Box Office: $119.2 million

Michael Moore’s controversial movie remains the highest-grossing documentary ever – by a large margin.

Box Office: $107.9 million

Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 sensation ranks fifth on IMDb’s Top 250 list. While it’s no longer Quentin Tarantino’s highest-grossing movie ever, it does rank higher than Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained when adjusting for ticket price inflation.

Box Office: $83.5 million

Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam movie had a notoriously challenging shoot. Ultimately, it paid off: the movie earned $78.8 million in its initial release, which is the equivalent of around $262 million today.

Box Office: $40.2 million

The Piano was nominated for Best Picture, and won three other Oscars. That included a trophy for newcomer Anna Paquin, who became the second-youngest winner of an Academy Award. All of that buzz drove strong, consistent arthouse sales: the movie grossed $40.2 million, but never earned more than $2.5 million on a single weekend.

Box Office: $37.8 million

All That Jazz opened around Christmas in 1979, and won four Oscars at the Academy Awards in early 1980. It then played in competition at Cannes in May, where it tied for the Palme D’Or with Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha.

Box Office: $32.6 million

The Pianist was a solid box office performer given its dire World War II setting. Still, it was the lowest-grossing Best Picture nominee in 2003 behind The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Chicago (the winner), Gangs of New York and The Hours.

Box Office: $28.3 million

Taxi Driver went on to become one of Martin Scorsese’s bigger early career hits: adjusted for inflation, it’s roughly on par with The Wolf of Wall Street.

Box Office: $24.7 million

With $24.7 million, this was a strong box office debut for director Steven Soderbergh. Instead of going commercial, though, Soderbergh opted to make more experimental fare: his next five movies combined for less than $3 million.

Box Office: $17.2 million

This movie received eight Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and featured major movie star Robert DeNiro. Still, it couldn’t quite connect with audiences, and wound up earning a somewhat disappointing $17.2 million.

Box Office: $14.6 million

Director David Lynch’s work has never been particularly accessible. While Wild at Heart was no exception, it did open at the peak of Lynch’s popularity – it’s his Blue Velvet follow-up, and hit theaters right after the first season of Twin Peaks – and starred the ever-popular Nicolas Cage. That was enough to get it to a very modest $14.6 million.