The Illusionist (2006)

Dark City (1998)

Summary: A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.

Release Date: February 27, 1998

Genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Alex Proyas

Writers: Alex Proyas

, Lem Dobbs

, David S. Goyer

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Mystery Clock Cinema, New Line Cinema

Distributor: Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, United Paramount Network (UPN), Warner Home Video

Countries: Australia, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 27,000,000

Domestic: $ 14,378,331

International: $ 12,821,985

Zodiac (2007)

Summary: Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.

Release Date: March 02, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: David Fincher

Writers: James Vanderbilt

, Robert Graysmith

Runtime: 2 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., Phoenix Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment, CBS Media Ventures, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Hotstar, Netflix, The Criterion Channel, Pluto TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 33,080,084

International: $ 51,705,830

Antz (1998)

Summary: A rather neurotic ant tries to break from his totalitarian society while trying to win the affection of the princess he loves.

Release Date: October 02, 1998

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animation

Directors: Eric Darnell

, Tim Johnson

Writers: Todd Alcott

, Chris Weitz

, Paul Weitz

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Pacific Data Images (PDI), DreamWorks Animation

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Image Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Cartoon Network, DreamWorks Animation Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Nickelodeon Network, Nicktoons Network, Peacock

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 105,000,000

Domestic: $ 90,757,863

International: $ 81,000,000

Blood Diamond (2006)

Summary: A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.

Release Date: December 08, 2006

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Charles Leavitt

, C. Gaby Mitchell

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Productions, LSG Productions, Liberty Pictures (II), Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG.

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

Countries: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,377,916

International: $ 114,342,482

8.4 - UserScore

The Lives of Others (2006)

Summary: In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Release Date: March 30, 2007

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Writer: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: Wiedemann & Berg Filmproduktion, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), ARTE, Creado Film

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Germany, France

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,286,112

International: $ 66,070,830

8.4 - UserScore

Labyrinth (1986)

Summary: Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.

Release Date: June 27, 1986

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: Jim Henson

Writers: Dennis Lee

, Jim Henson

, Terry Jones

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Henson Associates (HA), Lucasfilm, The Jim Henson Company, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment, Image Entertainment, New Line Home Video, Disney Channel, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Jim Henson Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 13,723,253

International: $ 522,615

Short Term 12 (2013)

Summary: A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.

Release Date: August 23, 2013

Genre: Drama

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton

Writer: Destin Daniel Cretton

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: R

Production: Animal Kingdom, Traction Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,013,100

International: $ 632,064

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Summary: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.

Release Date: July 26, 2012

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Malik Bendjelloul

Writers: Malik Bendjelloul

, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman

, Craig Bartholomew Strydom

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Canfield Pictures, The Documentary Company, Hysteria Film, Saperi Film, Sveriges Television (SVT), YLE Co-Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,696,196

International: $ 5,520,356

Stoker (2013)

Summary: After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, whom she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated...

Release Date: March 01, 2013

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Park Chan-wook

Writer: Wentworth Miller

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Searchlight Pictures, Indian Paintbrush, Scott Free Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,714,221

International: $ 10,363,220

Misery (1990)

Summary: After a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse.

Release Date: November 30, 1990

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Rob Reiner

Writers: Stephen King

, William Goldman

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Distributor: Nelson Entertainment, New Line Home Video, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, CBS, ETD Home Video, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Image Entertainment, PolyGram Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Scream Factory, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 20,000,000

Domestic: $ 61,276,872

International: $ 725

Planet of the Apes (1968)

Summary: An astronaut crew crash-lands on a planet where highly intelligent non-human ape species are dominant and humans are enslaved.

Release Date: April 03, 1968

Genres: Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Franklin J. Schaffner

Writers: Michael Wilson

, Rod Serling

, Pierre Boulle

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: G

Production: APJAC Productions, Twentieth Century Fox

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, CBS, Magnetic Video, RCA (II), 20th Century Fox Video, CBS/Fox, Playhouse Video, Disney Channel, Fox Video, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Fathom Events, Netflix

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Planet of the Apes

Movie budget: $ 5,800,000

Domestic: $ 32,589,624

International: $ 9,864

Stir of Echoes (1999)

Summary: After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.

Release Date: September 10, 1999

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: David Koepp

Writers: Richard Matheson

, David Koepp

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: R

Production: Artisan Entertainment

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,142,914

Atonement (2007)

Summary: Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.

Release Date: January 11, 2008

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Ian McEwan

, Christopher Hampton

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, StudioCanal, Relativity Media

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 50,927,067

International: $ 80,089,557

Jumper (2008)

Summary: A teenager with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.

Release Date: February 14, 2008

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Director: Doug Liman

Writers: David S. Goyer

, Jim Uhls

, Simon Kinberg

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, New Regency Productions, Epsilon Motion Pictures, Jumper Productions

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, HBO Zone

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 85,000,000

Domestic: $ 80,172,128

International: $ 144,959,985

Moon (2009)

Summary: Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish o...

Release Date: July 10, 2009

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Director: Duncan Jones

Writers: Duncan Jones

, Nathan Parker

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, Stage 6 Films, Liberty Films UK, Xingu Films, Limelight Fund, Lunar Industries, Independent Entertainment

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,010,163

International: $ 4,749,944

Gone Girl (2014)

Summary: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Release Date: October 03, 2014

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: David Fincher

Writer: Gillian Flynn

Runtime: 2 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, New Regency Productions, TSG Entertainment

Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 61,000,000

Domestic: $ 167,767,189

International: $ 201,563,174