Rear Window (1954)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Summary: San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.

Release Date: October 18, 1941

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, Dashiell Hammett

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), United Artists Television, Magnetic Video, 20th Century Fox Video, MGM/UA Entertainment Company, CBS/Fox, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 375,000

Domestic: $ 18,180

International: $ 21,207

Psycho (1960)

Summary: A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.

Release Date: September 08, 1960

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Joseph Stefano

, Robert Bloch

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Shamley Productions, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA Videocassette, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Showtime Networks, Pioneer Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Psycho

Movie budget: $ 806,947

Domestic: $ 32,000,000

International: $ 66,835

My Left Foot (1989)

Summary: Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

Release Date: March 30, 1990

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Jim Sheridan

Writers: Shane Connaughton

, Jim Sheridan

, Christy Brown

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Ferndale Films, Granada Television, Hell's Kitchen Films

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), Home Box Office Home Video (HBO), Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Domestic: $ 14,743,391

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

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.

Release Date: July 27, 1955

Genres: Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director: Charles Laughton

Writers: Davis Grubb

, James Agee

, Charles Laughton

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Paul Gregory Productions

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 795,000

Parasite (2019)

Summary: Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

Release Date: November 08, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Director: Bong Joon Ho

Writers: Bong Joon Ho

, Han Jin-won

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: CJ Entertainment, Barunson E&A

Distributor: Neon, The Criterion Collection

Country: South Korea

Language: Korean

Movie budget: $ 11,400,000

Domestic: $ 53,369,749

International: $ 208,760,220

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Summary: In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Release Date: November 08, 2013

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Steve McQueen

Writers: John Ridley

, Solomon Northup

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Regency Productions, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4, Searchlight Pictures, Summit Entertainment

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

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 56,671,993

International: $ 131,062,098

Mean Streets (1973)

Summary: In New York City's Little Italy, a devoutly Catholic mobster must reconcile his desire for power, his feelings for his epileptic girlfriend, and his devotion to his troublesome friend.

Release Date: October 14, 1973

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Martin Scorsese

Writers: Martin Scorsese

, Mardik Martin

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Taplin - Perry - Scorsese Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Warner Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Domestic: $ 32,645

International: $ 29,031

The Lady Eve (1941)

Summary: A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.

Release Date: March 21, 1941

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Preston Sturges

Writers: Monckton Hoffe

, Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Collection, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios, The Criterion Channel, Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

95 - MetaScore

A Separation (2011)

Summary: A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.

Release Date: March 16, 2011

Genre: Drama

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Writer: Asghar Farhadi

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Asghar Farhadi Productions, Dreamlab Films, MPA APSA Academy Film Fund, Memento Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Dreamlab Films, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Iran, France, Australia

Language: Farsi

Movie budget: $ 500,000

Domestic: $ 7,099,055

International: $ 15,827,021

The Apartment (1960)

Summary: A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.

Release Date: June 29, 1960

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Billy Wilder

, I.A.L. Diamond

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: The Mirisch Corporation

Distributor: CBS, 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Communications Co.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,600,000

International: $ 178,738

Yi Yi (2000)

Summary: Each member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives.

Release Date: December 16, 2000

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Edward Yang

Writer: Edward Yang

Runtime: 2 h 53 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: 1+2 Seisaku Iinkai, Atom Films, AtomFilms, Basara Pictures, Pony Canyon

Distributor: WinStar Cinema, Fox Lorber, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Taiwan, Japan

Language: Chinese

Domestic: $ 1,136,776

International: $ 59,442

Shadow of a Doubt (1943)

Summary: A teenage girl, overjoyed when her uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.

Release Date: January 15, 1943

Genres: Thriller, Film-Noir

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Thornton Wilder

, Sally Benson

, Alma Reville

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Realart Pictures, Screen Gems, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English