Winter Passing (2005)

Production: Max Films Productions, Gérard Mital Productions, National Film Board of Canada (NFB), Téléfilm Canada, Société Générale des Industries Culturelles du Québec (SOGIC), La Societe de Radio-Television Quebec, Super Ecran, Sofica Sofinergie, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication

Jesus of Montreal (1989)

Summary: A group of actors put on an unorthodox, but acclaimed Passion Play which incites the opposition of the Catholic Church while the actors' lives themselves begin to mirror the Passion itself.

Release Date: May 25, 1990

Genre: Drama

Director: Denys Arcand

Writer: Denys Arcand

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Orion Classics, Orion Home Video, Koch Lorber Films, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: Canada, France

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,601,612

Orgazmo (1997)

Summary: Naive young Mormon Joe Young is recruited to act in porn movies.

Release Date: October 23, 1998

Genre: Comedy

Director: Trey Parker

Writers: Trey Parker

, Matt Stone

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: NC-17

Production: Kuzui Enterprises, MDP Worldwide, Avenging Conscience

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 602,302

The Banquet (2006)

Summary: A loose adaptation of Hamlet, "The Night Banquet" is set in an empire in chaos. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Minister and the General all have their own enemies they would like to finish off at a night banquet.

Release Date: September 15, 2006

Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Director: Xiaogang Feng

Writers: Gangjian Qiu

, William Shakespeare

, Heyu Sheng

Runtime: 2 h 11 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Huayi Brothers Media, Media Asia Films, Media Asia Films

Distributor: Dragon Dynasty

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

17 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

The Oscar (1966)

Summary: Arrogant Hollywood actor Frankie Fane is nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award. His friend Hymie Kelly recalls their life together, Frankie's ruthless struggle to the top, and the people Frankie has used and abused to get there.

Release Date: July 08, 1966

Genre: Drama

Director: Russell Rouse

Writers: Richard Sale

, Harlan Ellison

, Russell Rouse

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Greene-Rouse Productions

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Television, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Don't Come Knocking (2005)

Summary: An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.

Release Date: August 25, 2005

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Wim Wenders

Writers: Sam Shepard

, Wim Wenders

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: R

Production: Reverse Angle International, Arte France Cinéma, EuroArts Medien AG, Network Movie Film-und Fernsehproduktion, Ocean Films, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Road Movies Filmproduktion, Sony Pictures Classics, ZDF/Arte, Reverse Angle Production, Wim Wenders Stiftung

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Mill Creek Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television

Countries: United Kingdom, France, Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 11,000,000

Domestic: $ 440,793

International: $ 4,222,708

17 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

The Fanatic (2019)

Summary: A rabid film fan stalks his favorite action hero and destroys his life.

Release Date: July 03, 2020

Genres: Crime, Thriller

Director: Fred Durst

Writers: Fred Durst

, Dave Bekerman

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Quiver Distribution, Redbox Entertainment, Pretzel Fang Productions, Wonderfilm Media, Oscar Generale Productions, Daniel Grodnik Productions, Media Finance Capital, Fig Production Group

Distributor: Quiver Distribution

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)

Summary: Set right after World War II, a naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexua...

Release Date: July 21, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Mike Newell

Writers: Beryl Bainbridge

, Charles Wood

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: BBC Films, British Screen Productions, Portman Productions

Distributor: New Line Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 259,724

Ararat (2002)

Summary: Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

Release Date: September 04, 2002

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Atom Egoyan

Writer: Atom Egoyan

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Alliance Atlantis Communications, Serendipity Point Films, Ego Film Arts, The Movie Network (TMN), Super Ecran, The Harold Greenberg Fund

Countries: Canada, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,500,000

Domestic: $ 1,555,959

International: $ 1,187,377

Four Days in September (1997)

Summary: Brazillian urban guerrilla fighters kidnap the American Ambassador. Now, the diplomat's life hangs in the balance - helplessly caught between a government unwilling to cooperate - and his fear of the captors themselves.

Release Date: January 30, 1998

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Bruno Barreto

Writers: Fernando Gabeira

, Leopoldo Serran

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: R

Production: Columbia Pictures Television Trading Company, Filmes do Equador, Luiz Carlos Barreto Produções Cinematográficas, Pandora Cinema, Quanta Centro de Produções Cinematográficas, Sony Corporation of America

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: Brazil, United States

Language: Portuguese

Domestic: $ 397,517

15 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Summary: The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.

Release Date: April 08, 1964

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Richard Quine

Writers: Julien Duvivier

, Henri Jeanson

, George Axelrod

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Richard Quine Productions, Charleston Enterprises, George Axelrod Productions, Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Man on the Moon (1999)

Summary: The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.

Release Date: December 22, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Milos Forman

Writers: Scott Alexander

, Larry Karaszewski

Runtime: 1 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Mutual Film Company, Jersey Films, Cinehaus, Shapiro/West Productions, Tele München Fernseh Produktionsgesellschaft (TMG), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Marubeni, Toho-Towa, H2L Media Group

Distributor: Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., Comedy Central, Peacock, Kino Lorber

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 82,000,000

Domestic: $ 34,607,430

International: $ 12,827,000

15 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Cecil B. Demented (2000)

Summary: An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Release Date: September 01, 2000

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Director: John Waters

Writer: John Waters

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: R

Production: Artic Productions LLC, Artisan Entertainment, Bac Films, Ice Cap Production, Le Studio Canal+, Polar Entertainment Corporation

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Artisan Entertainment

Countries: United States, France

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,284,646

International: $ 676,898

15 - Rotten Tomatoes % Gap

Sleuth (2007)

Summary: On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

Release Date: November 23, 2007

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: Anthony Shaffer

, Harold Pinter

Runtime: 1 h 28 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, Castle Rock Entertainment, Riff Raff Entertainment, Timnick Films, Mandate Pictures

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 342,895

International: $ 4,546,856

Peter's Friends (1992)

Summary: Six former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone.

Release Date: December 25, 1992

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Writers: Rita Rudner

, Martin Bergman

Runtime: 1 h 41 min

MPAA: R

Production: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Channel Four Films, Renaissance Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,058,564

My Best Fiend (1999)

Summary: The love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Release Date: October 07, 1999

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Werner Herzog

Writer: Werner Herzog

Runtime: 1 h 35 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, Cafe Productions Ltd., Zephir Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Yleisradio (YLE), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Independent Film Channel (IFC), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment, New Yorker Films, Shout! Factory

Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Finland

Language: German

Domestic: $ 95,612

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

Summary: A sarcastic playwright in LA gets new neighbors - single mom and 8 y.o. girl. His wife wants kids and babysits the girl. He doesn't want kids yet plays with her to find out how children talk - for his play. Paternal instincts?

Release Date: March 05, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Michael Kalesniko

Writer: Michael Kalesniko

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Cinerenta Medienbeteiligungs KG, Lonsdale Productions, Millennium Films

Distributor: Topic

Countries: Germany, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,300,000

Domestic: $ 49,894

International: $ 23,616

Stage Beauty (2004)

Summary: A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced?

Release Date: October 29, 2004

Genre: Drama

Director: Richard Eyre

Writer: Jeffrey Hatcher

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lions Gate Films, Qwerty Films, Tribeca Productions, N1 European Film Produktions GmbH & Co. KG, BBC Films, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 782,383

International: $ 1,524,709