,084

International: $ 51,705,830

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Summary: Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Release Date: January 05, 2007

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Crime

Director: Tom Tykwer

Writers: Andrew Birkin

, Bernd Eichinger

, Tom Tykwer

Runtime: 2 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Countries: Germany, France, Spain, United States, Belgium

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,223,293

International: $ 132,816,631

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

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

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,061,209

The King's Speech (2010)

Summary: The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Release Date: December 25, 2010

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Tom Hooper

Writer: David Seidler

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, UK Film Council, Momentum Pictures, Aegis Film Fund, Molinare Investment, FilmNation Entertainment, See-Saw Films, Bedlam Productions

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Max, Lionsgate

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 138,797,449

International: $ 345,271,412

Ben-Hur (1959)

Summary: After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.

Release Date: November 18, 1959

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: William Wyler

Writers: Lew Wallace

, Karl Tunberg

, Gore Vidal

Runtime: 3 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, United Artists, MGM/CBS Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 74,432,704

International: $ 5,016

Deep Blue Sea (1999)

Summary: Searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease, a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the prey, as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back.

Release Date: July 28, 1999

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Renny Harlin

Writers: Duncan Kennedy

, Donna Powers

, Wayne Powers

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures, Groucho III Film Partnership, Village Roadshow Pictures, Riche-Ludwig Productions, Baja Studios

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, TBS Superstation, TNT, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 73,648,142

International: $ 91,000,000

The Best of Youth (2003)

Summary: An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Release Date: June 20, 2003

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana

Writers: Sandro Petraglia

, Stefano Rulli

Runtime: 6 h 06 min

MPAA: R

Production: BiBi Film, Rai Fiction, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte

Distributor: Miramax

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 274,024

International: $ 2,525,749

Dirty Harry (1971)

Summary: When a man calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces San Francisco, tough-as-nails Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down the crazed psychopath.

Release Date: December 23, 1971

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Directors: Don Siegel

, Clint Eastwood

Writers: Harry Julian Fink

, Rita M. Fink

, Dean Riesner

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Malpaso Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Dirty Harry

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,988,495

The Virgin Suicides (1999)

Summary: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.

Release Date: May 19, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Sofia Coppola

Writers: Jeffrey Eugenides

, Sofia Coppola

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: American Zoetrope, Eternity Pictures, Muse Productions, Virgin Suicides LLC

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,906,229

International: $ 5,503,815

The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Summary: A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.

Release Date: September 09, 2005

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror

Director: Scott Derrickson

Writers: Paul Harris Boardman

, Scott Derrickson

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Screen Gems, Lakeshore Entertainment, Firm Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 75,072,454

International: $ 70,094,350

The Woman in Black (2012)

Summary: A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

Release Date: February 03, 2012

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Director: James Watkins

Writers: Susan Hill

, Jane Goldman

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: CBS Films, Cross Creek Pictures, Hammer Films, Alliance, Talisman Productions, Exclusive Media Group, UK Film Council, Filmgate Films, Film i Väst, Alliance Films, British Film Institute (BFI), Filmgate, Vertigo Entertainment

Distributor: CBS Films Distribution, CBS Films, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Walking Dead Films

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Sweden

Language: English

Franchise: Woman in Black

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 54,333,290

International: $ 74,622,608

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Summary: Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of...

Release Date: November 02, 1990

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Adrian Lyne

Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Carolco Pictures

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Image Entertainment, Live Home Video, Avid Home Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment, Pioneer Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, CBS Paramount Domestic Television, HBO Max, International Video Entertainment (IVE), Paramount Domestic Television, TBS Superstation, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Worldvision Enterprises

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,118,851

Adam's Apples (2005)

Summary: A neo-Nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devoted minister.

Release Date: April 15, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Writer: Anders Thomas Jensen

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: M&M Productions, August Film & TV GmbH, Danmarks Radio (DR)

Distributor: Outsider Pictures

Countries: Denmark, Germany

Language: Danish

Domestic: $ 1,305

International: $ 2,420,272