1. Institutional Research
The Possession(2012) – Ole Bornedal
Tagline: ‘Fear the demon that doesn’t fear god’
Production Co: Ghost house pictures, North box productions
Budget: $14,000,000
Opening weekend: $17,732,480
Gross: $41,133,490
Brief Narrative: A young girl buys an antique box at a yard sale, unaware that
inside the collectible lives a malicious ancient spirit. The girl's father teams
with his ex-wife to find a way to end the curse upon their child.
Inception (2010) – Christopher Nolan
Tagline: ‘Your mind is the scene of the crime’
Production Co: Warner bros. pictures, legendary pictures, syncopy
Budget: $160,000,000
Opening weekend: $62,785,337
Gross: $825,532,764
Brief Narrative: In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind
through dream invasion, a highly skilled thief is given a final chance at
redemption which involves executing his toughest job to date: Inception.

2. The Prestige (2006) – Christopher Nolan
Tagline: ‘Are you watching closely’?
Production Co: Touchstone pictures, warner bros. pictures, new market
productions
Budget: $40,000,000
Opening weekend: $14,801,808
Gross: $53,082,743
Brief Narrative: The rivalry between two magicians is exacerbated when one of
them performs the ultimate illusion.In the end of the Nineteenth Century, in
London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough and Alfred Borden
are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a
performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death and they become enemies.
Shutter Island (2010) – Martin Scorsese
Tagline: ‘Someone is missing’
Production Co: Paramount pictures, Phoenix pictures, Sikelia productions
Budget: $80,000,000
Opening Weekend: $41,062,440
Gross: $294,804,195
Brief Narrative: Drama set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating
the disappearance of a murderess that escaped from a hospital for the
criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding nearby.It's 1954, and up-and-
coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the
disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital.
He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but
before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a
twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical
to illegal to downright sinister.

3. Pulp Fiction (1994) – Quentin Tarantino
Tagline: N/A
Production Co: A band apart, Jersey films, Miramax films
Budget: $8,000,000
Opening Weekend: $9,311,882
Gross: $213,928,762
Brief Narrative: The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a
pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia out a few days later when
Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge is an aging boxer who is
paid by Wallace to lose his next fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated
people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and
uncalled-for incidents.