Mouchette (1967)

Pygmalion (1938)

Summary: A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Release Date: March 03, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directors: Anthony Asquith

, Leslie Howard

Writers: George Bernard Shaw

, W.P. Lipscomb

, Cecil Lewis

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Pascal Film Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Ellis Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, Nelson Entertainment, New Line Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 87,000

Respiro (2002)

Summary: On an impoverished Italian island, a free-spirited woman is accused of madness by townspeople fed up with her antics.

Release Date: May 22, 2002

Genre: Drama

Director: Emanuele Crialese

Writer: Emanuele Crialese

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Fandango, Les Films des Tournelles, Roissy Films, Tele+, TPS Cinéma

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 1,072,834

International: $ 6,237,011

The Song of Bernadette (1943)

Summary: 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Henry King

Writers: George Seaton

, Franz Werfel

Runtime: 2 h 36 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

The Return of Martin Guerre (1982)

Summary: In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Release Date: August 26, 1983

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Daniel Vigne

Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière

, Janet Lewis

, Daniel Vigne

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Société Française de Production Cinématographique (S.F.P.C.), Production Marcel Dassault, France 3

Distributor: Orion Home Video, Cohen Media Group, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 3,723,036

The Story of Qiu Ju (1992)

Summary: A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Yuan Bin Chen

, Heng Liu

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Sil-Metropole Organisation, Youth Film Studio of Beijing Film Academy

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Films sans Frontières

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 1,890,247

Zelary (2003)

Summary: A nurse is part of the resistance in 1940s Czech Republic. She is discovered and must find a place to hide. A patient whose life she saved, from a remote mountain village where time stopped 150 years ago, agrees to hide her as his...

Release Date: September 04, 2003

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Ondrej Trojan

Writers: Kveta Legátová

, Petr Jarchovský

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: ALEF Film & Media Group, Barrandov Studios, Ceská Televize, Dor Film Produktionsgesellschaft, Total HelpArt T.H.A., ALEF Film & Media Group, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF)

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Domestic: $ 330,033

International: $ 15,131,272

Up the Yangtze (2007)

Summary: At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.

Release Date: July 11, 2008

Genre: Documentary

Director: Yung Chang

Writer: Yung Chang

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Eye Steel Film, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 783,969

International: $ 245,242

5 Broken Cameras (2011)

Summary: A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.

Genres: Documentary, War

Directors: Emad Burnat

, Guy Davidi

Writer: Guy Davidi

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Alegria Productions, Burnat Films, Guy DVD Films

Distributor: Kino Lorber, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Palestine, Israel, France, Netherlands, Occupied Palestinian Territory

Language: English

Domestic: $ 109,983

International: $ 36,492

Black Knight (2001)

Summary: Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England.

Release Date: November 21, 2001

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Gil Junger

Writers: Darryl Quarles

, Peter Gaulke

, Gerry Swallow

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, New Regency Productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Talent One

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fox Network, Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,426,971

International: $ 6,549,264

Devils on the Doorstep (2000)

Summary: Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.

Release Date: March 14, 2001

Genres: Comedy, Drama, War

Director: Wen Jiang

Writers: Wen Jiang

, Haiying Li

, Xing Liu

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

Production: Asian Union Film & Entertainment, Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning, CMC Xiandai Trade Co., China Film Co-Production Corporation, Huayi Brothers Advertising

Distributor: Cowboy Pictures

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 18,944

Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

Summary: Set in 1944 Italy, the story of four black American soldiers who get trapped in a Tuscan village during WWII.

Release Date: September 26, 2008

Genres: Action, Drama, War

Director: Spike Lee

Writer: James McBride

Runtime: 2 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, On My Own, Rai Cinema

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, L.C.J Editions & Productions, HBO Max

Countries: Italy, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,919,117

International: $ 1,414,537

Hukkle (2002)

Summary: Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no goo...

Release Date: November 14, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: György Pálfi

Writer: György Pálfi

Runtime: 1 h 18 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Mokép

Distributor: Home Vision Entertainment (HVE), Shadow Distribution

Country: Hungary

Language: Hungarian

Movie budget: $ 100,000

Domestic: $ 53,715

International: $ 79,030

Enemies, A Love Story (1989)

Summary: A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Release Date: December 13, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Paul Mazursky

Writers: Isaac Bashevis Singer

, Roger L. Simon

, Paul Mazursky

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Morgan Creek Entertainment

Distributor: Media Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,500,000

Domestic: $ 7,754,571

The Lady and the Duke (2001)

Summary: During the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Release Date: September 07, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Éric Rohmer

Writers: Grace Elliott

, Éric Rohmer

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Pathé Image Production, Compagnie Eric Rohmer (CER), KC Medien, France 3 Cinéma, Canal+, Pathé

Distributor: Pathé, Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)

Countries: France, Germany

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 39,000,000

Domestic: $ 331,051

International: $ 797,086

Ixcanul (2015)

Summary: On the slopes of an active volcano in Guatemala, a marriage is arranged for seventeen-year-old María by her Kaqchikel parents.

Release Date: November 25, 2015

Genre: Drama

Director: Jayro Bustamante

Writer: Jayro Bustamante

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: La Casa de Production, Tu Vas Voir Productions

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Countries: Guatemala, France

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 295,157

International: $ 299,679

The Agronomist (2003)

Summary: The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.

Release Date: March 31, 2004

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Jonathan Demme

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Clinica Estetico, HBO/Cinemax Documentary

Distributor: THINKFilm, Palisades Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 226,189