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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: G

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: Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.

Release Date: September 22, 2023

Genres: Documentary, Music

Director: Jonathan Demme

Writers: Jonathan Demme

, Talking Heads

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Talking Heads, Arnold Stiefel Company

Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Domestic: $ 10,306,902

International: $ 2,164,618

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: November 11, 1956

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: André Devigny

, Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
39 votes

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: Documentary, History, Music

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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
39 votes

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: Documentary, Crime

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

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
39 votes

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: January 12, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Miklós László

, Ben Hecht

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

100 - Rotten Tomatoes
38 votes

Inside No. 9 (2014)

Summary: Genre-mixing anthology series, inviting viewers into some very different and enigmatic No. 9s.

Release Date: February 13, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Runtime: 0 h 30 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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: Crime, Drama, 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

L'Atalante (1934)

Summary: Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.

Release Date: June 21, 1947

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Jean Vigo

Writers: Jean Guinée

, Albert Riéra

, Jean Vigo

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Argui-Film, Gaumont-Franco Film-Aubert (G.F.F.A)

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

Country: France

Language: French

Introducing, Selma Blair (2021)

Summary: A deeply intimate and raw portrait of Selma Blair after she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and tries to slow the progression of her disease.

Release Date: October 21, 2021

Genre: Documentary

Director: Rachel Fleit

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

Production: LD Entertainment

Distributor: Strand Releasing, Discovery+

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,700

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: Documentary, Music

Director: Andrew Dominik

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Production: Uncommon Creative Studio

Distributor: Trafalgar Releasing

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Local Hero (1983)

Summary: An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.

Release Date: April 29, 1983

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Bill Forsyth

Writer: Bill Forsyth

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Enigma Productions, Goldcrest Films International, Celandine Films

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,895,761

International: $ 78,551

Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

Summary: A group of women rise up to peace to Liberia and help bring to power the country's first female head of state.

Release Date: May 08, 2009

Genre: Documentary

Director: Gini Reticker

Runtime: 1 h 12 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Fork Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 90,066

Atlantic City (1980)

Summary: In a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger.

Release Date: April 03, 1981

Genres: Crime, Drama, Romance

Director: Louis Malle

Writer: John Guare

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: International Cinema Corporation (ICC), Selta Films, Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC), Cine-Neighbor, Famous Players Limited

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Harlequin Pictures, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: France, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,200,000

Domestic: $ 12,729,675