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Norma Rae (1979)

Summary: A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved.

Release Date: March 02, 1979

Genre: Drama

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Irving Ravetch

, Harriet Frank Jr.

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS/Fox, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 22,228,000

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

Summary: A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady at a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know.

Release Date: January 24, 1992

Genre: Drama

Director: Jon Avnet

Writers: Fannie Flagg

, Carol Sobieski

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Act III Communications, Avnet/Kerner Productions, Electric Shadow Productions, Fried Green Tomatoes Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 82,418,501

International: $ 37,000,000

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Summary: Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Release Date: January 27, 1989

Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Director: Alan Parker

Writer: Chris Gerolmo

Runtime: 2 h 08 min

MPAA: R

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Image Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Orion Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,603,943

Aliens (1986)

Summary: Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.

Release Date: July 18, 1986

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: James Cameron

Writers: James Cameron

, David Giler

, Walter Hill

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Brandywine Productions, Pinewood Studios, SLM Production Group

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS/Fox, CBS, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Max, Tubi TV

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: Alien

Movie budget: $ 18,500,000

Domestic: $ 85,160,248

International: $ 45,900,000

The Princess Academy (1987)

Summary: Lowbrow humor is the feature in this 'Porky's for girls'. The students of an elite international private school that teaches rich young women how to behave like proper ladies rebel against their strict, snobbish and brutish head t...

Genre: Comedy

Director: Bruce A. Block

Writer: Sandra Weintraub

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cloverleaf, Jadran Film, Sofracima

Distributor: Lightning Video, Vestron Television

Countries: France, United States, Yugoslavia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 205,000

Orlando (1992)

Summary: After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.

Release Date: June 09, 1993

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Sally Potter

Writers: Virginia Woolf

, Walter Donohue

, Sally Potter

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Adventure Pictures, Lenfilm Studio, Mikado Film, Rio, Sigma Film Productions, British Screen Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures International, The Sales Company, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, France, Netherlands

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,377,643

International: $ 31,780

Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)

Summary: A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.

Release Date: March 09, 1965

Genres: Crime, Drama

Director: Luis Buñuel

Writers: Octave Mirbeau

, Luis Buñuel

, Jean-Claude Carrière

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Ciné-Alliance, Filmsonor, Spéva Films, Dear Film Produzione

Distributor: Rialto Pictures, Castle Hill Productions, International Classics, Media Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

You've Got Mail (1998)

Summary: Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

Release Date: December 18, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Nora Ephron

Writers: Miklós László

, Nora Ephron

, Delia Ephron

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,821,495

International: $ 135,000,000

Citizen Ruth (1996)

Summary: An irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides.

Release Date: December 13, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Alexander Payne

Writers: Alexander Payne

, Jim Taylor

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Independent Pictures (II), Miramax

Distributor: The Criterion Channel, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 285,112

Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

Summary: In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.

Release Date: February 11, 1999

Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance

Director: Max Färberböck

Writers: Max Färberböck

, Rona Munro

, Erica Fischer

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Senator Film Produktion, Max Farberbock Film, Bundesministerium des Inneren (BMI), Filmförderung Hamburg, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Distributor: Zeitgeist Films, Zeitgeist Video

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 927,107

1900 (1976)

Summary: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Release Date: November 04, 1977

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Writers: Franco Arcalli

, Giuseppe Bertolucci

, Bernardo Bertolucci

Runtime: 5 h 17 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), Les Productions Artistes Associés, Artemis Film

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 9,000,000

Malcolm (1986)

Summary: Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Frank's help, turns to a life o...

Release Date: November 05, 1986

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

Director: Nadia Tass

Writer: David Parker

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cascade Films, Film Victoria

Distributor: Vestron Pictures, Vestron Television, Umbrella Entertainment, Lionsgate

Country: Australia

Language: English

Domestic: $ 544,472

Brass Target (1978)

Summary: In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.

Release Date: March 02, 1979

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Director: John Hough

Writers: Frederick Nolan

, Alvin Boretz

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG

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

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Countries: United States, Switzerland, West Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,011,158

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

Summary: Laura Palmer's harrowing final days are chronicled one year after the murder of Teresa Banks, a resident of Twin Peaks' neighboring town.

Release Date: August 28, 1992

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: David Lynch

Writers: David Lynch

, Robert Engels

, Mark Frost

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, CiBy 2000, Twin Peaks Productions

Distributor: New Line Cinema, New Line Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Showtime Networks, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, New Line Home Video

Countries: France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,160,851

International: $ 24,139