Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011)

California Typewriter (2016)

Summary: California Typewriter is a story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. The film is a meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam Shepard, David McCullough and others.

Release Date: July 25, 2019

Genre: Documentary

Director: Doug Nichol

Writer: Max Nichol

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: American Buffalo Pictures

Distributor: Gravitas Ventures, The Criterion Channel

Countries: France, India, Canada, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 218,563

Stop Making Sense (1984)

Summary: A live performance of the band Talking Heads shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and featuring their most memorable songs.

Release Date: November 16, 1984

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writers: Jonathan Demme

, Talking Heads

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: G

Production: Talking Heads, Arnold Stiefel Company

Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 10,306,902

International: $ 2,178,873

A Man Escaped (1956)

Summary: A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

Release Date: August 26, 1957

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: André Devigny

, Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Gaumont, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), New Japan Pro-Wrestling Co

Distributor: New Yorker Films, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel

Country: France

Language: French

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Summary: A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Director: Penelope Spheeris

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Spheeris Films

Distributor: Image Entertainment, Media Home Entertainment, Shout! Factory, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000

Harmonium (2016)

Summary: Toshio hires Yasaka in his workshop. This old acquaintance, who has just been released from prison, begins to meddle in Toshio's family life.

Release Date: June 16, 2017

Genre: Drama

Director: Kôji Fukada

Writer: Kôji Fukada

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Comme des Cinémas, Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV), Mam, Asahi Shimbun, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Mountain Gate Productions

Countries: Japan, France

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 17,191

International: $ 136,092

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014)

Summary: Nick Broomfield digs into the case of the notorious serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper, who terrorized South Central Los Angeles over a span of twenty-five years.

Release Date: January 30, 2015

Genres: Crime, Documentary

Directors: Nick Broomfield

, Barney Broomfield

, Marc Hoeferlin

Writers: Nick Broomfield

, Barney Broomfield

, Marc Hoeferlin

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Lafayette Films, South Central Films

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Summary: Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

Release Date: February 16, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

This Much I Know to Be True (2022)

Summary: Explores the creative relationship and songs from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' last two studio albums, "Ghosteen" and "Carnage".

Release Date: May 11, 2022

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Andrew Dominik

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Uncommon Creative Studio

Distributor: Trafalgar Releasing

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Shoah (1985)

Summary: Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Director: Claude Lanzmann

Writer: Claude Lanzmann

Runtime: 9 h 26 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films Aleph, Historia, Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), IFC Films, The Criterion Collection, Why Not Productions

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 20,175

Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

Summary: A veteran British barrister must defend his client in a murder trial that has surprise after surprise.

Release Date: February 06, 1958

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Billy Wilder

Writers: Agatha Christie

, Billy Wilder

, Harry Kurnitz

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Edward Small Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS/Fox, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Kino Lorber, HBO Max, MGM/UA Communications Co.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Summary: Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.

Release Date: February 06, 1942

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Preston Sturges

Writer: Preston Sturges

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Paramount Pictures

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 689,665

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Summary: A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Release Date: October 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Tango Film, Filmverlag der Autoren

Distributor: New Yorker Films, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 260,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 8,099