Fletch Lives (1989)

Spotlight (2015)

Summary: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.

Release Date: November 20, 2015

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Tom McCarthy

Writers: Josh Singer

, Tom McCarthy

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Participant, First Look Media, Anonymous Content, Entertainment One, Topic Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 45,055,776

International: $ 53,634,478

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Summary: A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

Release Date: December 17, 1993

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Writers: John Grisham

, Alan J. Pakula

Runtime: 2 h 21 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Home Video, CBS, Hotstar, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 45,000,000

Domestic: $ 100,768,056

International: $ 94,500,000

The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

Summary: After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight and attracts the interest of a down-and-out reporter.

Release Date: December 21, 1990

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers: Michael Cristofer

, Tom Wolfe

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 47,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,691,192

Shattered Glass (2003)

Summary: The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.

Release Date: November 26, 2003

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Billy Ray

Writers: Buzz Bissinger

, Billy Ray

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Lions Gate Films, Cruise/Wagner Productions, Baumgarten Merims Productions, Forest Park Pictures, Mel's Cite du Cinema

Distributor: Lions Gate Films

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,220,008

International: $ 724,744

Peyton Place (1957)

Summary: A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.

Release Date: March 03, 1958

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Mark Robson

Writers: John Michael Hayes

, Grace Metalious

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Wald Productions

Distributor: Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Twilight Time

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 25,600,000

The Gentlemen (2019)

Summary: An American expat tries to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London, triggering plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Release Date: January 24, 2020

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Guy Ritchie

Writers: Guy Ritchie

, Ivan Atkinson

, Marn Davies

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: STX Films, Miramax, Toff Guy Films

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 36,471,795

International: $ 78,700,000

The Shipping News (2001)

Summary: An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Release Date: January 18, 2002

Genre: Drama

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writers: Annie Proulx

, Robert Nelson Jacobs

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax

Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United States, Sweden

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,434,216

International: $ 13,256,225

Being There (1979)

Summary: After the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics.

Release Date: February 08, 1980

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Hal Ashby

Writers: Jerzy Kosinski

, Robert C. Jones

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG

Production: BSB, CIP, Lorimar Film Entertainment, Northstar Media

Distributor: MGM/CBS Home Video, CBS Video, CBS/Fox, CBS, Warner Home Video, Warner Bros., HBO Max, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 30,177,511

State of Play (2009)

Summary: When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.

Release Date: April 17, 2009

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Kevin Macdonald

Writers: Matthew Michael Carnahan

, Tony Gilroy

, Billy Ray

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Universal Pictures, Working Title Films, StudioCanal

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

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,017,955

International: $ 50,794,416

Veronika Voss (1982)

Summary: Partially based on the life of Sybille Schmitz, who found fame under the Nazi regime, but whose career was destroyed afterward. Veronika Voss is a once prominent UFA actress, kept by her doctor, who raises suspicion in a sports jo...

Release Date: May 13, 1982

Genre: Drama

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

, Pea Fröhlich

, Peter Märthesheimer

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Laura Film, Tango Film, Rialto Film, Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR)

Distributor: MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: West Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,600,000

Domestic: $ 8,144

International: $ 4

His Girl Friday (1940)

Summary: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Release Date: January 18, 1940

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Howard Hawks

Writers: Charles Lederer

, Ben Hecht

, Charles MacArthur

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 296,000

Christmas Jars (2019)

Summary: Based on the novel by Jason Wright, it tells the story of reporter Hope Jensen, who uncovers the secret behind "Christmas Jars" - jars filled with money and given anonymously to people in need. The phenomenon has changed countless...

Release Date: November 04, 2019

Genre: Drama

Director: Jonathan Wright

Writers: Andrea Stevens

, Jason Wright

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

Production: Muse Entertainment Enterprises, 1Department Entertainment Services, Eggplant Picture & Sound, Xmas Jars Productions (Ontario), Muse Distribution International, Muse Entertainment LLC

Country: Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 459,462

International: $ 98,556

Girls Trip (2017)

Summary: When four lifelong friends travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival, sisterhoods are rekindled, wild sides are rediscovered, and there's enough dancing, drinking, brawling and romancing to make the Big Easy blush.

Release Date: July 21, 2017

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Malcolm D. Lee

Writers: Erica Rivinoja

, Kenya Barris

, Tracy Oliver

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Perfect World Pictures, Will Packer Productions

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Canada, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 19,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,171,585

International: $ 25,380,774

The Ring Two (2005)

Summary: 6 months after the incidents involving the lethal videotape, new clues prove that there is a new evil lurking in the darkness.

Release Date: March 18, 2005

Genres: Horror, Mystery

Director: Hideo Nakata

Writers: Ehren Kruger

, Kôji Suzuki

, Hiroshi Takahashi

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, BenderSpink, Parkes/MacDonald Image Nation

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: The Ring

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 76,231,249

International: $ 87,764,700

Brenda Starr (1989)

Summary: Comic book artist Mike Randall struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip draws himself into it when disappointed Brenda leaves the strip and heads to the Amazon jungle to find a scientist whose secret formula will create cheap gaso...

Release Date: April 15, 1992

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Writers: Noreen Stone

, James D. Buchanan

, Delia Ephron

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: AM/PM Entertainment, New World Pictures, Tribune Entertainment

Distributor: Triumph Releasing Corporation, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), TGG Direct

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 67,878

Dangerously Close (1986)

Summary: A rebel without a cause at an elite uptight High School discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique hell-bent on ridding the school of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics...

Release Date: May 09, 1986

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Albert Pyun

Writers: Scott Fields

, Marty Ross

, John Stockwell

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: R

Production: Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group

Distributor: Media Home Entertainment, Viacom, Video Treasures, Paramount Domestic Television, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Olive Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,390,525