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Summary: East-Berlin, 1961, shortly after the erection of the Wall. Konrad, Sophie and three of their friends plan a daring escape to Western Germany. The attempt is successful, except for Konrad, who remains behind. From then on, and for ...
Runtime: 1 h 55 min
MPAA: R

Language: German
Domestic: $ 91,145
Summary: The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: PG-13

Countries: United States, Mexico
Language: English
Domestic: $ 1,316,495
Summary: A description of Romania before Ceausescu's downfall, through the story of Nela. Daughter of a former colonel of the Securitate, the romanian political police. She refused to become as her sister, an agent of this Securitate, and ...
Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Countries: France, Romania
Language: Romanian
Movie budget: $ 3,700,000
Summary: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is set in the 2nd World War torn Calcutta during the 1940s. Enter a magical world of nostalgia and 'Expect the Unexpected'.
Runtime: 2 h 19 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: India
Language: Hindi
Domestic: $ 579,055
International: $ 3,973,610
Summary: The goalkeeper of a little-known soccer team is kidnapped by a Argentinean government squad and sent to a detention center. After months of torture, he plots his escape with three other young men.
Runtime: 1 h 43 min
MPAA: R

Country: Argentina
Language: Spanish
Domestic: $ 2,370
International: $ 761,372
Summary: A Czech circus owner/clown and his entire troupe employ a daring stratagem in order to escape en masse from behind the iron curtain.
Runtime: 1 h 45 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,200,000
Summary: A documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war.
Runtime: 4 h 27 min
MPAA: Unrated

Domestic: $ 341,018
Summary: In a small European country, the king is scheduled to visit a small, quiet and "safe" village. It turns out that while the village may indeed be small, it's neither as quiet nor as safe as it's expected to be.
Runtime: 1 h 36 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 70,060
Summary: Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.
Runtime: 1 h 24 min
MPAA: Unrated

Domestic: $ 51,672
International: $ 75,391
Summary: A cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
Runtime: 2 h 30 min
MPAA: Approved

Language: English
Domestic: $ 5,200,000
Summary: The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min

Country: Poland
Language: Polish
Domestic: $ 33,443
International: $ 999,325
Summary: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Runtime: 3 h 03 min
MPAA: GP

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 9,000,000
Summary: France, 1654: D'Artagnan's girl grows up in a convent. When the mother superior is murdered, Eloïse suspects a plan to murder the king and hopes to prevent this and revenge the murder by finding her father and the 3 musketeers.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: R

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 311,922
International: $ 11,288,078
Summary: A struggling American writer (England) and a fellow American expatriate (Mandylor) begin a sordid affair among the chaos and discord of 1940 Paris, France on the brink of World War II.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 63,174
Summary: A football player and his friends travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
Runtime: 1 h 51 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000
Domestic: $ 27,107,960
International: $ 68,861
Summary: True tale about two men planning to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.
Runtime: 1 h 47 min
MPAA: PG

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000
Domestic: $ 8,000,000
Summary: A few months before the revolution in Tunisia, 18 year-old Farah has a passion for life and sings in a political rock band. Her mother, knowing the dangers of Tunisia, wants her to pursue a career as a doctor.
Runtime: 1 h 42 min
MPAA: Unrated

Domestic: $ 30,989
International: $ 19,732
Summary: An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumors about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies.
Runtime: 1 h 38 min
MPAA: R

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 7,000,000
Domestic: $ 19,595,031
Summary: In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Runtime: 2 h 12 min
MPAA: R

Movie budget: $ 54,000,000
Domestic: $ 70,511,035
International: $ 64,175,422
Summary: In 1943 Berlin, a Nazi officer's wife meets and starts a passionate affair with a Jewish woman.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Germany
Language: German
Movie budget: $ 15,000,000
Domestic: $ 927,107