Sing Your Song (2011)

Belle (2013)

Summary: The biracial daughter, Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode) is raised by aristocratic Great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (Tom Wilkinson) in 18th century...

Release Date: June 13, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Amma Asante

Writer: Misan Sagay

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: PG

Production: DJ Films, Isle of Man Film, British Film Institute (BFI), Metrol Technology, Pinewood Studios

Distributor: Searchlight Pictures, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, KVH Media Group

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,900,000

Domestic: $ 10,726,630

International: $ 5,880,945

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Summary: Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a Black man against an undeserved rape charge, and tries to educate his young children against prejudice.

Release Date: March 16, 1963

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: Robert Mulligan

Writers: Harper Lee

, Horton Foote

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: Approved

Production: Pakula-Mulligan, Brentwood Productions

Distributor: Fathom Events, MCA Home Video, MCA Videocassette, MCA/Universal Home Video, NBC Universal Television Distribution, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Netflix, RSS Pictures, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 592,237

International: $ 6,909

Captain Marvel (2019)

Summary: Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Release Date: March 08, 2019

Genres: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Directors: Anna Boden

, Ryan Fleck

Writers: Anna Boden

, Ryan Fleck

, Geneva Robertson-Dworet

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios, Animal Logic

Distributor: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Disney+, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Australia

Language: English

Franchise: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Movie budget: $ 160,000,000

Domestic: $ 426,829,839

International: $ 704,586,607

Giant (1956)

Summary: Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Release Date: November 24, 1956

Genres: Drama, Western

Director: George Stevens

Writers: Edna Ferber

, Fred Guiol

, Ivan Moffat

Runtime: 3 h 21 min

MPAA: G

Production: George Stevens Productions, Polyphony Digital

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

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,400,000

Domestic: $ 32,855,818

International: $ 569

Promising Young Woman (2020)

Summary: A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

Release Date: December 25, 2020

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Emerald Fennell

Writer: Emerald Fennell

Runtime: 1 h 53 min

MPAA: R

Production: FilmNation Entertainment, Focus Features, LuckyChap Entertainment

Distributor: Focus Features, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 6,460,965

International: $ 12,393,201

The Color Purple (1985)

Summary: A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Release Date: February 07, 1986

Genre: Drama

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writers: Menno Meyjes

, Alice Walker

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Amblin Entertainment, The Guber-Peters Company

Distributor: Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC), CBS, Warner Bros. Television, HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 98,467,863

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010)

Summary: As Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, they uncover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.

Release Date: November 19, 2010

Genres: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Director: David Yates

Writers: Steve Kloves

, J.K. Rowling

Runtime: 2 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Warner Bros., Heyday Films

Distributor: ABC Family, HBO Max, Home Box Office (HBO), Peacock, Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Home Video

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Franchise: J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World

Movie budget: $ 150,000,000

Domestic: $ 296,374,621

International: $ 680,695,762

Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

Summary: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.

Release Date: November 01, 2019

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Edward Norton

Writers: Edward Norton

, Jonathan Lethem

Runtime: 2 h 24 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Class 5 Films, Madison Wells

Distributor: Warner Bros., HBO Max, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,277,736

International: $ 9,300,000

Production: TriStar Pictures, Block / Hanson, WingNut Films, Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC), Covert Media, Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa, District 9, Key Creatives, Majority Entertainment, New Zealand Post Digital and Visual Effects Grant, Province of British Columbia Production Services Tax Credit, QED International

District 9 (2009)

Summary: Violence ensues after an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slum-like conditions on Earth finds a kindred spirit in a government agent exposed to their biotechnology.

Release Date: August 14, 2009

Genres: Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi

Director: Neill Blomkamp

Writers: Neill Blomkamp

, Terri Tatchell

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, TriStar Pictures

Countries: South Africa, United States, New Zealand, Canada

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 115,646,235

International: $ 95,242,715

Detroit (2017)

Summary: Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Release Date: August 04, 2017

Genres: Drama, Crime, History

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Writer: Mark Boal

Runtime: 2 h 23 min

MPAA: R

Production: Annapurna Pictures, First Light Production, Page 1

Distributor: Annapurna Distribution, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Hulu

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 34,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,790,139

International: $ 6,564,961

The Birth of a Nation (1915)

Summary: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klu...

Release Date: March 21, 1915

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: D.W. Griffith

Writers: Thomas Dixon Jr.

, D.W. Griffith

, Frank E. Woods

Runtime: 3 h 15 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: David W. Griffith Corp., Epoch Producing Corporation

Distributor: Astor Pictures Corporation, Joseph Brenner Associates (JBA), Lumivision, Republic Pictures Home Video, Image Entertainment, Kino Video, Reel Media International, FilmAnnex, Alpha Video Distributors, Twilight Time, Killiam Shows

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 110,000

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

Summary: Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Release Date: January 31, 1974

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Korty

Writers: Tracy Keenan Wynn

, Ernest J. Gaines

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: TV-PG

Production: Tomorrow Entertainment

Distributor: Starmaker Entertainment, Sony Wonder, Classic Media, Anderson Digital, HBO Max, Broadway Video, The Criterion Channel, UAV Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

The Forever Purge (2021)

Summary: All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.

Release Date: July 09, 2021

Genres: Action, Thriller, Horror

Director: Everardo Gout

Writer: James DeMonaco

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: Universal Pictures, Perfect World Pictures, Platinum Dunes

Distributor: Studio Distribution Services (SDS), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Countries: United States, Mexico

Language: English

Franchise: The Purge

Movie budget: $ 18,000,000

Domestic: $ 44,539,245

International: $ 32,455,000

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Summary: The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.

Release Date: November 11, 2022

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama

Director: Ryan Coogler

Writers: Ryan Coogler

, Joe Robert Cole

, Stan Lee

Runtime: 2 h 41 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Marvel Studios, Walt Disney Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Marvel Cinematic Universe

Movie budget: $ 250,000,000

Domestic: $ 453,829,060

International: $ 405,379,776

Burden (2018)

Summary: When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.

Release Date: February 21, 2020

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Andrew Heckler

Writer: Andrew Heckler

Runtime: 1 h 57 min

MPAA: R

Production: Bill Kenwright Films, Cool House, The Fyzz Facility

Distributor: Showtime 2

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 139,270

International: $ 310,919

Mansfield Park (1999)

Summary: Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.

Release Date: December 25, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Patricia Rozema

Writers: Jane Austen

, Patricia Rozema

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Arts Council of England, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), HAL Films

Distributor: Walt Disney Home Video

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,775,847

Green Book (2018)

Summary: A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.

Release Date: November 16, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: Peter Farrelly

Writers: Nick Vallelonga

, Brian Hayes Currie

, Peter Farrelly

Runtime: 2 h 10 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Participant, Dreamworks Pictures, Innisfree Pictures, Cinetic Media, Alibaba Pictures, Louisiana Entertainment, Wessler Entertainment

Countries: United States, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 23,000,000

Domestic: $ 85,080,171

International: $ 236,672,485

Avatar (2009)

Summary: A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.

Release Date: December 18, 2009

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Director: James Cameron

Writer: James Cameron

Runtime: 2 h 42 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Twentieth Century Fox, Dune Entertainment, Lightstorm Entertainment

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox, Sea Movies, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Franchise: Avatar

Movie budget: $ 237,000,000

Domestic: $ 785,221,649

International: $ 2,138,484,377