The Skinny (2012)

Almost Famous (2000)

Summary: A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Release Date: September 22, 2000

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Cameron Crowe

Writer: Cameron Crowe

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Vinyl Films

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,534,850

International: $ 14,852,716

Boogie Nights (1997)

Summary: An idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

Release Date: October 31, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

Writer: Paul Thomas Anderson

Runtime: 2 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Ghoulardi Film Company

Distributor: New Line Cinema, HBO Max, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,416,349

International: $ 16,700,954

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)

Summary: Seven-year-old Jeremiah is pulled from his foster home and thrown into a troubled life on the road with his teenage mother, Sarah.

Release Date: January 19, 2005

Genre: Drama

Director: Asia Argento

Writers: Laura Albert

, Asia Argento

, Alessandro Magania

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Above All Things Inc., Artist Film, Metro Tartan Distribution Ltd., Departure Entertainment, Departure Studios, Muse Productions, Pretty Dangerous Films, Snowfall Films

Distributor: Palm Pictures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, France, Japan

Language: English

Domestic: $ 29,058

International: $ 188,441

Dorian Gray (2009)

Summary: A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty eternally, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Release Date: September 09, 2009

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: Oliver Parker

Writers: Toby Finlay

, Oscar Wilde

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Ealing Studios, Alliance Films, Fragile Films, Alliance Films, UK Film Council, Aramid Entertainment Fund, Hindsight Media, Moving Picture Company (MPC)

Distributor: Entertainment One

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Bright Lights, Big City (1988)

Summary: A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out bad memories and personal tragedy.

Release Date: April 01, 1988

Genre: Drama

Director: James Bridges

Writer: Jay McInerney

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: United Artists, CST Telecommunications, Mirage Enterprises, Star Partners

Distributor: United Artists, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MVD Visual

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,118,077

Smooth Talk (1985)

Summary: A free-spirited 15-year-old girl flirts with a dangerous stranger in the Northern California suburbs and must prepare herself for the frightening and traumatic consequences.

Release Date: November 15, 1985

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Joyce Chopra

Writers: Joyce Carol Oates

, Tom Cole

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: American Playhouse, Goldcrest Films International, Nepenthe Productions, Palmyra Films

Distributor: International Spectrafilm, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, The Criterion Collection, Vestron Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,400,000

Domestic: $ 16,785

Palindromes (2004)

Summary: Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.

Release Date: May 20, 2025

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Todd Solondz

Writer: Todd Solondz

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Extra Large Pictures

Distributor: Wellspring Media, Fox Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 553,368

International: $ 256,318

Wild Orchid II: Two Shades of Blue (1991)

Summary: In 1958 California, a teenage girl goes to work as a prostitute in a high-class brothel after the death of her father.

Release Date: May 08, 1992

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Zalman King

Writer: Zalman King

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Vision PDG

Distributor: Triumph Releasing Corporation, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 573,904

Toys (1992)

Summary: When Lieutenant General Leland Zevo (Sir Michael Gambon) inherits a toymaking company and begins making war toys, his employees band together to stop him before he ruins the name of Zevo Toys forever.

Release Date: December 18, 1992

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Barry Levinson

Writers: Valerie Curtin

, Barry Levinson

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Baltimore Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, HBO Max, CBS/Fox

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 43,000,000

Domestic: $ 23,278,931

The Falcon and the Snowman (1985)

Summary: The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.

Release Date: February 08, 1985

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: John Schlesinger

Writers: Robert Lindsey

, Steven Zaillian

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hemdale, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A.

Distributor: Avid Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Lifetime, Metromedia Entertainment Group, Orion Home Video, Vestron Video, Video Treasures, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Mexico

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,130,087

The Basketball Diaries (1995)

Summary: A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Release Date: April 21, 1995

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Scott Kalvert

Writers: Jim Carroll

, Bryan Goluboff

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Island Pictures

Distributor: New Line Cinema, PolyGram Video, Palm Pictures, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Vivendi Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,381,087

International: $ 21,351

Paint Your Wagon (1969)

Summary: Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

Release Date: October 15, 1969

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Joshua Logan

Writers: Alan Jay Lerner

, Paddy Chayefsky

Runtime: 2 h 44 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Alan Jay Lerner Productions, The Malpaso Company

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,500,000

Foxes (1980)

Summary: A group of four teenage girls come of age in the asphalt desert of Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley arranged with a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.

Release Date: February 29, 1980

Genre: Drama

Director: Adrian Lyne

Writer: Gerald Ayres

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Casablanca Filmworks

Distributor: Key Video, Image Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,470,348

Come and See (1985)

Summary: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Release Date: September 03, 1985

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Elem Klimov

Writers: Ales Adamovich

, Elem Klimov

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Belarusfilm, Mosfilm

Distributor: Sovexportfilm, Seagull Films, International Film Exchange (IFEX), Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 71,909

International: $ 20,857,739