My Salinger Year
A college grad takes a clerical job for the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Goalie
The life of a professional hockey player was not always a glamorous one. For legendary goaltender Terry Sawchuk, each save means one more gash to his unmasked face and one more drink to numb the pain. Even with a wife and seven children at home, he is haunted by the void left from his childhood which he tried to fill with cheering crowds. Sawchuk traveled across the country racking up 103 shutouts and 400 stitches to his face, proving that this is a man who lives, breathes, and dies a goalie.
Year: 2019
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Berlin, I Love You
An omnibus of ten stories set in the German capital, this is the latest installment in the Cities Of Love franchise (Paris, je t’aime/New York, I Love You/Rio, Eu Te Amo), featuring a star-studded cast including Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren and Luke Wilson.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Percy (FKA Percy vs. Monsanto)
Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser, who challenges a major conglomerate when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops. As he speaks out against the company’s business practices, he realizes he is representing thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world fighting the same battle. Suddenly, he becomes an unsuspecting folk hero in a desperate war to protect farmers’ rights and the world’s food supply against what they see as corporate greed.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Come to Daddy
During a visit at his estranged father’s coastal cabin, 30-something Norval finds himself caught in a murderous web, after his father suddenly drops dead, thus, leaving some unfinished business behind.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Never Grow Old
When outlaws take over a peaceful American frontier town, an undertaker thrives until his family comes under threat and the death toll rises. Starring John Cusack.
Year: 2019
Genre: Action, Western
Giant Little Ones (GLO)
Franky Winter (Josh Wiggins) and Ballas Kohl (Darren Mann) have been best friends since childhood. They are high school royalty: handsome, stars of the swim team and popular with girls. They live a perfect teenage life – until the night of Franky's epic 17th birthday party, when Franky and Ballas are involved in an unexpected incident that changes their lives forever. Giant Little Ones is a heartfelt and intimate coming-of-age story about friendship, self-discovery and the power of love without labels.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
0r1g1n Unkn0wn
After the first manned mission to Mars ends in a deadly crash, an investigation uncovers a mysterious object under the surface that threatens the future of earth as we know it.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Higher Power
From the producer of the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises, comes a new sci-fi movie with mind-blowing special effects that follows an ‘everyman’ who wakes up to discover he’s been given god-like powers that are controlled by a maniacal scientist.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Quake, The
In this pulse-pounding race-against-time disaster thriller, a family tries to survive a major earthquake. Sequel to THE WAVE.
Year: 2018
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Before We Vanish
Three aliens travel to Earth on a reconnaissance mission in preparation for a mass invasion. Having taken possession of human bodies, the visitors rob their hosts of the very essence of their being - all sense of good, evil, property, family, belonging - leaving psychological and spiritual devastation in their wake.
Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Lemonade
Mara, a young Romanian woman, has just moved to the US with Dragos, her 9-year-old son, marrying Daniel, an American she has met only a few months ago. The film follows her through a series of revealing encounters during one day, from her problems of babysitting, her unplanned and uncomfortable meeting with a U.S. immigration official, to dealing with the police about her son she had to leave in a motel room and the bank issue for a loan with her husband.
Year: 2018
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
When a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager (Elle Fanning) meets a wannabe human punk-rocker, they embark on an adventure through the punk scene of 1970s London.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Sci-Fi
In the Fade
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Year: 2018
Genre: Drama
China Hustle, The
In 2008, Wall Street brought the economy to the brink of collapse with a shell game based on bankrupt mortgages… Nine years later, the stock market is sky high again, and the game has gone global. There are no good guys in this story, but there are a few people—a ragtag band of short sellers—who are sick of being lied to. THE CHINA HUSTLE follows their story through Wall Street, China and your retirement savings to uncover the biggest heist you’ve never heard of.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Final Year, The
A sweeping, insiders’ account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during their final year as they set out to define their legacy, promote diplomacy and react to the unexpected rise of Donald Trump. Featuring unprecedented access inside the White House, the State Department, and the machinery of American power.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
All the Devil's Men
A bounty hunter is forced to go on a manhunt for a disavowed CIA operative, which leads him to a deadly battle with a former military comrade and his private army.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action
Occupation
A small group of town residents have to band together after a devastating alien ground invasion. As they struggle to survive, they realize they must stay one step ahead of their attackers, and work together for a chance to strike back.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Black Water
A deep cover operative awakens to find himself imprisoned in a CIA black site on a submarine.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action
Mercy, The
The nail-biting true story of an amateur sailor’s solo attempt to sail the globe. Starring Colin Firth and Rachel Weisz.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Biography
An Ordinary Man
A fugitive war criminal forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid - setting them both on a collision course with the past.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: War, Thriller, Drama
Dark Crimes
Jim Carrey stars as a detective investigating the murder of a slain businessman.. Based on the 2008 article "True Crimes - A Postmodern Murder Mystery" by David Grann.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Under the Tree
UNDER THE TREE follows a man who is accused of adultery and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbors unexpectedly and violently reached a boiling point, soon spiraling out of control.
Year: 2018
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Escape of Prisoner 614
Two inept, small-town Sheriff's Deputies catch an escaped prisoner that they believe was wrongly convicted.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Final Score
When a packed sports stadium is seized by a group of heavily armed terrorists, an ex-soldier must use all his military skills to save the unknowing crowd.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Action
Kayak to Klemtu
14-year-old Ella is determined to travel the length of the Inside Passage, along the shores of the Great Bear Rainforest by kayak in order to testify against a proposed pipeline that would see oil tanker traffic through her beloved homeland waters. She's prepared to handle all of the challenges the wildlife, the weather, the water, and her gear have to offer up. The most challenging of all is that she has to bring her dysfunctional family with her. Her neurotic aunt, her cranky uncle, her wayward cousin, and the memory of her late uncle all come along for the ride to make it a fun and amazing adventure. From Tla'Amin to Klemtu, BC, this family navigates their blend of cultures and desires, while their spirits honour the coast as a place for each of us to call home and protect.
Year: 2018
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Mara
As a criminal psychologist digs into the mystery of an ancient demon who kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and races to save herself before she dares to fall asleep again.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime
RBG
A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Three Identical Strangers
New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Speed Kills
John Travolta stars in this action-packed true story of an ‘80s speedboat champion and multimillionaire caught between the mob and the law.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Skate Kitchen
In the first narrative feature from The Wolfpack director Crystal Moselle, Camille, an introverted teenage skateboarder (newcomer Rachelle Vinberg) from Long Island, meets and befriends an all-girl, New York City-based skateboarding crew called Skate Kitchen. She falls in with the in-crowd, has a falling-out with her mother, and falls for a mysterious skateboarder guy (Jaden Smith), but a relationship with him proves to be trickier to navigate than a kickflip.
Writer/director Crystal Moselle immersed herself in the lives of the skater girls and worked closely with them, resulting in the film's authenticity, which combines poetic, atmospheric filmmaking and hypnotic skating sequences. SKATE KITCHEN precisely captures the experience of women in male-dominated spaces and tells a story of a girl who learns the importance of camaraderie and self-discovery.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Boundaries
Single mom Laura (Farmiga), along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry (MacDougall) is forced to drive Jack (Plummer), her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home. The road trip veers off course when Jack decides to make a couple 'stops' and Henry asks to see his ne'er-do-well dad Leonard (Cannavale), completely upending Laura's attempt to hold her family together and ultimately forcing her to finally see her father for the man he really is.
Year: 2018
Genre: Drama
Puzzle
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Bad Reputation
A music documentary that dives into the life and career of the first female punk rocker, Joan Jett.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Guilty, The
A dispatch duty police officer enters a thrilling race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Year: 2018
Language: Danish
Genre: Thriller
Revenge
When a millionaire brings his sexy mistress to his annual hunting trip with his buddies, things get out of hand, and soon the men become the hunted.
Year: 2018
Language: English & French
Genre: Thriller, Action
Status Update
After being uprooted by his parents' separation and unable to fit into his new hometown, Kyle Moore (Ross Lynch) stumbles upon a magical app that causes his social media updates to come true.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Siberia
When an American diamond trader's Russian partner goes missing, he journeys to Siberia to find him. Starring Keanu Reeves.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action, Romance
Lizzie
Oppressed, independent-minded Lizzie Borden experiences a sexual awakening when a pretty new maid is hired and the two develop an intimate relationship. But Lizzie explodes in rage and violence when her domineering parents try to control her desires. A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Biography
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, and Edward Burtynsky. Narrated by Alicia Vikander.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Russian, Italian, German, Mandarin, Cantonese, with English Subtitles
Genre: Documentary
Never Look Away
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Year: 2018
Language: German
Genre: Drama
Quest of Alain Ducasse, The
With 23 restaurants worldwide and 18 Michelin stars, Alain Ducasse fearlessly continues creating trendy new places, building schools, writing books and launching major projects.
Year: 2018
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
Under the Silver Lake
From the dazzling imagination that brought you It Follows comes a delirious neo-noir fever dream about one man's search for the truth behind the mysterious crimes, murders, and disappearances in his East L.A. neighborhood.
Sam (Andrew Garfield) is a disenchanted 33-year-old who discovers a mysterious woman, Sarah (Riley Keough), frolicking in his apartment’s swimming pool. When she vanishes, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal, and conspiracy in the City of Angels.
From writer-director David Robert Mitchell comes a sprawling, playful and unexpected mystery-comedy detective thriller about the Dream Factory and its denizens—dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter-pop groups, nightlife personalities, It girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors, and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all. Mining a noir tradition extending from Kiss Me Deadly and The Long Goodbye to Chinatown and Mulholland Drive, Mitchell uses the topography of Los Angeles as a backdrop for a deeper exploration into the hidden meaning and secret codes buried within the things we love.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Let The Sunshine In
Juliette Binoche delivers a luminous performance in the deliciously witty, sensuously romantic new film from acclaimed director Claire Denis (White Material). Isabelle (Binoche) is a divorced Parisian painter searching for another shot at love, but refusing to settle for the parade of all-too-flawed men who drift in and out of her life. There’s a caddish banker (Xavier Beauvois) who, like many of her lovers, happens to be married; a handsome actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who’s working through his own hang-ups; and a sensitive fellow artist (Alex Descas) who’s skittish about commitment. What reads like a standard romantic comedy premise is transformed, in the hands of master filmmaker Denis, into something altogether deeper, more poignant, and perceptive about the profound mysteries of love.
Year: 2018
Language: French
American Chaos
For six months before the election, director Jim Stern traveled red states asking about Donald Trump's appeal, and why voters were untroubled by things he had said and done. What he learned was a lesson in the central differences dividing America and the cultural divide that is tearing apart our democracy today.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Shoplifters
After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them...
Year: 2018
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama, Crime
Summer of 84
In the summer of 1984, four teens suspect that their neighbor, a police officer, might be the serial killer being featured on the local news.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Changing Saddles
A city teen decides to spend her summer at her family-owned horse ranch in a small southern town, and care for her sick mother.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Capernaum
A politically-charged fable, featuring mostly non-professional actors, about a child who launches a lawsuit against his parents.
Year: 2018
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
Love, Gilda
In her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
What Keeps You Alive
On the eve of their one-year wedding anniversary, Jules and Jackie become embroiled in a merciless fight for their lives when they find themselves pitted against the most unexpected of adversaries: each other.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Dogman
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.
Year: 2018
Genre: Drama
The House That Jack Built
The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer over the course of 12 years and depicts the murders that truly develop Jack as a serial killer.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Woman At War
Halla is a committed undercover eco-terrorist trying to save Iceland’s natural landscapes from industrialist destruction, but when a long-desired child becomes available for adoption, she must choose between the greater good and her own dreams.
Year: 2018
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action, Comedy
Cold War
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched, set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris.
Year: 2018
Genre: War, Drama, Romance
Viking Destiny
In this battle-packed actioner, an exiled Viking princess builds an army in an attempt to win back her rightful throne.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Action
Galveston
A hitman (Ben Foster) returns to his hometown where he rescues a young prostitute (Elle Fanning) and plans to exact revenge on the man who set him up. From the writer of "True Detective".
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Free Solo
The documentarian duo behind 2015’s acclaimed Meru return to high altitudes, this time as renowned rock climber Alex Honnold attempts to do what no climber has done before: ascend free solo — without safety ropes — up the 3,000-foot cliff of El Capitan in California's Yosemite National Park.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Science Fair
Nine high school students from disparate corners of the globe navigate rivalries, setbacks, and hormones on their quest to win the international science fair. Only one can be named "Best in Fair."
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tyrel
A black man attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery at a cabin in the Catskills.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Divide and Conquer: The Story Of Roger Ailes
Alexis Bloom charts the rise and fall of the late Republican Party booster and controversial Fox News mogul who went down in flames amid multiple sexual harassment allegations.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Mail Order Monster
A mail order robot monster helps a young girl cope with bullies at school.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family, Sci-Fi
Border
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Romance
King of Thieves
Michael Caine stars in the incredible true story of the biggest and most daring diamond heist in British history.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Comedy
Vanishing, The
Gerard Butler stars in this true crime psychological thriller about three lighthouse keepers locked in a tense battle for survival.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Black '47
An Irish mercenary fighting for the British Army abandons his post to seek revenge on those responsible for the death of his family, in this action-packed war thriller. Starring Hugo Weaving, Barry Keoghan, Jim Broadbent, James Frecheville and Stephen Rea.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Grizzlies, The
Inuit youth in a small community gain a powerful sense of pride through the sport of lacrosse, in this true-story account of tenacity, renewal, and inspiring resilience.
Year: 2018
Language: English, Inuktitut
Genre: Drama, Biography
Happy End
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Menashe
Performed entirely in Yiddish, a language not used in cinema for many decades, MENASHE follows a kind, hapless grocery store clerk as he struggles to make ends meet and responsibly parent his young son, Rieven. But in the wake of his wife Leah’s death, tradition prohibits Menashe from raising his son alone, so Rieven’s strict uncle adopts him, leaving Menashe heartbroken. Meanwhile, though Menashe seems to bungle every challenge in his path, his rabbi grants him one special week with Rieven before Leah’s memorial and a chance to prove himself a suitable man of faith and fatherhood.
Year: 2017
Language: Yiddish
Genre: Drama
Case For Christ
Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist -- and avowed atheist -- who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills to disprove the newfound Christian faith of his wife... with unexpected, life-altering results.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Revolt
An action-packed sci-fi thriller about humankind’s last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, an American soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. As they journey through the battlefield in search of refuge, their bond will be tested when the soldier discovers his true identity.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Beach Rats
Frankie, an aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn, is having a miserable summer. With his father dying and his mother wanting him to find a girlfriend, Frankie escapes by causing trouble with his delinquent friends and flirting with older men online. As his chatting and webcamming intensify, Frankie simultaneously enters into a cautious relationship with a young woman. Inevitably, Frankie’s struggle to reconcile his competing desires lead to irreparable consequences.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Resurrection of Gavin Stone, The
A washed-up former child star, forced to do community service at a local megachurch, pretends to be a Christian to land the part of Jesus in their annual Passion Play, only to discover that the most important role of his life is far from Hollywood.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Call Me By Your Name
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, is a sensual and transcendent tale of first love, based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman. It’s the summer of 1983 in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a precocious 17- year-old American-Italian boy, spends his days in his family’s 17th century villa transcribing and playing classical music, reading, and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). Elio enjoys a close relationship with his father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture, and his mother Annella (Amira Casar), a translator, who favor him with the fruits of high culture in a setting that overflows with natural delights. While Elio’s sophistication and intellectual gifts suggest he is already a fully-fledged adult, there is much that yet remains innocent and unformed about him, particularly about matters of the heart. One day, Oliver (Armie Hammer), a charming American scholar working on his doctorate, arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio’s father. Amid the sun-drenched splendor of the setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama, Romance
Novitiate
Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s through to the mid-60s, NOVITIATE is about a young girl's first experience with love. In this case, her first love is God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and servitude of God. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical changes in the Church are threating the course of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing administration. As she progresses from the postulant to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, often inhumane realities of being a servant of God.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Fantastic Woman, A
A transgender singer faces scorn and discrimination after the sudden death of her older boyfriend.
Year: 2017
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Brigsby Bear
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story...
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Blind
A novelist (Alec Baldwin), blinded in a car crash which killed his wife, embarks on an affair with the neglected wife (Demi Moore) of an indicted businessman.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama, Romance
Wilde Wedding
While preparing for her wedding to husband number four (Patrick Stewart), a retired film star (Glenn Close) invites husband number one (John Malkovich) and their collective families to a summer weekend in the country.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Ghost Story, A
With A Ghost Story, acclaimed director David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Pete’s Dragon) returns with a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost (Academy Award-winner Casey Affleck) returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife (Academy Award-nominee Rooney Mara), only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away. Increasingly unmoored, the ghost embarks on a cosmic journey through memory and history, confronting life’s ineffable questions and the enormity of existence. An unforgettable meditation on love and grief, A Ghost Story emerges ecstatic and surreal—a wholly-unique experience that lingers long after the credits roll.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
It Comes At Night
Imagine the end of the world. Now imagine something worse. Award-winning filmmaker Trey Edward Shults follows his breakout debut KRISHA with the psychological horror-thriller IT COMES AT NIGHT, centering on a teenaged boy (Kelvin Harrison, Jr.) as he grapples with mounting terrors — external and otherwise — in the aftermath of an unnamed cataclysm. Secure within a desolate home with his vigilant, protective and heavily armed parents (Joel Edgerton and Carmen Ejogo), 17-year-old Travis navigates fear, grief and paranoia amid scarce resources as a desperate young couple (Christopher Abbott and Riley Keough), with their own child, seeks refuge in his family home. Despite the best intentions of both families, panic and mistrust boil over as the horrors of the outside world creep ever closer. But they are nothing compared to the horrors within, where Travis discovers that his father’s commitment to protecting the family may cost him his soul.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Mystery
6 Days
In 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, England, taking everyone hostage. After 6 days, a group of highly trained SAS soldiers launched an epic raid to end the standoff.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action
Churchill
Tensions mount for the beleaguered British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Brian Cox) in the days leading up to infamous Allied D-Day landings in Normandy, France in June, 1944. Fearful of repeating his deadly mistakes from World War I in the Battle of Gallipoli, exhausted by years of war, plagued by depression and obsessed with his historical destiny, Churchill is reluctant to embark on the large-scale campaign, one that the entire war effort hinges upon. Clashing with his Allied political opponents U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (John Slattery) and British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery (Julian Wadham), the troubled Churchill receives support and devotion from his wife, the brilliant and unflappable Clementine Churchill (Miranda Richardson). With her strength and shrewdness, “Clemmie” halts Winston’s physical, mental spiritual collapse and inspires him on to greatness.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, War, Drama, Biography
Borg vs. McEnroe
The story of the tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe, culminating in their encounter at the 1980 Wimbledon Championships men's final.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Racer And The Jailbird, The
Set against the background of a brutal crime gang in Brussels, a tragic love story between Gigi, a high-flying gangster, and Bibi, a young racing driver with very upper-class roots.
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Crime
Roxanne, Roxanne
In the early 1980s, the most feared battle MC in Queens, New York, was a fierce teenage girl with the weight of the world on her shoulders. At the age of 14, Lolita "Roxanne Shanté" Gooden was well on her way to becoming a hip-hop legend as she hustled to provide for her family while defending herself from the dangers of the streets of the Queensbridge Projects in NYC.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Ingrid Goes West
Following a series of self-inflicted setbacks, young Ingrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) escapes a humdrum existence by moving out West to befriend her Instagram obsession and LA socialite Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen). After a quick bond is forged between these unlikeliest of friends, the façade begins to crack in both women's lives — with comically malicious results.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Marjorie Prime
Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing days with a computerized version of her deceased husband. With the intent to recount their life together, Marjorie's "Prime" relies on the information from her and her kin to develop a more complex understanding of his history. As their interactions deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to reconstruct the often painful past. Built around exceptional performances from a veteran cast, MARJORIE PRIME shines a light on an often-obscured corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into the future, Michael Almaryeda's poetic film forces us to face the question - If we had the opportunity, how would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would we decide to forget?
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Lovers, The
Debra Winger and Tracy Letts play a long-married, dispassionate couple who are both in the midst of serious affairs. But on the brink of calling it quits, a spark between them suddenly reignites, leading them into an impulsive romance.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Gracefield Incident, The
A video game developer embeds a camera into his prosthetic eye, which inadvertently captures a terrifying battle against extraterrestrials.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Small Town Crime
An alcoholic ex-cop (John Hawkes) seeks justice for the murder of a teen prostitute in this gritty crime-noir. Also starring Octavia Spencer and Robert Forster.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Brimstone and Glory
The National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico is a site of festivity unlike any other in the world. In celebration of San Juan de Dios, patron saint of firework makers, conflagrant revelry engulfs the town for ten days. Artisans show off their technical virtuosity, up-and-comers create their own rowdy, lofi combustibles, and dozens of teams build larger-than-life papier-mâché bulls to parade into the town square, adorned with fireworks that blow up in all directions. More than three quarters of Tultepec’s residents work in pyrotechnics, making the festival more than revelry for revelry’s sake. It is a celebration that anchors a way of life built around a generations-old, homegrown business of making fireworks by hand. For the people of Tultepec, the National Pyrotechnic Festival is explosive celebration, unrestrained delight and real peril. Plunging headlong into the fire, Brimstone & Glory honors the spirit of Tultepec’s community and celebrates celebration itself.
Year: 2017
Genre: Documentary
Little Hours, The
Medieval nuns Alessandra (Alison Brie), Fernanda (Aubrey Plaza), and Ginevra (Kate Micucci) lead a simple life in their convent. Their days are spent chafing at monastic routine, spying on one another, and berating the estate’s day laborer. After a particularly vicious insult session drives the peasant away, Father Tommasso (John C. Reilly) brings on new hired hand Massetto (Dave Franco), a virile young servant forced into hiding by his angry lord. Introduced to the sisters as a deaf-mute to discourage temptation, Massetto struggles to maintain his cover as the repressed nunnery erupts in a whirlwind of pansexual horniness, substance abuse, and wicked revelry.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Armed Response
When a team of highly trained operatives becomes trapped inside an isolated military compound, they begin to experience strange and horrific phenomena as they hunt down what killed the previous team.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
7 Sisters
Seven identical sisters (all portrayed by Noomi Rapace) live a hide-and-seek existence in an overpopulated future world that has limited families to one child.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Gun Shy
An aging rock star (Antonio Banderas) is forced to navigate deadly jungles and ruthless bandits to rescue his super-model wife (Olga Kurylenko) from kidnappers.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action
Take Every Wave
TAKE EVERY WAVE tracks the remarkable life and legendary career of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton. Much admired by the public, though often disdained or ignored by the surf industry itself, Laird is a unique sports icon — an athlete who has refused to compete professionally yet has dominated big wave surfing as no other figure in history has ever done. Laird's biographical story is told against the backdrop of a winter surf season on Kauai, where El Niño storm systems threaten to bring the biggest surf in decades. Mixing never-before-seen archival footage, with contemporary verité scenes shot in Southern California, Bermuda and Kauai, TAKE EVERY WAVE weaves the past and present into an intimate and compelling portrait of a superstar athlete at the top of his game. Threaded throughout is a revealing, deeply personal interview with Laird as well conversations with the family members, friends, collaborators and detractors who know him best. Take Every Wave provides an intimate, uncompromising look at a lifetime devoted to riding giant surf—and the price an athlete pays for greatness.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary
Loving Vincent
On July 27, 1890, a gaunt figure stumbled down a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French country town of Auvers. The man was carrying nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly. This was Vincent van Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous artist in the world. His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot. LOVING VINCENT tells that story.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Animation, Biography
Adam at the Wedding
Still reeling from his break-up with his college sweetheart Allison (Cobie Smulders), Adam (Justin Long) is devastated when she invites him to her wedding.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Killing Gunther
A group of assassins decide to kill Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger), the world's greatest hit-man, but their plan turns into a series of fumbled encounters as Gunther seems to always be one step ahead.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action, Comedy
Singularity
In 2020, a super-computer attacks mankind. Ninety-seven years later, a teenage boy, lost in a world run by machines, meets a female survivor searching for the last human stronghold. Starring John Cusack.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Only Living Boy in New York, The
Thomas Webb (Callum Turner), the son of a publisher and an artistic wife, has just graduated from college and is trying to find his place in the world. Moving from his parents' Upper West Side apartment to the Lower East Side, he befriends his neighbor W.F. (Jeff Bridges), a shambling alcoholic writer who dispenses worldly wisdom alongside healthy shots of whiskey. Thomas's world begins to shift when he discovers his long-married father (Pierce Brosnan) is having an affair with a seductive younger woman (Kate Beckinsale). Determined to break up the relationship, Thomas ends up sleeping with his father's mistress, launching a chain of events that will change everything he thinks he knows about himself and his family.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mark Felt - The Man Who Brought Down the White House
MARK FELT - THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE centers on “Deep Throat”, the pseudonym given to the notorious whistleblower for one of the greatest scandals of all time, Watergate. The true identity of the secret informant remained a mystery and source of much public curiosity and speculation for more than 30 years. That is until, in 2005, special agent Mark Felt shockingly revealed himself as the tipster. This unbelievable true story chronicles the personal and professional life of the brilliant and uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately sacrificed everything – his family, his career, his freedom – in the name of justice.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Meditation Park
Mina Shum directs an all-star cast — including Cheng Pei Pei, Sandra Oh, Tzi Ma, and Don McKellar — in her latest feature, about a devoted wife and mother who is forced to reassess her reverence for her husband after she finds another woman’s undergarment in his laundry.
Year: 2017
Language: English, Cantonese
Genre: Drama
Band Aid
In a last-ditch effort to save their marriage, Anna and Ben decide to turn all of their fights into songs, and with the help of their neighbor, Dave (Fred Armisen), they start a band.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Tribes of Palos Verdes, The
When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness. Starring Jennifer Garner and Alicia Silverstone.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Walking Out
An estranged father and son are forced to rely on one another to survive an unforgiving wilderness in this riveting story of survival.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
I Remember You
An elderly woman hangs herself in a church. A grieving father searches for the truth about what happened to his missing son. And a trio of young city dwellers unleash a sinister force when they begin renovating a cursed home on a remote island. They don't know it yet, but each of these strangers is connected by a disturbing, decades-old secret -- a mystery that holds the key to a series of terrifying supernatural events. Based on the acclaimed novel by the "Queen of Icelandic Crime," this atmospheric chiller is both a hair-raising ghost story and a powerful tale of life beyond death.
Year: 2017
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Based on Peter Turner’s memoir, the film follows the playful but passionate relationship between Turner (Jamie Bell) and the eccentric Academy Award®-winning actress Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) in 1978 Liverpool. What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner being the person Gloria turns to for comfort. Their passion and lust for life is tested to the limits by events beyond their control.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Final Portrait
FINAL PORTRAIT is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend, Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, promises Giacometti, will take only a few days and so Lord agrees — ultimately wondering “how much longer can it go on like this?”
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography
Loveless
Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page – even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alexey. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alexey disappears…
Year: 2017
Language: Russian with English subtitles
Genre: Drama
Rider, The
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
High Fantasy
Four young South African friends on a camping trip on an isolated farm wake up to discover they’ve all swapped bodies. As they navigate a labyrinth of so-called Rainbow Nation politics, they capture their bizarre predicament in selfie videos - with hilarious and tragic results.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama
Hangman
A homicide detective (Al Pacino) teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Foxtrot
Michael and Dafna are devastated when army officials show up at their home to announce the death of their son Jonathan. While his sedated wife rests, Michael spirals into a whirlwind of anger only to experience one of life's unfathomable twists, which rival the surreal military experiences of his son.
Year: 2017
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama
Wonder Wheel
WONDER WHEEL tells the story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny (Kate Winslet), an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty (Jim Belushi), Ginny's rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey (Justin Timberlake), a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina (Juno Temple), Humpty's long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father's apartment. Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro captures a tale of passion, violence, and betrayal that plays out against the picturesque tableau of 1950s Coney Island.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama
Wife, The
Based on the novel by the bestselling author Meg Wolitzer, THE WIFE interweaves the midcentury story of a couple’s youthful passion and ambition with a portrait of a marriage, thirty-plus years later—a lifetime’s shared compromises, secrets, betrayals, and genuine, mutual love.
Year: 2017
Genre: Drama
Disobedience
Sebastián Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Gloria) directs Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams in this adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s novel about a woman who returns to her Orthodox Jewish community after the death of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Forgiven, The
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Seagull, The
THE SEAGULL is the heartbreaking and funny story of friends and lovers, all of whom are in love with the wrong person. The movie is timely in its depiction of the tragic consequences of narcissism, particularly on young dreams and romantic love. Based on the Play by Anton Chekhov
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Marvin
A young man runs away from his family to become an actor.
Year: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Marrowbone
Four siblings seek refuge in an old home after the death of their mother, only to discover that the house has another, more sinister, inhabitant.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Mobile Homes
In forgotten towns along the American border, a young mother drifts from one motel to the next with her intoxicating boyfriend and her 8-year-old son. The makeshift family scrapes by, living one hustle at a time, until the discovery of a mobile home community offers an alternative life.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Big Time
Big Time follows Danish architect Bjarke Ingels over a period of 5 years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the New York skyscraper called W57 and World Trade Center 2, projects that will change the skyline of Manhattan. According to The Wall Street Journal he has ‘rapidly become one of the design world’s biggest stars’. An intimate insight into the life of a genius innovative mind and his struggle to maintain his own persona while making the world a better place to live.
Year: 2017
Genre: Documentary
Desierto
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a man who has taken border patrol duties into his own racist hands.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Tale, The
Director: Jennifer Fox
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Handmaiden, The
A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.
Year: 2016
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Romance
Drifter, The
A pair of outlaw brothers seek temporary refuge in a desolate town inhabited by a small family of psychotic cannibalistic lunatics.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime
Paradox
A group of young scientists are working on a time-travel project, sending one of their own ahead one hour. He returns pleading with them to shut it down, explaining that within that hour, they will all die.
Director: Mike Hurst
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Avril et le Monde Truqué
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April lives alone with her dear cat, Darwin, and carries on her family's research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run form government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies. Undaunted, she continues her quest to find her parents and discover the truth behind their disappearance.
Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Animation
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Lovesong
Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend, Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy’s wedding.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Trust, The
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
I Am Wrath
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Cell
When a mysterious cell phone signal causes apocalyptic chaos, an artist is determined to reunite with his young son in New England.
Year: 2016
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Kill Command
Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Love & Friendship
Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.
Year: 2016
Genre: Drama, Romance
Burn Country
THE FIXER follows Osman (Dominic Rains) who is granted asylum in the United States after acting as a fixer for US journalists in Afganistan. He lands in a small bohemian town in Northern California, and lives on the couch of his friend’s mother (Melissa Leo) while working on the crime blotter for the local newspaper. Restless and eager to find purpose in the context of his new life, he befriends a couple of locals—the eccentric and unstable Lindsay (James Franco) and the elusive Sandra (Rachel Brosnahan)—recruiting them to help him penetrate the town’s peculiar subculture. When Lindsay mysteriously goes missing, Osman gets drawn into the town’s dark underbelly in order to find him. As things begin to take a dangerous turn, Osman is forced to confront the untenable reality of his situation.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
We Are X
X Japan was formed by childhood friends, Yoshiki and Toshi, who ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late 80’s with their melodic metal and flamboyant fashion. With more than 30 million albums sold worldwide, X is the most successful rock band in Japanese history. However, their success never translated to the West, despite influencing many popular American bands. In the fall of 1997, at the height of their success, X broke up - devastating millions of fans and leaving enigmatic leader Yoshiki to battle physical and spiritual demons in a solitary campaign to bring their music to the world. Almost twenty years after the tragedy-fueled split, the band prepares to reunite for a show at the legendary Madison Square Garden while struggling to reconcile a haunted past with the insatiable thirst for perfection that has made them legendary. WE ARE X is the story of the most influential band in the world that you’ve never heard of…yet.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Cafe Society
Set in the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York he is swept up in the vibrant world of high society nightclub life.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Gleason
At the age of 34, Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS. Doctors gave the former NFL defensive back and New Orleans hero two to five years to live. So that is what Steve chose to do - LIVE: with purpose, for his newborn son, for his wife, and to help others with his disease.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Weiner
An examination of disgraced New York Congressman Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign and the landscape of today's political landscape.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Alien Arrival
An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells a tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies, neither of whose ideology he believes in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Wiener Dog
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Window Horses
A young Canadian poet with Chinese and Persian parents travels to Iran to perform at a poetry festival.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Animation
Skiptrace
A detective from Hong Kong teams up with an American gambler to battle against a notorious Chinese criminal.
Year: 2016
Genre: Action, Comedy
Where is Rocky II?
In 1979, American artist Ed Ruscha allegedly made a fake rock out of resin and hid it among real ones somewhere in California's vast Mojave Desert. Named Rocky II after the Sylvester Stallone film, the work is never spoken about publicly nor is it listed in any catalogue of Ruscha's work. Obsessed with this mystery piece, Academy Award winning screenwriter Pierre Bismuth sets out to find it in his directorial debut. Probing and inventive, this thoroughly original art quest blends documentary and fiction, and is as enigmatic as the mystery it seeks.
WHERE IS ROCKY II? features High Fidelity and Gross Pointe Black screenwriter DV De Vincentis, Sherlock Holmes and Invictus writer Anthony Peckham, and Mike White of School Of Rock fame, alongside art world luminaries such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art director Philippe Vergne, philanthropist and collector Eli Broad, and Hammer Museum chief curator Connie Butler.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Infiltrator
A U.S. Customs official uncovers a money laundering scheme involving Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Biography
Manchester by the Sea
A critically acclaimed drama about a man who must face his painful past when he returns to his Massachusetts hometown after the sudden death of his brother. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams and Kyle Chandler.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
31
Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Paris Can Wait
Eleanor Coppola's feature film directorial and screenwriting debut at the age of 81 stars Academy Award® nominee Diane Lane as a Hollywood producer's wife who unexpectedly takes a trip through France, which reawakens her sense of self and her joie de vivre. Anne (Lane) is at a crossroads in her life. Long married to a successfully driven but inattentive movie producer (Alec Baldwin), she finds herself taking a car trip from Cannes to Paris with a business associate of her husband (Arnaud Viard). What should be a seven-hour drive turns into a journey of discovery involving mouthwatering meals, spectacular wines, and picturesque sights.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Comedian, The
De Niro plays a comic icon who has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself, the audience only wants to know him as the former television character he once played. He’s a strain on his younger brother and his wife and is being forced to serve out a sentence doing community service for accosting an audience member. While there, he finds inspiration by meeting the daughter of a sleazy Florida real estate mogul.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Colossal
After Gloria (Anne Hathaway) loses her job and is kicked out of her boyfriend’s apartment, she leaves her life in New York and move back to her hometown. When news reports surface that a giant creature is destroying Seoul, Korea, Gloria gradually comes to the realization that she is somehow connected to this far-off phenomenon. As events begin to spin out of control, Gloria must determine why her seemingly insignificant existence has such a colossal effect on the fate of the world.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Kill Ratio
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action
Catfight
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
I Am Not Your Negro
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Last Face
A passionate and poignant story of two lovers brought together—and brutally torn apart—by violent conflict in a war-torn country. Starring Academy Award® winners Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Assignment, The
This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer put through full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon (Sigourney Weaver).
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
Frantz
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
Year: 2016
Genre: History, War, Drama
Bad Batch, The
THE BAD BATCH follows Arlen (Suki Waterhouse) after she's left in a Texas wasteland fenced off from civilization. While trying to navigate the unforgiving landscape, Arlen is captured by a savage band of cannibals led by the mysterious Miami Man (Jason Momoa). With her life on the line, she makes her way to The Dream (Keanu Reeves). As she adjusts to life in 'The Bad Batch' Arlen discovers that being good or bad mostly depends on who's standing next to you.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
B-Side, The: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her Cambridge, Massachusetts studio: families, Beat poets, rock stars, and Harvard notables. As pictures begin to fade and her retirement looms, Dorfman gives Errol Morris an inside tour of her backyard archive.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Risk
The story of WikiLeak's editor-in-chief Julian Assange.
Year: 2016
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary
Killing Ground
A young couple’s romantic camping trip turns into a waking nightmare when they discover the scene of a horrific crime.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Journey, The
The Journey is the gripping account of how two men from opposite sides of the political spectrum came together to change the course of history. In 2006, amidst the ongoing, decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland, representatives from the two warring factions meet for negotiations. In one corner is Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall), the deeply conservative British loyalist; in the other is Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney), a former Irish Republican Army leader who has devoted his life to the cause of Irish reunification. Opposites in every way, the two men at first seem to have little chance of ever finding common ground. But over the course of an impromptu, detour-filled car ride through the Scottish countryside, each begins to see the other less as an enemy, and more as an individual—a breakthrough that promises to at last bring peace to the troubled region. Driven by two virtuoso central performances, The Journey is a more-relevant-than-ever reminder of how simple humanity can overcome political division. John Hurt costars.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Wakefield
A successful suburban lawyer withdraws from his life and hides-out in the loft of his garage, where he secretly watches his family move on without him.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Red Dog: True Blue
An iconic Australian story of family, friendship and adventure, between a young boy and a scrappy one-of-a-kind dog that would grow up to become an Australian legend.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Family
One Thousand Ropes
Retired boxer Maea lives a quiet, comfortable but lonely life, working as a baker and also as a traditional healer and midwife, atoning for his violent and damaging past. He is still enmeshed in his guilt and remorse, which day and night taunt and haunt him. When his estranged daughter Ilisa comes back to him seeking refuge, he has the rare chance to return to her, what he stole from her mother and change her future; and she in turn takes her opportunity, to change his.
Director: Tusi Tamasese
Year: 2016
Language: Somoan, English, Fijian
Genre: Drama
Tempest Storm
Director: Nimisha Mukerji
Year: 2016
Genre: Documentary
God's Not Dead 2
When a high school teacher is asked a question in class about Jesus, her response lands her in deep trouble.
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Unless
A writer struggles with her daughter's decision to drop out of college and live on the streets. Based on the novel "Unless" by Carol Shields.
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Call Up, The
A group of online gamers are invited to try a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game but things take a turn for the sinister when these masters of the shoot 'em up discover they will literally be fighting for their lives.
Director: Charles Barker
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Personal Shopper
Kristen Stewart reunites with director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) for this artful ghost story about a young woman trying to reconnect with the spirit of her departed brother.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Jasper Jones
JASPER JONES is a riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town’s mixed race outcast, shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie’s life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1968, Charlie defeats the local racists, faces the breakup of his parents and falls head over heels in love as he discovers what it means to be truly courageous.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Teen, Mystery
Toni Erdmann
A practical joking father tries to reconnect with his hard working daughter by creating an outrageous alter ego and posing as her CEO's life coach.
Year: 2016
Language: German, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
USS Indianapolis
The harrowing true story of the crew of the USS Indianapolis, who were stranded in the Philippine Sea for five days after delivering the atomic weapons that would eventually end WWII. As they awaited rescue, they endured extreme thirst, hunger, and relentless shark attacks.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: War, Action
Before I Wake
A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Leaning Into the Wind
Sixteen years after the release of the ground-breaking film Rivers and Tides – Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time director Thomas Riedelsheimer has returned to work with the artist. Leaning into the Wind – Andy Goldsworthy follows Andy on his exploration of the layers of his world and the impact of the years on himself and his art. As Goldsworthy introduces his own body into the work it becomes at the same time even more fragile and personal and also sterner and tougher, incorporating massive machinery and crews on his bigger projects. Riedelsheimer’s exquisite film illuminates Goldsworthy’s mind as it reveals his art.
Year: 2016
Rehearsal, The
Stanley, a naïve 1st year drama school student, meets Isolde, 15, whose sister has been caught having sex with her tennis coach. Jolted into a precocious sexual awakening, Isolde initiates a relationship - a first for both of them.
Everything changes when Stanley’s drama group hits on the tennis scandal as fertile material for their end of year devised show. Stanley soon finds himself in morally tricky territory as his growing intimacy with Isolde provides secrets that feed his status in the group. Soon the boundaries between private and public, fact and fantasy, real and performed begin to dissolve…
THE REHEARSAL is a darkly comic, razor-sharp look at adolescence, sexual awakening and the tricky process of becoming who we are.
Director: Alison Maclean
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Maudie
MAUDIE, based on a true story, is an unlikely romance in which the reclusive Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke) hires a fragile yet determined woman named Maudie (Sally Hawkins) to be his housekeeper. Maudie, bright-eyed but hunched with crippled hands, yearns to be independent, to live away from her protective family and she also yearns, passionately, to create art. Unexpectedly, Everett finds himself falling in love. MAUDIE charts Everett's efforts to protect himself from being hurt, Maudie's deep and abiding love for this difficult man and her surprising rise to fame as a folk painter.
Director: Aisling Walsh
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Paterson
A week in the life of Paterson (Adam Driver), a city bus driver in Paterson, NJ, as he balances the demands of his working-class job with his passion for poetry and the creative yearnings of his stay-at-home wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani). Jim Jarmusch wrote and directed this meditative, slice-of-life dramedy.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
I, Daniel Blake
A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother and her two kids as they battle the impersonal, bureaucratic forces of the benefits system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance. British master Ken Loach won his second Palme d’Or at Cannes for this timely drama with equal amounts of humor, warmth and despair.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Vincent N Roxxy
A small town loner and a rebellious punk rocker unexpectedly fall in love as they are forced on the run and soon discover violence follows them everywhere.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Black Code
Toronto-based documentary filmmaker and cinematographer Nicholas De Pencier (Four Wings and a Prayer, Watermark) examines the complex global impact that the internet has had on matters of free speech, privacy and activism.
Director: Nick De Pencier
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Norman Oppenheimer (Gere) only wants to matter. Living a lonely life in the shadow of power and money, he uses any angle or connection to put himself in a position of significance. He is an opportunist, just not a very good one. Until he finally bets on the right horse by buying a pair of expensive shoes for Micha Eshel (Ashkenazi), a lowly Israeli politician. When Micha becomes Prime Minister, Norman finds himself in the center of a geopolitical drama beyond anything he could have imagined. Using his small-time skills, Norman tries to solve a growingly complex puzzle with big-time implications. This everyman’s journey is filled with the comedy, drama, and tragedy of a man propelled out of anonymity yet ultimately too small to ever be valued.
Year: 2016
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Race to Win
After losing her father, a young women must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.
Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Forbidden Room, The
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon and a battalion of child soldier all get more than they bargained for as the wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery
3 Coeurs
One night in a French provincial city, Marc meets Sylvie after missing his train back to Paris. They wander through the streets until morning, talking about everything except themselves, in rare, almost choreographed, harmony. Marc takes the first train back, and sets a date with Sylvie in Paris, a few days later. They know nothing about each other, but this is much more than a game. It's the way it has to be. Sylvie keeps the date. Misfortune befalls Marc, and he cannot. He searches for her and ends up finding someone else. Sophie. He does not know that she is Sylvie's sister. Marc and Sylvie meet again. Their unparalleled harmony still exists... but it is too late...
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Amy
Kapadia's film will reveal the extraordinary life behind the sensational headlines by examining the story of a prodigiously talented young woman whose life ended far too young. With this film the world will fall in love with the real Amy Winehouse and her incredible music all over again.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Biography
(Dis)Honesty
From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty seems to be a ubiquitous part of the news. But it's not just true in the headlines - we ALL cheat.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Man Up
When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date under the clock at Waterloo Station, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong? Man Up is an honest, heartwarming romantic comedy about taking chances and rolling with the consequences. One night, two people, on a first date like no other...
Director: Ben Palmer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
MI5
Based on the BAFTA-winning hit TV series that has sold to more than 60 countries worldwide. When charismatic terrorist Adam Qasim (Elyes Gabel) escapes from MI5 custody during a high profile handover, the legendary Harry Pearce (Peter Firth), Head of Counter-terrorism, is blamed. Disgraced and forced to resign, no-one's surprised when Harry disappears one night off a bridge into the Thames...
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action
Fits, The
Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Angry Indian Goddesses
ANGRY INDIAN GODDESSES is India's first female buddy movie with a fresh, realistic portrait of women in India today. Frieda, a fashion-commercial photographer trying to find her own art, gathers her closest girlfriends from all over India to travel to Goa for a surprise announcement: she's getting married! Thus begins an impromptu bachelorette party that lasts for a full week-a riotous roller-coaster ride in a sumptuous setting. Through the fun and frenzy, heartbreak and heartache, passion and obsession, youth and innocence, secrets tumble out, tensions emerge, bonds are formed and emotions run high. Soon events will take a more serious turn, but for the moment these women are determined to seize the day.
Director: Pan Nalin
Year: 2015
Language: Hindi, English, Konkani
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Viva
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
Faith of Our Fathers
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty. A man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers.
Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall-the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father for his son. FAITH OF OUR FATHERS: a story of fatherhood; a journey of brotherhood.
Director: Carey Scott
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Pandemic
Pandemic adopts the first-person shooter perspective and takes place in the near future as a doctor travels to Los Angeles in search of a cure to a devastating virus.
Director: John Suits
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Standoff
A 12-year-old girl witnesses a murder and is chased by the assassin to an isolated farmhouse occupied by a suicidal man holding a shotgun with a single shell. A tense standoff ensues over the next 24 hours as the two desperate men fight for the little girl’s life and engage in physical and psychological warfare.
Director: Adam Alleca
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Admiral
Michiel de Ruyter (1607-1676) was one of the largest and passionate innovators in combat engineering and therefore he became a naval hero in Holland. As the deeply torn Netherlands is attacked from all sides and on the verge of civil war, one man tries to fight for the interests of the country: Michiel de Ruyter. But in the eyes of those in power, his successes make him too popular and Michiel was sent on a deadly mission…
Director: Roel Reiné
Year: 2015
Language: Dutch, English, French
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Biography
45 Years
There is just one week until Kate Mercer's forty-fifth wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and preserved in the icy glaciers of the Swiss Alps. By the time the party is upon them, five days later, there may not be a marriage left to celebrate.
Director: Andrew Haigh
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Woodlawn
A gifted high school football player must learn to boldly embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field in WOODLAWN, a moving and inspirational new film based on the true story of how love and unity overcame hate and division in early 1970s Birmingham, Alabama.
Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Neon
NEON celebrates the beauty, colour and vibrant history of the neon sign from an International perspective as we face a world where it will soon be lost and superceded by L.E.D. signage. Neon is 100 years old and the craft and construction has changed very little, making neon one the greenest forms of light ever produced and an amazing and enduring force of colour and light in the visual landscapes of our lives.
Director: Lawrence Johnston
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Phoenix Incident
A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Oddball
An eccentric chicken farmer, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog Oddball to protect a penguin sanctuary from fox attacks in an attempt to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
Director: Stuart McDonald
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Family
Sunday Horse, A
Inspired by a true story about a young woman who goes for her dreams in the world of Horse Jumping.
Director: Vic Armstrong
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Man Who Knew Infinity, The
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Adderall Diaries, The
Based on the bestselling memoir by Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries is the story of an author (James Franco) paralyzed by writer's block and an escalating drug dependency who is sucked down the rabbit hole of a high-profile murder case. As Elliott becomes increasingly obsessed with the trial, his own nightmarish childhood memories resurface, particularly of his cruel and distant father (Ed Harris). But when his estranged father returns with his own story to tell, fact and fiction become blurred in an amphetamine-induced haze.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
Little Men
Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), and Tony’s mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become contentious.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
History's Future
Part fiction, part documentary, part speculative essay on the contemporary world, HISTORY’S FUTURE is about one man’s odyssey through a Europe in turmoil – and through his own mind. After a violent mugging causes him to lose his memory, a man known only as ‘MP’ (Missing Person) leaves his home and sets out on a journey – a search not only for his own identity but also for enlightenment about a world in crisis. On his travels from country to country, through a series of strange, illuminating, sometimes comic encounters, MP gains insight into the complexity of life in the 21st-century West – into what commentators have called an age of ‘rolling catastrophe’. As such the film deals not with the crisis itself, but with the array of feelings it has triggered. By the time his journey ends, MP has learned to survive, newly armed with an understanding of how we live today.
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
z
Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, Brian and Kathy (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle), and Tony’s mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become contentious.
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
Colonia
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Year: 2015
Language: German
Genre: Drama, Romance
Other Half, The
A grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and attempt to forge a simple life together.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Mostly Sunny
There is no one else in the world like Sunny Leone. An adult film star of Sikh heritage, Sunny is attempting to cross over into mainstream Bollywood. Her life is the subject of much controversy in a conservative Indian culture where pornography is illegal. Curiosity about her life and career makes an enhanced eBook the ideal digital media extension to complement the feature documentary.
Year: 2015
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Documentary
February (Blackcoats Daughter)
Two terrified girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break in this chilling and suspenseful horror film.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Survivalist, The
In a kill-or-be-killed post-apocalyptic future ravaged by starvation, a lone survivalist is threatened by two women claiming to seek food and shelter.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Where to Invade Next
Where to Invade Next is an expansive, rib-tickling, and subversive comedy in which Moore, playing the role of "invader", visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world - they're just waiting to be co-opted.
Director: Michael Moore
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Julieta
The film narrates thirty years in the life of Julieta, from 1985 to the present day, in 2015. In the 80s, everything was much better than in the present, and now all seems beyond repair and she's on the verge of madness. Her life is a catastrophe unresolved, only a miracle could save it. And miracles do happen...
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2015
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Lace Crater
During a drug-fueled weekend with friends, Ruth has a one-night stand with a ghost. Soon after, she begins to feel a bit... strange.
Director: Harrison Atkins
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
Meddler, The
An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away.
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Son of Saul
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner's Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.
Director: László Nemes
Year: 2015
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
Maggie's Plan
A young woman whose determination to have a child involves her in a love triangle with an unhappy academic and his eccentric critical-theorist wife.
Director: Rebecca Miller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Gridlocked
Former SWAT leader David Hendrix and hard-partying movie star Brody Walker must cut their ride-along short when a police training facility is attacked by a team of mercenaries.
Director: Allan Ungar
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Action
High Rise
High-Rise is an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel. The film centres around Robert Laing, a young doctor who is seduced by a residential tower block and its visionary creator, who has designed the building as a luxurious world apart from the problems of the city it stands in. But when discord sets in among the residents and they split into tribal factions, Laing finds himself in the middle of mounting violence.
Director: Ben Wheatley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
Land of Mine
In this based-on-fact war drama, a group of German POWs are put to work by the Allies, defusing their own landmines on the west coast of Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Director: Martin Nadvliet
Year: 2015
Language: Danish, German
Genre: War, Drama
Mr. Gaga
Mr. Gaga tells the story of Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.
Year: 2015
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Documentary
Irrational Man
On a small town college campus, a philosophy professor in existential crisis gives his life new purpose when he enters into a relationship with his student.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
13 Minutes
A carpenter from Königsbronn in Swabia, Georg Elser was a man who could have changed world history and saved millions of human lives. If only he had had 13 more minutes. With 13 more minutes, the bomb he had personally assembled would have torn apart Adolf Hitler and his henchmen. But this was not to be, and on 8 November 1939, Hitler left the scene of the attempted assassination earlier than expected - leaving Elser to fail catastrophically.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Year: 2015
Language: German
Genre: War, Drama, Biography
I Saw The Light
It is said that great art is the product of struggle and hardship, and truer words have never been spoken when it comes to the life and music of Hank Williams. "I Saw the Light" showcases the meteoric rise to fame and fortune of one of the greatest and most influential country singers of all time, but it also delves into the dark and troubled life that existed away from the spotlight. From the drug and alcohol addictions to troubled relationships to the string of broken hearts he left in his wake, it was Hank Williams' tumultuous existence that not only fueled his powerful lyrics and heartfelt songs, but also brought his life to its tragically short end.
Director: Marc Abraham
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Biography
Prince
Director: Sam de Jong
Year: 2015
Coming Home
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2014
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Drama, Romance
Gemma Bovery
Martin is an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster, more or less willingly transformed into the baker in a Norman village. All that remains of his youthful ambitions is a lively imagination and just as lively a passion for great literature, Gustave Flaubert in particular.
We can sense his excitement when an English couple with bizarrely familiar names moves into a small farm nearby. Not only are the names of the new arrivals Gemma and Charles Bovery, but their behaviour also seems to be inspired by Flaubert’s heroes.
For the creator lying dormant in Martin, what an opportunity to manhandle not only his daily dough, but the fates of flesh and blood characters too!
But pretty Gemma Bovery has not read the classics, and is intent on living her own life...
Director: Anne Fontaine
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Winter Sleep
Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Year: 2014
Language: Turkish, English
Genre: Drama
New Girlfriend, The
A young woman makes a surprising discovery about the husband of her late best friend.
Director: François Ozon
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One Night)
Sandra has only one weekend to visit her colleagues and - with the help of her husband - convince them to sacrifice their bonuses so she can keep her job.
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Duke of Burgundy
A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.
Director: Peter Strickland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Clouds of Sils Maria, The
Olivier Assayas' drama The Clouds of Sils Maria stars Juliette Binoche as Maria, a celebrated actress who is traveling with her personal assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart) to accept a lifetime achievement award for the playwright and director who launched her career. On the way, they learn that the celebrated artist has passed away. At the gala, a talented young director offers Maria the chance to star in a revival of the play that made her famous, this time portraying the part of the older woman that the young woman in the play seduces and destroys. Maria tentatively accepts, and as she attempts to find her way into the other character, she learns more about her new young co-star Jo-Ann (Chloe Grace Moretz), a talented but troubled teen the tabloids have made a fixture for her tantrums and bad behavior.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Seymour: An Introduction
Director Ethan Hawke explores the life and lessons of piano teacher Seymour Bernstein.
Director: Ethan Hawke
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Boychoir
A recently orphaned 12 year old boy is sent to a musical boarding school by an anonymous donor – no-one expected this rebellious loner to achieve the standards required to join the Boychoir – a choral band of brothers who travel the world and maintain the school’s famed status.
Director: François Girard
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Blue Room, The
Two adulterous lovers go from pillow talk to possible murder in this sexy, brain-teasing thriller. Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Grand Budapest Hotel) directs and stars as Julien, a middle-aged salesman embroiled in a steamy love affair with a married woman who, after a round of kinky sex, makes a startling suggestion. Suddenly Julien is caught up in a police investigation-but just what exactly happened? Based on a novel by celebrated crime writer Georges Simenon, this beguiling cinematic puzzle unfolds in an elliptical style that keeps the audience guessing every step of the way.
Director: Mathieu Amalric
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Gift Horse, A
10-year-old Amanda loves to spend time at the local horse ranch, owned by business tycoon Mr. Canton. When tragedy strikes Amanda's family, a beautiful, challenging horse named Misty helps her cope. Misty is rejected by Mr. Canton's spoiled daughter, Abigail, but with the help of an inspiring horse trainer, Amanda proves that Misty is a champion.
Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Family
Son of a Gun
Locked up for a minor crime, 19-year-old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. There is no survival guide. Keep your head down, do your time, get out. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. After a chance encounter, JR finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch. But protection comes with a price, Lynch and his crew have plans for their young protégé, and soon JR's debt is called in. Outside, JR must help secure Lynch's freedom, staging a daring prison break. As a reward, he's invited to join the crew as they plan a series of heists that promise to deliver millions. But as things start to go wrong a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, and JR soon finds himself unsure of whom he can trust and on a collision course with his former mentor.
Director: Julius Avery
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Crime, Action, Family
Over Your Dead Body
A theatre troupe rehearsing a classic play of murder, betrayal and phantasmagorical vengeance find life bloodily imitating art backstage, in this wild cinematic detour from madly prolific Japanese auteur Takashi Miike.
Director: Takashi Miike
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror
Electric Boogaloo
ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF CANNON FILMS centres on the story of two movie-obsessed immigrant cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the ‘American dream’ launched an indie studio that would produce over 120 exploitation films from 1979 – 1989. No one could have anticipated just how close these two outsiders would get in nearly taking over both Hollywood and the UK film industry. Their passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed. Ultimately this passion would come between them and the company they built together. This is a one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever.
Director: Mark Hartley
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Documentary
Salt of the Earth
Portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado's eight-year project Genesis, which captured parts of the world untouched by modern civilisation.
Director: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
Yeux jaunes du crocodile, Les
When her chronically-unemployed husband runs off to start a crocodile farm in Kenya with his mistress, Joséphine Cortès is left in an unhappy state of affairs. The mother of two confident, beautiful teenage girls, Hortense and shy, babyish Zoé, is forced to maintain a stable family life while making ends meet on her meager salary as a medieval history scholar. Meanwhile, Joséphine’s charismatic sister Iris seems to have it all - a wealthy husband, gorgeous looks, and a très chic Paris address - but she dreams of bringing meaning back into her life. When Iris charms a famous publisher into offering her a lucrative deal for a twelfth-century romance, she offers her sister a deal of her own: Joséphine will write the novel and pocket all the proceeds, but the book will be published under Iris’s name. All is well - that is, until the book becomes the literary sensation of the season.
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Camp Xray
A young woman, Amy Cole, (Kristen Stewart) joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. As two people on opposite sides of a war, they struggle to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. In the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.
Director: Peter Sattler
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: War, Drama
5 to 7
An aspiring novelist (Yelchin) has a cinq-a-sept affair with the beautiful wife of a French diplomat (Marlohe). Cultures, world views, personal ethics and dietary preferences clash as love deepens, with remarkable results in this romantic comedy.
Director: Victor Levin
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Time Lapse
Three friends discover a machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing images begin to develop.
Director: Bradley King
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Extinction
Deep in the Amazon jungle a research team lead by Professor Howson (Ben Loyd Holmes - Skyfall) strive to protect vulnerable and endangered species, but when their guide Carlos (Ernesto Cantu - World War Z) abandons them, they begin to realize they are in the hunting ground of an apex predator.
Director: Adam Spinks
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
5 Flights Up
5 Flights Up is set over a weekend where a couple must decide whether or not to sell their Brooklyn walk up of 40 years. The story takes a comedic turn when the dynamic couple have to contend with eccentric open house guests, their pushy realtor niece, and the health of their beloved family dog - all while navigating a New York on edge from what turns out to be an media-generated terror threat.
Director: Richard Loncraine
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Banksy Does New York
User-generated chronicle of celebrated street artist Banksy's 31-days in New York.
Director: Chris Moukarbel
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Dancing Arabs
Dancing Arabs tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity – trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him. Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people’s suspicions, in order to work, to love, and, above all, to belong – he has to make personal sacrifices.
Director: Eran Riklis
Year: 2014
Language: Arabic, Hebrew
Genre: Drama
American Heist
James owes his life to his older brother, Frankie, after he took the rap and landed in prison. However, now Frankie is out and James' guilt sets in while James is simultaneously trying to revive his relationship with Emily. With promises of a new future and money, they turn to Frankie's underworld connections, Sugar and Ray, in the hopes that one last job would be the answer to change both their lives.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Preggoland
Preggoland tells the story of Ruth, a 35-year-old woman who pretends to be pregnant to fit in with her friends. Although Ruth initially tries to come clean, the perks of pregnancy are too seductive to ignore and she soon finds herself living a lie. Preggoland is a comedy that looks at the lengths we will go just to feel special.
Director: Jacob Tierney
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Rançon de la gloire, La
Eddy, recently out of prison, needs money to support his family. With the death of Charlie Chaplin announced on television, Eddy decides to steal his casket, and demand ransom from the deceased actor’s family.
Director: Xavier Beauvois
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Hungry Hearts
Jude is an American, Mina an Italian. They meet by chance in New York City. After a whirlwind romance, they get married and she becomes pregnant. A brand new life begins for both of them. Since the early months of pregnancy Mina is convinced that her child will be special; it is her mother instinct that tells her so. This child must be protected from all the pollution of the outside world and, to respect his nature, his purity must also be preserved. For the sake of his love for Mina, Jude plays along with her, until he reaches the point where he has to face a terrible truth: his son is not growing, and his life is in danger. Jude must act quickly. A covert battle of suspicions and resentments begins between Jude and Mina, leading to a desperate search for a solution in which everyone’s motive gets blurred.
Director: Saverio Costanzo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Our Robot Overlords
Earth has been conquered by Robots from a distant Galaxy, survivors are confined to their houses and must wear electronic implants, risking incineration by Robot Sentries if they venture outside.
In Robot occupied Britain, city centres are devastated and our gang of teenagers live in a seaside town constantly under Robot threat. Intimidating Sentries patrol the streets, Snipers are merciless death machines. The Mediator is deceptively childlike but unnervingly coercive. The Robot base is The Cube, a massive mother-ship that dominates the horizon.
Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Diamond Tongues
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.
Director: Pavan Moondi, Brian Robertson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Face of an Angel, The
Why are we fascinated by murder? Inspired by the killing of British student Meredith Kercher in Italy, FACE OF AN ANGEL looks beyond the salacious headlines to explore both the media and the public's obsession with violent stories, whether fictional or real.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Slow West
Set at the end of the 19th Century, 'Slow West' is an American western filtered through the eyes of European filmmaking. The story centers on 16-year-old Jay Cavendish who has travelled from Scotland to Colorado to be reunited with the woman with whom he is infatuated. He is quickly confronted by the dangers of the frontier and so teams up with a mysterious traveler named Silas, who agrees to protect him for cash. Jay's journey is fraught with danger, double-crossing and violence as he comes to realize that America is not easy on the innocent.
Director: John Maclean
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Western
Time out of Mind
Director: Oren Moverman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
What We Have
Haunted by his life on stage in France, Maurice Lesmers seeks refuge in a remote town in Northern Canada where he discovers there is little outlet for his gay appetite for anonymous one-night stands. To make ends meet, Maurice takes a job tutoring French to 15-year old Allan, a shy student struggling at school, and auditions for the local theatre company’s French production of Molière’s The Miser. When he lands the leading role, Maurice is surprisingly drawn to the company’s handsome manager, Michael. But their relationship is endangered when Maurice gets caught up in Allan’s adolescent world and risks everything to protect his young student from a relentless bully and the hardships of coming out.
Director: Maxime Desmons
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Narcopolis
In 2022, the manufacture and consumption of drugs has been legalised. Drecks are an elite unit created by an over-stretched police force to keep the black market dealers off the streets and the licensed drug companies rich. When dreck and former addict Frank Grieves is called to investigate an unidentifiable corpse, he makes a connection to the biggest and most powerful drug producer of them all: The Ambro Company. But Ambro have friends in high places and as his corrupt superiors turn on him, Grieves finds himself cut loose by the law and separated from the people he loves. The only way to clear his name is to find the identity of the dead body and its connection to Ambro. But not even Grieves is ready for what the future has in store.
Director: Justin Trefgarne
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Brooklyn
BROOKLYN tells the profoundly moving story of Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan), a young Irish immigrant navigating her way through 1950s Brooklyn. Lured by the promise of America, Eilis departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother's home for the shores of New York City. The initial shackles of homesickness quickly diminish as a fresh romance sweeps Eilis into the intoxicating charm of love. But soon, her new vivacity is disrupted by her past, and Eilis must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Director: John Crowley
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
When Animals Dream
16-year old Marie lives on a small island with her seriously ill mother and her father, who takes care of the family. But suddenly mysterious deaths happen and Marie can feel something strange happening to her body.
Director: Jonas Alexander Arnby
Year: 2014
Language: Danish
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Autrui
On a bitingly cold winter night, Lucie, an introvert young woman, offers shelter to Eloi, a homeless man on the verge of freezing to death in the streets. This charitable gesture will entwine the two of them in a complex relationship and help them to find fresh hope, each in their own way.
Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Florida, La
At over 80, Claude Lherminier has lost none of his charm and presence. He has decided to visit his youngest daughter, Alice, who is married to an American and living in Miami. Soon we've rewound several weeks to follow the events leading up to Claude's trip. Claude has two daughters, Alice and Carole. Carole, the eldest, is the single mother of a 20-year old son. Things are not easy for her, whether in the workplace or sentimentally. In addition, she is the one who has to take care of her father, who has lately been having trouble with his memory. It's hard to say just how advanced Claude's condition really is. Often he plays up his forgetfulness and uses it to tyrannize the people around him. At other times he seems truly lost, confusing faces, places and even his age. That discrepancy, as comical or as droll as it may sometimes be, gradually becomes the cause of his friends and relations' distress.
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Unbranded
On an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada.
Director: Phillip Baribeau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Meru
After suffering dramatic set backs in their lives, three close friends, who are among the world's best professional climbers, battle their complicated pasts, inner demons and nature's harshest elements in an attempt to climb the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru, considered the ultimate prize in the exclusive high stakes game of Himalayan big wall climbing.
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Victoria
Victoria, a young Spanish woman, dances through the Berlin scene with abandon. She meets four mates outside a club who introduce themselves as Sonne, Boxer, Blinker and Fuß. They quickly get chatting. Sonne and Victoria take a fancy to each other and slip away from the group at the first opportunity. But their tender flirting is rudely interrupted by the others because, for these pals, the night is far from over. To settle an old debt they have to pull off a dodgy deal. And because one of them is too drunk, they decide that Victoria, of all people, should take over the role of driver. What began as a game suddenly becomes deadly serious.
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Year: 2014
Language: German
Genre: Drama, Crime
Daughter, The
In the last days of a dying logging town Christian (Paul Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry's (Geoffrey Rush) wedding to the much younger Anna (Anna Torv). While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver (Ewen Leslie), who has stayed in town working at Henry's timber mill and is now out of a job. As Christian gets to know Oliver's wife Charlotte (Miranda Otto), daughter Hedvig (Odessa Young) and father Walter (Sam Neill), he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver's family apart. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
Director: Simon Stone
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Manglehorn
Reclusive small town locksmith Angelo Manglehorn (Academy Award winner Al Pacino) has never quite recovered from losing the love of his life, Clara. Fixated on her memory, he feels closer to his beloved cat than the people around him and prefers to find comfort in his work and daily routine. Still, he forges on with his tenuous human connections, maintaining intermittent contact with his son (Chris Messina), taking misplaced pride in a former protégé gone astray (filmmaker Harmony Korine), and establishing a cautious friendship with a kindhearted woman from the local bank (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter). As this solitary man approaches the possibility of new love, he finds himself at a crossroads between staying mired in the past and embracing the present.
Director: David Gordon Green
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Every Thing Will Be Fine
EVERY THING WILL BE FINE, based on an original script by the Norwegian Bjørn Olaf Johannessen, tells the story of Tomas (James Franco), a writer who loses control of his life after a car accident. Even though he is not directly at fault, his relationship with his girlfriend breaks down because of this event and his life and work suddenly set off in a completely new direction. The film follows Tomas over a period of 12 years and tells an intimate story of guilt and the search for forgiveness.
Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Snowman
From childhood, Kevin Fogolin dreamed of living and working in the mountains. After breaking the shackles of small-town expectations, his dream comes crashing down in a helicopter avalanche bombing mission gone horribly wrong. In the aftermath, Kevin and his childhood friend, freeskiing icon Mike Douglas, are forced to confront the risks and rewards of following their passion for the mountains. Set in British Columbia's rugged Coast Mountain Range, SNOWMAN is a familiar tale of dreaming big and a life where the greatest risk is not daring to dream at all.
Director: Mike Douglas, Anthony Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Documentary
400 Days
4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?
Director: Matt Osterman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi
Beeba Boys
Deepa Mehta mixes guns, bhangra beats, bespoke suits, cocaine and betrayal in BEEBA BOYS: an adrenaline-charged portrait of an Indo-Canadian gang war, depicting an exciting and violent clash of culture and crime. Gang leader Jeet Johar (Randeep Hooda) and his young, loyal, and brutal crew dress like peacocks, love attention and openly compete with an old-style Indo crime syndicate to take over the Vancouver underground drug and gun industries. Blood is spilled, hearts are broken and family bonds are shattered as the Beeba Boys (the "nice boys") will do anything to be seen and to be feared, in a white world. BEEBA BOYS is a modern gangster film by an internationally celebrated female director; a movie where stereotypes are intentionally challenged and which takes us deep inside this Indo-Canadian underworld - a specific culture that no crime movie has explored before.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime
Don't Tell Me The Boy Was Mad
In the 80s, Aram, a young man from Marseille of Armenian origin, blows up the Turkish ambassador's car in Paris. Gilles Tessier, a young cyclist who was passing at that moment, is seriously injured. Aram, on the run, joins the Armenian Liberation Army in Beirut, the hotbed of international revolution in those years. Gilles is trying to understand when Anouch, Aram's mother, arrives in his hospital room to beg his forgiveness. She admits that her son planted the bomb. Aram clashes with his comrades in Beirut and decides to meet his victim to make him his spokesman...
Director: Robert Guédiguian
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Mustang
Early summer in a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Year: 2014
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
Rams
In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the country's best and the two brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams who carry an ancient lineage. Although they share the land and a way of life, Gummi and Kiddi have not spoken to each other in four decades. When a lethal disease suddenly infects Kiddi's sheep, the entire valley comes under threat. The authorities decide to cull all the animals in the area to contain the outbreak. This is a near death sentence for the farmers, whose sheep are their main source of income, and many abandon their land. But Gummi and Kiddi don't give up so easily - and each brother tries to stave off the disaster in his own fashion: Kiddi by using his rifle and Gummi by using his wits. As the authorities close in the brothers will need to come together to save the special breed passed down for generations, and themselves, from extinction.
Director: Grímur Hákonarson
Year: 2014
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama
Early Winter
David, 45, works long nights as a night guard in a retirement home. He dotes on his children, plies his wife with latest model gadgets and cars, and keeps the wheels of his life turning with painkillers and antidepressants. But when he catches her with a lover, his life spirals out of control, bringing him to the brink of insanity, gaunt and alone, but free, maybe, for the first time in his adult life.
Director: Michael Rowe
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Boy and the Beast, The
"The Boy and the Beast" is a coming-of-age tale about Kyuta, a lonely Japanese boy living in Shibuya and Kumatetsu, a lonesome beast inhabiting Jutengai, an imaginary world. One day, Kyuta forays into the imaginary world and, as he's looking for his way back, meets Kumatetsu who becomes his guide and friend. That chance encounter leads them to many adventures filled with fantasy and action.
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation
Wave, The
Director: Roar Uthaug
Year: 2014
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action
Lobster, The
A love story set in the near future where single people, according to the rules of The City, are arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into an animal of their choosing and released into The Woods. A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, although it is against their rules.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Creative Control
In a near-future Brooklyn, David is an overworked, tech-addicted advertising executive working on a high profile campaign for a new generation of Augmented Reality glasses. Envious of his best friend Wim's charmed life and obsessed with his entrancing girlfriend Sophie, David uses the glasses to develop a life-like avatar of her; but he isn't prepared for what happens when the line between reality and virtual reality begins to blur.
Director: Benjamin Dickenson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Dheepan
To escape the civil war in Sri Lanka, a former soldier, a young woman and a little girl pose as a family. They end up settling in a housing project outside Paris. They barely know one another, but try to build a life together.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2014
Language: French, Tamil
Genre: Drama, Crime
Ordinary World
The story follows former punk rocker Perry (Billie Joe Armstrong) who is ten years into his band's "indefinite hiatus" and is struggling with his adjustment to the real world (which includes working in his family's hardware store). When Perry's hotshot attorney wife and precocious young daughter forget his 40th birthday, his brother takes pity and gives him the money to throw a huge rockstar blowout in a fancy New York hotel. At the party, Perry's punk past clashes hilariously with his middle-aged reality as he encounters crazy former bandmates and an old-flame-turned-manager, who offers him a chance to revive his stalled career.
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Comedy
Fall
Director: Terrance Odette
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Pact 2, The
A woman who is plagued by nightmares involving a serial killer learns her dreams have a horrifying connection to the real world.
Director: Dallas Richard Hallam, Patrick Horvath
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Do You Believe?
A dozen different souls—all moving in different directions, all longing for something more. As their lives unexpectedly intersect, they each are about to discover there is power in the Cross of Christ … even if they don't believe it. Yet.
When a local pastor is shaken to the core by the visible faith of an old street-corner preacher, he is reminded that true belief always requires action. His response ignites a faith-fueled journey that powerfully impacts everyone it touches in ways that only God could orchestrate.
Director: Jonathan M. Gunn
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Second Mother, The
After leaving her daughter for 13 years in Bahia to work as a nanny raising a boy in São Paulo, Val decides to bring her daughter, Jessica, to live with her at her employer's house. The intimacy of her biological daughter with her boss' son seems to turn into a time bomb.
Director: Anna Muyalert
Year: 2014
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama
Merchants of Doubt
Documentarian Robert Kenner (Food, Inc.) investigates the shadowy world of professional skeptics, whose services are bought and paid for by corporations, think tanks and other special interests to cast doubt and delay public and governmental action on climate change.
Director: Robert Kenner, Maya Anand
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
God's Not Dead
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
By the Gun
The journey of four undocumented Mexican-American high school students from Phoenix,AZ who form a robotics club and are led by their teacher with nothing but spare parts and a dream to compete against MIT in a National Underwater Robotics Competition.
Director: James Mottern
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Difret
Three hours outside of Addis Ababa, a bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape, but ends up shooting her would-be husband. In her village, the practice of abduction into marriage is common and one of Ethiopia's oldest traditions. Meaza Ashenafi, an empowered and tenacious young lawyer, arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defense. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law, risking the continuing work of her women's legal-aid practice to save Hirut's life.
Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari
Year: 2014
Language: Amharic
Genre: Drama
Red Army
From Oscar® nominated and Emmy award winning filmmakers, RED ARMY is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union.
RED ARMY is an inspiring story about the Cold War played out on the ice rink, and a man who stood up to a powerful system and paved the way for change for generations of Russians.
Director: Gabe Polsky
Year: 2014
Language: English, Russian
Genre: Documentary
Miles Ahead
MILES AHEAD tells the story of a few lost days in the life of the trumpet icon Miles Davis (Don Cheadle), as he bursts out of his silent period, conspires with a Rolling Stone writer (Ewan McGregor) to steal back his music, and relives the years he had with his great love Frances Taylor (Emayatzy Corinealdi).
Director: Don Cheadle
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Princess Grace
Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century, GRACE OF MONACO is an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of the twentieth century's most iconic Princess - Grace Kelly - as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound role as a mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Ranier III.
Director: Olivier Dahan
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Biography
Ritournelle, La
Brigitte and Xavier have a good life. Their farm exploitation prospers and their children have left home to live on their own…A man of few words, Xavier spends most of his time taking care of the cattle.
A sophisticated dreamer, Brigitte keeps hoping for something else, something more... To escape the monotony of her everyday life, she decides to go on a solo, whirl-wind weekend in Paris. And the French capital does indeed offer freedom and adventure…
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Lambert & Stamp
In the crazy, chaotic gospel of chance that is LAMBERT & STAMP, aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This brilliant, but unlikely, partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the High Numbers a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for. Abandoning their plans to make a film, they instead decided to mentor and manage this group, which evolved into the iconic band known as the Who. The result was rock 'n' roll history.
Director: James D. Cooper
Year: 2014
Language: English, French, German
Genre: Documentary
Vacances du Petit Nicolas, Les
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited holidays have finally arrived. Little Nicolas, his parents and Mémé hit the road heading for the sea, and move into the Beau-Rivage Hotel. At the beach, Nicolas wastes little time making new friends: there's Blaise, who isn't on holiday because he lives here; Fructueux, who eats anything, all the time... Even fish... raw. There's Djodjo, who talks funny because he's English, Crépin the constant crybaby and Côme, who always wants to be right and is really, really annoying. Nicolas also gets to know Isabelle, a little girl who follows him everywhere, wide-eyed. "How sweet, those two. I hear wedding bells in the future," laugh the grown-ups. Nicolas panics! Luckily his pals are there to help him... and to cause trouble. Between the beach, the hotel and the forest, with his friends, his family, the beach attendant and the swimming coach, Nicolas is really going to enjoy a holiday to remember.
Director: Laurent Tirard
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Diary of a Teenage Girl, The
Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner, THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL tells the coming-of-age story of Minnie Goetze, a teenager growing up in 1970's-era San Francisco. Searching for direction in life, she chronicles her daily trials through expressive drawings and painfully honest missives confided to a tape recorder. But when an evening alone with her mother's opportunistic boyfriend becomes intimate, Minnie is confronted with her burgeoning sexuality for the first time, beginning an affair that casts her in way over her head.
Director: Marielle Heller
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Labyrinth of Lies
Frankfurt 1958: nobody wants to look back to the time of the National Socialist regime. Young prosecuting attorney Johann Radmann comes across some documents that help to initiate the trial against some members of the SS who served in Auschwitz. But both the horrors of the past and the hostility against his work bring Johann to the point of meltdown. It is nearly impossible for him to find his way through this maze; everybody seems to have been involved or guilty.
Director: Giulio Ricciarelli
Year: 2014
Language: German
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Goodbye to All That
Paul Schneider (Parks and Recreation) stars as a newly single dad navigating the good, the bad, and the weird of the 30-something singles scene in this whip-smart comedy. When his wife unexpectedly informs him that she wants a divorce, well-meaning but oblivious husband Otto Wall (Schneider) finds himself thrust back into bachelorhood. Cue a hilarious sequence of romantic encounters—from reconnecting with a former crush to online dating—as Otto searches for the real thing amidst a string of one night stands.
Director: Angus MacLachlan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Heartbeat
Justine, paralyzed by stage fright, gave up a far fetched dream of becoming a singer songwriter and tucked her heart away, ignoring what it was desperately trying to tell her: that in order to live, it needs to beat. Now accustomed to avoiding what makes her heart beat, Justine is stuck. She lives in a mausoleum - the house she inherited from her grandmother; writes uninspired copy for a data management company and lies to her best friend, Lorna, about continuing to sleep with her ex, Ben. After Ben leaves town, putting an end to their late night trysts, Justine, depressed and unfulfilled, picks up her dusty guitar and finally faces the music - her music - and her heart begins to beat again. Heartbeat mixes Justine’s live-action story about facing her greatest fear with an animated fable about the joy of her beating heart.
Director: Andrea Dorfman
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama, Romance, Comedy
Our Little Sister
Three sisters - Sachi, Yoshino and Chika - live together in a large house in the city of Kamakura. When their father - absent from the family home for the last 15 years - dies, they travel to the countryside for his funeral, and meet their shy teenage half-sister. Bonding quickly with the orphaned Suzu, they invite her to live with them. Suzu eagerly agrees, and a new life of joyful discovery begins for the four siblings...
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Year: 2014
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Nailed!
A romantic comedy about a naïve small town waitress (Biel) who gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable and erratic behavior that leads her to Washington, DC, where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young Congressman (Gyllenhaal) who takes up her cause and searches for the courage to save her.
Director: David O. Russell
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Hard Drive
Hard Drive is the story of one young man’s unexpected plunge into adulthood–from youthful restlessness to the uplifting joy of first love.
Director: William D. MacGillivray
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Romance
Grandma
Elle has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when Elle's granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing $600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.
Director: Paul Weitz
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Testament of Youth
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I.
Director: James Kent
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Free the Nipple
Inspired by true events, Free the Nipple follows a group of young women who take to the streets of New York City topless, to protest the archaic censorship laws in the United States. Activist Liv and With set out to start a movement and change the system through publicity stunts and graffiti installations while armed with First Amendment lawyers. The film explores the contradictions in our media-dominated society, where acts of violence and killing are glorified, while images of a woman's body are censored by the FCC and the MPAA. What is more obscene: Violence or a Nipple?
Director: Lina Esco
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Jimmy's Hall
In 1921, Jimmy Gralton's sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in an Ireland on the brink of Civil War. The Pearse-Connolly Hall was a place where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream… but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity its socialist and free-spirited reputation brought it to the attention of the church and politicians who forced Jimmy to flee and the hall to close. A decade later, at the height of the Depression, Jimmy returns to Co. Leitrim from the US to look after his mother and vows to live the quiet life. The hall stands abandoned and empty, and despite the pleas of the local youngsters, remains shut. However as Jimmy reintegrates into the community and sees the poverty, and growing cultural oppression, the leader and activist within him is stirred. He makes the decision to reopen the hall in the face of what they may bring...
Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama
V/H/S Viral
A police chase after a deranged ice cream truck has captivated the attention of the greater Los Angeles area. Dozens of fame-obsessed teens flock to the streets with their video cameras and camera phones, hell-bent on capturing the next viral video. But there is something far more sinister occurring in the streets of L.A. than a simple police chase. A resounding effect is created onto all those obsessed with capturing salacious footage for no other purpose than to amuse or titillate. Soon the discovery becomes that they themselves are the stars of the next video, one where they face their own death.
Director: Justin Benson, Gregg Bishop, Todd Lincoln, Aaron Moorhead, Marcel Sarmiento, Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Anniversary, The
On the morning of their 20th wedding anniversary, Teresa's husband Sam goes for a run and keeps on running. Teresa carries on with the dinner celebrations figuring he'll show up eventually. As the evening unfolds we realize Sam ran away a year ago and Teresa's tenacity is holding onto his return. Their teenage son, Nicky, gives the party a bit of magic as he spikes the food with some hallucinogenics causing a wide variety of effects on the dinner guests. After a lot of laughter, tears and awkward embraces, Teresa realizes the truth about Sam's departure and what it means to say I Love You.
Director: Valerie Buhagiar
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Riot Club, The
Two young men are inducted into the exclusive, debaucherous company of Oxford's elite "Riot Club", in this scathing dissection of the British class system.
Director: Lone Sherfig
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Astérix - Le Domaine des dieux
Julius Caesar unveils his latest plan to get rid of those indomitable Gauls once and for all. As his army has not been able to crush "the last pocket of resistance", he decides to try a stealth invasion: civilization delivered to the village gates! He builds a new Rome? The Land of the Gods? around Asterix's village, pressuring the Gauls to assimilate or vanish. Despite Asterix and Obelix's plans to stop the construction work, the buildings quickly rise and the Roman citizens start to peacefully invade their surroundings, bringing chaos to Asterix's village. Could this finally mean victory for Caesar?
Director: Alexandre Astier, Louis Clichy
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Animation
Bronze, The
A foul-mouthed former gymnastics bronze medalist must fight for her local celebrity status when a new young athlete's star rises in town.
Director: Bryan Buckley
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Cold in July
How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar, Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town; hell-bent on revenge. However, not all is as it seems. Shortly after Dane kills the home intruder, his life begins to unravel into a dark underworld of corruption and violence. Twists and turns continue to pile up as the film reaches its inevitable destination: a gore-soaked dead end.
Director: Jim Mickle
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Homesman, The
Mary Bee Cuddy, 31, lives a solitary existence in a God-fearing mid-western town. She is designated by members of her church to take back East three women who have lost their minds. On the way from Nebraska to Iowa, where those women will at last find refuge, Mary Bee saves the life of Briggs, a claim-jumper and outlaw. He agrees to help in her mission through snowstorms and perilous encounters with settlers, Indians and the harshness of the Frontier territory.
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Western
Leviathan
Kolia lives in a small town near the Barents Sea, in North Russia. He has his own auto-repair shop. His shop stands right next to the house where he lives with his young wife Lilya and his son from a previous marriage Romka.
Vadim Shelevyat, the Mayor of the town, wants to take away his business, his house and his land. First he tries buying off Kolia, but Kolia cannot stand losing everything he has, not only the land, but also all the beauty that has surrounded him from the day of his birth. So Vadim Shelevyat starts being more aggressive...
Director: Andreï Zviaguintsev
Year: 2014
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
Lady in the Van, The
A big screen adaptation of writer Alan Bennett's iconic and celebrated memoir, directed by long-standing Bennett collaborator Nicholas Hytner. The film tells the true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who 'temporarily' parked her van in Bennett's London driveway and proceeded to live there for 15 years. Their unique story is funny, poignant and life-affirming.
Director: Nicholas Hytner
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
God's Pocket
In the gritty, blue-collar neighborhood of God's Pocket, Mickey Scarpato's crazy stepson, Leon, is killed in a construction “accident,” and Mickey quickly tries to bury the bad news with the body. But when a local columnist comes sniffing around for the truth, things go from bad to worse. Mickey finds himself stuck in a life-and-death struggle compounded by a body he can't bury, a wife he can't please, and a debt he can't pay.
Director: John Slattery
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Dark Horse SPC
Set in a former mining village in Wales, Dark Horse is the inspirational true story of a group of friends from a working men's club who decide to take on the elite 'sport of kings' and breed themselves a racehorse. Their young foal, raised on nearby waste-land, grows into an unlikely champion, beating the finest thoroughbreds in the country, before suffering a near fatal accident. Nursed back to health by the love of his owners - for whom he's become a source of inspiration and hope - he makes a remarkable recovery, returning to the track for a heart-stopping comeback.
Director: Louise Osmond
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Amapola (INTL)
Director: Eugenio Zanetti
Year: 2014
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
Ex Machina
Caleb, a 24 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
Director: Alex Garland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
Mr. Turner
MR. TURNER explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Director: Mike Leigh
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
Last Weekend
Matriarch Celia Green (Patricia Clarkson) is at a crossroads. She and her husband, Malcolm (Chris Mulkey), are the founders of a fitness empire and among San Francisco’s wealthiest citizens. They have been coming to Lake Tahoe for more than thirty years, and yet Celia now feels that something in her life is missing.
She gathers her two adult sons (Zachary Booth and Joseph Cross) and their partners for a rare weekend together. As the holiday begins, Celia finds herself torn between the house—and the past that it represents—and her desire to move forward with her life.
Director: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Still Alice
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
That Sugar Film
One man's journey to discover the bitter truth about sugar. Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as 'healthy'. Through this entertaining and informative journey, Damon highlights some of the issues that plague the sugar industry, and where sugar lurks on supermarket shelves.
Director: Damon Gameau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Saint Laurent
1967 - 1976. As one of history's greatest fashion designers entered a decade of freedom, neither came out of it in one piece.
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Biography
Kelly & Cal
Director: Jen McGowan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
Kung Fu Elliot
Elliot Scott plans on becoming Canada’s first action hero with his third low-budget action film, Blood Fight. This bizarre story spans two years in the life of Elliot, his supportive partner Linda Lum, and their cast and crew of outrageous dreamers striving to achieve success. As Linda tries to ground Elliot in reality and commit to their relationship he retreats further and further into his world of make-believe. Elliot sees himself as a moralistic hero; however, as Linda probes into Elliot’s impressive martial arts history, his Asian lineage, and his tragic past, she begins to unravel all of Elliot's tall tales. With everyone’s hopes and dreams pinned on Elliot, this film asks, “can you believe in your dreams too much before you end up living in a fantasy world?”
Director: Matthew Bauckman and Jaret Belliveau
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy
Louder Than Words
This inspiring film, based on a true story, finds a couple, John (David Duchovny) and Brenda (Hope Davis) trying to put their life back together after the tragic death of their young daughter, Maria (Olivia Steele-Falconer). As they deal with their numbing grief, they discover a way to honor their daughter's wish for health and well-being for all children. With the help of their community, led by good friend Bruce (Timothy Hutton), they establish a children's hospital called the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital... a state of the art health facility that brings the whole family into the healing process. Instead of being torn apart by their tragedy, John and Brenda celebrate their very special daughter and help thousands of children and their families.
Director: Anthony Fabian
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
Violette
Violette Leduc, an illegitimate child born in the early 20th century, poor and unloved, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the post-war years, in St-Germain-des-Prés. An intense lifelong relation starts between the two women, based on the freedom to write for Violette, and, for Simone, on the conviction that the fate of an outstanding writer is in her hands.
Director: Martin Provost
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Biography
Nymph()maniac
Nymph()maniac is the wild and poetic story of a woman's journey from birth to the age of 50 as told by the main character, the self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg). On a cold winter's evening the old, charming bachelor, Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), finds Joe beaten up in an alley. He brings her home to his flat where he cares for her wounds while asking her about her life. He listens intently as Joe over the next 8 chapters recounts the lushy branched-out and multifaceted story of her life, rich in associations and interjecting incidents.
Director: Lars von Trier
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Wild Tales
A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
Director: Damián Szifron
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Young & Beautiful
Acclaimed director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) helms this erotic tale of sexual awakening. After losing her virginity, 17-year-old budding beauty Isabelle (Marine Vacth) takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for sleazy hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes, while Ozon slyly refrains from offering easy answers. As the enigmatic Isabelle, Marine Vacth is magnetic, delivering a star-making breakout performance in this sleek and sexy coming-of-age drama.
Director: Francois Ozon
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Damned, The
A family are involved in an accident and take refuge in a secluded inn, where they free a girl locked in a basement without knowing she's an ancient evil.
Director: Víctor García
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Beaux Jours, Les
Bright Days Ahead is a sophisticated and sexy story about a married woman tumbling into an affair with a much younger man. French cinema icon Fanny Ardant stars in this absorbing story about erotic reawakening and the renewal of one's sense of self.
Director: Marion Vernoux
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
It Follows
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet, after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter she suddenly finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions; she can't shake the sensation that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must somehow escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind.
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Life Partners
Life Partners tells the comedic tale of two lifelong best friends, Paige and Sasha. The two are polar opposites who turn to each other for all of life's up and downs. All is fine until Paige meets Tim, a young and charming doctor. As the relationship heats up, Paige and Sasha must learn how to work Tim into their friendship.
Director: Susanna Fogel
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Salvation, The
Set in 1870s America, the film kicks off when a settler named Jon kills his family's murderer, which unleashes the fury of notorious gang leader Delarue. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, the peaceful pioneer must turn vengeful hunter, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town's black heart.
Director: Kristian Levring
Year: 2013
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Drama, Western
Aloft
ALOFT tells the story of a struggling mother, Nana Kunning (Jennifer Connelly) and her evolution into a renowned artist and healer. When a young journalist (Mélanie Laurent) tracks down her son Ivan (Cillian Murphy) 20 years after Nana abandoned him, she sets in motion an encounter between the two at the very edge of the earth that will bring the very meaning of their lives into question, and force them to contemplate living life to its fullest, despite the distance between them and the uncertainties littering their paths.
Healing will bring warmth, even in the coldest place on earth.
Director: Claudia Llosa
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Fanny (La Trilogie Marseillaise)
Left abandoned, Fanny discovers she is expecting Marius' child and finds herself in the dishonorable position of unmarried mother, unable to provide for herself and her baby. So, with the moral approval of her mother and her child's grandfather and for the sake of the baby's future, she agrees to marry a prosperous shopkeeper on the port who has asked for her hand, Honoré Panisse. He is 30 years older than she. He takes her on as an abandoned single mother, along with her child, whom he recognizes and raises as his own. Panisse provides them with a certain standard of living, social respectability and a comfortable future. A few months after their wedding and the birth of baby Césariot, Marius has finally become aware of his profound love for Fanny during his long voyage. He returns home and tries to win back Fanny's affections and take on responsibility for his child.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Brass Teapot, The
John and Alice live in small-town America—married, very much in love, and broke. But an accident leads them to a roadside antique shop where Alice is spontaneously drawn to a mysterious brass teapot. It isn’t long before they realize that this is no ordinary teapot and that perhaps they have found the answer to all of their financial woes. John and Alice must decide how far they will go to fulfill their dreams of wealth.
Director: Ramaa Mosley
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Un été en Provence
Vacation this year for Léa, Adrien and their little brother Theo, who was born deaf, is in Provence, staying with grandfather Paul, an olive-grower they have never met due to a family conflict. It's hardly their dream vacation, and is made worse the day before they leave by their father telling them he is moving out. Within twenty-four hours, there is bad blood between the teens and their grandfather, whom they consider an uptight control freak. Wrongly. Paul's stormy past resurfaces and the seventies make a comeback against the backdrop of the Alpilles hills. In the course of a turbulent summer, the two generations transform each other.
Director: Roselyne Bosch
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Elle s'en va
Bettie (Catherine Deneuve) suddenly finds herself abandoned by her lover and facing the loss of the family restaurant. What begins as a drive around the block turns into a road trip filled with chance encounters, the rekindling of Bettie's relationship with her daughter, and a new bond with her grandson.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas - an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Armstrong Lie, The
Lance Armstrong was considered one of the greatest sports figures of all time and put competitive cycling into the global spotlight, by beating cancer and winning the Tour de France seven times. That success earned him an immense fortune and worldwide fame. His was also one of the most influential and inspiring sports stories of recent memory and became a pop culture phenomenon, thanks to his Livestrong initiative. Beginning in 2009, documentarian Alex Gibney followed Armstrong for four years chronicling his return to cycling after retirement, as he tried to win his eighth title. Unexpectedly, Gibney was also there in 2012 when Armstrong admitted to doping, following a federal criminal investigation, public accusations of doping by his ex-teammates, and an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency, that led USADA's CEO, Travis Tygart, to conclude that Armstrong's team had run "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."
Director: Alex Gibney
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Green Prince, The
This real life thriller tells the story of one of Israel's prized intelligence sources, the son of a top Hamas leader. Under the code name "The Green Prince", he is recruited to spy on his own people for over a decade. Focusing on his complex relationship with his handler, this is a gripping account of terror, betrayal, impossible choices - and of a friendship that defies all boundaries.
Director: Nadav Schirman
Year: 2013
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Documentary
Foxcatcher
Based on true events, FOXCATCHER tells the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers. FOXCATCHER is a rich and moving story of brotherly love, misguided loyalty and the corruption and emotional bankruptcy that can accompany great power and wealth. As with Academy Award nominee Bennett Miller's previous feature films, CAPOTE and MONEYBALL, he explores large themes in society through his complex character portraits of real people.
Director: Bennett Miller
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Watermark
Watermark is a feature documentary film that brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. We see massive floating abalone farms off China’s Fujian coast and the construction site of the biggest arch dam in the world – the Xiluodu, six times the size of the Hoover. We visit the barren desert delta where the mighty Colorado River no longer reaches the ocean, and the water-intensive leather tanneries of Dhaka.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
Alien Outpost
An elite unit tasked with protecting the Earth and mankind in the aftermath of an alien invasion makes a terrifying discovery; the first invasion was only the beginning...
Director: Jabbar Raisani
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
Elsa & Fred
"Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who, at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true.
Director: Michael Radfort
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Inside Llewyn Davis
From legendary directors Joel & Ethan Coen (Fargo, No Country for Old Men, True Grit), Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of a brilliant but troubled folk singer struggling to make it as a musician in 1960s New York. Featuring a stellar ensemble cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman and Garrett Hedlund—and brimming with unforgettable music produced by T Bone Burnett—Inside Llewyn Davis is “a great film by two American masters.” (Variety)
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Lunchbox, The
Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes
Director: Ritesh Batra
Year: 2013
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama
Gangster's Tale, A
A Gangster's Tale (starring John Malkovich) is a riveting story of two best friends who grow up to become fierce enemies. As they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour in their community of banished criminals, they try to overcome who they are and where they're from. They may be destined for a life of violence but can they live this life with honour?
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
When his parents vanish and his younger brother is kidnapped, a brave 17-year-old boy must do everything he can to find them. Following a trail of clues that lead to the darkly majestic Prince Regent Hotel, he discovers a hidden realm of monsters, deadly secrets and a long-lost artifact that grants limitless wealth – but also devastating supernatural power. With the fate of the world, and his family at stake, he will risk everything to unravel the Curse of the Midas Box!
Director: Jonathan Newman
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Selfish Giant, The
THE SELFISH GIANT is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrapdealer – the Selfish Giant. They begin collecting scrap metal for him using a horse and cart. Swifty has a natural gift with horses while Arbor emulates Kitten – keen to impress him and make some money. However, Kitten favors Swifty, leaving Arbor feeling hurt and excluded, driving a wedge between the boys. Arbor becomes increasingly greedy and exploitative, becoming more like Kitten. Tensions build, leading to a tragic event, which transforms them all.
Director: Clio Barnard
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
These Final Hours
It's the last day on earth, twelve hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. James makes his way across a lawless and chaotic city to the party to end all parties. Along the way, he somewhat reluctantly saves the life of a little girl named Rose who is desperately searching for her father. Stuck with the unexpected burden of responsibility, James is forced to come to terms with what really matters in life as the final hours tick away.
Director: Zak Hilditch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Aroused
A documentary that captures the making of a fine art photographic book featuring 16 of the world's most successful adult film stars.
Director: Deborah Anderson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Angel of the Skies
When Britain declares war against the Nazis in WWII, a young fighter pilot signs up with the Royal Air Force to join the fight. Flying in combat over Northern Germany, his bomber takes a hit and crash lands, forcing him and his crew to parachute into enemy territory. While they struggle to find a way back to allied lines, a vengeful German SS Officer becomes determined to find, capture and kill them all.
Director: Christopher-Lee Dos Santos
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Fine Step, A
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy strikes when Cal and Fandango are involved in a serious accident, ending Cal's horse riding days forever. Cal's devastation is slowly overcome when his new neighbour, 14 year old Claire Mason (Anna Claire Sneed, Glee) takes an interest in Fandango and convinces him that Fandango's competing days might not be over.
Director: Jonathan Meyers
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Like Father, Like Son
Ryota has earned everything he has by his hard work, and believes nothing can stop him from pursuing his perfect life as a winner. Then one day, he and his wife, Midori, get an unexpected phone call from the hospital. Their 6-year-old son, Keita, is not their son - the hospital gave them the wrong baby.
Ryota is forced to make a life-changing decision, to choose between nature and nurture. Seeing Midori's devotion to Keita even after learning his origin, and communicating with the rough yet caring family that has raised his natural son for the last six years, Ryota also starts to question himself: has he really been a 'father' all these years… The moving story of a man who finally faces himself when he encounters an unexpected wall for the first time in his life.
Director: Hirokazu Kore-Eda
Year: 2013
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Blue Jasmine
After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Alec Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Sally Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Bethlehem
"Bethlehem" tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant. Shuttling back and forth between conflicting points of view, the films is a raw portrayal of characters torn apart by competing loyalties and impossible moral dilemmas, giving an unparalleled glimpse into the dark and fascinating world of human intelligence.
Director: Yuval Adler
Year: 2013
Language: Hebrew, Arabic
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Attila Marcel
Paul is in his thirties and lives in a Paris apartment with his aunts, a pair of elderly aristocrats who have raised him since the age of two, and who dream of him becoming a piano virtuoso. His life boils down to a daily routine spent at the grand piano in the salon, and his aunts' dance classes where he works as an accompanist. Cut off from the outside world, Paul has grown old without ever having lived. That is, until the day he meets Madame Proust, a neighbor who lives on the fourth floor. This eccentric lady knows how to make a herbal infusion which, when combined with music, can stir the most repressed of memories. Thanks to her, Paul will discover the secret of his own past, and find the key to finally unlock his life.
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Long Way Down, A
New Year’s Eve: Four people meet by chance on a London high-rise roof top – each wanting to commit suicide. Having shared with each other their stories of suffering, they make a pact: The new suicide date would be Valentine’s Day. Till then they have six weeks left that they have to survive together…
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Knight of the Dead
Hunted by assassins, a band of crusading knights escorting the holy grail are forced into a forbidden valley of black death. What they discover is far more terrifying than the plague. Overrun by hordes of flesh eating zombies, they're only chance of survival is to hack and slash their way to freedom.
Director: Mark Atkins
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Action
Resurrection, A
Set during a single horrific day and night at a high school, a guidance counselor (Barton), the school principal (Duncan) and local police officer (Sawa), must save the lives of several trapped students before a paranormal entity kills them all.
Director: Matt Orlando
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Love Is Strange
Ben and George take advantage of New York's new marriage laws and tie the knot after being together for 39 years. Unfortunately, the Catholic school where George teaches does not approve and they reluctantly fire him, forcing the couple to split up and stay with friends while they sell their apartment and look for cheaper housing. George crashes with two gay police officers, while Ben, who's a painter, bunks with his nephew's family in Brooklyn -- a temporary situation that weighs heavily on all involved.
Director: Ira Sachs
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Jodorowsky's Dune
In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside
Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema forever.
Director: Frank Pavich
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary, Sci-Fi
Little Accidents
When a mining disaster tears at the fabric of an Appalachian coal-mining town, the lives of three very different inhabitants become inexplicably tangled in a web of secrets. Amos Jenkins, the sole survivor of the tragedy, unwillingly becomes a focal point of the resulting investigation. As tensions rise over who to blame for the deadly mishap, the teenage son of a top executive at the coal mine goes missing. Diane, the boy's mother, grows emotionally estranged from her husband Bill as they search in vain for their child. Turning to the local church for support, Diane not only finds a comforting friend in Amos, but also meets one of her son's classmates, Owen Briggs, whom she learns was present at the time of his disappearance.
Director: Sara Colangelo
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Né quelque part
A 26 year-old law student, Farid, must go to his parents’ homeland Algeria under his ill father’s instructions, to try and save the family home from demolition. Having no interest in the culture or country, Farid is slowly won over by the many characters, including his swindler cousin. After a riotous night of partying, his cousin steals all his documents, escaping to France. Now Farid is stuck in Algeria, trying to find a way back to France, where his father’s condition has worsened.
Director: Mohamed Hamidi
Year: 2013
Language: French, Arabic
Genre: Drama
Tracks
From director John Curran (The Painted Veil, We Don't Live Here Anymore) comes TRACKS, which tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska), a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) who begins to photograph her voyage. The film, adapted from Davidson's own memoirs, was produced by Emile Sherman and Iain Canning (The King's Speech, Shame).
Director: John Curran
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action
Salauds, Les (Bastards)
Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. His sister Sandra is desperate - her husband has committed suicide, the family business has gone under, her daughter is spiralling downwards. Sandra holds powerful businessman Edouard Laporte responsible. Marco moves into the building where Laporte has installed his mistress and her son. But he hasn't planned for Sandra's secrets, which muddy the waters...
Director: Claire Denis
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Boyhood
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay's Yellow to Arcade Fire's Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It's impossible to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.
Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
9 Mois Ferme
Ariane Felder's pregnant. It's quite surprising because the young judge is a very straight-laced hardened bachelorette. It all gets even more surprising when a paternal test reveals that the child's father is none other than Bob, a criminal charged for a frightful assault. Ariane, who remembers nothing, tries to understand what on earth happened and what she should be expecting.
Director: Albert Dupontel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Diplomatie
August 25th, 1944. The Allies enter Paris. Warsaw has been destroyed three weeks earlier by the Germans.
Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler’s orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode.
And yet, Paris is not destroyed. For what reasons did von Choltitz refuse to carry out the Fuhrer’s commands, despite his boundless loyalty to the Third Reich?
Was it Raoul Nordling (André Dussollier), Swedish consul-general to Paris, who made the General change his mind?
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Everyday Is Like Sunday
Everyday Is Like Sunday is a comedy/drama aiming the lens at post-collegiate characters stuck between their imminently-ending youth and impending adulthood. The film follows Mark, Jason, and Flora, as they realistically attempt to pull themselves out of economic and emotional doldrums.
Director: Pavan Moondi
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Hateship, Loveship
Johanna Parry, a quiet caregiver, starts a new job working for an elderly Mr. McCauley and his teenage granddaughter Sabitha. A cruel trick by Sabitha lands Johanna in an awkward one-way relationship with Ken, Sabitha's estranged father, but her newfound ambition and desire gives her courage to transform her awkward doom into real contentment.
Director: Liza Johnson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Only Lovers Left Alive
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover.
Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable younger sister. Can these wise but fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama, Romance
Open Windows
Nick’s a lucky guy. Tonight, he’ll be having dinner with Jill Goddard, the hottest actress on earth. She's promoting her latest movie, and he’s won the main prize in an online contest. Then he gets a call. Some guy named Chord explains that dinner has been cancelled. And it’s Jill’s fault: she’s a high-maintenance diva, and everybody hates her guts. Chord says he can make up for it. He offers Nick the tools to spy on Jill from his computer for the rest of the night, in a way that no fan could dare dream of. The terrible truth begins to reveal itself. It looks like Chord set up the whole situation, with Nick playing a part in a much bigger plan...
The 21st Century REAR WINDOW.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2013
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action
I Put a Hit on You
A brokenhearted woman teams up with her ex-boyfriend to try and stop the hitman she accidentally hired to kill him.
Director: Dane Clark, Linsey Stewart
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Comedy
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante (John Turturro), at his friend Murray's (Woody Allen) suggestion, enters into the world's oldest profession, and ends up finding something he didn't know he was looking for.
Director: John Turturro
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington
Shortly after the release of his documentary Restrepo, photographer Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya. Colleague and filmmaker Sebastian Junger traces Hetherington's work across the world's battlefields to reveal how he transcended the boundaries of image-making to become a luminary in his profession.
Director: Sebastian Junger
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Last Keepers, The
When the teenage daughter of a reclusive family of artists falls in love with an unusual boy at school, she awakens mysterious powers and discovers ancient family secrets that will change her life forever.
Director: Maggie Greenwald
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Beyond The Edge
The thrilling true story of two men who achieved the impossible and became the first to stand atop the world's deadliest mountain - Everest.
Director: Leanne Pooley
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Whiplash
Andrew Neyman is a 19-year-old drummer, dreaming of greatness but unsure if his dream will ever come true. He attends a cutthroat music conservatory and practices at all hours of the day, but he's haunted by the failed writing career of his father and wonders if he has what it takes to leave a mark. Then he meets Terence Fletcher, a larger-than-life music instructor with a very particular teaching style. Under Fletcher's ruthless direction, Andrew begins to pursue perfection at any cost – even his humanity.
Director: Damien Chazelle
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Witching and Bitching
An absurd, racy comedy starring a group of desperate thieves who rob a Cash-for-Gold shop in Madrid's Puerta del Sol and make a crazy dash for Disneyland with one of the heister's sons in tow. But on the border with France, they fall into the hands of Basque witches who apply themselves diligently to the ancient customs of their craft and bringing the men down a peg or two.
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Year: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Great Beauty, The
In this Oscar-nominated comedy, journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) charms and seduces his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome as a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles. However, when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Year: 2013
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Drinking Buddies
Luke and Kate are co-workers at a Chicago brewery, where they spend their days drinking and flirting. They're perfect for each other, except that they're both in relationships. Luke is in the midst of marriage talks with his girlfriend of six years, Kate is playing it cool with her music producer boyfriend Chris. But you know what makes the line between "friends" and "more than friends" really blurry? Beer.
Director: Joe Swanberg
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Very Good Girls
Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen star in this story of two lifelong best friends both determined to lose their virginity as a rite of passage into the adult world. When they fall in love with the same boy, their quest threatens to tear their relationship apart.
Director: Naomi Foner
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Almost Human
A quiet night on the outskirts of a small town in Maine is interrupted when Seth (Graham Skipper) witnesses his best friend Mark (Ethier) vanish in a brilliant flash of blue light. Two years later, Seth is still dealing with the fallout from the freaky incident, amid local suspicion that he is to blame for his friend's disappearance. When a string of grisly murders disrupts the community, Seth believes Mark has returned. Together with Mark's ex-girlfriend Jen (Vanessa Leigh), he races to find out if their friend is responsible - or if something beyond their understanding is unfolding before them. Almost Human is a horror film that delivers the splatter, drawing from many of the touchstones of cinematic shock for a refreshingly intense thriller bound to excite a new generation of moviegoers.
Director: Joe Begos
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Crystal Fairy
In this freewheeling comedy from the director of The Maid, Michael Cera (Arrested Development, Superbad) stars as Jamie, a shaggy, boorish young American traveling through Chile. While searching for a rare hallucinogen-the famed San Pedro cactus-with a trio of Chilean brothers, Jamie invites a mysterious hippie (Gaby Hoffmann) along for the ride, but her free-spirited personality quickly clashes with his self-absorption. When they head for the beach, Jamie's big trip starts taking surprising turns.
Director: Sebastian Silva
Year: 2013
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Comedy
Notebook, The
In a village on the Hungarian border, two young brothers grow up during wartime with their cruel grandmother and must learn every trick of evil to survive in the absurd world of adults. Adaptation of the bestseller by Agota Kristof "Le Grand cahier".
Director: János Szász
Year: 2013
Language: Hungarian
Genre: War, Drama
Before Midnight
We meet Celine and Jesse nine years after their last rendezvous. Almost two decades have passed since their first encounter on a train bound for Vienna, and we now find them in their early forties in Greece. Before the clock strikes midnight, we will again become part of their story.
Director: Richard Linklater
Year: 2013
Language: English, Greek
Genre: Drama
Machine, The
Amidst a future cold war, a scientist develops a game-changing android weapon called The Machine. But when it shows signs of consciousness and is ordered to be destroyed, it fights back with vengeance.
Director: Caradog W. James
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Hellion
Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (first-time actor Josh Wiggins in a stunning breakthrough performance). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control.
Director: Kat Candler
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Boule et Bill
A film adaptation of the comic series created by Jean Rogan in 1959. It relates the adventures of seven-year-old boy Boule and his dog Bill, a Cocker Spaniel, as well as that of Boule's mother and father and Caroline the turtle.
Director: Alexandre Charlot, Franck Magnier
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Cutie and the Boxer
Once a rising star in the '70's New York art scene, 80-year-old "boxing" painter Ushio Shinohara is prepping for his latest show, hoping to reinvigorate his career. His wife and de facto assistant, Noriko, seeks her own recognition through her "Cutie" illustrations, which depict their chaotic 40-year marriage. Cutie and the Boxer captures two lives united by a dedication to art-making for a touching meditation on the eternal themes of love and sacrifice.
Director: Zachary Heinzerling
Year: 2013
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Documentary
Face of Love, The
THE FACE OF LOVE is a romance filled with intrigue, surprise, and reflections on the mystery of love. Five years after losing the love her life, Nikki (Bening) falls in love again...at first sight. Tom (Harris) is an art teacher with a kind heart and a great zest for life, but what he doesn't know is that he's also a near perfect double for Nikki's deceased husband. Seduced by the chance to live as if her husband was never lost, Nikki spirals into a fantasy of the present as past, while Tom must unravel the mystery behind her immediate and unconditional love.
Director: Arie Posin
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
What Maisie Knew
A contemporary reimagining of Henry James’ novel, WHAT MAISIE KNEW tells the story of a captivating little girl's struggle for grace in the midst of herparents' bitter custody battle. Told through the eyes of the title's heroine, Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a six-year-old's innocence, charm and generosity of spirit.
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Raze
Awakening after being abducted, JAMIE finds herself in a concrete bunker, and she discovers that she is not alone. She and SABRINA, a fellow abductee, both soon realize that they are in a modern day "coliseum" where, along with 48 other women, they are condemned to kill each other in order to protect their very own loved ones.
Director: Josh C. Waller
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror
Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz
In the third installment of the hit Nazi Zombie action horror movie, we discover the horrifying origins of these supernatural soldiers and see them in ferocious gladiatorial battle against the most ruthless and notorious of all military special forces: the Russian Spetsnaz.
Director: Kieran Parker
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Blood Brother
Blood Brother is an intimate portrait of Rocky Braat, a young man who longed to find a family. He didn't know it, but this desire would lead him to an AIDS hostel in India, a place of unspeakable hardship, where he would find almost more love and need than he could bear.
Director: Steve Hoover
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Devil's Hand, The
The story of 5 young girls born in an Amish community - whom the elders view as marked by Satan. Suspense/Thriller unfolds as the young girls rebel against the community and fight for their lives against the traditional elders seeking to 'cleanse' the close knit community of 'Satan's children' before their 18th birthdays.
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Michael H. Profession: Director
How should violence be portrayed on the screen? What causes the family unit to fall apart? And, more generally, how does Evil worm its way into our so-called "civilised" Western societies? Already present in Michael Haneke's initial film work, these issues continue to haunt all his films. As we follow the director from Vienna to Paris, from northern Germany to Rumania, he reveals his philosophical and moral thinking.
Director: Yves Montmayeur
Year: 2013
Language: German
Genre: Documentary
Avant L'Hiver
The story centers around Auteuil, a successful 50+ with a seemingly perfect life and wife, who falls for a mysterious young woman.
Director: Philippe Claudel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Den, The
After receiving a grant for her graduate thesis, Elizabeth Benton logs onto a video-chat site known as The Den, on a mission to explore the habits of its users. During one of her random video-chats, Elizabeth watches in horror as a teenage girl is gruesomely murdered in front of her webcam. While the police dismiss it as a viral prank, Elizabeth believes what she saw is real and takes it upon herself to find the truth. Her life quickly spirals out of control as she gets pulled deeper into the darkest recesses of the internet. And eventually, Elizabeth finds herself trapped in a twisted game in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.
Director: Zachary Donohue
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Premature
Rob (newcomer Karna) is facing the biggest day of his life.
He needs to nail a college interview ensuring his admittance to his parents' beloved alma mater, keep his cool when life-long crush Angela (Young) - nicknamed 'After School Special' for a reason) - finally seems to show interest, and deal with his best friends (Roberts, Findlay) as they realize their high school days are ending.
As pressure mounts, something weird happens: He finds himself reliving the day's events over and over again.
Is Rob stuck in a dream? Experiencing déjà vu? Having a psychotic break?
Whether it's finding a way to get into Georgetown, into Angela's pants, or having an even bigger epiphany, Rob must figure out how to break the cycle before losing his mind.
Director: Dan Beers
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Canyons, The
Notorious writer Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho) and acclaimed director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo) join forces for this explicitly erotic thriller about youth, glamour, sex and surveillance. Manipulative and scheming young movie producer Christian (adult film star James Deen) makes films to keep his trust fund intact, while his actress girlfriend and bored plaything, Tara (Lindsay Lohan), hides a passionate affair with an actor from her past. When Christian becomes aware of Tara's infidelity, the young Angelenos are thrust into a violent, sexually-charged tour through the dark side of human nature.
Director: Paul Schrader
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Past, The
Following a four year separation, Ahmad returns to Paris from Tehran at his French wife Marie's request, in order to finalize their divorce. During his brief stay, Ahmad discovers the conflicting nature of Marie's relationship with her daughter Lucie. Ahmad's efforts to improve this relationship soon unveil a secret from their past.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush is superb in this stylish art world thriller as Virgil Oldman, managing director of a leading auction house. Over the years, he has collected hundreds of masterful, priceless portraits of women that he keeps hidden in his villa. One day, Oldman receives a special assignment: a mysterious young woman, who refuses to appear in person, asks him to sell her family's antiques. Not only interested in her classical paintings and furniture, Oldman becomes increasingly fascinated by the mysterious incognito woman, leading to a sumptuous and entertaining mystery of passions, neuroses and intrigue. Directed by Academy Award winner Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) with music by the brilliant Ennio Morricone, The Best Offer also stars Jim Sturgess and Donald Sutherland.
Director: Guiseppe Tornatore
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Marius (La Trilogie Marseillaise)
The story takes place in the Old Port of Marseille, in the Bar de la Marine run by César and his son Marius. Marius dreams of embarking on one of the ships that sail past the bar, heading off to distant horizons.
Fanny, a pretty young woman who sells shellfish outside the bar, has been secretly in love with Marius since childhood. Without admitting it, Marius has always loved Fanny back.
When Marius is due to leave on a exploration vessel, Fanny tries to keep him back by revealing her love for him. She succeeds in fanning his jealousy by provoking a fight between Marius and the sea captain Panisse, an old friend of César's, who, despite being much older than Fanny, is enamored with her.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Hybrid, The
From a torturous cell in Africa, Abel Powell is released and given the chance to regroup his team of skilled mercenaries for one last job.
A top scientist will guide them half a mile underground through an ex-soviet bunker to extract the vital specimens and information being paid for by a mysterious backer, but what they seek should never have been found!
Director: Billy O'Brien
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Animal Project, The
Leo (Aaron Poole) is a mid-30s widower, single parent, and struggling acting teacher. His relationship with his teenage son (Jacob Switzer) is rocky, and he's dissatisfied with his everyday life. So, after he has an unusual and inspiring dream, he decides to shake things up by having the group of actors he teaches do something called "The Animal Project" -- whereby they will all don furry mascot suits and become 'animals' in the real world.
It's a long, rainy night, and not everything goes as planned. But in the process of opening themselves up to the unknown, each participant in The Animal Project not only learns something about themselves, but also has the chance to grow a little bit.
Director: Ingrid Veninger
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Magic in the Moonlight
Magic in the Moonlight is a romantic comedy about an Englishman brought in to help unmask a possible swindle. Personal and professional complications ensue. The film is set in the south of France in the 1920s against a backdrop of wealthy mansions, the Côte d’Azur, jazz joints and fashionable spots for the wealthy of the Jazz Age.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Creme de la creme, La
Three sophomore business students take their professors theories and apply the business model to their social lives and those of others, hiring beautiful women to act as their dates in order to inflate their popularity. Soon enough, their concept takes off like a rocket, but at a cost.
Director: Kim Chapiron
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Look of Love, The
The true tale of British adult magazine publisher and entrepreneur Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan of "24 Hour Party People", "The Trip"). A modern-day King Midas, Raymond became one of the richest men in Britain - at the cost of losing those closest to him.
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Afterparty
On the night of his brother's wedding, best man Charlie (Graham Coffeng) gets the old gang back together for a fun-filled, post reception after party, at the newlyweds' home, where he has been staying for several weeks. Unsure of how to proceed with his own troubled marriage, Charlie reunites "the fellas" fifteen years after high school, in hopes that revisiting the past will help him find clarity for the future. What he finds, however, is that while his friends have all taken different paths, they are all faced with similar conundrums that comes with being in one's thirties.
Director: Michelle Ouellet
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
L'amour est un crime parfait
The new film by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu (To Paint or Make Love), 4th adaptation of a novel by Philippe Djian (Betty Blue, Blue Hell, Unforgivable)
Director: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama
En Solitaire (Turning Tide)
A sports drama set in the backdrop of the Vendée Globe race.
Director: Christopher Offenstein
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Beneath
A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.
Director: Ben Ketai
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror
VHS-2
Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his house and find collection of VHS tapes. Viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be dark motives behind the student's disappearance.
Director: Simon Barrett, Jason Eisener, Gareth Evans, Gregg Hale, Eduardo Sanchez, Timo Tjahjanto, Adam Wingward
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Another Day, Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis
This documentary about a concert that was held at Town Hall in New York City celebrates the music from the film Inside Llewyn Davis. It follows the musicians from rehearsal to performance and includes a roster of over twenty artists including Patti Smith, Jack White, Marcus Mumford and Joan Baez.
Director: Christopher Wilcha
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tim's Vermeer
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically -- 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers.
Spanning a decade, Jenison's adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces; on a pilgrimage to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney; and eventually even to Buckingham Palace, to see the Queen's Vermeer.
Director: Teller
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Dirty Wars
This eye-opening documentary lays bare the dirty little secret of America’s War on Terror: all bets are off, and almost anything goes. Drone strikes, night raids and government-condoned torture occur in hidden corners across the globe, generating unprecedented civilian casualties. Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill traces the rise of the Joint Special Operations Command, the most secret and elite fighting force in U.S. history, exposing covert ops, unidentifiable fighters who act with impunity and "kill lists" where no target is off-limits.
Director: Rick Rowley
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Under the Skin
From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (SEXY BEAST, BIRTH) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial - or something in between. A voluptuous woman of unknown origin (Scarlett Johansson) combs the highways in search of isolated or forsaken men, luring a succession of lost souls into an otherworldly lair. They are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
Based on the novel by Michael Faber, this film examines human experience from the perspective of an unforgettable heroine who grows too comfortable in her borrowed skin, until she is abducted into humanity with devastating results.
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Java Heat
A pulse-pounding thriller from beginning to end, Java Heat dives headlong into the world of international espionage. In the exotic and dangerous paradise of Indonesia, undercover FBI agent Jake (Kellan Lutz) poses as a college professor to gather intel on a new breed of terrorist. When the Sultana of Java disappears after a bombing, Jake finds himself at the center of a criminal investigation. As Jake inches closer to the truth, he becomes the target of a mysterious hit man (Mickey Rourke) who will stop at nothing until the American is dead.
Director: Connor Allyn
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Land Ho!
A pair of ex-brothers-in-law set off to Iceland in an attempt to reclaim their youth through Reykjavík nightclubs, trendy spas, and rugged campsites. This bawdy adventure is a throwback to 1980s road comedies, as well as a candid exploration of aging, loneliness, and friendship.
Director: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, The
On his hundredth birthday, just as the celebrations are about to begin out in the lounge in the old people’s home, Allan Karlsson hastily decides that he wants nothing to do with the party. He climbs through his window and disappears – and soon he has turned the whole nation on its head. He does have some experience in these matters. He has previously done the same thing with the world.
Director: Felix Herngren
Year: 2013
Language: Swedish
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Action, Comedy
Khumba
Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes but finds the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.
Director: Anthony Silverston
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Animation
Lucky Them
A rock journalist (Toni Collette) is given the impossible assignment to hunt down a long-unseen revered local musician, and is joined on the road by a music-hating, aspiring documentarian (Thomas Haden Church), in director Megan Griffith's edgy comedy.
Director: Megan Griffiths
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Blue Caprice
The striking feature film debut of writer-director Alexandre Moors, BLUE CAPRICE is a harrowing yet restrained psychological thriller about an abandoned boy lured to America into the shadows of a dangerous father figure. Inspired by true events, BLUE CAPRICE investigates the notorious and horrific Beltway sniper attacks from the point of view of the two perpetrators, whose distorted father-son relationship facilitated their long and bloody journey across America. Marked by captivating performances by Isaiah Washington and Tequan Richmond, lyrical camerawork, and a unique and bold structure, BLUE CAPRICE documents the mechanisms that lead its subjects to embrace physical violence. BLUE CAPRICE paints a riveting portrait of 21st-century America and a haunting depiction of two cold-blooded killers that will endure long after the lights come up.
Director: Alexandre Moors
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Adult World
Vibrators and confessional poetry collide in this sexy comedy about an aspiring writer cum sex toy shop clerk and her crusty literary idol (John Cusack). Amy (Emma Roberts) is a naïve, awkward aspiring poet in a post-grad existence that is going nowhere. Living with her parents in a bland upstate New York town, certain of her yet-to-be-acknowledged literary greatness and desperate for income, she begrudgingly accepts a job at Adult World, the local sex shop owned by a frisky elderly couple (including a wonderful Cloris Leachman) and staffed by diva transvestite Rubio and adorable local boy Alex. Amy balances her work amongst the pornography and sex toys by fiercely pursuing a surefire kick start for her success: a mentorship with reclusive, crusty and alcoholic writer Rat Billings, played by a bitterly funny John Cusack.
Director: Scott Coffey
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Zero Theorem, The
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Invisible Woman, The
Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity.
Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success – falls for Nelly, who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of “invisibility”.
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Last Days on Mars, The
On the last day of the first manned mission to Mars, a crew member believes he has made an astounding discovery - fossilized evidence of bacterial life. Unwilling to let the relief crew claim all the glory, he disobeys orders to pack up and goes out on an unauthorized expedition to collect further samples. As crew members start to vanish one by one, they begin to suspect that the life-form they have discovered is not yet dead.
Director: Ruairi Robinson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Omar
Omar is a Palestinian baker who routinely climbs over the separation wall to meet up with his girlfriend Nadja. By night, he's a freedom fighter ready to risk his life to strike at the Israeli military with his childhood friends Tarek and Amjad. Arrested after the killing of an Israeli soldier and tricked into an admission of guilt by association, he agrees to work as an informant.
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Year: 2013
Language: Arabic, Hebrew
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Grande Boucle, La
After his wife leaves him with their son, Francois Nouel decides to live out his dream of being in the Tour de France.
Director: Laurent Tuel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Kiss of the Damned
The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her trouble-making sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna's love is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.
Director: Xan Cassavetes
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
I'm So Excited!
Described as "a light, very light comedy", the film, written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, is set almost entirely on an aeroplane and is about intimate relationships of lovers.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
Citadel
The dilapidated suburbia of Edenstown casts a shadow over Tommy Cowley’s life. Trapped there by his agoraphobia since his wife was fatally attacked by twisted feral children, he now finds himself terrorized by the same mysterious hooded gang, who seem intent on taking his baby daughter. Torn between the help of an understanding nurse and a vigilante priest, he discovers that to be free of his fears, he must finally face the demons of his past and enter the one place that he fears the most...the abandoned tower block known as the "CITADEL".
Director: Ciaran Foy
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Jack & Diane
Diane's feelings for Jack -- the girl she met over the summer -- begin to manifest themselves in terrifying ways when she learns that her friend will soon be moving away.
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Alceste a Bicyclette (Cycling with Moliere)
The story revolves around two actors rehearsing Moliere’s The Misanthrope, with one refusing to perform the play while the other works diligently to persuade him to go on stage.
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Giant Mechanical Man
The Giant Mechanical Man is a funny and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines the lengths we're willing to go in order to find the perfect partner. Janice (Jenna Fischer of The Office) is down on her luck. Out of work and living with her well-intentioned but overbearing sister, she is struggling to build a fulfilling life. When she meets Tim (Chris Messina), a street performer whose unique talents as a "living statue" don't exactly pay the bills, she recognizes a kindred spirit. Also featuring Topher Grace, Malin Akerman and Bob Odenkirk.
Director: Lee Kirk
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure
Unraveling a series of clues left behind by his grandfather, Mickey Matson and his friends embark on a magical journey in search of a mythical ancient device. With the future of the world hanging in the balance, they will have to outsmart and outrun an evil conspiracy that dates back to the civil war.
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
All in Good Time
Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes impossiblity that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity.
Director: Nigel Cole
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Haute Cuisine
Hortense Laborie, a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps...
Director: Christian Vincent
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Camille Redouble
Camille is sixteen when she meets Eric and proceeds to fall in love and give birth to a daughter. Twenty-five years later, on New Year's Eve, as Eric leaves Camille for a younger woman... Camille suddenly gets transported back to her past. At sixteen again, she rediscovers her parents, her friends, her adolescence, and Eric. This time around, will she shun him and try to change both their lives? Or will she allow herself to fall in love, knowing the consequences?
Director: Noémie Lvovsky
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
No
In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country will vote Yes or NO to Pinochet extending his rule for another eight years. Opposition leaders for the NO persuade a brash young advertising executive, Rene Saavedra to spearhead their campaign.
Against all odds, with scant resources and under scrutiny by the despot's minions, Saavedra and his team devise an audacious plan to win the election and set Chile free.
Director: Pablo Larraín
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Rust and Bone
It all begins in the North of France.
Ali suddenly finds himself with a five year-old child on his hands. Sam is his son, but he hardly knows him. Homeless, penniless and friendless, Ali takes refuge with his sister in Antibes. There things improve immediately. She puts them up in her garage, she takes the child under her wing and the weather is glorious.
Ali first runs into Stephanie during a night club brawl. He drives her home and leaves her his phone number. He is poor, she is beautiful and self-assured, a princess: his complete opposite.
Stephanie trains killer whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together.
When Ali sees her next, his princess is confined to a wheel chair: she has lost her legs and quite a few illusions. He simply helps her, with no compassion or pity. And she comes alive again.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Do Not Disturb
When old college friends Ben and Jeff reunite and go to a wild party, they make a booze-induced decision that is about to turn all of their lives upside down. Witnessed by Lily and Monica, their sexy party hosts, Ben and Jeff's project looks much scarier in the hangover light of day... but neither has the guts to be the wimp who pulls out!
Director: Yvan Attal
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Fill the Void
On the verge of her marriage, a young Orthodox Hassidic girl and her family are struck by tragedy when her older sister dies in childbirth -- and when her sister's husband is pressed to remarry and her mother makes a startling proposition, she is forced to choose between her obedience to her family and her heart's desire.
Director: Rama Burshtein
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew
Genre: Drama
West of Memphis
West of Memphis is an examination of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense, allows the film to show the investigation, research and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.
Director: Amy Berg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
30 Beats
Ten disparate New Yorkers are connected by a summer heat wave and a series of steamy sexual encounters in 30 Beats, featuring an ensemble cast that includes Lee Pace, Condola Rashad, Justin Kirk, Thomas Sadoski, and Jennifer Tilly. Written, produced and directed by Alexis Lloyd, the film is a light-hearted exploration of seduction, spontaneity and self-discovery that's as sultry and vibrant as the city in which it's set.
Director: Alexis Lloyd
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Crawlspace
A special forces unit sent, to infiltrate Pine Gap Australia's top secret underground military compound, come under attack from unknown forces.
Director: Justin Dix
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Reality
Luciano is a Neapolitan fishmonger who supplements his modest income by pulling off little scams together with his wife Maria. A likeable, entertaining guy, Luciano never misses an opportunity to perform for his customers and countless relatives. One day his family urge him to try out for Big Brother. In chasing this dream his perception of reality begins to change.
Director: Matteo Garrone
Year: 2012
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama, Comedy
How to Survive a Plague
David France’s HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE tells an astounding story of activism and innovation – about AIDS survival, not death – which has been overlooked until this timely documentary. Culled from a massive trove of archival footage, the film is both epic and intimate, tracking a small group of people, most of them HIV-positive, in their nine-year-long battle to save their own lives. They end up saving 6,000,000.
Director: David France
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Austenland
“AUSTENLAND” is a romantic comedy about 30-something, single Jane Hayes (Keri Russell), a seemingly normal young woman with a secret: her obsession with all things Jane Austen. But when she decides to spend her life savings on a trip to an English resort catering to Austen–crazed women, Jane’s fantasies of meeting the perfect Regency–era gentleman suddenly become more real than she ever could have imagined. Based on the novel by Shannon Hale (who also co-wrote the script), the film was written and directed by Jerusha Hess (writer, Napoleon Dynamite) and produced by Stephenie Meyer’s Fickle Fish Films.
Director: Jerusha Hess
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Diaz
The film recounts the night of July 21 2001, when 400 police officers raided the Diaz school in Genoa, injuring several nonviolent activists in town for the G8. Amnesty International called it "the most serious suspension of democratic rights in a Western country after the second world war".
Director: Daniele Vicari
Year: 2012
Language: Italian, French, German, Spanish, English
Genre: Drama
Diego Star
A serious accident occurs onboard the Diego Star, a dilapidated Russian cargo ship. Traoré, a mechanic from the Ivory Coast, is unfairly blamed for it. The ship is towed to the nearest shipyard for repairs. In the interim, crewmembers find shelter with the inhabitants of the small local village. Far from everyone he loves and knows, Traoré is engulfed by the Quebec winter.
Director: Frédérick Pelletier
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Under the Bed
Teenaged Neal Hausman (Jonny Weston) is returning home after a two year stint living with his Aunt- after he burned down his family home in a fire that claimed the life of his mother. His father has since remarried, and Neal is looking forward to the chance to reconnect with his beloved younger brother, Paulie. To his horror, he discovers that Paulie is now the target of a supernatural beast that lives under the beds of neighbourhood children- the very beast that drove him to burn down his home in the first place.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Ai Weiwei is China's most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention. AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.
Director: Alison Klayman
Year: 2012
Language: English, Mandarin
Genre: Documentary
Royal Affair, A
A ROYAL AFFAIR is a gripping tale of brave idealists who risk everything in their pursuit of freedom for the people, but above all it is the story of a passionate and forbidden romance that changed an entire nation.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2012
Language: English, Danish, German
Genre: Drama
Hunt, The
Following a tough divorce, 40 year-old Lucas has a new girlfriend, a new job and is in the process of reestablishing his relationship with his teenage son, Marcus. But things go awry. Not a lot. Just a small comment. A random lie. And as the snow falls and the Christmas lights are lit, the lie spreads like an invisible virus. The shock and mistrust gets out of hand, and the small community suddenly finds itself in a collective state of hysteria, while Lucas fights a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Year: 2012
Language: Danish
Genre: Drama
Love is all you need
Philip (Brosnan), an Englishman living in Denmark, is a lonely, middle-aged widower and estranged single father. Ida (Dyrholm) is a Danish hairdresser, recuperating from a long bout of illness, who?s just been left by her husband for a younger woman, Tilde. The fates of these two bruised souls are about to intertwine, as they embark for a trip to Italy to attend the wedding of Patrick and Astrid, Philip?s son and Ida?s daughter.
It is a film about the simple yet profound pains and joys of moving on - and forward - with your life.
Director: Susanne Bier
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Charm
The adventures of a young man whose principle interests are movies, New York, and mass murder. CHARM is a black comedy about Malcolm - a New Yorker who gets tired of how gentrified, tepid and antiseptic it's all become. What's happened to the 'Good ole days'?! And so he decides to take matters into his own hands by personally starting a crime wave which he hopes will catch on and drive real estate value down, opening up the city to bohemians, artists and a swell of creativity, just like the supposed good 'ole days of the 1970s and 80s. The only problem is: Nobody is paying attention.
Director: Ashley Cahill
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Karakara
Pierre, a retired professor, ends up making a short, unsettling trip around Okinawa with Junko, a 40-year-old runaway wife. The confused intellectual would rather not get involved with this unlikely and unexpected lover but decides to follow his destiny, wherever it (or she) may take him.
Director: Claude Gagnon
Year: 2012
Language: Japanese, English
Genre: Drama
Summit, The
In August 2008, 18 mountain climbers reached the top of K2. Forty-eight hours later, 11 had died or simply vanished into thin air. With breathtaking cinematography and jaw dropping reenactments, The Summit is a thrilling attempt to solve the mystery of what happened on K2 that fateful day.
Director: Nick Ryan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Sightseers
Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge.
Director: Ben Wheatley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Something in the Air
Following his critical triumphs Summer Hours and Carlos, Olivier Assayas returns with his semi-autobiographical new feature Something in the Air. The film follows Gilles, a graduating high school student in Paris deeply involved in the counterculture of the time. While Gilles begins to realize that his interests lie more in the revolutions in music and art, he finds himself pulled into ever more dangerous political protests by the people around him.
Director: Olivier Assayas
Year: 2012
Language: French, English, Italian
Genre: Drama
Tower Block
A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find themselves being picked off by a sniper, pitting those lucky enough to be alive into a battle for survival.
Director: Ronnie Thompson, James Nunn
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
2 Days in NY
Marion has broken up with Jack and now lives in New York with her child. But when her family decides to come and visit her, she is unaware that the different cultural background held by her new American boyfriend Mingus(Rock), her eccentric father, and her sister Rose who decided to bring her ex-boyfriend along for a trip, added to upcoming photo exhibit, will make up for an explosive mix
Director: Julie Delpy
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
L'Homme qui Rit
An adaptation of the classic novel by Victor Hugo.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Ernest et Celestine
Deep below snowy, cobblestone streets, tucked away in networks of winding subterranean tunnels, lives a civilization of hardworking mice, terrified of the bears who live above ground. Unlike her fellow mice, Celestine is an artist and a dreamer – and when she nearly ends up as breakfast for ursine troubadour Ernest, the two form an unlikely bond. But it isn’t long before their friendship is put on trial by their respective bear-fearing and mice-eating communities.
Director: Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Animation
Wadjda
WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Year: 2012
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama
Uvanga
Uvanga is the story of a 13 year-old boy looking for himself in a world that gave him life, but it is a world that he does not know. The boy and his mother make a two-week visit north so that he can connect with his deceased father’s family. Their emotions will follow unexpected trajectories, paralleled by the disorienting High Arctic summer and its twenty-four hours of sunlight.
Director: Marie-Hélène Cousineau, Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Waiting for Lightning
WAITING FOR LIGHTNING is the story of Danny Way, a young boy from a broken home in Vista, CA, whose passion for skateboarding would one day bring him and his creation, a ramp of prodigious and dangerous proportions, across many cultural and ideological boundaries to attempt the impossible: jump China's Great Wall on a skateboard. It's a film about how much abuse the body can sustain, how deep you have to dig to survive the betrayals of family, and how high and far dreams can fly
Director: Jacob Rosenberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Gloria
Gloria is 58 years old and still feels young. Making a party out of her loneliness, she fills her nights seeking love in ballrooms for single adults. This fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives everything as she feels it may well be her last, leaves her dancing between hope and despair. Gloria will have to pull herself together and find a new strength to realize that, in the last act of her life, she could burn brighter than ever.
Director: Sebastián Lelio
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
Jeffrey Dahmer Files, The
In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. The Jeffrey Dahmer Files explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting those surrounding Dahmer during and after his hidden spree. Recollections from Milwaukee Medical Examiner Jeffrey Jentzen, Police Detective Patrick Kennedy, and neighbor Pamela Bass are interwoven with archival footage and everyday scenes from Dahmer's life, working collectively to disassemble the facade of anordinary man leading an ordinary existence.
Director: Chris James Thompson
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
After
Two bus crash survivors who awake in hospital to discover they are the only people left alive in their small town. As a dark fog advances towards the town they form an unlikely alliance to unravel the truth behind their isolation and escape the ravenous creatures concealed within the mist.
Director: Ryan Smith
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Room 237
ROOM 237 is a subjective documentary feature which explores numerous theories about Stanley Kubrick’s "The Shining" and its hidden meanings. This guided tour through the most compelling attempts to decode this endlessly fascinating film will draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out. Discover why many have been trapped in the Overlook for 30 years.
Director: Rodney Ascher
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Ironclad: Battle for Blood
Brace yourselves for another brutal battle, as one of the few survivors of the Great Siege of Rochester Castle fights to protect his family’s estate from fierce Celtic raiders. With a new battleground and a new enemy, IRONCLAD: BATTLE FOR BLOOD promises to deliver the same ferocious, adrenaline-filled action and gory kills that defined IRONCLAD.
Director: Jonathan English
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
For Greater Glory
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican government. (imdb)
Director: Dean Wright
Year: 2012
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama
Branded
Set in a dystopian future where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.
Director: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Still Mine
Based on true events and laced with wry humour, STILL MINE is a heartfelt love story about an 89-year-old New Brunswicker (James Cromwell) who comes up against the system when he sets out to build a more suitable house for his wife (Geneviève Bujold) whose memory is starting to go. Although Craig Morrison is using the same methods his father, a shipbuilder, taught him, times have changed. Craig quickly gets on the wrong side of an overzealous government inspector, who finds just about everything unacceptable, including the unstamped wood Craig has milled from his own trees. As Irene becomes increasingly ill – and amidst a series of stop-work orders – Craig races to finish the house. Hauled into court and facing jail, Craig takes a final stance.
Director: Michael McGowan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Bienvenue parmi nous
A heartwarming story adapted from Eric Holder’s novel. A washed-up artist and a troubled teen take an exhilarating road trip through the beautiful landscapes of France’s western seaboard in pursuit of a reason to live.
Director: Jean Becker
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Empire of Dirt
Going home was never an option for single mother Lena Mahikan (Cara Gee). But when her 13-year-old, Peeka (Shay Eyre) overdoses in the streets of Toronto, she is forced to return home to her estranged mother and face a life-long legacy of shame and resentment. Empire of Dirt is a story about second chances and summoning the power of family to soothe the pain of cyclical damage.
Director: Peter Stebbings
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Everybody Has A Plan
In this gritty thriller, Viggo Mortensen (The Lord of the Rings, The Road, Eastern Promises) stars as a successful doctor who conspires to escape his life by assuming the identity of his identical twin brother, a dying criminal. However, his plan backfires when he’s plunged into the sordid depths of his brother’s backwater village, a deadly place where unsettled scores soon embroil him in a desperate fight for survival.
Director: Ana Piterbarg
Year: 2012
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Human Scale, The
50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050 this will increase to 80%. Why do modern cities repel human interaction and ignore humans’ needs for inclusion and intimacy? For 40 years, Danish architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities, and in this fascinating and illuminating film, he outlines how our approach to urban architecture can and should change.
Director: Andreas Dalsgaard
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Frances Ha
Frances, an apprentice in a dance company wants so much more than she has but lives life with unaccountable joy and lightness. This modern fable from Noah Baumbach explores youth, friendship, class, ambition, failure and redemption.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Blood Pressure
Nicole, 41, is a pharmacist with a husband and two teenage kids, who is at a point in her life when she is asking if ‘this is it,’ or whether there’s something more. One day she gets a letter from an anonymous Observer who knows her daily habits, and her potential, intimately. He has a plan for her, if she is interested. The letter contains a green card that she should place in her window, if she wishes to pursue the mysterious relationship. If not, she should throw the letter away, and she will never hear from the Observer again. After a few days of internal debate, she puts the card in the window and begins a long relationship with the elusive Observer, who puts her on a program that starts by changing her life, but ultimately threatens everything that has meaning for her.
Director: Sean Garrity
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Blue Like Jazz
Don (Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.
Director: Steve Taylor
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Amour
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Director: Michael Haneke
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding
On a crisp March morning in 1932, bride-to-be Dolly (Felicity Jones) is hiding in her bedroom daydreaming of the whimsical summer before, helped along by an ample jug of rum. Long-lost cousins and quirky aunts are arriving to the house every hour, and the downstairs living rooms are buzzing with speculation about the bride's whereabouts. Exasperated by her daughter's absence, Dolly's scatter-brained mother Hetty (Elizabeth McGovern), is at her wit's end, scurrying around the house trying to quell the relatives' suspicions. Hetty has perfected all of the day's arrangements, but her plans can't prepare everyone for the arrival of Dolly's unpredictable former lover, Joseph (Luke Treadaway).
Director: Donald Rice
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Midnight's Children
“Born in the hour of India’s freedom. Handcuffed to history”
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta, based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie.
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital. Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, and Shiva, the offspring of wealthy Muslims, are fated to live the destiny meant for each other. Their lives become mysteriously intertwined and are inextricably linked to India’s whirlwind journey of triumphs and disasters. From the unlikely romance of Saleem’s grandparents to the birth of his own son, MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN is a journey at once sweeping in scope and yet intimate in tone. Hopeful, comic and magical – the film conjures images and characters as rich and unforgettable as India herself.
Director: Deepa Mehta
Year: 2012
Language: English, with some Hindustani
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Queen of Versailles, The
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES is a character-driven documentary about a billionaire family and their financial challenges in the wake of the economic crisis. With epic proportions of Shakespearean tragedy, the film follows two unique characters, whose rags-to-riches success stories reveal the innate virtues and flaws of the American Dream.
The film begins with the family triumphantly constructing the biggest house in America, a 90,000 sq. ft. palace. Over the next two years, their sprawling empire, fueled by the real estate bubble and cheap money, falters due to the economic crisis. Major changes in lifestyle and character ensue within the cross-cultural household of family members and domestic staff.
Director: Lauren Greenfield
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Byzantium
Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.
Director: Neil Jordan
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
To Rome With Love
TO ROME WITH LOVE is a story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into. Starring Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Roberto Benigni, Penélope Cruz, Judy Davis, Jesse Eisenberg, Greta Gerwig and Ellen Page.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2012
Language: English, Italian
Genre: Comedy
Maniac
Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank (Elijah Wood) is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank's obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The
A young Pakistani man is chasing corporate success on Wall Street. He finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's homeland.
Director: Mira Nair
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Struck by Lightning
After being struck and killed by lightning, a young man recounts the way he blackmailed his fellow classmates into contributing to his literary magazine.
Director: Brian Dannelly
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
In No Particular Order
In No Particular Order gives us a glance into Sarah’s life as she messily navigates her way through her late twenties, following a path of meaningless encounters, hangovers, and unmet expectations. Under constant pressure from her newlywed sister to take some responsibility for her life, and after an obsession with a married man and a reconnection with an old fling, Sarah is forced to re- explore her self destructive ideas surrounding commitment and relationships, and confront the effects of her choices on her and those around her.
Director: Kristine Cofsky
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Thanks for Sharing
From Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right), Thanks for Sharing is a sharply comic and deeply moving look at a new kind of modern family, as a group of friends in recovery learns to face life together with heart, humour and humility. Academy Award-nominee Mark Ruffalo, Academy Award-winner Tim Robbins and Broadway star Josh Gad (“The Book of Mormon”) anchor a stellar ensemble that includes Academy Award-winner Gwyneth Paltrow, and pop star Alecia “Pink” Moore in her first film role.
Director: Stuart Blumberg
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Smashed
Kate and Charlie are a young married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of music, laughter and drinking...especially the drinking. When Kate's drinking leads her to dangerous places and her job as a school teacher is put into jeopardy, she decides to join AA and get sober. With the help of her friend and sponsor Jenny, and the vice principal at her school, the awkward, but well intentioned, Mr. Davies, Kate takes steps toward improving her health and life. Sobriety isn't as easy as Kate had anticipated. Her new lifestyle brings to the surface a troubling relationship with her mother, facing the lies she's told her employer and calls into question whether or not her relationship with Charlie is built on love or is just boozy diversion from adulthood.
Director: James Ponsoldt
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Love, Marilyn
Two boxes of Marilyn Monroe's private writings were discovered in the home of her acting coach, 50 years after her death. Reading her letters onscreen are a star-studded cast including Marisa Tomei, Glenn Close, Lindsay Lohan, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks, Uma Thurman, Viola Davis and Adrien Brody. In this fascinating and illuminating film, Academy Award-nominated director Liz Garbus takes an intimate look at the life, death and legacy of a pop icon and offers a glimpse of the human being inside the bombshell.
Director: Liz Garbus
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Grabbers
An idyllic remote Irish island is invaded by enormous bloodsucking tentacled aliens. With islanders turning up decapitated and drained of blood, the inhabitants learn that the creatures—called Grabbers—are allergic to alcohol, making intoxicated people toxic to eat. Overrun and under attack, the hopeless locals realize that in order to stay alive through a storm that's keeping everyone trapped on the island, they're going to have to band together at the pub and do their best to survive the night.
Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Simon Killer
A recent college graduate flees to Paris after a break-up, where his involvement with a prostitute begins to reveal a potentially dark recent past.
Director: Antonio Campos
Year: 2012
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama
Wedding Guest, The
The "black sheep" son (Scott Speedman) of a wealthy family meets a free-spirited but sheltered woman (Evan Rachel Wood). To convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life, he takes her home for his brother's wedding, where an improbable romance blooms as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.
Director: Andrew Fleming
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Girl Most Likely (Imogene)
Imogene (Kristen Wiig) is a failed New York playwright awkwardly navigating the transition from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. After both her career and relationship hit the skids, she's forced to make the humiliating move back home to New Jersey with her eccentric mother and younger brother (Annette Bening and Christopher Fitzgerald).
Adding further insult to injury, there's a strange man (Darren Criss) sleeping in her old bedroom and an even stranger man sleeping in her mother's bed (Matt Dillon). Through it all, Imogene eventually realizes that as part of her rebuilding process she must finally come to love and accept both her family and her Jersey roots if she's ever going to be stable enough to get the hell away from them.
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Holy Motors
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old to the point of dying; sometimes destitute, sometimes wealthy. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man…
Director: Leos Carax
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Pieta
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2012
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama
Margarita
Behind the facade of a beautiful urban home, a combination of complacency and bad investments has left power couple Ben and Gail disconnected, resentful and just about broke. When the cash-strapped yuppies fire their teen-aged daughter's lesbian Mexican nanny, Margarita, they set off a chain of events that lead to her deportation.
Director: Dominique Cardona, Laurie Colbert
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Dinosaur Project, The
The Dinosaur Project follows a team of explorers searching for a mythical, river-dwelling creature in the jungles of Africa. After their helicopter is brought down by a flock of strange birds, they discover a lost kingdom of dinosaurs thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. Very quickly the team realizes they have gravely underestimated the safety of the jungle they came to explore.
Director: Sid Bennett
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Vous n'avez encore rien vu
From beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d’Anthac gathers together all his friends who have appeared over the years in his play "Eurydice". These actors watch a recording of the work performed by a young acting company, La Compagnie de la Colombe. Do love, life, death and love after death still have any place on a theater stage? It’s up to them to decide. And the surprises have only just begun.
Director: Alain Resnais
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Picture Day
Claire Paxton is a rebellious teenager who is forced to repeat her senior year of high school. Moving between adolescence and adulthood, Claire finds herself confronting the inadequacies of both worlds and the relationships she has built within each.
Director: Kate Miles Melville
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
For No Good Reason
Ralph Steadman is the last of the original Gonzo visionaries.,,
Made over the course of fifteen years, “For No Good Reason,” explores the connection between life and art through the eyes of seminal British artist, Ralph Steadman. Insightful, humorous, and visually stunning, this is a study in honesty, friendship and the ambition that drives an artist.
Director: Charlie Paul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Arthur Newman
Wallace Avery (Colin Firth) hates his job. He’s blown his one shot at living his dream, and his relationships are in shambles. Not wanting to face his life, he stages his death and purchases a new identity as Arthur Newman. His hope-filled new existence is soon interrupted by beautiful, reckless and exciting Mike (Emily Blunt). Together they hit the road -- not only stealing the identities of those they encounter, but engaging in an elaborate game of role play and crime that lead far from home.
Director: Dante Ariola
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Shadow Dancer
The story centers around single mother Collette McVeigh -- a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in the MI5 and return home.
Director: James Marsh
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Amazing Racer
After the sudden death of her father leaves a teenage girl without a family, she becomes lost in her own anger and sadness. Her family doctor informs her that her father had a secret, that the mother she never knew was alive and well. When she travels to meet her, she befriends a horse trainer and discovers that in caring for the horse, she is able to overcome her hardships and emotional trauma. Together they begin to win many races and upset the favorites, owned by an egocentric mogul. Through the victories and new friendships she forms, she learns to find her way back to happiness.
Director: Frank E. Johnson
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Populaire
Spring, 1958. 21-year-old Rose Pamphyle lives with her grouchy widower father who runs the village store. Engaged to the son of the local mechanic, she seems destined for the quiet, drudgery-filled life of a housewife. But that's not the life Rose longs for. When she travels to Lisieux in Normandy, where charismatic insurance agency boss Louis Echard is advertising for a secretary, the ensuing interview is a disaster. But Rose reveals a special gift – she can type at extraordinary speed. Unwittingly, the young woman awakens the dormant sports fan in Louis. If she wants the job she'll have to compete in a speed typing competition.
Director: Regis Roinsard
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Thérèse Desqueyroux
The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Director: Claude Miller
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Emperor
As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.
Director: Peter Webber
Year: 2012
Language: English, Japanese
Genre: Drama
Gatekeepers, The
Ninety hours of interviews with six former heads of Shin Bet (Israel’s top security agency) are condensed into a thought provoking, informative, and insightful documentary that examines Israel’s counterterrorism operations. The visually captivating documentary sheds light on the decision making process of these men as well as the morally ambiguous world in which they functioned; all within Israel’s political climate and historical context.
Director: Dror Moreh
Year: 2012
Language: Hebrew, English
Genre: Documentary
Beyond the Hills
From the director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days comes a harrowing, visually stunning tale inspired by a case of alleged demonic possession. At a remote monastery watched over by an austere priest, a young woman tries to talk her friend into leaving her training as a nun. But unable to convince her, the visitor decides to stay on a while, upsetting the order’s delicate balance of power.
Director: Christian Mungiu
Year: 2012
Language: Romanian
Genre: Drama
Blue is the Warmest Color
At 15, Adele doesn't question that girls go out with boys. But her life changes when she meets Emma, ??a mysterious girl with blue hair, who helps her discover desire in an intense and complicated love story that spans a decade. "Remarkable…The first great love story of the 21st century." Andrew O'Hehir, SALON
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
End of Time, The
Working at the limits of what can easily be expressed, filmmaker Peter Mettler takes on the elusive subject of time, and once again turns his camera to filming the unfilmmable.
From the particle accelerator in Switzerland, where scientists seek to probe regions of time we cannot see, to lava flows in Hawaii which have overwhelmed all but one home on the south side of Big Island; from the disintegration of inner city Detroit, to a Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s enlightenment, Mettler explores our perception of time. He dares to dream the movie of the future while also immersing us in the wonder of the everyday.
THE END OF TIME is, at once personal, rigorous and visionary. Peter Mettler has crafted a film as compelling and magnificent as its subject.
Director: Peter Mettler
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Adieu Berthe - L'Enterrement de Meme (Granny's Funeral)
In the midst of a full-blown midlife crisis, Armand navigates haphazardly between his job as a chemist and his passion for magic. Where matters of the heart are concerned, he's torn between his wife Hélène and his mistress, Alix. And as for family life, what with an interfering mother-in-law, the kids with whom he can no longer communicate and Alix's daughter, whose birthday is quickly approaching, Armand doesn't know which way to turn… And then his grandmother Berthe dies, and he's landed with the extra task of arranging the funeral. It's too much for Armand, who finds himself forced to confront a profound existential question: do we burn Granny, or bury her?
Director: Bruno Podalydès
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Superstar
Martin Kazinski is a humble worker. Just another face in the crowd. One morning, as normal, he takes the metro. But it's not a normal day. People are looking at him. A stranger asks for his autograph; another takes his picture. A third just wants to shake his hand. It must be a mistake, a hoax, some sort of joke. Soon, his name is all over the TV, the radio, the internet. Martin Kazinski – with no particular talent, no connections and no idea why – has suddenly become a celebrity. It's incomprehensible. But it's a fact. When he tries to find out why, his fame just grows. The more he questions it, disowns it, denies it – the more famous he becomes. Martin is trapped in a never-ending, ever-expanding media maelstrom. And the worst is yet to come.
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Stories We Tell
STORIES WE TELL is an inspired, genre-twisting film by Oscar®-nominated director Sarah Polley, and produced by Anita Lee for the NFB. Her playful investigation into the elusive truth buried within the contradictions of a family of storytellers paints a profound portrait of a complicated and deeply loving family.
Director: Sarah Polley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Grand Affair, A
In 1935-1936, in Geneva, the seductive Solal (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), who officiates the League of Nations, tries to win the heart of the beautiful Ariane (Natalia Vodianova), a Protestant aristocrat and wife of his subordinate, Adrien (Ed Stoppard). It does not take long for Ariane to succumb to the charm of the young man, but their passionate relationship leads the lovers to a tragic fate.
Director: Glenio Bonder
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Late Quartet, A
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet receives a life changing diagnosis, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance: suppressed emotions, competing egos, and uncontrollable passions threaten to derail years of friendship and collaboration. As they are about to play their 25th anniversary concert, quite possibly their last, only their intimate bond and the power of music can preserve their legacy.
Director: Yaron Zilberman
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Outpost: Black Sun
A pair of investigators team up with a Special Forces Unit to venture deep inside a war raging between the military and a massive army of Nazi Zombie Stormtroopers. Their mission is to fight their way behind enemy lines, locate the technology at the source of this growing threat and prevent the seemingly inevitable rise of the 4th Reich.
Director: Steve Barker
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
At Any Price
In the competitive world of modern agriculture, ambitious HENRY WHIPPLE (Dennis Quaid) wants his rebellious son DEAN (Zac Efron) to help expand his family’s farming empire. However, Dean has his sights set on becoming a professional race car driver. When a high-stakes investigation into their business is exposed, father and son are pushed into an unexpected crisis that threatens the family’s entire livelihood.
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Celeste and Jesse Forever
CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER is about two people who met in high school, married young and are growing apart. Now thirty, they decide to get divorced and attempt to stay best friends while pursuing other relationships. This plan is not as simple as they had imagined. Celeste -- imperious, successful and driven -- is convinced that divorcing the boyish Jesse is the right thing to do. Jesse passively accepts this transition into friendship, even though he still is in love with her. As the reality of their separation sets in, Celeste slowly and painfully realizes she has been cavalier about their relationship. But her timing with Jesse is less than fortuitous. While navigating the turbulent changes in their lives and in their hearts, these two learn that in order to truly love someone, you may have to let them go. The film is a humorous and honest examination of a broken heart and the long, hard road it takes to heal it.
Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Free Samples
A Stanford law-school dropout named Jillian escapes to the anonymity of Los Angeles to figure out what she wants to do with her life, and on the day of her college boyfriend's birthday, she finds herself stuck running an ice cream truck fending off locals and oddball friends alike. This one day spent in a truck on the streets of Los Angeles will wake Jillian from her aimless daze and make her see that life doesn't stop just because you want it to.
Director: Jay Gammil
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Renoir
The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation. Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow.
Director: Gilles Bourdos
Year: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Rebellion (Lordre et la morale)
A man struggles to defuse an explosive situation with tragic results in this riveting drama based on actual events. In 1988, France was wracked with political division. After a band of separatists seize a police station, twenty-six officers are taken hostage and three are killed. A counter-terrorism expert is assigned to deal with the situation, and while a peaceful solution at first seems possible, political forces soon necessitate more aggressive options.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Lovely Molly
Newlyweds Molly (Gretchen Lodge) and Tim (Johnny Lewis) move into Molly’s deceased father’s house in the countryside. A recovering addict, Molly struggles to regain footing in her simple existence, and her grip on reality begins to waver. Her erratic behaviour is a warning sign to her friends and family, whose interventions drive her further into solitary torment and spur a deep, dark infidelity within her.
From the co-director of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.
Director: Eduardo Sánchez
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Your Sister's Sister
Emily Blunt, Rosemarie Dewitt and Mark Duplass star in YOUR SISTER'S SISTER, a new comedy about romance, grief and sibling rivalry. A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack (Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom's best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah (Dewitt) who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and finds solace in Tom's unexpected presence. A blurry evening of drinking concludes with an awkward sexual incident, made worse by Iris' sudden presence at the cabin the next morning. A twisted tale of ever-complicated relationships is set in motion with raw, hilarious and emotional performances from the all-star cast.
Director: Lynn Shelton
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Blind Alley
In a tiny launderette hidden down an alleyway, Rosa finds herself trapped, completely isolated, and unable to escape the nightmarish situation of being attacked by a serial killer. At the break of dawn and after hours of anguish, immersed in the sadistic game of cat and mouse the killer has subjected her to, the young girl will discover something even more disturbing about the nature of her aggressor.
Director: Antonio Trashorras
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller
Higher Ground
Vera Farmiga's directorial debut, HIGHER GROUND, depicts the landscape of a tight-knit spiritual community thrown off-kilter when one of their own begins to question her faith. Inspired by screenwriter Carolyn S. Briggs' memoir, 'This Dark World', the film tells the story of a thoughtful woman's struggles with belief, love, and trust in human relationships as well as in God.
Director: Vera Farmiga
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Salt of Life, The
House husband Gianni has many things to worry about while his retirement slips by doing boring chores for his wife, mother, daughter and pretty neighbour. But romance is not one of them. One day his old friend Alfonso, inspired by his own surprising sexual escapades, decides it's time for Gianni to get a girlfriend and reacquaint himself with some of life's pleasures.
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Year: 2011
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
Midnight Son
Something is happening to Jacob. Sunlight wreaks havoc on his skin and he's developing a hunger for human blood. When he falls in love with a beautiful bartender, his loneliness comes to an end. But his condition is worsening, forcing him to stalk the streets for prey and making him the prime suspect in a series of grisly murders.
Director: Scott Leberecht
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
4 Soldats
During a Civil war, four soldiers aged 15 to 21 meet and bond. Trapped in an adults' war that they neither understand nor want any part of, Mateo, Dominique, Big Max and Kevin save themselves by creating a kind of family, making their home in a cabin by a pond. Slowly, each of them finds his place. The family grows with the arrival of young Gabriel, who must be trained to their ways. The narrator, Dominique, immerses us in this beautiful, poignant, fleeting story.
Director: Robert Morin
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
BEATS, RHYMES & LIFE: THE TRAVELS OF A TRIBE CALLED QUEST is a documentary film directed by Michael Rapaport about one of the most influential and groundbreaking musical groups in hip-hop history. Having released five gold and platinum selling albums within eight years, A Tribe Called Quest has been one of the most commercially successful and artistically significant musical groups in recent history, and regarded as iconic pioneers of hip hop. The band's sudden break-up in 1998 shocked the industry and saddened the scores of fans, whose appetite for the group's innovative musical stylings never seems to diminish.
Director: Michael Rapaport
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Miss Bala
MISS BALA tells the story of Laura, a young woman whose aspirations of becoming a beauty queen turn against her, delivering her into the hands of a gang that's terrorizing northern Mexico. Although Laura succeeds in winning the beauty queen crown, her experiences as an unwilling participant in Mexico's violent war leave her shaken and transformed.
Director: Gerardo Naranjo
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish, English
Genre: World Cinema, Thriller, Drama
Pina
PINA is a feature-length dance film in 3D with the ensemble of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, featuring the unique and inspiring art of the great German choreographer, who died in the summer of 2009. He takes the audience on a sensual, visually stunning journey of discovery into a new dimension: straight onto the stage with the legendary ensemble and follows the dancers out of the theatre into the city and the surrounding areas of Wuppertal - the place, which for 35 years was home.
Director: Wim Wenders
Year: 2011
Language: German
Genre: Documentary
Amy George
Thirteen-year-old Jessie wants to be an artist, but beleives that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a true artist, he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness and woman. Amy George is a microbudget independent drama about a time in a boy's life when he is at his least likeable.
Director: Yonah Lewis and Calvin Thomas
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Stella Days
Martin Sheen stars as a parish priest in mid-1950’s Ireland, caught in a dramatic struggle between faith and passion, and Rome and Hollywood. In an attempt to raise funds for his church and merge his passion for film with his faith, he opens a small cinema in his community - The Stella - provoking conflict with the Bishop and the parishioners.
Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Avant que mon Coeur Bascule
Sixteen-year-old Sarah, standing alongside a highway, pretends to be in trouble. Duped drivers pull over to help - and are robbed. Under the teen’s gaze, a man dies. Sarah’s life will never be the same again.
Director: Sébastien Rose
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
I Melt With You
When four college friends meet up at a spectacular ocean villa for their annual reunion, career and family responsibilities get left behind. But when things spiral out of control, a pact they made as young men is challenged and old secrets threaten to bring them all down. I Melt With You is a visually dazzling trip deep into the male psyche, starring Thomas Jane, Jeremy Piven, Rob Lowe, Christian McKay, and featuring Sasha Grey.
Director: Mark Pellington
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Black Gold: Day of the Falcon
Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father-in-law.
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Toutes Nos Envies
The meeting of Claire (a young judge in the court of Lyon) and Stefan J. (a seasoned and disillusioned veteran of law) sparks a relationship. Things begin develop between them as mingling feelings of rebellion and the urgency of life begin to play a role in their personal and professional lives.
Director: Philippe Lioret
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Not Another Not Another Movie
Max Storm (Chevy Chase) is the owner of Sunshine Studios, the worst movie studio on the planet. Faced with the possibility of going out of business, Max hires his brother (Michael Madsen), his goon friend (Vinnie Jones), a washed up director (Burt Reynolds), and an idiot writer to save their skins. With no script, no money and no idea what they're doing, they set out to make the biggest spoof movie of all time – Not Another Not Another Movie.
Director: David Murphy
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Source des femmes, La
In a remote village in North Africa, the women threaten to withhold sex if their men refuse to fetch water from a remote well. A modern-day fable exploring female empowerment in the Arab world.
Director: Radu Mihaileanu
Year: 2011
Language: Arabic
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Forgiveness of Blood, The
Rudina may be only fifteen but dreams of going to university and making something of her life. When her father is accused of murder after a neighbourly squabble over land ownership, the entire family is forced to accord to the dictates of the Kanun - a centuries old system of laws which prohibits any of her brothers from leaving their home. Forced with the responsibilities of her father's affairs, Rudina flourishes while her older brother gives in to anger and frustration and determines to put an end to the feud.
Director: Joshua Marston
Year: 2011
Language: Albanian
Genre: Drama
Take Shelter
A working-class husband and father questions whether his terrifying dreams of an apocalyptic storm signal something real to come or the onset of an inherited mental illness he's feared his whole life. The film stars Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire), Jessica Chastain (The Tree of Life), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Katy Mixon (Eastbound & Down), and Kathy Baker (Edward Scissorhands).
Director: Jeff Nichols
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Pour l'amour de Dieu
Montreal, 1959. In the classroom of Sister Cecilia, Leonie (aged 11) first met Father Malachy, a young Dominican father who has come to visit his school. It is love at first sight for this lonely and dreamy child who took refuge in religion to escape a mother who is emotional and too worried. But there is also love at first sight between Sister Cecilia and Father Malachy. Between human love and the love of God, which will prevail?
Director: Micheline Lanctôt
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Woman in the Fifth, The
Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas star in THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, a psychological thriller, based on Douglas Kennedy's 2007 novel of the same name. American writer Tom Ricks (Hawke) comes to Paris,desperate to win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, Tom ends up living in a shady hotel and working as a night guard to make ends meet. Then a beautiful, mysterious stranger (Scott Thomas) walks into his life. Things start looking up. But their passionate relationship triggers a series of inexplicable events - as if an obscure power were taking control of his life. The film is written and directed by Polish-born, UK-based Pawel Pawlikowski, whose credits include the BAFTA award-winning features LAST RESORT and MY SUMMER OF LOVE.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Year: 2011
Language: English, French
Genre: Thriller
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This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman, in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany. The man is a British author who has just finished giving a lecture at a conference. The woman, from France, owns an art gallery. This is a common story that could happen to anyone, anywhere.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Payback
Based on Margaret Atwood' s best-selling book 'Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth', PAYBACK offers a fascinating look at debt, tracing how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of the planet. The film explores the link between debtor and creditor in a variety of contexts - from the mountains of northern Albania to the tomato fields of southern Florida -blending compelling stories of 'owing' and 'being owed' with the insights of renowned thinkers like Karen Armstrong, Louise Arbour, William Rees and Raj Patel, as well as personal reflections from Conrad Black and others. Story and insight are brought into sharper focus by the acute observations of Atwood herself, who demonstrates that 'debt' as an idea lies at the very core of human experience.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: World Cinema, Documentary
Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal
Lars Olaafsen , once a young celebrity in the art world is slipping away fast into the land of has-beens. Ronny, his long-time art dealer wants his meal ticket back but Lars refuses to paint. His creativity comes at too high a cost. His inspiration is carnage – blood, guts and limbs – and he’s vowed to never go down that dark road again. An overly eager Ronny arranges a job for Lars teaching art in a small town. It’s a “therapeutic measure” – a means to conquer his need to paint while in the “safety” of a country retreat… Despite the odd assortment of local eccentrics (and a couple of hostile teachers) things look promising overall for Lars at his new job. That is, until he meets 30-year-old Eddie, a brawny mute who attends the school and harbours a dark and sordid secret of his own…
Director: Boris Rodriguez
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Footnote
FOOTNOTE is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition.
FOOTNOTE is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son.
Director: Joseph Cedar
Year: 2011
Language: Hebrew
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Terri
A young misfit learns a valuable life lesson from the last person he ever thought possible in this sensitive coming of age tale from director Azazel Jacobs (The Goodtimeskid, Momma's Man). After losing his parents at a young age, overweight Terri (Jacob Wysocki) was sent to live with his uncle. Life has never been easy for the embattled young boy, and as his uncle's health begins to deteriorate, Terri becomes the target of relentless teasing by his cruel classmates. When Terri's apathetic teachers fail to offer him any guidance, his intimidating vice principal, Mr. Fitzgerald (John C. Reilly), recognizes a student in need, and reaches out to him. Through that unlikely friendship, Terri discovers that outcasts needn't endure life alone, and that by banding together, they can accomplish great things.
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
Requiem Pour une Tueuse
A highly skilled assassin, in search of a new life, accepts a final hit posing as the lead soprano for a Swiss opera company. Her mark: a handsome co-performer whose business dealings threaten the interests of a powerful corporation. But things don’t go as planned in this high-class, high-tension thriller.
Director: Jérôme Le Gris
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Thriller
Separation, A
Set in contemporary Iran, A SEPARATION is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.
When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Year: 2011
Language: Persian
Genre: World Cinema, Drama
Blackthorn
In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home. His latest adventure aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike. Sam Shepard stars.
Director: Mateo Gil
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Klitschko
One name—two brothers. Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko have both been world champion heavyweight boxers, they both hold PhDs, and they both refuse to fight one another. Director Sebastian Dehnhardt's comprehensive portrait of the brothers is an insightful and personal look at the lives of two boys from the Ukraine who would become international sports stars.
Director: Sebastian Dehnhardt
Year: 2011
Language: German, Russian, English
Genre: Documentary
Gerhard Richter Painting
The title says it all. Corinna Belz's documentary is an unprecedented and oddly dangerous journey into the studios of Gerhard Richter, widely considered among the world's most important living painters. Famously cranky and iconoclastic, Richter is an ideal subject to illuminate the deep fissures in the contemporary art world. His career has been a high-wire balancing act between eye-popping, colourful abstractions -- seen in start-to-finish construction throughout much of the film -- and enormously famous photorealist portraiture. He has also been an influential essayist on the subject of art-making and its place in the world.
Director: Corinna Belz
Year: 2011
Language: German, English
Genre: Documentary
Circumstance
Set in contemporary Iran in the unseen world of Iranian youth culture, filled with underground parties, sex, drugs and defiance, CIRCUMSTANCE is the story of two vivacious young girls - wealthy Atafeh and orphaned Shireen - discovering their burgeoning sexuality and, like 16 year-old girls anywhere, struggling with their desires and the boundaries placed upon them by the world they were born into.
Winner of this year's Sundance Audience Award, CIRCUMSTANCE is Maryam Keshavarz's directorial debut and stars newcomers Nikohl Boosheri, Sarah Kazemy, Reza Sixo Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho, Amir Barghashi, Fariborz Daftari and Keon Mohajeri.
Director: Maryam Kershavarz
Year: 2011
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Boundary-pushing Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores the world of product placement, marketing and advertising in POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a film that was fully financed through product placement from various brands, all of which are integrated transparently into the film.
While using brands in film promotion is not new for Hollywood, it certainly is new territory for the documentary format. Spurlock exploits the phenomenon to new heights, with everything from branded pizza boxes and in-flight film promotions to branded-everything in-film.
With humor and insight, POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD unmasks the marketing process to bring audiences behind closed doors directly into the pitch meetings and marketing presentations which ultimately inform our everyday entertainment decisions.
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Carnage
Set in contemporary Brooklyn, New York, CARNAGE centers on two pairs of parents, one of whose child has hurt the other at a public park, who meet to discuss the matter in a civilized manner. However, as the evening goes on, the parents become increasingly childish, resulting in the evening devolving into chaos.
Director: Roman Polanski
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Deep Blue Sea, The
Hester Collyer (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) leads a privileged life in 1950s London as the beautiful wife of high court judge Sir William Collyer (Simon Russell Beale). To the shock of those around her, she walks out on her marriage to move in with young ex-RAF pilot, Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston), with whom she has fallen passionately in love.
Set in post-war Britain, this adaptation of Terence Rattigan's classic play, THE DEEP BLUE SEA is a study of forbidden love, suppressed desire, and the fear of loneliness - but is at heart a deeply moving love story.
Stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea, what - or whom - should Hester choose?
Director: Terence Davies
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Roméo Onze
Romeo Eleven is the intimate portrait of a shy young man looking for love in all the wrong places. A path of lies slowly catches up to him before leading us to a surprising and moving conclusion.
Director: Ivan Grbovic
Year: 2011
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
Shut Up Little Man
In 1987, Eddie and Mitch, two young punks from the Midwest, moved into a low-rent shithole of an apartment in the Lower Haightdistrict of San Francisco. Through paper-thin walls, they were informally introduced to their middle-aged alcoholic neighbors, Raymond Huffman, a raging homophobe, and Peter Haskett, a flamboyant gay man. Night after night, the boys were treated to and terrorized by a seemingly endless stream of vodka-fueled altercations between the two unlikely roommates. Oftentimes nonsensical and always vitriolic, the diatribes of Peter and Ray were an audio goldmine just begging to be recorded andpassed aroundon the underground tape market. Eddie and Mitch hung a microphone from their kitchen window to chronicle the bizarre and violent relationship between their borderline-insane neighbors. Not satisfied simply documenting these outlandish events, director Matthew Bate has concocted a darkly comedic exploration into the blurred boundaries among privacy,art, and exploitation.
Director: Matthew Bate
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
City State (INTL)
Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson
Year: 2011
Language: Icelandic, English, Serbian, Russian
First Position
Every year, thousands of aspiring dancers enter one of the world's most prestigious ballet competitions, the Youth America Grand Prix, where lifelong dreams are at stake. In the final round, with hundreds competing for only a handful of elite scholarships and contracts, practice and discipline are paramount, and nothing short of perfection is expected. Bess Kargman's award-winning documentary, FIRST POSITION, follows six young dancers as they prepare for a chance to enter the world of professional ballet, struggling through bloodied feet, near exhaustion and debilitating injuries, all while navigating the drama of adolescence. A showcase of awe-inspiring talent, tenacity and passion, FIRST POSITION paints a thrilling and moving portrait of the most gifted young ballet stars of tomorrow.
Director: Bess Kargman
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Greetings to the Devil
Angel, a former guerilla rebel, is seeking a fresh start after turning in his arms and giving up his violent ways in exchange for amnesty. But after a victim from his former life kidnaps his daughter, Angel is given 72 hours to track down and murder the members of his former guerilla unit. Greetings to the Devil is the gritty new thriller from the Orozco brothers (Al Fin del Spectro), and stars Edgar Ramirez (Carlos).
Director: The Orozco Brothers
Year: 2011
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller
Robotropolis
A group of reporters are covering the unveiling of a new facility that is completely maintained by robot prototypes. When one of the robots goes haywire, the reporters find themselves not just reporting on the malfunction, but fighting for their lives.
Director: Christopher Hatton
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Bobby Fischer Against the World
BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD is a feature documentary that uses the narrative tension of the 1972 match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer to explore the nature of genius, madness, and the game of chess itself. This film tells the stranger-than-fiction story of the rise and fall of an American icon.
Director: Liz Garbus
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Restless
RESTLESS recounts the romance between two teenagers, orphaned, funeral-crashing Enoch (Henry Hopper, son of Dennis), and Annabel (Mia Wasikowska). They meet at a funeral and bond over their mutual morbid obsession, which they have for opposite reasons: Enoch lost his mother and father in an automobile accident that, he claims, left him dead for three minutes before he bounced back, while Annabel has brain cancer, which will take her within a few months.
Director: Gus Van Sant
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.
Director: Paul Sen
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Senna
Senna's remarkable story, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of SENNA, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later. Far more than a film for F1 fans, SENNA unfolds a remarkable story in a remarkable manner, eschewing many standard documentary techniques in favour of a more cinematic approach that makes full use of astounding footage, much of which is drawn from F1 archives and is previously unseen.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Being Elmo
The film traces Kevin Clash's rise from his modest beginnings in Baltimore to his current success as the man behind Elmo, one of the world's most recognizable and adored characters. Millions of children tune in daily to watch Elmo, yet when Kevin walks down the street he is not recognized. Pivotal to the film is the exploration of Jim Henson's meteoric rise, and Kevin's ultimate achievement of his goal to become part of the Henson family of puppeteers. In addition to puppeteering Elmo, Mr. Clash is arguably the creative force behind today's Sesame Street, producing, directing and traveling around the globe training other puppeteers.
Director: Constance Marks
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Project Nim
From the Oscar-winning team behind MAN ON WIRE comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to communicate with language if raised and nurtured like a human child.
Following Nim's extraordinary journey through human society, and the enduring impact he makes on the people he meets along the way, the film is an unflinching and unsentimental biography of an animal we tried to make human. What we learn about his true nature - and indeed our own - is comic, revealing and profoundly unsettling.
Director: James Marsh
Year: 2011
Language: English
Genre: Documentary