Motherless Brooklyn (2019)

The Official Story (1985)

Summary: During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Release Date: November 08, 1985

Genres: Drama, History, War

Director: Luis Puenzo

Writers: Aída Bortnik

, Luis Puenzo

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Historias Cinematograficas, Progress Communications

Distributor: Almi Pictures, Fox Lorber Home Video, Koch Lorber Films, Pacific Arts Video

Country: Argentina

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 29,426

International: $ 40,406

Every Secret Thing (2014)

Summary: A detective looks to unravel a mystery surrounding missing children and the prime suspects: two young women who, seven years ago, were put away for an infant's death.

Release Date: April 20, 2014

Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery

Director: Amy Berg

Writers: Nicole Holofcener

, Laura Lippman

Runtime: 1 h 33 min

MPAA: R

Production: Hyde Park Entertainment, Likely Story, Merced Media Partners

Distributor: Starz Digital Media

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 103,536

International: $ 21,197

Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Summary: When tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking.

Release Date: May 28, 1993

Genres: Drama, Romance

Director: Alfonso Arau

Writer: Laura Esquivel

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Secretaria de Turismo, Aviacsa, Gobierno del Estado de Coahuila, Fondo de Fomento a la Calidad Cinematográfica, Fonatur

Distributor: Miramax, Touchstone Home Video

Country: Mexico

Language: Spanish

Movie budget: $ 2,000,000

Domestic: $ 21,665,468

International: $ 78,733

Apprentice (2016)

Summary: Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.

Release Date: March 03, 2017

Genre: Drama

Director: Junfeng Boo

Writers: Junfeng Boo

, Raymond Phathanavirangoon

Runtime: 1 h 55 min

Production: Akanga Film Productions, Augenschein Filmproduktion, Cinémadefacto, Doha Film Institute, Peanut Pictures, Sam Spiegel International Film Lab, Zhao Wei Films (I)

Distributor: Film Movement

Countries: Singapore, Germany, France, Hong Kong, Qatar

Language: Malay

Domestic: $ 2,578

International: $ 58,174

Kings & Queen (2004)

Summary: Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Release Date: December 22, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Arnaud Desplechin

Writers: Arnaud Desplechin

, Roger Bohbot

Runtime: 2 h 30 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Why Not Productions, France 2 Cinéma, Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Canal+, CinéCinéma, Région Rhône-Alpes, Cofimage 15, Wild Bunch

Distributor: Wellspring Media, Wild Bunch

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 3,871,153

Domestic: $ 290,973

International: $ 3,548,583

Nowhere Boy (2009)

Summary: A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.

Release Date: December 25, 2009

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson

Writers: Julia Baird

, Matt Greenhalgh

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: R

Production: Ecosse Films, Film4, UK Film Council, Lipsync Productions

Distributor: The Weinstein Company, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, Canada

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,457,248

International: $ 5,120,531

Hearts Beat Loud (2018)

Summary: A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

Release Date: June 15, 2018

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Music

Director: Brett Haley

Writers: Brett Haley

, Marc Basch

Runtime: 1 h 37 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Burn Later Productions, Houston King Productions, Park Pictures

Distributor: Gunpowder & Sky, Vinegar Syndrome

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,386,251

International: $ 30,914

Nancy (2018)

Summary: Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.

Release Date: August 16, 2018

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Christina Choe

Writer: Christina Choe

Runtime: 1 h 25 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Mental Pictures, EON Productions, XS Media, Eon Productions, Gamechanger Films

Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 80,115

International: $ 11,885

Wasabi (2001)

Summary: In Japan for the funeral of his long-lost love, a tough French detective learns that he also has a teenage daughter and that her life is in danger from the Yakuza.

Release Date: January 25, 2002

Genres: Action, Comedy, Drama

Director: Gérard Krawczyk

Writer: Luc Besson

Runtime: 1 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: EuropaCorp, Samitose Productions, TF1 Films Production, Canal+, Victor Company of Japan (JVC), Destiny

Distributor: TriStar Pictures

Countries: France, Japan

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 15,300,000

Domestic: $ 97,220

International: $ 10,269,140

Annie (1982)

Summary: A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

Release Date: June 18, 1982

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

Director: John Huston

Writers: Carol Sobieski

, Thomas Meehan

, Martin Charnin

Runtime: 2 h 07 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Rastar Pictures

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video, National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Columbia TriStar Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Pop TV, American Movie Classics (AMC), The Criterion Channel, RCA VideoDiscs

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 57,059,003

International: $ 4,858

Identity Thief (2013)

Summary: Mild mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Florida to confront the deceptively harmless looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.

Release Date: February 08, 2013

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Crime

Director: Seth Gordon

Writers: Craig Mazin

, Jerry Eeten

Runtime: 1 h 51 min

MPAA: R

Production: Aggregate Films, Bluegrass Films, DumbDumb

Distributor: National Broadcasting Company (NBC), Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 134,506,920

International: $ 39,458,090

The Untamed (2016)

Summary: A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.

Release Date: July 21, 2017

Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Director: Amat Escalante

Writers: Amat Escalante

, Gibrán Portela

Runtime: 1 h 38 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Countries: Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland

Language: Spanish

Domestic: $ 27,593

International: $ 33,656

Admission (2013)

Summary: A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.

Release Date: March 22, 2013

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Director: Paul Weitz

Writers: Karen Croner

, Jean Hanff Korelitz

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Focus Features, Depth of Field

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 13,000,000

Domestic: $ 18,007,317

International: $ 629,884

Mumford (1999)

Summary: In the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.

Release Date: September 24, 1999

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: R

Production: Touchstone Pictures, Kasdan Pictures

Distributor: Touchstone Home Video, Mill Creek Entertainment, Kino Lorber

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 28,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,555,459

Crying Ladies (2003)

Summary: A whimsical comedy about three women who cry at funerals, professionally.

Release Date: February 20, 2004

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Director: Mark Meily

Writers: Mark Meily

, Tony Gloria

Runtime: 1 h 50 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Unitel Pictures

Country: Philippines

Language: English

Domestic: $ 132,920

Shepard & Dark (2012)

Summary: Shepard & Dark is the remarkable story of a friendship in letters.

Release Date: October 11, 2012

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Treva Wurmfeld

Runtime: 1 h 32 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Distributor: Music Box Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 10,278