Adventures in Babysitting (1987)

Masquerade (1988)

Summary: A recently orphaned heiress meets a young racing yacht captain in the Long Island Hamptons. He shows interest in her, but love may not be the reason.

Release Date: March 11, 1988

Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Director: Bob Swaim

Writers: Dick Wolf

, Larry Brody

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: R

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Michael Levy Enterprises

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), CBS/Fox, HBO Max, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM/UA Communications Co., Tubi TV

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,855,828

Major League (1989)

Summary: The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.

Release Date: January 01, 1989

Genres: Comedy, Sport

Director: David S. Ward

Writer: David S. Ward

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Paramount Pictures, Morgan Creek Entertainment, Mirage Enterprises

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Tubi TV, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Major League

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 49,797,148

Fracture (2007)

Summary: After shooting his wife, Ted confesses his crime and asks the court to move his case to trial. He represents himself against Willy, a successful lawyer. But there's more to the case than meets the eye.

Release Date: April 20, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Gregory Hoblit

Writers: Daniel Pyne

, Glenn Gers

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Castle Rock Entertainment, Weinstock Productions

Distributor: New Line Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 39,015,018

International: $ 52,996,543

2 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

Summary: Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.

Release Date: February 21, 1968

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writers: Wallace Markfield

, Herbert Sargent

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Warner Bros./Seven Arts

Distributor: Warner Bros./Seven Arts, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Little Children (2006)

Summary: The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations in suburban Massachusetts.

Release Date: February 09, 2007

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Todd Field

Writers: Todd Field

, Tom Perrotta

Runtime: 2 h 17 min

MPAA: R

Production: New Line Cinema, Bona Fide Productions, Standard Film Company

Distributor: HBO Max, New Line Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,463,019

International: $ 9,358,639

2 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Alexandra's Project (2003)

Summary: A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played...

Release Date: December 19, 2003

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Rolf de Heer

Writer: Rolf de Heer

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Vertigo Productions, Fandango Australia, Palace Films

Distributor: Film Movement, Wild Bunch

Country: Australia

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 752,148

International: $ 472,827

Almost Famous (2000)

Summary: A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.

Release Date: September 22, 2000

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Director: Cameron Crowe

Writer: Cameron Crowe

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Vinyl Films

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment, Paramount Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,534,850

International: $ 14,851,437

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

The Other Man (2008)

Summary: The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.

Release Date: May 27, 2009

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Director: Richard Eyre

Writers: Richard Eyre

, Charles Wood

, Bernhard Schlink

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rainmark Films

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 149,528

International: $ 1,993,477

4 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Paheli (2005)

Summary: A folk tale - supernatural love story about a ghost who falls in love with a newlywed woman.

Release Date: June 24, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Amol Palekar

Writers: Vijayadan Detha

, Sandhya Gokhale

, Amol Palekar

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Red Chillies Entertainment

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Domestic: $ 1,409,499

International: $ 1,006,476

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

Spread (2009)

Summary: A sex comedy centered on a serial womanizer and his jilted lover.

Release Date: July 08, 2009

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: David Mackenzie

Writers: Jason Hall

, Paul Kolsby

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: R

Production: Barbarian Films, Katalyst Films, Oceana Media Finance

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 250,618

International: $ 11,785,244

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

American Beauty (1999)

Summary: A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.

Release Date: October 01, 1999

Genre: Drama

Director: Sam Mendes

Writer: Alan Ball

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Dreamworks Pictures, Jinks/Cohen Company

Distributor: DreamWorks Distribution, DreamWorks Home Entertainment, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 130,096,601

International: $ 226,200,000

Spanglish (2004)

Summary: A woman and her daughter emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America, where they start working for a family whose patriarch is a newly celebrated chef with an insecure wife.

Release Date: December 17, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: James L. Brooks

Writer: James L. Brooks

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Gracie Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 80,000,000

Domestic: $ 42,726,869

International: $ 12,743,285

The Shipping News (2001)

Summary: An emotionally beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.

Release Date: December 25, 2001

Genre: Drama

Director: Lasse Hallström

Writers: Annie Proulx

, Robert Nelson Jacobs

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Miramax

Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, United States, Sweden

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 38,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,434,216

International: $ 13,256,225

Sibling Rivalry (1990)

Summary: A frustrated woman's life gets even more frustrating once she gets into an affair with a man who suffers a fatal heart attack after their fling.

Release Date: October 26, 1990

Genre: Comedy

Director: Carl Reiner

Writer: Martha Goldhirsh

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, Sony Corporation of America, CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, Olive Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 17,854,933

Death Becomes Her (1992)

Summary: When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.

Release Date: July 31, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Writers: Martin Donovan

, David Koepp

Runtime: 1 h 44 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 55,000,000

Domestic: $ 58,422,650

International: $ 90,600,000