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Summary: At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up employment on a cruise ship, where they confront rising waters and a radically changing China.
Runtime: 1 h 33 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: Canada
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 1,000,000
Domestic: $ 783,969
International: $ 245,242
Summary: In 1912 German collector Wilhelm Uhde rents a flat in Senlis to write and take a break from Parisian life. He hires a 48-year old cleaning lady, Séraphine. Some time later, he notices a small painting on wood at a local notable home.
Runtime: 2 h 05 min
MPAA: Unrated

Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
Movie budget: $ 3,674,000
Domestic: $ 884,613
International: $ 8,518,089
Summary: In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.
Runtime: 1 h 52 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: France
Language: French
Domestic: $ 3,723,036
Summary: A violin prodigy and his father travel to Beijing, where the father seeks the means to his son's success while the son struggles to accept the path laid before him.
Runtime: 1 h 56 min
MPAA: G

Countries: China, South Korea
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 1,151,941
International: $ 13,535,226
Summary: The true story of Jean Dominique, a Haitian radio journalist and human rights activist.
Runtime: 1 h 30 min
MPAA: PG-13

Country: United States
Language: English
Domestic: $ 226,189
Summary: The rise and fall of a revolutionary cooperative movement established in a large private farm in Ribatejo, Portugal, from March to December 1975 (most part of the land occupations occurred in Alentejo, promoted by the communist pa...
Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Language: Portuguese
Movie budget: $ 850,000
Summary: A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Runtime: 1 h 39 min
MPAA: G

Language: Russian
Domestic: $ 3,048,997
International: $ 5,642,863
Summary: A strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men.
Runtime: 3 h 06 min
MPAA: PG

Language: English
Movie budget: $ 12,000,000
Domestic: $ 20,093,330
International: $ 7,917
Summary: A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
Runtime: 1 h 44 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: France, Vietnam
Language: Vietnamese
Domestic: $ 1,700,992
Summary: In Maoist China, a boy is taken from his family and trained to become a dancer, but everything he knows is challenged when he is chosen to attend a ballet summer school in Houston, Texas.
Runtime: 1 h 57 min
MPAA: PG

Country: Australia
Language: English
Domestic: $ 4,817,770
International: $ 19,096,961
Summary: A young Jewish boy somewhere in Eastern Europe seeks refuge during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Runtime: 2 h 49 min
MPAA: Unrated

Movie budget: $ 175,000,000
Domestic: $ 1,460
International: $ 658,075
Summary: After being raped by an evil feudal lord and subsequently getting banished from her village, a peasant girl makes a pact with the Devil to gain magical powers and take her revenge.
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Domestic: $ 105,841
Summary: Austria, a little farming valley. Beginning of the century. When one of the farmers is found murdered one day, his labourers know of nothing, but are relieved, as the tyranny has ended. Then, something new happens for the first ti...
Runtime: 1 h 35 min
MPAA: R

Countries: Austria, Germany
Language: German
Domestic: $ 196,452
Summary: 1943, Italy's Salentino peninsula. Tony, an American fighter pilot, raised speaking Italian in New York, parachutes to safety and is hidden at the olive farm of Carmine, a man with three daughters. One is being courted by Pasquale...
Runtime: 1 h 33 min

Countries: Italy, Germany
Language: Italian
Domestic: $ 11,350
Summary: After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.
Runtime: 1 h 15 min
MPAA: G

Country: United States
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 6,000,000
Domestic: $ 51,600,000
Summary: In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Language: Estonian
Movie budget: $ 1,450,000
Domestic: $ 19,084
Summary: Two youths sent for a Maoist "re-education" in the mountains fall in love with the village tailor's granddaughter.
Runtime: 1 h 50 min

Countries: France, China
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 666,327
International: $ 4,543,228
Summary: In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
Runtime: 2 h 00 min
MPAA: Unrated

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Domestic: $ 64,029
International: $ 6,924,152
Summary: Set in Inner Mongolia, a physical setback causes a young woman to choose a suitor who can take care of her, as well as her disabled husband.
Runtime: 1 h 26 min
MPAA: Not Rated

Country: China
Language: Chinese
Domestic: $ 88,148
International: $ 2,388,618