The Machinist (2004)

The Ice Storm (1997)

Summary: In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

Release Date: November 26, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Ang Lee

Writers: Rick Moody

, James Schamus

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Good Machine, Canal+ Droits Audiovisuels

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,038,061

High Fidelity (2000)

Summary: Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Release Date: March 31, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Stephen Frears

Writers: Nick Hornby

, D.V. DeVincentis

, Steve Pink

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Working Title Films, Dogstar Films

Distributor: Hulu, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,287,137

International: $ 19,839,158

Let the Right One In (2008)

Summary: Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

Release Date: December 12, 2008

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Crime

Director: Tomas Alfredson

Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: R

Production: EFTI, Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige AB, Filmpool Nord, Sveriges Television (SVT), WAG, Canal+, Fido Film AB, Ljudligan, The Chimney Pot, Sandrew Metronome Distribution Sverige

Distributor: Magnet Releasing, Magnolia Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Sweden, Norway, France

Language: Swedish

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,122,065

International: $ 9,105,271

8 Mile (2002)

Summary: Follows a young rapper in the Detroit area, struggling with every aspect of his life; he wants to make it big but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.

Release Date: November 08, 2002

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Curtis Hanson

Writer: Scott Silver

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Imagine Entertainment, Interscope Films, Mikona Productions GmbH & Co. KG

Distributor: Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 41,000,000

Domestic: $ 116,750,901

International: $ 126,124,177

Songland (2019)

Summary: Songwriters compete for a chance to have their work selected by a major recording artist.

Release Date: May 28, 2019

Genres: Reality-TV, Game-Show

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: 222 Productions, Dave Stewart Entertainment, Live Animals

Country: United States

Language: English

8.4 - UserScore

Muscle Shoals (2013)

Summary: A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as "I'll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", and "When a Man Loves a Woman".

Release Date: October 25, 2013

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Greg 'Freddy' Camalier

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Ear Goggles

Distributor: Magnolia Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 696,241

International: $ 13,174

8.4 - UserScore

Brothers of the Head (2005)

Summary: In the 1970s, a music promoter plucks conjoined twins from obscurity, and grooms them into a freakish rock 'n' roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness and rock music.

Release Date: October 06, 2006

Genres: Drama, Music

Directors: Keith Fulton

, Louis Pepe

Writers: Brian Aldiss

, Tony Grisoni

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Potboiler Productions, Blue Sky Films, EM Media

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 45,082

International: $ 39,343

8.4 - UserScore

Love Actually (2003)

Summary: Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Release Date: November 14, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Richard Curtis

Writer: Richard Curtis

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Working Title Films, DNA Films

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), HBO Max, American Movie Classics (AMC)

Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 60,221,410

International: $ 189,994,220

Pavilion of Women (2001)

Summary: With World War 2 looming, a prominent family in China must confront the contrasting ideas of traditionalism, communism and Western thinking, while dealing with the most important ideal of all: love and its meaning in society.

Release Date: November 16, 2001

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Ho Yim

Writers: Pearl S. Buck

, Luo Yan

, Paul Collins

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: 14+

Production: Beijing Film Studio, China Film Co-Production Corporation

Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: China, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,992

24 Hour Party People (2002)

Summary: In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

Release Date: September 20, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Revolution Films, Baby Cow Productions, The Film Consortium, Wave Pictures, Channel Four Films, United Artists

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, MVD Visual

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,184,096

International: $ 1,618,803

Masculin Féminin (1966)

Summary: A romance between young Parisians, shown through a series of vignettes.

Release Date: March 22, 1966

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writers: Jean-Luc Godard

, Guy de Maupassant

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Anouchka Films, Argos Films, Sandrews, Svensk Filmindustri (SF), Argos Films

Distributor: Royal Films International, New Yorker Video, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Countries: France, Sweden

Language: French

Domestic: $ 200,380

International: $ 5,163

The Conversation (1974)

Summary: A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

Release Date: April 12, 1974

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writer: Francis Ford Coppola

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG

Production: The Directors Company, The Coppola Company, American Zoetrope, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Lionsgate, The Criterion Channel, Rialto Pictures, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,600,000

Domestic: $ 4,830,780

International: $ 34,170

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

Cloud Atlas (2012)

Summary: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Release Date: October 26, 2012

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Directors: Tom Tykwer

, Lana Wachowski

, Lilly Wachowski

Writers: David Mitchell

, Lana Wachowski

, Tom Tykwer

Runtime: 2 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cloud Atlas Productions, X-Filme Creative Pool, Anarchos Pictures, Ascension Pictures, Dreams of Dragon Picture, Five Drops, Media Asia Group

Distributor: Warner Bros.

Countries: United States, Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, China, United Kingdom, Spain

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 102,000,000

Domestic: $ 27,108,272

International: $ 103,408,152

Kafka (1991)

Summary: Kafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals.

Release Date: March 25, 1992

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Writer: Lem Dobbs

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Pricel, Baltimore Pictures, Renn Productions

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, Flicksium

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,059,071

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

Summary: Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.

Release Date: January 29, 1993

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: George Miller

Writers: George Miller

, Nick Enright

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Kennedy Miller Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Kino Lorber Studio Classics

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,286,388