Boogie Nights (1997)

A Christmas Story (1983)

Summary: In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

Release Date: November 18, 1983

Genres: Comedy, Family

Director: Bob Clark

Writers: Jean Shepherd

, Leigh Brown

, Bob Clark

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Christmas Tree Films

Distributor: MGM/UA Entertainment Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Showtime Networks, TBS Superstation, TNT, KTLA, WPIX, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Warner Home Video, HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Cartoon Network

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,300,000

Domestic: $ 20,778,141

International: $ 14,478

Monsieur Lazhar (2011)

Summary: At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.

Release Date: March 07, 2012

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Philippe Falardeau

Writers: Philippe Falardeau

, Evelyne de la Chenelière

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Téléfilm Canada, micro_scope

Distributor: Music Box Films

Country: Canada

Language: French

Domestic: $ 2,009,517

International: $ 7,065,194

Whip It (2009)

Summary: In Bodeen, Texas, an indie-rock-loving misfit finds a way of dealing with small-town misery after discovering a roller-derby league in nearby Austin.

Release Date: October 02, 2009

Genres: Drama, Sport

Director: Drew Barrymore

Writer: Shauna Cross

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Mandate Pictures, Vincent Pictures, Babe Ruthless Productions, Barry Mendel Productions, Dune Entertainment

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,043,363

International: $ 3,647,940

Big Shot's Funeral (2001)

Summary: Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, studio boss sells the sagging picture to a Jap...

Release Date: December 21, 2001

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Writers: Xiaogang Feng

, Xiaoming Li

, Kang Shi

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: China Film Group Corporation (CFGC), Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Huayi Brothers Advertising, Taihe Film Investment Co. Ltd.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: China, Hong Kong

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 3,300,000

Domestic: $ 820

International: $ 50,239

Dear Mr. Gacy (2010)

Summary: A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy.

Release Date: May 11, 2010

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Svetozar Ristovski

Writers: Kellie Madison

, Clark Peterson

, Jason Moss

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Notorious Pictures, The Movie Network (TMN), Super Ecran, Movie Central Network, Province of British Columbia Film Incentive BC, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), National Bank of Canada

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, Reel One Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: English

Rush (2013)

Summary: The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Release Date: September 27, 2013

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Ron Howard

Writer: Peter Morgan

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Exclusive Media Group, Cross Creek Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Revolution Films, Working Title Films, Double Negative (DNEG)

Distributor: Universal Pictures

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000

Domestic: $ 26,947,624

International: $ 70,035,385

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Summary: A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

Release Date: May 25, 1969

Genre: Drama

Director: John Schlesinger

Writers: Waldo Salt

, James Leo Herlihy

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: X

Production: Jerome Hellman Productions, Florin Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,600,000

Domestic: $ 44,785,053

International: $ 16,124

Somers Town (2008)

Summary: A black-and-white study of a social environment in London, concentrating on a pair of unlikely new friends and the girl they both fancy.

Release Date: July 15, 2009

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Shane Meadows

Writers: Paul Fraser

, Mother Vision

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Big Arty Productions, Mother Vision, Tomboy Films

Distributor: Film Movement

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 500,000

The Mechanic (2011)

Summary: An elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.

Release Date: January 28, 2011

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Simon West

Writers: Richard Wenk

, Lewis John Carlino

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: CBS Films, Millennium Films, Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Scared Productions

Distributor: CBS Films, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 40,000,000

Domestic: $ 29,121,498

International: $ 47,008,595

Parker (2013)

Summary: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's lat...

Release Date: January 25, 2013

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: Taylor Hackford

Writers: John J. McLaughlin

, Donald E. Westlake

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Incentive Filmed Entertainment, Sierra / Affinity, Alexander/ Mitchell Productions, Anvil Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,616,641

International: $ 29,305,925

Frontier(s) (2007)

Summary: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

Release Date: January 23, 2008

Genre: Horror

Director: Xavier Gens

Writer: Xavier Gens

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Cartel Productions, BR Films, EuropaCorp

Countries: France, Switzerland

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 97,182

International: $ 2,686,353

Men, Women & Children (2014)

Summary: A group of high school teenagers and their parents attempt to navigate the many ways the Internet has changed their relationships, their communications, their self-images, and their love lives.

Release Date: October 17, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jason Reitman

Writers: Chad Kultgen

, Jason Reitman

, Erin Cressida Wilson

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Right of Way Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 705,908

International: $ 1,000,000

The Double (2013)

Summary: The unenviable life of a government-agency clerk takes a horrific turn with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite otherwise--he's a confident, charismatic ladies' man.

Release Date: April 04, 2014

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Director: Richard Ayoade

Writers: Fyodor Dostoevsky

, Richard Ayoade

, Avi Korine

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Alcove Entertainment, Attercop Productions, British Film Institute (BFI)

Distributor: Magnolia Home Entertainment

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 200,406

International: $ 1,462,109

Walking Tall (2004)

Summary: A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Release Date: April 02, 2004

Genres: Action, Crime

Director: Kevin Bray

Writers: Mort Briskin

, David Klass

, Channing Gibson

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Hyde Park Entertainment, Mandeville Films, Burke/Samples/Foster Productions, WWE Studios, Cub Eight Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, MVD Visual

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 46,000,000

Domestic: $ 46,437,717

International: $ 10,786,173

Footloose (2011)

Summary: City teenager Ren MacCormack moves to a small town where rock music and dancing have been banned, and his rebellious spirit shakes up the populace.

Release Date: October 14, 2011

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Craig Brewer

Writers: Dean Pitchford

, Craig Brewer

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Dylan Sellers Productions, Zadan / Meron Productions, Weston Pictures, MTV Films

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 24,000,000

Domestic: $ 51,802,742

International: $ 11,740,586