“Judah Ben-Hur, a Jewish prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek revenge, but finds redemption.”

Cost: $100 million

Grossed: $94.1 million

Lost: $85–135 million

“Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman.”

Cost: $80 million

Grossed: $22.9 million

Lost: $114 million

“A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.”

Cost: $209–220 million

Grossed: $303 million

Lost: $177 million

“It’s the year 3000 [CE], and the Earth is lost to the alien race of Psychlos. Humanity is enslaved by these gold-thirsty tyrants, who are unaware that their ‘man-animals’ are about to ignite the rebellion of a lifetime.”

Cost: $73–103 million

Grossed: $29.7 million

Lost: $115 million

“Tasked with destroying each other, an FBI agent and a rogue DIA agent soon discover that a much bigger enemy is at work.”

Cost: $70 million

Grossed: $19.9 million

Lost: $106 million

“After an explosion in space and subsequent two-minute radio-out period, two astronauts return home to their wives. Slowly it’s revealed that they’re not the same as they were.”

Cost: $75 million

Grossed: $19.6 million

Lost: $106 million

“To win a bet, an eccentric British inventor, beside his Chinese valet and an aspiring French artist, embarks on a trip full of adventures and dangers around the world in exactly eighty days.”

Cost: $110 million

Grossed: $72.2 million

Lost: $106 million

“In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.”

Cost: $85 million

Grossed: $118.6 million

Lost: $85–102 million

“A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, focusing on his triumphs and controversies between 1964 and 1974.”

Cost: $107 million

Grossed: $87.7 million

Lost: $96 million

“Alexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest army leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world.”

Cost: $155 million

Grossed: $167.3 million

Lost: $102 million

“Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas.”

Cost: $107 million

Grossed: $25.8 million

Lost: $135 million

“When enemies Boris, Natasha, and Fearless Leader escape into the real world with a nefarious scheme, Rocky and Bullwinkle do the same, and team up with a young F.B.I. Agent to stop the trio.”

Cost: $76–98.6 million

Grossed: $35.1 million

Lost: $100 million

“In the future, a man struggles to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the Mafia.”

Cost: $100 million

Grossed: $7.1 million

Lost: $145 million

“An account of Baron Munchausen’s supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.”

Cost: $46.6 million

Grossed: $8.1 million

Lost: $88 million

“When a top-secret weapon falls into mercenary hands, a wild card CIA agent joins forces with three international agents on a lethal mission to retrieve it, while staying a step ahead of a mysterious woman who’s tracking their every move.”

Cost: $40–75 million

Grossed: $27.7 million

Lost: $93 million

“A band of samurai set out to avenge the death and dishonor of their master at the hands of a ruthless shogun.”

Cost: $175–225 million

Grossed: $151.8 million

Lost: $112 million

“A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador. Stopping at a Viking village port to restock on supplies, he finds himself unwittingly embroiled in a quest to banish a mysterious threat in a distant Viking land.”

Cost: $100–160 million

Grossed: $61.7 million

Lost: $112–210 million

“A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.”

Cost: $960,000

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing, #57 on the AFI’s Top 100 Movies of All Time

“A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.”

Cost: $4 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor

“Two British track athletes, one a determined Jewish person and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.”

Cost: $5.5 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Costume Design, and Best Score

“Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.”

Cost: $6.5 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing

“In 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel, In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.”

Cost: $7 million

Won: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role

“During World War II, the English mathematical genius Alan Turing tries to crack the German Enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians while attempting to come to terms with his troubled private life.”

Cost: $14 million

Won: Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay

“A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?“

Cost: $15 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Achievement in Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Score, Best Original Song, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing

“During the Iraq War, a sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.”

Cost: $15 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Achievement in Sound Mixing, and Best Achievement in Sound Editing

“The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.”

Cost: $15 million

Won: Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay