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Summary: This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 100,000
Domestic: $ 60,902
Summary: To help his discouraged son get through college, a funloving and obnoxious rich businessman decides to enter the school as a student himself.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: 14A

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 11,000,000
Domestic: $ 91,258,000
Summary: Frustrated housewife/writer Cathy Palmer ghostwrites a story about Rebecca Ryan, a dashing international spy, and wins a trip to Paris. While there, she is involved in an accident, and awakens in the hospital believing she IS Rebe...
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 5,021,751
Summary: A failed businessman is hired by the army to teach a group of underachieving recruits in order to help them pass basic training.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 40,000,000
Domestic: $ 24,332,324
Summary: Set in the Parisian publishing world, an editor and an author find themselves in over their heads, as they cope with a middle-age crisis, the changing industry and their wives.
Runtime: 1 h 48 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 704,919
International: $ 2,944,123
Summary: A college English teacher suddenly finds himself the center of a free-speech debate on campus.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: Underachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction.
Runtime: 1 h 27 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,342,203
International: $ 63,827
Summary: A New Englander and his odd family run a hotel in Vienna, as unexpected events change their lives forever.
Runtime: 1 h 49 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 7,500,000
Domestic: $ 5,142,858
Summary: In a seaside Irish town, a widower sparks with a visiting horror novelist while he also begins to believe he is seeing ghosts.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: R

Country: Ireland
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 3,000,000
Domestic: $ 133,411
International: $ 26,441
Summary: A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England.
Runtime: 1 h 14 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 500,000
Domestic: $ 32,677
International: $ 490,740
Summary: Gordon Comstock quits his job at an advertising agency in order to write poetry, only to find that poets, like everyone else, need money.
Runtime: 1 h 41 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Domestic: $ 301,360
Summary: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Runtime: 2 h 29 min
MPAA: G

Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 18,700,000
Domestic: $ 126,391
International: $ 8,508,793
Summary: An hour-long interview with author William S. Burroughs in which he expounds on American culture, art and morals.
Runtime: 1 h 00 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Germany
Language: English
Summary: Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: R

Domestic: $ 5,137,622
International: $ 9,135,411
Summary: Kevin suffers from a Morquio's syndrome, which weakens his heart and stunts his growth. Maxwell has dyslexia and towers above his classmates. The two couldn't be more different, but, when Kevin is asked to help Maxwell, they soon ...
Runtime: 1 h 40 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 2,652,246
Summary: This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. The filmmakers expose this delightfully deranged cult by capturing the daily lives of its member...
Runtime: 1 h 23 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Language: English
Domestic: $ 11,305
Summary: An English Professor tries to deal with his wife leaving him, the arrival of his editor who has been waiting for his book for seven years, and the various problems that his friends and associates involve him in.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,393,557
International: $ 14,033,031
Summary: A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story about his relationship with a friend's family.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 389,757
International: $ 15,801,014
Summary: At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Japan, France
Language: Japanese
Domestic: $ 71,832