A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

Summary: When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

Release Date: November 02, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Biography

Director: Marielle Heller

Writers: Nicole Holofcener

, Jeff Whitty

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Production: Archer Gray, Bob Industries, Searchlight Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 10,000,000

Domestic: $ 8,803,865

International: $ 3,638,296

Being Flynn (2012)

Summary: Working in a Boston homeless shelter, Nick Flynn re-encounters his father, a con man and self-proclaimed poet. Sensing trouble in his own life, Nick wrestles with the notion of reaching out yet again to his dad.

Release Date: April 19, 2012

Genre: Drama

Director: Paul Weitz

Writers: Paul Weitz

, Nick Flynn

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Focus Features, Depth of Field, Corduroy Films, Tribeca Productions

Distributor: Focus Features, Hotstar

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 540,152

International: $ 442,972

Fair Game (2010)

Summary: CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Release Date: December 03, 2010

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Biography

Director: Doug Liman

Writers: Jez Butterworth

, John-Henry Butterworth

, Joseph Wilson

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: River Road Entertainment, Participant, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, Zucker Productions, Weed Road Pictures, Hypnotic, Dillywood, Fair Game Productions

Distributor: Sea Movies, Summit Entertainment, Summit Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, United Arab Emirates

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,540,691

International: $ 16,266,262

Molly's Game (2017)

Summary: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.

Release Date: January 05, 2018

Genres: Drama, Crime, Biography

Director: Aaron Sorkin

Writers: Aaron Sorkin

, Molly Bloom

Runtime: 2 h 20 min

MPAA: R

Production: STX Entertainment, Huayi Brothers Pictures, The Mark Gordon Company, Pascal Pictures, Entertainment One, Sierra / Affinity

Distributor: STX Entertainment

Countries: United States, Canada, China

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 30,000,000

Domestic: $ 28,780,744

International: $ 30,503,271

My Dog Tulip (2009)

Summary: The story of a man who rescues a German shepherd and how the two become fast friends.

Release Date: May 06, 2011

Genres: Drama, Animation

Directors: Paul Fierlinger

, Sandra Fierlinger

Writers: J.R. Ackerley

, Paul Fierlinger

, Sandra Fierlinger

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Norman Twain Productions

Distributor: New Yorker Films, Gravitas Ventures

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 246,574

Eat Pray Love (2010)

Summary: A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".

Release Date: August 13, 2010

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Ryan Murphy

Writers: Ryan Murphy

, Jennifer Salt

, Elizabeth Gilbert

Runtime: 2 h 13 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Columbia Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, Red Om Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Releasing, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 80,574,010

International: $ 124,020,006

Cross Creek (1983)

Summary: In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American li...

Release Date: October 27, 1983

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: Martin Ritt

Writers: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

, Dalene Young

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment, Universal Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 200,000

Unstrung Heroes (1995)

Summary: When a youngster needs a break from the pressures of his parents' household, he moves in with his offbeat uncles and learns some invaluable life lessons.

Release Date: September 22, 1995

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Diane Keaton

Writers: Franz Lidz

, Richard LaGravenese

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Hollywood Pictures, Roth-Arnold Productions

Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures, Walt Disney Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 7,929,434

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Summary: In order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest.

Release Date: June 01, 2007

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Jane Anderson

Writers: Terry Ryan

, Jane Anderson

Runtime: 1 h 39 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Revolution Erie Productions Ltd., Dreamworks Pictures, ImageMovers

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 627,844

International: $ 122,368

A Mighty Heart (2007)

Summary: Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband Daniel when he goes missing in Pakistan.

Release Date: June 22, 2007

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writers: John Orloff

, Mariane Pearl

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Vantage, Plan B Entertainment, Revolution Films

Distributor: Paramount Vantage, Paramount Home Entertainment, Tubi TV

Countries: United States, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 16,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,176,787

International: $ 9,831,958

Queen & Country (2014)

Summary: In this sequel to Hope and Glory (1987), Bill Rohan has grown up and is drafted into the army, where he and his eccentric best mate, Percy, battle their snooty superiors on the base and look for love in town.

Release Date: January 07, 2015

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Biography

Director: John Boorman

Writer: John Boorman

Runtime: 1 h 54 min

MPAA: TV-14

Production: Merlin Films

Distributor: BBC Worldwide Americas

Countries: Ireland, France, United Kingdom, Romania

Language: English

Domestic: $ 41,297

International: $ 114,584

The Theory of Everything (2014)

Summary: A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Release Date: November 26, 2014

Genres: Drama, Romance, Biography

Director: James Marsh

Writers: Anthony McCarten

, Jane Hawking

Runtime: 2 h 03 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Working Title Films, Dentsu Motion Pictures, Fuji Television Network

Distributor: Focus Features

Countries: United Kingdom, Japan

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 15,000,000

Domestic: $ 35,893,537

International: $ 87,833,151

Testament of Youth (2014)

Summary: A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.

Release Date: January 16, 2015

Genres: Drama, Biography, History

Director: James Kent

Writers: Vera Brittain

, Juliette Towhidi

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: BBC Films, BFI Film Fund, Heyday Films, Hotwells Productions, Lipsync, Nordisk Film Production, Screen Yorkshire

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: United Kingdom, Denmark

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,822,250

International: $ 4,052,633

Beautiful Boy (2018)

Summary: Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many y...

Release Date: October 25, 2018

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Felix van Groeningen

Writers: Luke Davies

, Felix van Groeningen

, David Sheff

Runtime: 2 h 00 min

MPAA: R

Production: Amazon Studios, Big Indie Pictures, Plan B Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 7,649,973

International: $ 24,097,202

A Prayer Before Dawn (2017)

Summary: The true story of an English boxer incarcerated in one of Thailand's most notorious prisons as he fights in Muay Thai tournaments to earn his freedom.

Release Date: August 10, 2018

Genres: Action, Crime, Biography

Director: Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire

Writers: Billy Moore

, Jonathan Hirschbein

, Nick Saltrese

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Senorita Films, Indochina Productions, HanWay Films, Meridian Entertainment, Symbolic Exchange, Hurricane Films

Distributor: HanWay Films

Countries: United Kingdom, France, China, Cambodia, United States, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 14,453

International: $ 944,430

This Boy's Life (1993)

Summary: The story about the relationship between a rebellious 1950s teenager and his abusive stepfather, based on the memoirs of writer and literature Professor Tobias Wolff.

Release Date: April 23, 1993

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Michael Caton-Jones

Writers: Tobias Wolff

, Robert Getchell

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

MPAA: R

Production: Knickerbocker Films, Polyphony Digital, Warner Bros.

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 4,104,962

Mommie Dearest (1981)

Summary: The abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother, screen queen Joan Crawford, is depicted.

Release Date: September 25, 1981

Genres: Drama, Biography

Director: Frank Perry

Writers: Christina Crawford

, Frank Yablans

, Frank Perry

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: R

Production: Paramount Pictures

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 19,032,261