Bartleby (2001)

Summary: A clueless boss has no idea what to do with his mundane office worker whose refusal of duties only gets worse each passing minute.

Release Date: March 10, 2001

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Director: Jonathan Parker

Writers: Herman Melville

, Jonathan Parker

, Catherine DiNapoli

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Parker Film Company

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 148,479

Beau Travail (1999)

Summary: An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.

Release Date: May 03, 2000

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Claire Denis

Writers: Claire Denis

, Jean-Pol Fargeau

, Herman Melville

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: G

Production: La Sept-Arte, Pathé Télévision, S.M. Films, Tanaïs Productions

Distributor: Mercure Distribution, New Yorker Films, New Yorker Video, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Pola X (1999)

Summary: A young writer becomes intrigued with a mysterious dark-haired woman who claims to be his long-lost sister, starting an unusual relationship with her and prompting a downward spiral involving his domineering mother and lovely fian...

Release Date: October 09, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Leos Carax

Writers: Leos Carax

, Jean-Pol Fargeau

, Herman Melville

Runtime: 2 h 14 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: ARD Degeto Film, Arena Films, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Euro Space, Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen, France 2 Cinéma, L'Office Federal de la Culture, La Sept-Arte, Pandora Filmproduktion, Pola Production, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Théo Films, Télévision Suisse-Romande (TSR), Vega Film

Distributor: WinStar Cinema

Countries: France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 71,500,000

Billy Budd (1962)

Summary: When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war in 1797, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crewmates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.

Release Date: November 12, 1962

Genres: Adventure, Drama, War

Director: Peter Ustinov