The Chaser (2008)

Ikiru (1952)

Summary: A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

Release Date: March 25, 1956

Genre: Drama

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Akira Kurosawa

, Shinobu Hashimoto

, Hideo Oguni

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company

Distributor: Brandon Films, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), Heron International Company, Media Home Entertainment, Cowboy Pictures, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 60,239

International: $ 36,680

Leviathan (2014)

Summary: In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

Release Date: February 05, 2015

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Writers: Oleg Negin

, Andrey Zvyagintsev

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: Non-Stop Productions, A Company Russia, Russian Ministry of Culture, Fond kino, RuArts Foundation

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Country: Russia

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 1,092,800

International: $ 3,346,681

8½ (1963)

Summary: A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Release Date: June 24, 1963

Genre: Drama

Director: Federico Fellini

Writers: Federico Fellini

, Ennio Flaiano

, Tullio Pinelli

Runtime: 2 h 18 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Cineriz, Francinex

Distributor: Embassy Pictures, Corinth Films, Vestron Video, The Criterion Collection, Image Entertainment, Kino International, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Italy, France

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 98,760

International: $ 101,742

Enigma (2001)

Summary: A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.

Release Date: June 07, 2002

Genres: Drama, Romance, Mystery

Director: Michael Apted

Writers: Robert Harris

, Tom Stoppard

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Manhattan Pictures International, Intermedia Films, Senator Film Produktion, Meespierson Film CV, Jagged Films, Broadway Video, Mulholland Pictures BV

Distributor: Manhattan Pictures International, Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Netherlands

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,301,582

International: $ 11,411,622

Dunkirk (2017)

Summary: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.

Release Date: July 21, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, History

Director: Christopher Nolan

Writer: Christopher Nolan

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Syncopy, Warner Bros., Dombey Street Productions, Ciné+, RatPac-Dune Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Critics' Choice Video, KVH Media Group, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, Netherlands, France, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 189,740,665

International: $ 340,691,457

Confessions (2010)

Summary: Yuko, a teacher of middle-school, is shattered to see her four-year-old daughter dead. She returns back to the school and finds out that her students are responsible for her daughter's murder.

Release Date: June 05, 2010

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Tetsuya Nakashima

Writers: Kanae Minato

, Tetsuya Nakashima

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: DesperaDo, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Licri, Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Sony Music Entertainment, Toho Company, Yahoo Japan

Distributor: Toho Company, Well Go USA Entertainment, Shocking Videos

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

RoboGeisha (2009)

Summary: After receiving robotic implants, two sisters compete as assassins.

Release Date: October 03, 2009

Genres: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Director: Noboru Iguchi

Writer: Noboru Iguchi

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: Kadokawa Eiga K.K., Movie Gate Co., Pony Canyon, T.O. Entertainment

Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment, T.O. Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 250,000

Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior (1980)

Summary: A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Release Date: October 10, 1980

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Writers: Masato Ide

, Akira Kurosawa

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kurosawa Production Co., Toho Company, Twentieth Century Fox, Zoetrope Studios

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Fox Video

Countries: Japan, United States

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 6,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,000,000

International: $ 18,532

Goethe! (2010)

Summary: After aspiring poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his law exams, he's sent to a sleepy provincial court to reform. Instead, he falls for Lotte, a young woman who is promised to another man.

Release Date: October 14, 2010

Genres: Romance, Biography

Director: Philipp Stölzl

Writers: Alexander Dydyna

, Christoph Müller

, Philipp Stölzl

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Senator Film Produktion, Deutschfilm, Warner Bros., SevenPictures Film, Erfttal Film, Goldkind Filmproduktion, herbX Film, Magnolia Filmproduktion, Summerstorm Entertainment, CC Medien

Distributor: Music Box Films

Country: Germany

Language: German

Movie budget: $ 3,000,000

Domestic: $ 162,138

International: $ 5,664,427

Suspicion (1941)

Summary: A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

Release Date: November 14, 1941

Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Film-Noir

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Writers: Samson Raphaelson

, Joan Harrison

, Alma Reville

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: RKO Radio Pictures

Distributor: C&C Television Corporation, RKO Home Video, Turner Home Entertainment, Turner Entertainment, Warner Home Video, The Nostalgia Merchant, VidAmerica

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,103,000

Cure (1997)

Summary: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Release Date: July 08, 2001

Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Daiei Studios, Twins Japan

Distributor: Janus Films, The Criterion Channel

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Harakiri (1962)

Summary: When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

Release Date: August 04, 1964

Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery

Director: Masaki Kobayashi

Writers: Yasuhiko Takiguchi

, Shinobu Hashimoto

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Shochiku

Distributor: Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The Criterion Collection, HBO Max

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Nekromantik (1988)

Summary: A street sweeper who cleans up after grisly accidents brings home a full corpse for him and his wife to enjoy sexually, but is dismayed to see that his wife prefers the corpse over him.

Release Date: November 25, 2014

Genre: Horror

Director: Jörg Buttgereit

Writers: Jörg Buttgereit

, Franz Rodenkirchen

Runtime: 1 h 11 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Jelinski & Buttgereit

Distributor: Barrel Entertainment, Film Threat Video, Leisure Time Features

Country: West Germany

Language: German

King Size (1988)

Summary: This comedy follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar...

Release Date: May 02, 1988

Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Director: Juliusz Machulski

Writers: Jolanta Hartwig

, Juliusz Machulski

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

Production: Studio Filmowe Kadr

Country: Poland

Language: Polish

Birdy (1984)

Summary: After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

Release Date: December 21, 1984

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Alan Parker

Writers: William Wharton

, Sandy Kroopf

, Jack Behr

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: A&M Films, Delphi III Productions, TriStar Pictures

Distributor: CBS, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,455,045

International: $ 51

Venom (1981)

Summary: Terrorists in the process of kidnapping a child get trapped in a house with an extremely deadly snake.

Release Date: January 29, 1982

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Directors: Piers Haggard

, Tobe Hooper

Writers: Alan Scholefield

, Robert Carrington

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Morison Film Group, Venom Productions Limited

Distributor: Vestron Video, Blue Underground, Full Moon Streaming

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 5,229,643

Kabei: Our Mother (2008)

Summary: Based on childhood days of Teruyo Nogami.

Release Date: January 26, 2008

Genre: Drama

Director: Yôji Yamada

Writers: Teruyo Nogami

, Yôji Yamada

, Emiko Hiramatsu

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Eisei Gekijo, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners, Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Nagoya TV), Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Nippan) K.K., Shochiku, Sumitomo Corporation, TV Asahi, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Tokyo FM Broadcasting Co., Yahoo Japan

Distributor: Strand Releasing

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Domestic: $ 14,416

International: $ 18,371,548

Pygmalion (1938)

Summary: A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

Release Date: March 03, 1939

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Directors: Anthony Asquith

, Leslie Howard

Writers: George Bernard Shaw

, W.P. Lipscomb

, Cecil Lewis

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Pascal Film Productions

Distributor: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Ellis Films, Embassy Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, HBO Max, Nelson Entertainment, New Line Home Video, The Criterion Channel

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 87,000