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Summary: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Runtime: 5 h 17 min
MPAA: Unrated

Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Summary: An elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
Runtime: 2 h 23 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 31,000,000
Domestic: $ 9,493,259
Summary: This film follows 9 girls from Haiti, Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Egypt, Peru, Cambodia, Sierra Leone, and Afghanistan on their journey to education.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, India
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,727,259
Summary: A powerful statement against war, Barefoot Gen is a disturbing story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: TV-PG

Distributor: Tara Releasing
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: Sara is sent to a strict boarding school after her father enlists in WWI. When he is presumed dead, the headmistress, knowing she will not receive any more money, forces the girl to become a servant.
Runtime: 1 h 37 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 17,000,000
Domestic: $ 10,015,449
Summary: Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Summary: A profile of homeless Romanian children who were born victims of the nation's reckless population growth policy during its communist era.
Release Date: October 05, 2003
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Belzberg Films
Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 12,798
Summary: An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Runtime: 2 h 26 min
MPAA: R

Country: China
Language: Chinese
Movie budget: $ 94,000,000
Domestic: $ 311,434
International: $ 2,544,210
Summary: A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.
Runtime: 2 h 21 min
MPAA: R

Country: Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 6,180,200
International: $ 18,141,980
Summary: Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war L...
Runtime: 2 h 25 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000
Domestic: $ 13,042,112
Summary: In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Summary: A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 8,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,214,231
Summary: An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: PG-13

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000
Domestic: $ 2,080,321
International: $ 40,500,000
Summary: A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Runtime: 1 h 32 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 795,000
Summary: Småland, Sweden, mid-19th century. A farming family struggle with their rocky, unyielding land, and decide to embark on the arduous journey to new hope in America.
Runtime: 2 h 31 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Domestic: $ 1,156,554
Summary: In mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.
Runtime: 2 h 40 min
MPAA: R

Countries: France, Belgium, Italy
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 164,000,000
Summary: A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 231,378
Summary: A disadvantaged, abused, neglected, exploited but basically decent kid slips into criminality while trying to cope with his harsh, inescapable reality.
Release Date: January 22, 1999
Genres: Drama, Crime
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 60,279