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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: $ 97,615

Kolya (1996)

Summary: A confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.

Release Date: January 24, 1997

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Jan Sverák

Writers: Pavel Taussig

, Zdenek Sverák

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Biograf Jan Sverak, Pandora Cinema, Ceská Televize, Portobello Pictures, Pandora Cinema, CinemArt, Eurimages, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), The Czech Republic State Fund for Support and Development of Cinematography

Distributor: Miramax

Countries: Czechia, United Kingdom, France, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Domestic: $ 5,770,254

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Summary: A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.

Release Date: August 24, 1930

Genres: Drama, War

Director: Lewis Milestone

Writers: Erich Maria Remarque

, Maxwell Anderson

, George Abbott

Runtime: 2 h 32 min

MPAA: Passed

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Screen Gems, MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Pictures, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Studios Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Universal Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,200,000

Tea and Sympathy (1956)

Summary: A new senior at a boy's prep school, finds himself harassed by the machismo culture of his classmates and the unfeelingly behavior by his father, only being treated with decency by his roommate and with affection by the coach's wife.

Release Date: November 05, 1956

Genre: Drama

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Writer: Robert Anderson

Runtime: 2 h 02 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Distributor: CBS, MGM Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,737,000

Come and See (1985)

Summary: After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.

Release Date: September 03, 1985

Genres: Drama, Thriller, War

Director: Elem Klimov

Writers: Ales Adamovich

, Elem Klimov

Runtime: 2 h 22 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Belarusfilm, Mosfilm

Distributor: Sovexportfilm, Seagull Films, International Film Exchange (IFEX), Kino Video, RUSCICO, The Criterion Channel, The Criterion Collection

Country: Soviet Union

Language: Russian

Domestic: $ 71,909

International: $ 20,857,739

The Grandmaster (2013)

Summary: The story of martial-arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.

Release Date: August 30, 2013

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Kar-Wai Wong

Writers: Kar-Wai Wong

, Jingzhi Zou

, Haofeng Xu

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Block 2 Pictures, Jet Tone Production, Sil-Metropole Organisation

Distributor: The Weinstein Company

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 38,600,000

Domestic: $ 6,594,959

International: $ 67,338,087

The Flowers of War (2011)

Summary: An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.

Release Date: December 16, 2011

Genres: Drama, Romance, History

Director: Yimou Zhang

Writers: Heng Liu

, Geling Yan

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: R

Production: Beijing New Picture Film, Edko Films, New Picture Company, Xin Huamian Film

Distributor: Row 1 Entertainment, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Country: China

Language: Chinese

Movie budget: $ 94,000,000

Domestic: $ 311,434

International: $ 2,544,210

Production: Coop Vidéo de Montréal, Les Productions 23 Inc., Téléfilm Canada, Quebec Film and Television Tax Credit, Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles (SODEC), Canadian Television Fund, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Radio Canada Télévision, Super Ecran, Coopérative de Production Vidéoscopique de Montréal, La Cooperative Videoscopique de Montreal

Gaz Bar Blues (2003)

Summary: The owner of an independent neighbourhood gas station struggles financially and with his three sons who work at the station.

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Louis Bélanger

Writer: Louis Bélanger

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Country: Canada

Language: French

Domestic: $ 884,664

Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

Summary: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Release Date: February 27, 2009

Genres: Drama, Thriller

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Writer: Guy Hibbert

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: BBC Films, Big Fish Films, Bord Scannán na hÉireann / The Irish Film Board, Element Pictures, Northern Ireland Screen, Pathé!, Ruby Films

Distributor: IFC Films, MPI Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, Ireland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 15,676

International: $ 348,679

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

Odd Man Out (1947)

Summary: A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.

Release Date: April 23, 1947

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Carol Reed

Writers: F.L. Green

, R.C. Sherriff

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Two Cities Films

Distributor: Universal Pictures, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Paramount Pictures, Image Entertainment, The Criterion Collection

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)

Summary: Two journalists try to solve a series of murders connected to a pharmaceutical company's secret experiments, becoming targets of the killer themselves.

Release Date: May 26, 1971

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Director: Dario Argento

Writers: Dario Argento

, Luigi Cozzi

, Dardano Sacchetti

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: GP

Production: Seda Spettacoli, Terra-Filmkunst, Labrador Films

Distributor: National General Pictures, CBS, Anchor Bay Entertainment, Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, Diamond Entertainment Group (DEG), Reel Media International, Blue Underground, California Pictures, 3GTG, Rogue Video, Sinister Cinema, Bingo Video Inc., Cinefear, Simitar Entertainment

Countries: Italy, France, West Germany

Language: Italian

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

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

Europa Europa (1990)

Summary: A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

Release Date: November 14, 1990

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Writers: Agnieszka Holland

, Solomon Perel

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), The Senate of Berlin, Sofima, Ministère de la Culture, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Central Cinema Company Film (CCC), Les Films du Losange, Telmar Film International Ltd., Zespol Filmowy "Perspektywa"

Distributor: Orion Classics, MGM Home Entertainment, MGM World Films, Orion Home Video

Countries: Germany, France, Poland

Language: German

Domestic: $ 5,575,738

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

The Five of Us (2004)

Summary: In Montreal (Canada), the teenagers Manon, Anne, Isa, Claudie and Sophie are friends since their childhood. While spending a couple of days in the cottage of Sophie's parents nearby a lake, the girls decide to give a party, and Ma...

Release Date: August 27, 2004

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Ghyslaine Côté

Writers: Chantal Cadieux

, Ghyslaine Côté

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

Production: Remstar Productions, Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm, Forum Films, Crédit d'Impôt Cinéma et Télévision, The Movie Network (TMN), Super Ecran, Radio Canada Télévision, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)

Country: Canada

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 2,500,000

Domestic: $ 1,852,272

International: $ 5,747

Gloomy Sunday (1999)

Summary: Follows three men who are in love with a most beautiful waitress: An intellectual restaurant owner, a mysterious musician and an erratic businessman; taking place during the WWII.

Release Date: October 21, 1999

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Rolf Schübel

Writers: Ruth Toma

, Rolf Schübel

, Nick Barkow

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Studio Hamburg Filmproduktion, Dom Film GmbH, PolyGram Filmproduktion, ARTE, Premiere

Distributor: Warner Home Video

Countries: Germany, Hungary

Language: German

Domestic: $ 585,604

International: $ 60,928