Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Knives Out (2019)

Summary: A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.

Release Date: November 27, 2019

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Rian Johnson

Writer: Rian Johnson

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lionsgate, Media Rights Capital (MRC), T-Street

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 165,363,234

International: $ 147,534,686

The Apple (1998)

Summary: After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.

Release Date: February 19, 1999

Genre: Drama

Director: Samira Makhmalbaf

Writers: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

, Samira Makhmalbaf

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

Production: Hubert Bals Fund, MK2 Productions, Makhmalbaf Productions, Rotterdam Film Festival

Countries: Iran, France, Netherlands

Language: Farsi

Domestic: $ 15,207

Production: Tempesta, Amka Films Productions, Rai Cinema, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera, SRG - SSR, Das kleine Fernsehspiel (ZDF), ARTE, Dipartimento Federale dell'Interno (DFI), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Regione Toscana, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT)

The Wonders (2014)

Summary: A family of beekeepers living in the Tuscan countryside finds their household disrupted by the simultaneous arrival of a silently troubled teenage boy and a reality TV show intent on showcasing the family.

Release Date: October 30, 2015

Genre: Drama

Director: Alice Rohrwacher

Writer: Alice Rohrwacher

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Oscilloscope, The Criterion Channel, Topic

Countries: Italy, Switzerland, Germany

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 73,378

International: $ 2,728,446

Happy End (2017)

Summary: A well-to-do French family deals with a series of setbacks and crises.

Release Date: December 22, 2017

Genre: Drama

Director: Michael Haneke

Writer: Michael Haneke

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Countries: France, Austria, Germany

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 12,034,009

Domestic: $ 301,718

International: $ 2,309,076

Grandma (2015)

Summary: A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.

Release Date: September 18, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Paul Weitz

Writer: Paul Weitz

Runtime: 1 h 19 min

MPAA: R

Production: Depth of Field, 1821 Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 600,000

Domestic: $ 6,980,524

International: $ 224,549

The White Ribbon (2009)

Summary: Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?

Release Date: March 05, 2010

Genres: Drama, Mystery, History

Director: Michael Haneke

Writer: Michael Haneke

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: X-Filme Creative Pool, Wega Film, Les Films du Losange, Lucky Red, ARD Degeto Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, France 3 Cinéma, Mini-Traité Franco-Canadien, Canal+, TPS Star

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

Countries: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,222,862

International: $ 17,096,809

The Other Side of Sunday (1996)

Summary: The Other Side of Sunday criticizes the small, and often tight church community. We follow the Preachers Daughter; Maria, in her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her strict religious father.

Release Date: May 01, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Berit Nesheim

Writers: Lasse Glomm

, Berit Nesheim

, Reidun Nortvedt

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: NRK Drama, Norwegian Film Institute

Country: Norway

Language: Norwegian (Bokmal)

Domestic: $ 4,769

Broken English (1996)

Summary: Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where E...

Release Date: May 02, 1997

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Gregor Nicholas

Writers: Gregor Nicholas

, Johanna Pigott

, James Salter

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Village Roadshow Pictures, Communicado Productions, New Zealand Film Commission, New Zealand On Air

Distributor: Allied Artists Home Video, Allied Artists Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics

Country: New Zealand

Language: English

Domestic: $ 541,377

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Beijing ShengShi HuaRei Film Investment & Management Co., China Film Co-Production Corporation, Mandarin Films Distribution, New Film Studio of Beijing Starlight International Media Co. Ltd., Beijing ShengShi HuaRei Film Investment & Management Co., Prosperity Pictures, Shanghai Film Group, Time Antaeus Media Group

Ip Man (2008)

Summary: During the Japanese invasion of China, a wealthy martial artist is forced to leave his home when his city is occupied. With little means of providing for themselves, Ip Man and the remaining members of the city must find a way to ...

Release Date: December 12, 2008

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Wilson Yip

Writers: Edmond Wong

, Tai-Lee Chan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Mandarin Films Distribution, Well Go USA Entertainment, Variance Films, Gravitas Ventures

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 11,715,578

Dragon Seed (1944)

Summary: The lives of a small Chinese village are turned upside down when the Japanese invade it, and a heroic young woman leads her fellow villagers in an uprising against these invaders.

Genres: Drama, History, War

Directors: Harold S. Bucquet

, Jack Conway

Writers: Pearl S. Buck

, Marguerite Roberts

, Jane Murfin

Runtime: 2 h 28 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Love After Love (2017)

Summary: Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.

Release Date: March 30, 2018

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Russell Harbaugh

Writers: Russell Harbaugh

, Eric Mendelsohn

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

Production: Secret Engine, Weedon Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 121,098

International: $ 7,504

O.C. and Stiggs (1985)

Summary: O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against them. They seek revenge against the middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: the middle class.

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Robert Altman

Writers: Tod Carroll

, Ted Mann

, Donald Cantrell

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), National Lampoon

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 29,815

Gosford Park (2001)

Summary: Set in the 1930s, a group of pretentious rich and famous get together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

Release Date: January 18, 2002

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Director: Robert Altman

Writers: Julian Fellowes

, Robert Altman

, Bob Balaban

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: USA Films, Capitol Films, UK Film Council, Sandcastle 5 Productions, Chicagofilms, Medusa Film

Distributor: USA Films, Arrow Video, Peacock, Universal Studios

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,800,000

Domestic: $ 41,308,615

International: $ 46,445,429

Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Summary: An ordinary Japanese family slowly disintegrates after its patriarch loses his job at a prominent company.

Release Date: September 27, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Writers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

, Max Mannix

, Sachiko Tanaka

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Django Film, Entertainment Farm (EF), Fortissimo Films

Distributor: Regent Releasing, Entertainment One, Koch Vision

Countries: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 278,356

International: $ 665,191

The House of the Spirits (1993)

Summary: A rancher, his clairvoyant wife, and their family face turbulent years in South America in this adaptation of Isabel Allende's best-seller.

Release Date: April 01, 1994

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Bille August

Writers: Isabel Allende

, Bille August

Runtime: 2 h 25 min

MPAA: R

Production: Constantin Film, Spring Creek Productions, House of Spirits Film, Costa do Castelo Filmes, Eurimages, Det Danske Filminstitut, Instituto do Cinema e do Audiovisual (ICA)

Distributor: Miramax, Live Home Video, Artisan Entertainment

Countries: Germany, Denmark, Portugal

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 6,265,311

The Heartbreak Kid (1972)

Summary: A newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman.

Release Date: December 22, 1972

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Elaine May

Writers: Bruce Jay Friedman

, Neil Simon

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Palomar Pictures International

Distributor: Media Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Video Treasures, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 12,208,000

A Thousand Acres (1997)

Summary: A family is torn apart after a father gives his valuable farm land to his daughters.

Release Date: September 19, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse

Writers: Jane Smiley

, Laura Jones

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Propaganda Films, Beacon Communications, Via Rosa Productions, Prairie Films, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Beacon Pictures

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Mill Creek Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,936,780