A Private Function (1984)

Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)

Summary: The lives of an English working-class family are told out of order in a free-associative manner. The first part, "Distant Voices", focuses on the father's role in the family. The second part, "Still Lives", focuses on his children.

Release Date: March 31, 1989

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Terence Davies

Writer: Terence Davies

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: British Film Institute (BFI), Channel Four Films, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Distributor: Avenue Pictures, Arrow Films, International Video Entertainment (IVE), The Criterion Channel, The Movie Channel (TMC)

Countries: United Kingdom, West Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 693,563

International: $ 78,182

Waterland (1992)

Summary: In 1974 Pittsburgh, a high-school history teacher seeking closure tells his class about his experiences as teenager in England during World War II.

Release Date: August 21, 1992

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal

Writers: Graham Swift

, Peter Prince

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: British Screen Productions, Channel Four Films, Palace Pictures, Pandora Cinema

Distributor: Fine Line Features, Columbia TriStar Home Video, The Sales Company, Image Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,100,218

Killing Bono (2011)

Summary: Two brothers attempt to become global rock stars but can only look on as old school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.

Release Date: April 01, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Nick Hamm

Writers: Dick Clement

, Ian La Frenais

, Simon Maxwell

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinema Three, Generator Entertainment, Greenroom Entertainment, Molinare Studio, Northern Ireland Screen, Regent Capital, Silver Reel, The Salt Company International, Wasted Talent

Distributor: XLrator Media

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Treasure Island (1990)

Summary: The treasure seeking adventures of young Jim Hawkins and pirate Captain Long John Silver.

Release Date: January 22, 1990

Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime

Director: Fraser C. Heston

Writers: Fraser C. Heston

, Robert Louis Stevenson

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Turner Pictures (I), Agamemnon Films, British Lion Film Corporation

Distributor: Warner Bros., Gilad, Turner Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Between the Lines (1992)

Summary: British police drama following the team at the Complaints Investigation Bureau - the unit that polices the police.

Release Date: September 04, 1992

Genres: Drama, Crime

Runtime: 0 h 50 min

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Island World Productions, World Productions

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Animal Farm (1999)

Summary: The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny amongst themselves.

Release Date: October 03, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: John Stephenson

Writers: George Orwell

, Alan Janes

, Martyn Burke

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Animal Farm Productions Ltd., Hallmark Entertainment, TNT

Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Sharpe (1993)

Summary: A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy.

Release Date: May 05, 1993

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

MPAA: TV-14

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

2 - ZR Critics

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Summary: Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

Release Date: November 01, 1996

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Writers: William Shakespeare

, Craig Pearce

, Baz Luhrmann

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Bazmark Films, Estudios Churubusco Azteca S.A., Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount+

Countries: United States, Mexico, Australia, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,500,000

Domestic: $ 46,351,345

International: $ 101,203,653

2 - ZR Critics

Amistad (1997)

Summary: In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legal...

Release Date: December 25, 1997

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: David Franzoni

Runtime: 2 h 35 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Home Box Office (HBO), Amblin Entertainment, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Trifecta Entertainment and Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 36,000,000

Domestic: $ 44,229,441

2 - ZR Critics

Dark Water (2005)

Summary: A mother and daughter, still wounded from a bitter custody dispute, hole up in a run-down apartment building, where they are targeted by the ghost of a former resident.

Release Date: July 08, 2005

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Walter Salles

Writers: Kôji Suzuki

, Hideo Nakata

, Takashige Ichise

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Pandemonium Productions, Vertigo Entertainment

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,473,352

International: $ 42,883,727

Hamlet (1990)

Summary: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Release Date: January 18, 1991

Genre: Drama

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Writers: William Shakespeare

, Christopher De Vore

, Franco Zeffirelli

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Icon Productions, Carolco Pictures, Canal+, Nelson Entertainment, Sovereign Pictures

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, WGN, Paramount Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 20,710,451

Æon Flux (2005)

Summary: Æon Flux is a mysterious assassin working for the Monicans, a group of rebels trying to overthrow the government. When she is sent on a mission to kill the Chairman, a whole new mystery is found.

Release Date: December 02, 2005

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Karyn Kusama

Writers: Phil Hay

, Matt Manfredi

, Peter Chung

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Lakeshore Entertainment, Valhalla Motion Pictures, Colossal Pictures, Studio Babelsberg, Rai Cinema

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany, Brazil, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 62,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,874,337

International: $ 27,447,336

Brassed Off (1996)

Summary: The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band.

Release Date: November 01, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Mark Herman

Writer: Mark Herman

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Channel Four Films, Miramax, Prominent Features

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,576,331

International: $ 12,681

The Duellists (1977)

Summary: France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.

Release Date: January 13, 1978

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Ridley Scott

Writers: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes

, Joseph Conrad

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Enigma Productions, Scott Free Enterprises, National Film Finance Consortium, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC)

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS, Shout! Factory

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 900,000

Split Second (1992)

Summary: In a flooded future London, Detective Harley Stone hunts a serial killer who murdered his partner, and has haunted him ever since. He soon discovers what he is hunting might not be human.

Release Date: May 01, 1992

Genres: Action, Crime, Horror

Director: Tony Maylam

Writer: Gary Scott Thompson

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Challenge Film Corporation, Entertainment, Muse Productions, XYZ Funding N.V.

Distributor: Victor Films, InterStar Releasing, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MVD Visual, Tubi TV

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,430,822

The Shipping News (2001)

Summary: An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Release Date: December 25, 2001

Genre: Drama

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writers: Annie Proulx

, Robert Nelson Jacobs

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Miramax

Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United States, Sweden

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,434,216

International: $ 13,256,225

DragonHeart (1996)

Summary: The last dragon and a disillusioned dragon-slaying knight must unite to stop an evil king, who was granted partial immortality.

Release Date: May 31, 1996

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: Rob Cohen

Writers: Patrick Read Johnson

, Charles Edward Pogue

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Fox Network, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 57,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,367,375

International: $ 63,900,000