House of Games (1987)

Body Heat (1981)

Summary: During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.

Release Date: August 28, 1981

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, RCA (II)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Domestic: $ 24,058,838

No Way Out (1987)

Summary: A coverup and witchhunt occur after a politician accidentally kills his mistress.

Release Date: August 14, 1987

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Roger Donaldson

Writers: Kenneth Fearing

, Robert Garland

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: G

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, TGG Direct, Shout! Factory, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,509,515

Hairspray (1988)

Summary: A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

Release Date: February 26, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: New Line Cinema, Stanley F. Buchthal, Robert Shaye Production

Distributor: New Line Cinema, Columbia TriStar Domestic Television, Columbia Tristar Television Distribution, Fox Network, Image Entertainment, MGM Worldwide Television, New Line Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Television International, Sony Pictures Television, Turner Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,671,108

International: $ 8,544

Play It Again, Sam (1972)

Summary: A film critic obsessed with Casablanca (1942) seeks to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

Release Date: May 05, 1972

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Herbert Ross

Writer: Woody Allen

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Rollins-Joffe Productions, APJAC Productions

Distributor: CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

A Place in the Sun (1951)

Summary: A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

Release Date: November 09, 1951

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Theodore Dreiser

, Patrick Kearney

, Michael Wilson

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA (II), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,295,304

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

Summary: The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

Release Date: August 12, 1988

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: Arnold Schulman

, David Seidler

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Lucasfilm, Lucasfilm, Zoetrope Studios

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,656,113

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

Summary: Follows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects.

Release Date: July 12, 1991

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: John Singleton

Writer: John Singleton

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, Cinémax, CBS, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 57,504,069

International: $ 28,634

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

Summary: In late 1950s New York, a young underachiever named Tom Ripley is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.

Release Date: December 25, 1999

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Anthony Minghella

Writers: Patricia Highsmith

, Anthony Minghella

Runtime: 2 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Paramount Pictures, Mirage Enterprises, Timnick Films

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, HBO Max, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,298,265

International: $ 56,733,167

Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

Summary: Professional assassin Martin Blank is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe--where, by coincidence, his 10-year high-school reunion party is about to take place.

Release Date: April 11, 1997

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: George Armitage

Writers: Tom Jankiewicz

, D.V. DeVincentis

, Steve Pink

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures, New Crime Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, FX Network, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,084,357

Blue Velvet (1986)

Summary: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Release Date: October 23, 1986

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: David Lynch

Writer: David Lynch

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG)

Distributor: De Laurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Karl-Lorimar Home Video (KLV-TV), MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, SundanceTV, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,551,228

International: $ 87,168

Stand by Me (1986)

Summary: A writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.

Release Date: August 22, 1986

Genres: Adventure, Drama

Director: Rob Reiner

Writers: Stephen King

, Raynold Gideon

, Bruce A. Evans

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Act III, Act III Communications

Distributor: RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Paramount+

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 52,287,414

International: $ 1,235,089

Liberty Heights (1999)

Summary: Baltimore, Fall 1954: Schools implement the new integration law. Ben finds the "colored" girl in his class cute - upsetting his Jewish mom and granny. Ben talks to her while his brother looks for his WASP dream girl.

Release Date: December 31, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Barry Levinson

Writer: Barry Levinson

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: G

Production: Baltimore Pictures, Spring Creek Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,736,868

The Cider House Rules (1999)

Summary: During World War II, an orphan grows up under the tutelage of a doctor who runs an orphanage. However, he yearns for freedom and soon decides to leave in order to make a life for himself.

Release Date: January 07, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writer: John Irving

Runtime: 2 h 06 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: FilmColony, Miramax, Nina Saxon Film Design

Distributor: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, CBS, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 24,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,545,092

International: $ 31,000,000

Joy Ride (2001)

Summary: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychopathic killer.

Release Date: October 05, 2001

Genres: Action, Thriller, Mystery

Director: John Dahl

Writers: Clay Tarver

, J.J. Abrams

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: New Regency Productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Bad Robot, LivePlanet

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,974,919

International: $ 14,667,919