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In Oklahoma, in August, Beverly Weston, is a poet with a drinking problem while his wife, Violet suffers from mouth cancer and has a newly developed addiction to drugs. Beverly decides to hire a live-in cook and caregiver for Violet. A few weeks after Johnna is hired, Beverly disappears which motivates the family to come together to look for him but only to find a few days later that he has committed suicide. Violet and Beverly's daughters, Barbara and Karen, along with Ivy who lives in the house, come to their father's funeral, as does the entire family. * August: Osage County received two (2) 2014 Oscar Nominations: "Best Actress in a Leading Role" (Meryl Streep) "Best Actress in a Supporting Role" (Julia Roberts) 'August: Osage County' received two (2) 2014 Golden Globe Nominations: "Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy" (Meryl Streep) "Best Supporting Actress" (Julia Roberts)

Gaslight is a 1940 British film directed by Thorold Dickinson which stars Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard, and features Frank Pettingell. The film adheres more closely to the original play upon which it is based - Patrick Hamilton's Gas Light (1938), which was presented on Broadway as Angel Street[1] - than the better-known 1944 MGM adaptation. The picture was released in the United States as Angel Street and has also been released in the UK as A Strange Case of Murder".

Simpatico is a 1999 film directed by Matthew Warchus and starring Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Catherine Keener and Albert Finney. It was adapted for the screen from the 1994 play Simpatico by Sam Shepard.

Boris Yelnikoff, an eccentric, misanthropic University of Chicago graduate and chess teacher from Greenwich Village, finds a young woman from Mississippi lying on his doorstep. He takes her in for the night and eventually marries her, despite their 40 year age difference and their clashing cultural backgrounds. His philosophy on the matter is that life is short so he might as well enjoy himself.

The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. The film is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan, which was previously adapted for film under the same name in 1951.

Our Brand Is Crisis is a 2015 American comedy-drama film directed by David Gordon Green and written by Peter Straughan. It is a fictionalized account based on the 2005 documentary film of same name by Rachel Boynton, about the American political campaign strategies used by Greenberg Carville Shrum (GCS) in the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. The film stars Sandra Bullock, Scoot McNairy, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie and Ann Dowd. It was selected to be screened in the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

Romeo and Juliet is a 1900 French film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name.

Big Business revolves around two pairs of identical female twins who were mixed up as babies, with one pair ending in a rich urban family and the other pair growing up in a poor rural family. Somewhat forty years later both twins accidentally run into each other at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, New York, when the Shelton sisters coincidentally seek to strip mine the small town, called Jupiter Hollow, in which their moneyless counterparts live.

The film is a modernization of Shakespeare's play , designed to appeal to a younger modern audience. The warring families (the Montagues and the Capulets) are represented as warring business empires and swords are replaced by guns. Despite the adaptation, the film retains Shakespeare's original dialogue, albeit edited down for modern cinema audiences.

Waiting for Guffman is a musical mockumentary starring, co-written and directed by Christopher Guest that was released in 1997. Its cast of actors has appeared in a series of Guest-directed mockumentaries

Venus in Fur (French: La Vénus à la fourrure) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Roman Polanski. It is based on the play of the same name by American playwright David Ives, which itself was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs.

The jury decides whether a young Chechen boy is guilty in the murder of his stepfather, a Russian military officer. Initially it seems that the boy was the murderer. However, one of the jurors votes in favor of acquittal. Since the verdict must be rendered unanimously, the jurors review the case, and one by one come to the conclusion that the boy was framed. The murder was performed by criminals involved in construction business. The discussion is repeatedly interrupted by flashbacks from the boy's wartime childhood.

Copenhagen is a 2002 British TV film adapted by director Howard Davies from Michael Frayn's 1998 Tony Award-winning play of the same name. The story concerns a meeting between the physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg in Copenhagen in 1941, and probes Heisenberg's role in the German atomic bomb program during World War II.

When the star-crossed lovers of two enemy families meet, forbidden love ensues.

Titus is a 1999 Italian-American-British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus, about the downfall of a Roman general. Starring Anthony Hopkins and Jessica Lange, it was the first theatrically-released feature film adaptation of the play. The film was made by Overseas Filmgroup and Clear Blue Sky Productions and released by Fox Searchlight Pictures and the directorial debut of Julie Taymor, who co-produced and wrote the screenplay. Producers included Jody Patton, Conchita Airoldi and executive producer Paul G. Allen.

Venus in Fur (French: La Vénus à la fourrure) is a 2013 French drama film directed by Roman Polanski. It is based on the play of the same name by American playwright David Ives, which itself was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel Venus in Furs.