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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
Summary: A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors.
Release Date: November 08, 1990
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 75,000
Summary: A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,252,100
International: $ 239,858
Summary: Chris Marker and Pierre Lhomme's LE JOLI MAI (The Lovely Month of May) is a portrait of Paris and Parisians during May 1962, the first springtime of peace after the ceasefire with Algeria and the first time in 23 years that France...
Runtime: 2 h 45 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 55,038
Summary: While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
Runtime: 2 h 18 min

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
Runtime: 1 h 28 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Japan
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 250,000
Domestic: $ 46,808
International: $ 91,315
Summary: Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Runtime: 2 h 08 min
MPAA: PG

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 16,400,000
Domestic: $ 95,860,116
International: $ 140,000,000
Summary: A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.
Runtime: 2 h 47 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Soviet Union
Language: Russian
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Domestic: $ 22,168
International: $ 207,042
Summary: The lonely wife of a newspaper editor falls in love with her visiting cousin-in-law, who shares her love for literature.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: Bengali
Domestic: $ 77,820
Summary: C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.
Runtime: 2 h 11 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 22,000,000
Domestic: $ 25,842,377
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: I.R.S. auditor Harold Crick suddenly finds his mundane Chicago life to be the subject of narration only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire existence, from his work to his love life to his death.
Release Date: November 10, 2006
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Runtime: 1 h 53 min
MPAA: PG-13

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 30,000,000
Domestic: $ 40,660,952
International: $ 12,992,272
Summary: The fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 1,018,682
Summary: Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and to locate their mentor.
Runtime: 2 h 09 min

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Summary: The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: Approved

Country: United States
Language: English
Summary: The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
Runtime: 1 h 34 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Italy, West Germany
Language: Italian
Domestic: $ 596,694
Summary: Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'.
Release Date: April 30, 2004
Runtime: 2 h 10 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 318,816
International: $ 10,281
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: 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