Suuri illusioni (1985)

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Summary: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Release Date: June 01, 1984

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Sergio Leone

Writers: Harry Grey

, Leonardo Benvenuti

, Piero De Bernardi

Runtime: 3 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Ladd Company, Warner Bros., Producers Sales Organization (PSO)

Distributor: Warner Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Countries: United States, Italy

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 5,321,508

International: $ 152,582

How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)

Summary: Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.

Release Date: December 26, 2013

Genres: Crime, Documentary

Director: Matthew Cooke

Writers: Matthew Cooke

, Grant Jolly

Runtime: 1 h 36 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Bert Marcus Productions

Distributor: Topic

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 39,192

The Immigrant (2013)

Summary: In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Release Date: May 23, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: James Gray

Writers: James Gray

, Ric Menello

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Worldview Entertainment, Keep Your Head, Kingsgate Films

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, KVH Media Group

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,025,328

International: $ 3,927,556

The Untouchables (1987)

Summary: During Prohibition, Treasury agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone, and assembles a small, incorruptible team to help him.

Release Date: June 03, 1987

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Brian De Palma

Writers: David Mamet

, Oscar Fraley

, Eliot Ness

Runtime: 1 h 59 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Amazon Prime Video, CBS, Paramount Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 76,270,454

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)

Summary: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.

Release Date: November 23, 1994

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Alan Rudolph

Writers: Alan Rudolph

, Randy Sue Coburn

Runtime: 2 h 05 min

MPAA: R

Production: Fine Line Features, Mayfair Entertainment, Miramax, Odyssey Entertainment, Park Bench Productions

Distributor: Fine Line Features, The Criterion Channel

Countries: United States, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,144,667

Production: Golden Harvest Company, Henan Film & TV Production Group Henan Film Studio, Mandarin Films Distribution, Beijing ShengShi HuaRei Film Investment & Management Co., Foshan Pearl River Media Group, Henan Film & TV Production Group Henan Film Studio, Beijing ShengShi HuaRei Film Investment & Management Co., Desen International Media, Donlord Skykee Film Investment, Teng Yuan Film & TV Media, Beijing Baron Stars Culture Media, Shenzhen Haiguchi Investment, Beijing Xinyinglian Cinema Circuit, Prosperity Pictures

Ip Man 2 (2010)

Summary: Centering on Ip Man's migration to Hong Kong in 1949 as he attempts to propagate his discipline of Wing Chun martial arts.

Release Date: April 29, 2010

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Wilson Yip

Writers: Tai-Lee Chan

, Hiu-Yan Choi

, David Tadman

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Variance Films, Gravitas Ventures, Well Go USA Entertainment

Countries: Hong Kong, China

Language: Chinese

Franchise: Ip Man Franchise

Domestic: $ 205,675

International: $ 14,883,773

Call Northside 777 (1948)

Summary: Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a decade-old murder case.

Genres: Drama, Film-Noir

Director: Henry Hathaway

Writers: Jerome Cady

, Jay Dratler

, Leonard Hoffman

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Twentieth Century Fox

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Up and Down (2004)

Summary: The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic, comic events.

Release Date: September 16, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Jan Hrebejk

Writers: Jan Hrebejk

, Petr Jarchovský

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Ceská Televize, Falcon, Total HelpArt T.H.A.

Distributor: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: Czechia, Czech Republic

Language: Czech

Movie budget: $ 36,000,000

Domestic: $ 245,127

International: $ 2,460,036

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

Summary: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.

Release Date: November 18, 2016

Genres: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Director: David Yates

Writer: J.K. Rowling

Runtime: 2 h 12 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Heyday Films, Warner Bros.

Distributor: Warner Bros., KVH Media Group, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), HBO Max

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World

Movie budget: $ 180,000,000

Domestic: $ 234,037,575

International: $ 580,006,426

Bessie (2015)

Summary: The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.

Release Date: May 16, 2015

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Dee Rees

Writers: Dee Rees

, Christopher Cleveland

, Bettina Gilois

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: TV-MA

Production: HBO Films, Flavor Unit Entertainment, The Zanuck Company

Distributor: Home Box Office (HBO), HBO Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood (1985)

Summary: Late at night, a woman is kidnapped by an unknown assailant and taken back to his blood-spattered dungeon, where he turns her into a "flower of blood and flesh" through a series of dismemberment and evisceration.

Release Date: November 30, 1985

Genres: Horror, Short

Director: Hideshi Hino

Writer: Hideshi Hino

Runtime: 0 h 42 min

Production: Sai Enterprise

Distributor: San Francisco Public Access Television, Unearthed Films, Vidimax Home Entertainment

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Legends of the Fall (1994)

Summary: In the early 1900s, three brothers and their father living in the remote wilderness of Montana are affected by betrayal, history, love, nature, and war.

Release Date: January 13, 1995

Genres: Drama, Romance, War

Director: Edward Zwick

Writers: Susan Shilliday

, William D. Wittliff

, Jim Harrison

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: R

Production: TriStar Pictures, The Bedford Falls Company, Pangaea

Distributor: TriStar Pictures, Columbia TriStar Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 66,638,883

International: $ 94,000,000

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The Cotton Club (1984)

Summary: Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.

Release Date: December 14, 1984

Genres: Drama, Crime, Music

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Writers: William Kennedy

, Francis Ford Coppola

, Mario Puzo

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Zoetrope Studios, Producers Sales Organization (PSO), Totally Independent

Distributor: Embassy Home Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Nelson Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 58,000,000

Domestic: $ 25,928,721

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Live by Night (2016)

Summary: A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.

Release Date: January 13, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Ben Affleck

Writers: Ben Affleck

, Dennis Lehane

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Appian Way, Pearl Street Films, RatPac-Dune Entertainment

Distributor: HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 65,000,000

Domestic: $ 10,378,555

International: $ 12,400,000

Public Enemies (2009)

Summary: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.

Release Date: July 01, 2009

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Michael Mann

Writers: Ronan Bennett

, Michael Mann

, Ann Biderman

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Forward Pass, Appian Way, Dentsu

Distributor: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 100,000,000

Domestic: $ 97,104,620

International: $ 117,000,000

The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

Summary: A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.

Release Date: May 12, 2005

Genres: Comedy, Musical

Director: Guy Maddin

Writers: Kazuo Ishiguro

, George Toles

, Guy Maddin

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Rhombus Media, Buffalo Gal Pictures, Ego Film Arts, Bravo! Television, Movie Central, Corus, Téléfilm Canada, The Movie Network (TMN), Super Ecran, Manitoba Film & Sound, Astral Media, Manitoba Film and Video Production Tax Credit, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit (OFTTC), Channel 4 Television Corporation

Distributor: IFC Films, MGM Home Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 3,500,000

Domestic: $ 699,225

International: $ 155,769

Men at Lunch (2012)

Summary: The story of "Lunch atop a Skyscraper," the iconic photograph taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

Release Date: September 01, 2014

Genres: Documentary, Mystery

Director: Seán Ó Cualáin

Writer: Niall Murphy

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sónta Films

Country: Ireland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,483

Raees (2017)

Summary: A bootlegger sets out to improve his community as a promising leader but falls in a political trap.

Release Date: January 25, 2017

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Rahul Dholakia

Writers: Rahul Dholakia

, Harit Mehta

, Niraj Shukla

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Excel Entertainment, Red Chillies Entertainment, Excel Entertainment

Distributor: Eros Worldwide, Zee Studios, Zee TV UK

Country: India

Language: Hindi

Domestic: $ 3,262,954

International: $ 23,122,356