The Departed (2006)

The Little Soldier (1963)

Summary: During the Algerian War, a man and woman from opposing sides fall in love with one another.

Release Date: January 25, 1963

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Writer: Jean-Luc Godard

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Productions Georges de Beauregard, Société Nouvelle de Cinématographie (SNC)

Distributor: Fox Lorber, Wellspring Media

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 180,000

Domestic: $ 24,296

Veronica Guerin (2003)

Summary: An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.

Release Date: October 17, 2003

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Joel Schumacher

Writers: Carol Doyle

, Mary Agnes Donoghue

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Persevere Productions Ltd., World 2000 Entertainment, Irish Film Industry, Merrion Film Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Video, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment

Countries: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,571,504

International: $ 7,868,156

In My Country (2004)

Summary: A journalist and a poetess meet during the hearings of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Release Date: May 07, 2004

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: John Boorman

Writers: Antjie Krog

, Ann Peacock

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Chartoff Productions, Film Afrika Worldwide, Film Consortium, Phoenix Pictures, Studio Eight Productions, UK Film Council

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 163,893

International: $ 1,327,541

Santa Fe Trail (1940)

Summary: In 1854, Jeb Stuart, George Custer and other graduates from West Point are posted to Kansas to help pacify the territory before railroad construction to Santa Fe can resume.

Release Date: December 28, 1940

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Curtiz

Writer: Robert Buckner

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Associated Artists Productions (AAP), Warner Home Video, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Reel Media International, Penteo Films S.L.

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Out in the Dark (2012)

Summary: A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sides of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli lawyer.

Release Date: September 27, 2013

Genres: Drama, Romance, Crime

Director: Michael Mayer

Writers: Yael Shafrir

, Michael Mayer

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: M7200 Productions, Channel 10, Israel Film Fund, M-Appeal, Periscope Productions, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Israel Film Council

Distributor: Breaking Glass Pictures, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix

Countries: Israel, United States, Germany

Language: Hebrew

Domestic: $ 26,966

International: $ 39,051

The Lives of Others (2006)

Summary: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Release Date: March 30, 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Creado Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, France

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,286,112

International: $ 66,070,830

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Summary: In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.

Release Date: September 20, 1967

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Writers: Franco Solinas

, Gillo Pontecorvo

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Igor Film, Casbah Film

Distributor: Rizzoli, Allied Artists Pictures, Encore Entertainment, Rialto Pictures, The Criterion Collection, The Criterion Channel, Image Entertainment

Countries: Italy, Algeria

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 800,000

Domestic: $ 879,794

International: $ 82,208

Production: Blue Monday Productions, Propaganda Production, Hélicotronc, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, Centre du Cinéma et de l'Audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, VOO, Visions Sud Est, Sanad Abu Dhabi Film Festival Fund, Ciclic - Région Centre, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Dubai International Film Festival, Emergence, Moulin d'Andé-CECI

As I Open My Eyes (2015)

Summary: A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.

Release Date: December 23, 2015

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Leyla Bouzid

Writers: Leyla Bouzid

, Marie-Sophie Chambon

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Unrated

Distributor: Doc & Film International

Countries: Tunisia, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Language: French

Domestic: $ 30,989

International: $ 19,732

Miami Vice (2006)

Summary: Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Release Date: July 28, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Michael Mann

, Anthony Yerkovich

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Motion Picture ETA Produktionsgesellschaft, Forward Pass, Foqus Arte Digital, Metropolis Films, Michael Mann Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), ION Television

Countries: Germany, United States, Uruguay, Paraguay

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 135,000,000

Domestic: $ 63,450,470

International: $ 100,344,039

The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)

Summary: The Chipmunks compete with the Chipettes in a round-the-world race.

Release Date: May 22, 1987

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Director: Janice Karman

Writers: Janice Karman

, Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

, Ross Bagdasarian

Runtime: 1 h 17 min

MPAA: G

Production: Bagdasarian Productions

Distributor: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, Lorimar Home Video, Disney Channel, Warner Home Video, MGM Worldwide Television, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios Home Video, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Park Circus, Anderson Digital, Anderson Merchandisers

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alvin and the Chipmunks

Domestic: $ 6,804,312

City of Hope (1991)

Summary: An intersecting tale with a multitude of characters living lives which, in one way or another, revolve around an old apartment block scheduled to be demolished.

Release Date: November 15, 1991

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: John Sayles

Writer: John Sayles

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Esperanza Films Inc., The Samuel Goldwyn Company

Distributor: The Samuel Goldwyn Company, SVS/Triumph Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,345,015

Angela's Ashes (1999)

Summary: Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war L...

Release Date: January 21, 2000

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Alan Parker

Writers: Frank McCourt

, Laura Jones

, Alan Parker

Runtime: 2 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: David Brown Productions, Dirty Hands Productions, Scott Rudin Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Oldies.com, Paramount+, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,042,112

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Summary: In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

Release Date: January 19, 2007

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, War

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Writer: Guillermo del Toro

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Tequila Gang, Estudios Picasso, Esperanto Filmoj, Esperanto Filmoj, Telecinco

Distributor: Picturehouse, New Line Home Video, The Criterion Collection

Countries: Mexico, Spain

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,646,380

International: $ 46,215,652

Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

Summary: In 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl.

Release Date: September 29, 1974

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Louis Malle

, Patrick Modiano

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), Universal Pictures, Vides Cinematografica, Universal Pictures, Hallelujah Films

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy, West Germany

Language: French

The Long Riders (1980)

Summary: The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the Jesse James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.

Release Date: May 16, 1980

Genres: Crime, Biography, Western

Director: Walter Hill

Writers: Bill Bryden

, Steven Smith

, Stacy Keach

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: United Artists, Huka Productions

Distributor: United Artists, CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,795,189

Fear and Trembling (2003)

Summary: A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice ...

Release Date: March 12, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alain Corneau

Writers: Amélie Nothomb

, Alain Corneau

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Canal+, Divali Films, France 3 Cinéma

Distributor: The Cinema Guild

Countries: France, Japan

Language: French

Domestic: $ 126,684

International: $ 2,178,529

Tsotsi (2005)

Summary: Six days in the violent life of a young Johannesburg gang leader.

Release Date: March 31, 2006

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Gavin Hood

Writers: Gavin Hood

, Athol Fugard

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: The UK Film & TV Production Company PLC, Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa, The National Film and Video Foundation of SA, Moviworld, Tsotsi Films

Distributor: Miramax, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, South Africa

Language: Afrikaans

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,912,606

International: $ 6,978,697

Bad Teacher (2011)

Summary: A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.

Release Date: June 24, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jake Kasdan

Writers: Gene Stupnitsky

, Lee Eisenberg

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures, Mosaic

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing, Fox Network, Netflix, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 100,292,856

International: $ 115,904,636