American Beauty (1999)

Dressed to Kill (1980)

Summary: A mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder.

Release Date: July 25, 1980

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Brian De Palma

Writer: Brian De Palma

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: R

Production: Filmways Pictures, Cinema 77 Films, American International Pictures (AIP)

Distributor: Filmways Pictures, American International Pictures (AIP), Orion Pictures, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Vestron Video, Warner Home Video, Image Entertainment, GoodTimes Home Video, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), MGM Home Entertainment, RCA (II), The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,500,000

Domestic: $ 31,899,000

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)

Summary: A rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.

Release Date: January 31, 1986

Genre: Comedy

Director: Paul Mazursky

Writers: René Fauchois

, Paul Mazursky

, Leon Capetanos

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Films, Silver Screen Partners II, Touchstone Pictures

Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Video, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 14,000,000

Domestic: $ 62,134,225

Nettoyage à sec (1997)

Summary: A bored couple takes in a young man who turns their lives inside out.

Release Date: September 24, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Anne Fontaine

Writers: Anne Fontaine

, Gilles Taurand

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Cinéa, Les Films Alain Sarde, Maestranza Films, Région Franche-Comté

Distributor: Pyramide Distribution, Strand Releasing

Countries: France, Spain

Language: French

Domestic: $ 14,919

Postal (2007)

Summary: In the ironically named city of Paradise, a loser teams up with his cult-leading uncle to steal a peculiar bounty of riches from their local amusement park. The recently arrived Taliban have a similar focus, but a far more siniste...

Release Date: October 18, 2007

Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime

Director: Uwe Boll

Writers: Uwe Boll

, Bryan C. Knight

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Boll Kino Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG, Pitchblack Pictures

Distributor: Vivendi Entertainment, Freestyle Releasing

Countries: United States, Canada, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

The Little Hours (2017)

Summary: In the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.

Release Date: July 21, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Jeff Baena

Writers: Giovanni Boccaccio

, Jeff Baena

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Gunpowder & Sky, StarStream Media, Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Destro Films, Dublab Media, Gunpowder & Sky, Productivity Media, Foton Pictures, Exhibit

Distributor: Gunpowder & Sky, Gunpowder & Sky, Paramount+

Countries: United States, Canada, Italy

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,647,175

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The World According to Garp (1982)

Summary: A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.

Release Date: July 23, 1982

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: George Roy Hill

Writers: John Irving

, Steve Tesich

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: R

Production: Pan Arts, Warner Bros.

Distributor: CBS, Warner Home Video, Warner Archive Collection

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 17,000,000

Domestic: $ 29,712,172

American Gigolo (1980)

Summary: A Los Angeles male escort, who mostly caters to an older female clientèle, is accused of a murder which he did not commit.

Release Date: February 01, 1980

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Paul Schrader

Writer: Paul Schrader

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Freddie Fields Productions, Freddie Fields Productions

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Home Entertainment, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,800,000

Domestic: $ 22,743,674

Boogie Woogie (2009)

Summary: A comedy of manners set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene.

Release Date: September 29, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Duncan Ward

Writer: Danny Moynihan

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Works International, Constance Media, Firefly, Muse Productions, P&C Arcade Film Fund, P&C Arcade Film Fund, Piccadilly Pictures, Autonomous, Colourframe, S Films

Distributor: MPI Home Video, IFC Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,618

International: $ 45,793

Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Summary: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Release Date: September 29, 2017

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Directors: Jonathan Dayton

, Valerie Faris

Writer: Simon Beaufoy

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cloud Eight Films, Decibel Films, Searchlight Pictures, TSG Entertainment, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, KVH Media Group

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 12,638,526

International: $ 5,960,081

Vixen! (1968)

Summary: While a naive bush pilot flies tourists to the wilderness of Northwest Canada, his nympho wife gets lonely--or does she? A Mountie, a married couple, and her biker brother drop by while hubby's away.

Release Date: October 22, 1968

Genre: Drama

Director: Russ Meyer

Writers: Robert Rudelson

, Russ Meyer

, Anthony-James Ryan

Runtime: 1 h 10 min

MPAA: X

Production: Coldstream Films, Eve Productions, Goldstein Films

Distributor: RM Films, Dickens Video, Laserlight Entertainment, Meyer Bosomania

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,500

Your Friends and Neighbors (1998)

Summary: Unhappy couples fall apart and hop into other beds with other people.

Release Date: August 21, 1998

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Neil LaBute

Writer: Neil LaBute

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Propaganda Films, Fleece

Distributor: Gramercy Pictures (I), PolyGram Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Television

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,714,658

Frida (2002)

Summary: A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.

Release Date: November 22, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Julie Taymor

Writers: Hayden Herrera

, Clancy Sigal

, Diane Lake

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Handprint Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, Miramax, Ventanarosa Productions, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Miramax, Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,885,000

International: $ 30,413,474

Star Maps (1997)

Summary: Only in America. Only in Hollywood. Only in Beverly Hills could a young man with a dream make his way to the stars. Carlos is a precocious 18 year-old who returns to America from Mexico with dreams of becoming a movie star.

Release Date: July 23, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Miguel Arteta

Writers: Miguel Arteta

, Matthew Greenfield

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Flan de Coco Films, King Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 661,465

Lantana (2001)

Summary: The relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.

Release Date: March 08, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Ray Lawrence

Writer: Andrew Bovell

Runtime: 2 h 01 min

MPAA: R

Production: MBP (Germany), Jan Chapman Productions, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC), The New South Wales Film and Television Office

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Countries: Australia, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,623,189

International: $ 11,124,261

10 (1979)

Summary: A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman.

Release Date: October 05, 1979

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Blake Edwards

Writer: Blake Edwards

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Geoffrey Productions, Orion Pictures

Distributor: Orion Pictures, Warner Bros., CBS, Warner Home Video, RCA SelectaVision VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 74,865,517

Feast of Love (2007)

Summary: A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. and is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Release Date: September 28, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Robert Benton

Writers: Allison Burnett

, Charles Baxter

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: GreeneStreet Films, Lakeshore Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Revelations Entertainment

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,511,074

International: $ 2,230,534

Henry & June (1990)

Summary: Anaïs Nin meets American writer Henry Miller in Paris in 1931. She keeps a diary of her sexual awakening, which includes Henry and his wife June.

Release Date: October 05, 1990

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Philip Kaufman

Writers: Anaïs Nin

, Philip Kaufman

, Rose Kaufman

Runtime: 2 h 16 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Universal Pictures, Walrus & Associates, Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française

Distributor: Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video

Countries: United States, France

Language: English

Domestic: $ 11,567,449

International: $ 11,905,000

Class (1983)

Summary: A young man in private school spends one crazy night out, and only later does he learn more about the woman who enlivened his night.

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Lewis John Carlino

Writers: Jim Kouf

, David Greenwalt

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: 18A

Production: Orion Pictures

Distributor: GoodTimes Home Video, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films, Orion Home Video, Vestron Video, Video Treasures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,667,789