Beautiful City (2004)

Summary: In Islamic Iran, how much is a woman worth in comparison with a man, and who pays the difference? This film is tale of vengeance, labyrinthine judicial procedure & the concept of "blood money."

Release Date: June 09, 2004

Genre: Drama

Director: Asghar Farhadi

Writer: Asghar Farhadi

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Production: Neshane

Country: Iran

Language: Farsi

-5 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Summary: In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Release Date: December 13, 1949

Genre: Drama

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Writers: Cesare Zavattini

, Luigi Bartolini

, Oreste Biancoli

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Produzioni De Sica

Distributor: Arthur Mayer & Joseph Burstyn, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Corinth Films, Films sans Frontières, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 133,000

Domestic: $ 371,111

International: $ 80,225

-40 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Dormant Beauty (2012)

Summary: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

Release Date: September 06, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Marco Bellocchio