Wild Mountain Thyme (2020)

The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)

Summary: The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Release Date: September 16, 1965

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: Irving Stone

, Philip Dunne

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: International Classics

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, CBS/Fox, Fox Video, Magnetic Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Pumping Iron (1977)

Summary: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a no-holds-barred competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically-acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a household name.

Release Date: June 23, 1977

Genres: Documentary, Sport

Directors: George Butler

, Robert Fiore

Writers: Charles Gaines

, George Butler

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Rollie Robinson, White Mountain Films

Distributor: HBO Home Video, Rhino Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

The Fountainhead (1949)

Summary: An uncompromising, visionary architect struggles to maintain his integrity and individualism despite personal, professional and economic pressures to conform to popular standards.

Release Date: July 02, 1949

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: King Vidor

Writer: Ayn Rand

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., Associated Artists Productions (AAP), VidAmerica, Magnetic Video, CBS/Fox, Key Video, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,375,000

King Lear (1970)

Summary: King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia refuses to idly flatter the old man, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters.

Genre: Drama

Director: Peter Brook

Writers: Peter Brook

, Geoffrey of Monmouth

, William Shakespeare

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Athéna Films, Filmways Pictures, Filmways

Countries: United Kingdom, Denmark

Language: English

Sorry We Missed You (2019)

Summary: Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploita...

Release Date: March 06, 2020

Genre: Drama

Director: Ken Loach

Writer: Paul Laverty

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sixteen Films, BBC Films, BE TV, Casa Kafka Pictures Movie Tax Shelter Empowered by Belfius, Casa Kafka Pictures, Ciné+, Cinéart, France 2 Cinéma, France Télévisions, Le Pacte, Les Films du Fleuve, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge, VOO, Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch

Distributor: Kino Lorber, Zeitgeist Films, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Belgium

Language: English

Domestic: $ 28,273

International: $ 8,915,517

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

Summary: A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.

Release Date: December 23, 1947

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Directors: Jean Cocteau

, René Clément

Writers: Jean Cocteau

, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Les Films André Paulvé

Distributor: Lopert Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Channel, HBO Max, Nelson Entertainment

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 298,718

The Innocents (2016)

Summary: 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Release Date: February 10, 2016

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Anne Fontaine

Writers: Sabrina B. Karine

, Alice Vial

, Anne Fontaine

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: PG-13

Countries: France, Poland

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 6,400,000

Domestic: $ 1,065,665

International: $ 6,334,636

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)

Summary: A fictionalized account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima.

Release Date: September 20, 1985

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Paul Schrader

Writers: Paul Schrader

, Leonard Schrader

, Chieko Schrader

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zoetrope Studios, Filmlink International, Lucasfilm, M Company, Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd., Tristone Entertainment Inc.

Distributor: Warner Bros., The Criterion Collection

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 437,547

International: $ 132,449

Troy (2004)

Summary: An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Release Date: May 14, 2004

Genres: Drama, History

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Writers: Homer

, David Benioff

Runtime: 2 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Helena Productions, Latina Pictures, Radiant Productions, Plan B Entertainment, Nimar Studios

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, HBO Max

Countries: United States, Malta, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 175,000,000

Domestic: $ 133,378,256

International: $ 364,031,596

Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

Summary: A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Release Date: August 18, 2006

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Directors: Jonathan Dayton

, Valerie Faris

Writer: Michael Arndt

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Big Beach Films, Bona Fide Productions, Major Studio Partners

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Domestic: $ 59,891,098

International: $ 41,167,856

Alpha (2018)

Summary: In the prehistoric past, a young man struggles to return home after being separated from his tribe during a buffalo hunt. He finds a similarly lost wolf companion and starts a friendship that would change humanity.

Release Date: August 17, 2018

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Albert Hughes

Writers: Daniele Sebastian Wiedenhaupt

, Albert Hughes

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Studio 8, Columbia Pictures, Fosun Group Forever Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Amazon Prime Video

Countries: United States, Canada, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 51,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,857,181

International: $ 61,397,147

The Ruling Class (1972)

Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

Release Date: September 15, 1972

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Musical

Director: Peter Medak

Writer: Peter Barnes

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Keep Films

Distributor: AVCO Embassy Pictures, Embassy Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Cookie's Fortune (1999)

Summary: Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

Release Date: April 16, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Robert Altman

Writer: Anne Rapp

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Elysian Dreams, Kudzu, Moonstone Entertainment

Distributor: October Films, USA Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,920,544

Umberto D. (1952)

Summary: An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Release Date: November 07, 1955

Genre: Drama

Director: Vittorio De Sica

Writer: Cesare Zavattini

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Dear Film, Rizzoli Film, Produzione Films Vittorio De Sica, Amato Film

Distributor: Janus Films, Joseph Burstyn, IntraMovies, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Rialto Pictures

Country: Italy

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 71,816

International: $ 617

Intruder in the Dust (1949)

Summary: In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.

Release Date: March 20, 1950

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Clarence Brown

Writers: William Faulkner

, Ben Maddow

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM/UA Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 988,000

Hud (1963)

Summary: Honest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash.

Release Date: May 29, 1963

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Irving Ravetch

, Harriet Frank Jr.

, Larry McMurtry

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Salem-Dover Productions

Distributor: American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

Summary: A young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment.

Release Date: April 05, 1954

Genre: Drama

Director: Robert Bresson

Writers: Georges Bernanos

, Robert Bresson

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC), World Wonder Ring Stardom

Distributor: Interama, Rialto Pictures, Kino Video, The Criterion Collection

Country: France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 47,000

The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)

Summary: The rather eccentric (especially in her thinking) author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" becomes involved with a much younger, and married man, to the dismay of those close to her.

Release Date: January 27, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Christopher Menaul

Writers: Barbara Branden

, Howard Korder

, Mary Gallagher

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Producers Entertainment Group, Producers Entertainment Group, Showtime Networks

Distributor: Showtime Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English