Crouching Tiger; Hidden Dragon, 2000
Produced on a modest budget of $17 million, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was certainly an international success. The film was the first foreign-language epic to earn over $100 million in gross sales from a US based market. Constantly named on lists of culturally important, non-English based films; this Chinese martial arts film is respected for top cinematography, a meaningful story and excellent choreography.