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
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Pompéi
Victor and his little brother Jimmy manage to get by in an environment where their romantic misfortunes seem to be never-ending. But the arrival of Billie and her unbridled romanticism will shake both of the boys' beliefs to the core.
Year: 2019
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Trading Paint
John Travolta, Shania Twain and Michael Madsen star in this thrilling race car actioner about a father-and-son driving duo and their nemesis.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Action
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
Breaking Habits
Cheated and betrayed by her bigamist husband of 17 years, once high-flying corporate exec Christine Meeusen fled penniless with her young children as
her American dream began to unravel.
Determined to fend for her family, she discovered the lucrative business of cannabis farming and met her calling as founder of medicinal-marijuana empire
Sisters of the Valley. Shedding her former life, Christine became Sister Kate — on a mission to provide her medicinal products to those in need.
Fighting off the county sheriff, and protecting her crop from deadly black market thieves, BREAKING HABITS is a story of rebellion, hope and revival.
This is Sister Kate’s journey to becoming the head of a fast growing enterprise and a voice for the unheard.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Body at Brighton Rock
Wendy, a part time summer employee at a mountainous state park, takes on a rough trail
assignment at the end of the season, trying to prove to her friends that she’s capable enough to do
the job. When she takes a wrong turn and ends up deep in the backcountry, she stumbles upon
what might be a potential crime scene. Stuck with no communication after losing her radio and
with orders to guard the site, Wendy must fight the urge to run and do the harder job of staying
put — spending the night deep in the wilderness, facing down her worst fears and proving to
everyone - including herself - that she’s made of stronger stuff than they think she is.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
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: Horror, Thriller, Comedy
Unthinkable, The
TV, internet and telephone networks are down amidst a mysterious attack, and before anyone realizes what’s behind the collapse, a series of unexplained events begin to take place.
Year: 2019
Language: Swedish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Action
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
Language: English
Genre: Action, Western
Haunting of Sharon Tate, The
26-year-old pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate (Hilary Duff) becomes plagued by visions of her imminent death at the hands of the Manson Family.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Hail Satan?
A shocking and hilarious look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial, outsider religious group known as The Satanic Temple.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Vita & Virginia
VITA & VIRGINIA is the true story of the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Ride Like a Girl
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Brink, The
When Steve Bannon left his position as White House chief strategist less than a week after the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally in August 2017, he was already a notorious figure in Trump’s inner circle, and for bringing a far-right ideology into the highest echelons of American politics. Unconstrained by an official post — though some say he still has a direct line to the White House — he became free to peddle influence as a perceived kingmaker, turning his controversial brand of nationalism into a global movement. THE BRINK follows Bannon through the 2018 mid-term elections in the United States, shedding light on his efforts to mobilize and unify far-right parties in order to win seats in the May 2019 European Parliamentary elections. To maintain his power and influence, the former Goldman Sachs banker and media investor reinvents himself — as he has many times before — this time as the self-appointed leader of a global populist movement. Keen manipulator of the press and gifted self-promoter, Bannon continues to draw headlines and protests wherever he goes, feeding the powerful myth on which his survival relies.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Domino
In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, a police officer seeks justice for his partner’s murder by a mysterious man. Directed by Brian De Palma, starring Guy Pearce and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Ask Dr. Ruth
A documentary portrait chronicling the incredible life of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, a Holocaust survivor who became America's most famous sex therapist. As her 90th birthday approaches, Dr. Ruth revisits her painful past and her career at the forefront of the sexual revolution.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
There Are No Fakes
A painting by an iconic Native artist leads the rock star who buys it into the tragic, brutal world of an art forgery ring in Canada's far north.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Command, The
In this nail-biting action-thriller, sailors fight for survival on a sinking submarine while their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Action
Photograph
A struggling Mumbai street photographer pressured to marry by his grandmother convinces a shy stranger to pose as his fiancée during a family visit. Despite vast cultural differences, the pair develops a surprising connection that challenges their worldviews in a wistful and funny romance from Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox). Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra.
Year: 2019
Language: Hindi, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Year: 2019
Language: English & French
Genre: Documentary
Bottom of the Ninth, The
After serving 17 years in prison for a violent crime, a former baseball player returns to his Bronx neighborhood. Starring Sofía Vergara, Joe Manganiello and Burt Young.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama
David Crosby: Remember My Name
Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Pavarotti
From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week - The Touring Years, PAVAROTTI is a riveting film that lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of The Voice...The Man...The Legend. Luciano Pavarotti gave his life to the music and a voice to the world. This cinematic event features history-making performances and intimate interviews, including never-before-seen footage and cutting-edge Dolby Atmos technology.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary story- teller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Tone Deaf
A woman goes to the countryside to spend a quiet weekend after losing her job and having her last complicated relationship implode. She rents a country house to an old-fashioned widower, who struggles to hide his pyschopatic tendencies.
Year: 2019
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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
Language: German / Greek
Genre: Drama, Crime
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: Thriller, Drama, 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
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Canadian, Drama, Family
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
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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: Fantasy, 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: Thriller, 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: History, Thriller, 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: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
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
Happy Prince, The
The last days of legendary poet, playwright and novelist, Oscar Wilde. Starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
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
Support The Girls
The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
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
Language: Italian
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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
Language: Icelandic
Genre: Drama, 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
Language: Polish, German, Yiddish, Ukrainian
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
Becoming Astrid
A coming-of-age story depicting the early years of the beloved Swedish author of 'Pippi Longstocking', who defies the conventions of the time and builds a life and career as a single mother.
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
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
Sunset
1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young
Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with
high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary
hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is
nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill.
While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store,
to host guests of uttermost importance, a man abruptly
comes to Irisz, looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter.
Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows
Kálmán’s tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her
quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest,
where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the
turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.
Year: 2018
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama, Mystery
White Crow, The
A young man of just 22, dressed in a black beret and a dark narrow suit, is on an airplane flying from St Petersburg to Paris. It is 1961 and Rudolf Nureyev, not yet the imperious figure of legend, is a member of the world-renowned Kirov Ballet Company, travelling for the first time outside the Soviet Union. Parisian life delights Nureyev and the young dancer is eager to consume all the culture, art and music the dazzling city has to offer. But the KGB officers who watch his every move become increasingly suspicious of his behavior and his friendship with the young Parisienne Clara Saint. When they finally confront Nureyev with a shocking demand, he is forced to make a heart-breaking decision, one that may change the course of his life forever and put his family and friends in terrible danger. From Nureyev’s poverty-stricken childhood in the Soviet city of Ufa, to his blossoming as a student dancer in Leningrad, to his arrival at the epicentre of western culture in Paris in the early 1960s and a nail-biting stand-off at the Le Bourget airport, “THE WHITE CROW” is the true story of an incredible journey by a unique artist who transformed the world of ballet forever.
Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama, Biography
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
Harrowing, The
A detective is plunged into a living hell when he goes undercover and unlocks the truth behind a demonic myth.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Broken Ghost
A family moves to Montana to escape their past but find themselves terrorized by ghosts and old secrets in their new, haunted house.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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
Wind, The
In this sinister western-horror mash-up, a woman moves to the American frontier to settle it with her husband, ,but an evil presence soon makes itself know and infects her.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Western
Ruben Brandt, Collector
Ruben Brandt, a famous psychotherapist, is forced to steal 13 paintings from the world's
renowned museums and private collections to prevent his suffering from terrible nightmares he
has as a result of subliminal messaging he received as a child. Accompanied by his four patients,
he and his band of thieves strike regularly and with great success: the Louvre, Tate, Uffizi,
Hermitage, the Museum of Modern Art.
"The Collector" quickly becomes the most wanted criminal in the world. Gangsters and
headhunters chase him around the world while the reward for his capture keeps rising, approaching
a hundred million dollars. A cartel of insurance companies entrusts Mike Kowalski, a private
detective and leading expert on art theft, to solve the "Collector Case."
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Animation
Maiden
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Documentary
All Is True
Kenneth Branagh’s ALL IS TRUE is a portrait of William Shakespeare during the last three years of his life, as he leaves London and returns to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. The film follows Shakespeare as he strives to bridge the distance between himself and his wife and two daughters, recover from the loss of his son, and come to terms with his legacy as an artist.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
Aniara
A spaceship carrying settlers to Mars collides with an asteroid, knocking it off course. Slowly, the passengers realize they’ll never make it to their destination, or back to Earth…
Year: 2018
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Red Joan
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the KGB's longest-serving British spy.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Biography
Blood Bound
Bound to an ancient pact, a family with unlimited powers descends upon a small rural town to ritualistically sacrifice people.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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
Aquarela
AQUARELA takes audiences on a deeply cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. Captured at a rare 96 frames-per-second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is AQUARELA’s main character, with director Victor Kossakovsky capturing her many personalities in startling cinematic clarity.
Year: 2018
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Environment, Documentary
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
Peterloo
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama
Vigilante, A
In this thrilling crime mystery, a vigilante (Olivia Wilde) helps victims escape their domestic abuser.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Ailo's Journey
Aïlo: an odyssey in Lapland tells the fight for the survival of a small wild reindeer, frail and vulnerable to the challenges that punctuate his first year. Its awakening to the wild world is a real tale in the heart of the grandiose landscapes of Lapland.
Year: 2018
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Environment, Children, Documentary, Family
Boat, The
A lone fisherman encounters an abandoned sailboat, soon finding himself caught in a fight for survival against an unknown enemy.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
Public, The
When the homeless occupy a city library to escape freezing temperatures, it triggers an extreme reaction by local authorities and media. Starring Alec Baldwin, Emilio Estevez and Taylor Schilling.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Professor, The (FKA Richard Says Goodbye)
A college professor (Johnny Depp) lives his life with reckless abandon, a biting sense of humor, and a touch of madness.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Dead Trigger
In the near future, a deadly virus has turned millions into bloodthirsty zombies. Unable to stop the virus, the government recruits an elite team to combat the zombie menace. Starring Dolph Lundgren.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
The Command (FKA Hostile Waters FKA Kursk)
In this nail-biting action-thriller, sailors fight for survival on a sinking submarine while their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Year: 2018
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, 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
Isabelle Huppert stars in this drama about a well-off French family living in a bourgeois bubble in northern France, oblivious to the human misery unfolding in migrant camps a few miles from their home.
Year: 2017
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
Black Site Delta
A group of military prisoners must fight off a terrorist attack on their prison which, unbeknownst to them, is a cover for a secret drone control facility.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Action
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, The
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, Biography
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 struggling actor is forced to do community service at a local church and pretends to be Christian so he can 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
Language: English, French
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
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Wilde Wedding, The
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: Fantasy, Drama, Romance
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, Thriller, 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, Mystery
Hunter's Prayer, The
Lucas, (Sam Worthington), a solitary assassin, is hired to kill a young woman, Ella, (Odeya Rush) but when he can’t bring himself to pull the trigger, the plan falls apart, setting in motion a twisted game of cat and mouse. Now both are marked for death and forced to form an uneasy alliance. Relentlessly pursued across Europe, Their only hope for survival is to expose those responsible for brutally murdering her family and bring them to justice.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action
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
Kill Switch
A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
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: Romance, 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, Mystery, 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: Thriller, 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, Thriller, 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
Question of Faith, A
When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny forces them on a converging path to discover God's love, grace and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Rebel in the Rye
The world of legendary writer J. D. Salinger is brought vividly to life in this revealing look at the experiences that shaped one of the most renowned, controversial, and enigmatic authors of our time. Set amidst the colorful backdrop of mid-20th century New York City, REBEL IN THE RYE follows a young Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) as he struggles to find his voice, pursues a love affair with famed socialite Oona O'Neill (Zoey Deutch), and fights on the frontlines of World War II. It’s these experiences that will inform the creation of his masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye, bringing him overnight fame (and notoriety) and leading him to withdraw from the public eye for the rest of his life. Co-starring Kevin Spacey and Sarah Paulson, REBEL IN THE RYE offers a tantalizing window into the life and times of a little-understood genius who broke the rules and redefined American literature.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
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
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
Language: English
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
Language: English
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: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
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, Romance
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
Dating Project, The
Five single people try to figure out dating in the age of social media, texting, hanging out and hooking up.
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
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: 2017
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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
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: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Teen, Drama, Family, Mystery
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
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Documentary
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: 2017
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Genre: Documentary
Desierto
A deranged, rifle-toting vigilante chases a group of illegal immigrants through the treacherous U.S.-Mexican border.
Year: 2017
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Tale, The
Director: Jennifer Fox
Year: 2017
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Handmaiden, The
A Korean woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a conman's 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, Sci-Fi
Pandemic
Featuring non-stop action from a first-person perspective, Pandemic puts you in the middle of every fire fight in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, where a global epidemic threatens the future of humanity.
Director: John Suits
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
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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
Two dirty cops (Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood) team up to break into a mysterious vault. Once they find out what’s inside, it’s too late to turn back.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
I Am Wrath
When the police are unable to catch his wife’s brutal killers, a former black-ops agent (John Travolta) takes justice into his own hands.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Last Heist, The
A bank heist descends into violent chaos when one of the hostages turns out to be a serial killer (Henry Rollins).
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
Cell
Samuel L. Jackson and John Cusack star in Stephen King's apocalyptic thriller about a mysterious signal that reprograms the minds of cellphone users around the globe.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Kill Command
An elite squad of marines are sent to a remote island to train with the soldiers of the future: intelligent machines with a devastating capacity to kill. But the exercise soon takes a terrifying turn when the machines become sentient, leaving the soldiers in a desperate fight for survival.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Action, Sci-Fi
Love & Friendship
In this delightfully hilarious Jane Austen adaptation, Kate Beckinsale stars as the seductive and manipulative Lady Susan, who uses devious tactics to win the heart of the eligible Reginald De Courcy.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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
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: 2016
Language: English/Hindi
Genre: Documentary
Café Society
Café Society is Woody Allen's star-studded retro comedy about a young New Yorker who moves to Hollywood and falls for the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Gleason
When NFL player Steve Gleason was diagnosed with ALS at 34, they gave him no more than 5 years to live. Steve embarked on a courageous journey to fight the illness, recording a video journal along the way for his newborn son.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Weiner
After disappearing from the public eye following his 2011 sex scandal, politician Anthony Weiner attempts a comeback by running for mayor of New York - until a new scandal derails his campaign.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Innocents, The (Agnus Dei)
In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.
Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: History, Drama
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: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
Wiener-Dog
In this riotous comedy, an adorable dachshund puppy finds itself shuffled from one oddball owner to the next, including two couples, a veterinary nurse (Greta Gerwig), a screenwriter (Danny DeVito) and a cranky old woman (Ellen Burstyn).
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Window Horses
Rosie, a young poet, travels to a poetry festival in Iran and discovers her own voice while opening herself to those of others in this whimsical, animated coming-of-ager.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Animation
Skiptrace
A Hong Kong cop (Jackie Chan) pursues a notorious crime lord with the help of a brash American gambler (Johnny Knoxville) in this action comedy from the director of Cliffhanger and Die Hard 2.
Year: 2016
Language: English
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, The
Federal agent Robert Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes undercover on a high-stakes mission to infiltrate the criminal network of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Based on the incredible true story.
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
Rob Zombie's latest follows five carnival workers who are kidnapped and forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns. Welcome to 31.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Comedy
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 & French
Genre: Drama, 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: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Kill Ratio
An American covert operative (Tom Hopper) fights to save an Eastern European democracy from a ruthless coup d'etat by the country’s military leader.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Action
Catfight
A reunion between two former college friends (Sandra Oh, Anne Heche) sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition, in this outrageously madcap black comedy.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
I Am Not Your Negro
Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America. Using James Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material, this incendiary film is a sobering reminder of how far we've yet to go.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Last Face, The
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
Language: French
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 Academy Award-winning director of Citizenfour turns her camera on WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, offering an intimate portrait of the cypherpunk underground in an era of ever-increasing surveillance and secrecy.
Year: 2016
Language: English/Arabic
Genre: Documentary
My Art
A 65-year-old single artist living in New York City has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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
Windmill, The
Jennifer is an Australian girl on the run from her past who washes up in Amsterdam. In a desperate attempt to stay one step ahead of the authorities, she joins a coach-load of tourists embarking on a tour of Holland's world famous windmills. When the bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, she and the other tourists are forced to seek shelter in a disused shed beside a sinister windmill where, legend has it, a Devil-worshiping miller once ground the bones of locals instead of grain. As members of the group start to disappear, Jennifer learns that they all have something in common - a shared secret that seems to mark them all for doom.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Drama
First Monday in May, The
Every spring, New York City is home to the biggest night in fashion: The Met Gala. The First Monday in May takes you behind the scenes of this ultra-exclusive affair, where the world’s top designers and celebrities come together to showcase fashion as fine art.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Julieta
Spanish maestro Pedro Almodóvar adapts three stories from Canadian Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro for this time-tripping tale about the relationship and eventual rupture between a teacher and her beloved daughter.
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Year: 2016
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance
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
Date For Mad Mary, A
A woman newly released from prison seeks a date to bring to her best friend's wedding.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
This documentary explores the life and career of avant-garde musician Frank Zappa entirely via archival footage of the man, including interviews and concert performances.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Tempest Storm
Tempest Storm is a feature documentary that follows the controversial life story of America's greatest exotic dancer, who at 87 years old is preparing for her final and most important act: to repair her broken relationship with her daughter Patricia, who she walked away from fifty years ago.
Director: Nimisha Mukerji
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
I'm Not Ashamed
The inspiring and powerful true story and journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott - the first student killed in the Columbine high school shooting in 1999.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Biography
God's Not Dead 2
A high-school teacher's response to a student's question about Jesus lands her in big trouble, leading to an epic court case that could cost her the career she loves and expel God from the classroom - and the public square - once and for all.
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Unless
An accomplished writer and translator, Reta Winters (Catherine Keener) is dumbfounded after the recent actions of her eldest daughter, Norah (Hannah Gross). For no clear reason, Norah has dropped out of university to spend her days panhandling on the sidewalk outside of Toronto landmark Honest Ed’s. She holds a cardboard sign with only one word: “Goodness”.
Director: Alan Gilsenan
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Call Up, The
A group of hardcore gamers are invited to test a state-of-the-art virtual reality warzone, but things turn sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
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
Equity
In this financial thriller, a senior investment banker (Anna Gunn) is threatened by a financial scandal and must untangle a web of corruption.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Elle
A high-powered businesswoman's brutal sexual assault elicits both erotic fantasies and dreams of revenge.
Year: 2016
Language: French
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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
Whole Truth, The
Keanu Reeves and Renée Zellweger star in this thriller about a defense attorney (Reeves) who fights to get his teenage client acquitted of murdering his wealthy father.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
USS Indianapolis
After delivering key components for the atomic weapons that would end WWII, the crew of the USS Indianapolis face a harrowing nightmare as their ship goes down in the shark infested Philippine Sea. Based on a true story.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: War, Action
Before I Wake
A young couple adopt an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - become reality as he sleeps.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama
Hillsong
This inspiring film chronicles the spectacular rise of the Christian band, Hillsong UNITED, to a worldwide recording and concert sensation.
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Family
Eagle Huntress, The
A 13-year-old girl trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her family to become an eagle hunter. Narrated by Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley.
Year: 2016
Language: Kazakh
Genre: Adventure, Documentary, Family
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, Italian
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
When Vincent saves Roxxy from a violent assailant, they unexpectedly fall in love. But when a sadistic gangster from their past shows up, their brief solace is shattered.
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
When a greedy rancher threatens to seize their horse farm, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the horse race of her life, or her family will lose everything.
Director: Teddy Smith
Year: 2016
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, 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
Natasha
A forbidden romance develops between a 16-year-old Russian Jewish immigrant and his 14-year-old cousin-by-marriage - a girl from Moscow with a scandolous past.
Director: David Bezmozgis
Year: 2015
Language: Russian, English
Genre: Drama
Amy
A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse became an international sensation with her unforgettable voice and intimate lyrics. But with her meteoric rise to fame came invasive media attention that, coupled with her troubled relationships and addictions, led her into a cycle of self-destruction. Featuring extensive unseen archival footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly beautiful film invites audiences to remember and celebrate Amy as a brilliant artist rather than the tabloid fodder she sadly became.
Director: Asif Kapadia
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Action, Western
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
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: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama
Florida
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: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Unbranded
On an epic 3,000-mile journey from Mexico to Canada, four young cowboys riding wild mustangs embark on the adventure of a lifetime. With exquisite cinematography of breathtaking terrain from the Grand Canyon to Yellowstone, Unbranded celebrates the worth of these magnificent creatures while exposing the issues that threaten their very existence.
Director: Phillip Baribeau
Year: 2015
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: 2015
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: 2015
Language: German/Turkish/English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
(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
MI-5
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
400 Days
In preparation for a journey into deep space, four astronauts are sent on a simulated mission that lasts 400 days. But when they emerge from the ship, they realize it may not have been a simulation after all…
Director: Matt Osterman
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
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
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Viva
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Year: 2015
Genre: Drama
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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
Mustang
Five beautiful and beguiling young sisters become imprisoned in their own home, forbidden by their controlling, conservative elders from having any contact with the outside world.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Year: 2015
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
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, Drama
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
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: 2015
Language: Japanese
Genre: Adventure, Action, Animation
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 embrace his talent while battling racial tensions on and off the field in Woodlawn, a moving and inspirational new film based on a remarkable true story. Starring Academy Award® winner Jon Voight as college football coaching legend Paul "Bear" Bryant, and Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings).
Director: Andrew Erwin, Jon Erwin
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Avril et le Monde Truqué
In an alternate history where Napoleon's heirs rule France, scientists and scholars have gone missing for years, leaving behind a world deprived of their technological innovations. In this land powered by coal and steam, young April searches for her missing scientist parents.
Year: 2015
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Animation
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 group of men find themselves caught in the middle of a war between alien forces and the military in this sci-fi thriller from legendary gaming director Keith Arem (Call of Duty).
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
After a near-fatal accident, a determined young rider (Nikki Reed) defies all odds to chase her dreams of competing in a national horse-jumping championship. Inspired by a true story.
Director: Vic Armstrong
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Family
Wave, The
In this pulse-pounding thriller, a geologist tries to prevent a tsunami from destroying a popular tourist destination. With less than 10 minutes to react, it becomes a race against time in order to save as many as possible, including his own family.
Director: Roar Uthaug
Year: 2015
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Action
Man Who Knew Infinity, The
Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) and Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons star in this inspirational biopic about an early-20th century mathematician whose groundbreaking theories revolutionized the field.
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 (Emma Watson) embarks on a desperate journey to rescue her boyfriend from a mysterious and dangerous cult.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: History, Thriller, Drama, Romance
Emelie
After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits, but as her behavior becomes increasingly odd, the kids soon find out that her intentions are dark and twisted, and she is not who she seems to be.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Other Half, The
A psychological drama that centers on a passionate love affair between a self-destructive drifter and a bi-polar woman.
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
Blackcoat's Daughter, The
Stranded at their Catholic prep school over winter break, two young girls fall into the terrifying grasp of an unseen evil force. Meanwhile, a mysterious hospital escapee (Emma Roberts), charts a course towards the school.
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
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: 2015
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: 2015
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama
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
Miles Ahead
MILES AHEAD is a wildly entertaining and moving exploration of one of 20th century music's creative geniuses, Miles Davis, featuring a career-defining performance by Oscar nominee Don Cheadle in the title role. Working from a script he co-wrote with Steven Baigelman, Cheadle's bravura directorial debut is not a conventional biopic but rather a unique, no-holds-barred portrait of a singular artist in crisis.
Director: Don Cheadle
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography
Diary of a Teenage Girl, The
Like most teenage girls, Minnie Goetze (Bel Powley) is longing for love, acceptance and a sense of purpose in the world. Minnie begins a complex love affair with her mother's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend, "the handsomest man in the world," Monroe Rutherford (Alexander Skarsgård). What follows is a sharp, funny and provocative account of one girl's sexual and artistic awakening, without judgment.
Director: Marielle Heller
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Lace Crater
After a bizarre sexual encounter with a ghost, a twenty-something woman (Lindsay Burdge) begins experiencing inexplicable changes in her body.
Director: Harrison Atkins
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Fantasy, Drama, Romance, Comedy, Mystery
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Meddler, The
Susan Sarandon delivers one of her most richly satisfying performances in this insightful and winning comedy-drama about an incessantly doting mother who, after her husband passes away, follows her daughter (Rose Byrne) to Los Angeles and makes an unexpected connection.
Director: Lorene Scafaria
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, 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: History, Thriller, 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: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Grandma
Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) unexpectedly shows up needing $600 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: 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
Bronze, The
In 2004, Hope Ann Greggory became an American hero after winning the bronze medal for the women's gymnastics team. Today, she's still living in her small hometown, washed-up and embittered. Stuck in the past, Hope must reassess her life when a promising young gymnast threatens her local celebrity status.
Director: Bryan Buckley
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Comedy
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: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Biography
High Rise
In this visionary tale based on J.G. Ballard’s classic novel, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled by the laws of the jungle.
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: History, 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
When a burned-out, brilliant professor - one who believes in lessons from life rather than textbooks - takes a job at a small college, everyone there is abuzz. He becomes involved with a teacher as well as a precocious student, but it takes a dramatic, existential act to turn his life around and make him see the world through a much rosier and more positive perspective.
Director: Woody Allen
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Infinitely Polar Bear
Mark Ruffalo and Zoe Saldana star in this comedic drama about a manic-depressive Harvard dropout struggling to care for his two daughters as his estranged wife attends graduate school in New York City.
Director: Maya Forbes
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
The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.
Director: Marc Abraham
Year: 2015
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama, Biography
Prince
Director: Sam de Jong
Year: 2015
Coming Home
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Director: Zhang Yimou
Year: 2014
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama, Romance
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Comedy
Gemma Bovery
Gemma Arterton stars in this amusing and sexy modern-day re-working of Flaubert’s 19th century novel, Madame Bovary. Having moved to a rustic farm with her older husband, Gemma (Arterton) soon tires of their ‘simpler’ life and finds distraction in a torrid affair with a handsome young aristocrat. Meanwhile, Martin, a local baker and lover of literature, becomes besotted with Gemma, but also fears she may suffer the same fate as the heroine in his favourite novel.
Director: Anne Fontaine
Year: 2014
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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: 2014
Language: Spanish
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comedy
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
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
Day after day, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and Evelyn (Chiara D'Anna) act out a simple yet provocative ritual that ends with Evelyn's punishment and pleasure. As Cynthia yearns for a more conventional relationship, Evelyn's obsession with erotica quickly becomes an addiction that may push the relationship to a breaking point.
Director: Peter Strickland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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
Meet Seymour Bernstein: a beloved pianist, teacher and true inspiration who shares eye-opening insights from an amazing life. Ethan Hawke helms this poignant guide to life.
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, Romance
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Son of a Gun
While locked up for a minor offence, 19-year-old JR (Brenton Thwaites) becomes apprentice to the enigmatic Brendan Lynch (Ewan McGregor), a calculating crime boss with connections both inside and out. After helping Lynch and his crew orchestrate a daring prison escape, JR is invited to join in on their next job – a high stakes heist that promises to deliver millions. But as they plan the heist, JR begins to suspect he is being played and soon finds himself on a collision course with his mentor, in a very dangerous game.
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
Co-directed by master filmmaker Wim Wenders (Pina), The Salt of the Earth takes us on a stunning visual odyssey as we see the world through the eyes of one of the greatest image-makers of the last century - world-renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado. Having captured some of the major events of our recent history, Salgado is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories and grandiose landscapes as tribute to the planet's beauty.
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 X-Ray
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
20-something aspiring writer Brian enters into a passionate love affair with a glamorous French woman. The catch? She's married, and can only meet him for brief trysts in fancy Manhattan hotels. Co-starring Frank Langella, Glenn Close, and Olivia Thirlby, this sexy romantic romp captures the giddy thrill of being young and in love.
Director: Victor Levin
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Salvation, The
After killing the men who murdered his newly arrived wife and son, immigrant settler Jon (Mads Mikkelsen) unleashes the fury of the local gang and its ruthless leader (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who rule their frontier town. Betrayed by his corrupt and cowardly community, Jon must fight for his life, slay the outlaws, and cleanse the town’s black heart.
Director: Kristian Levring
Year: 2014
Language: English, Danish
Genre: Drama, Western
Time Lapse
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future. When they start to use it for personal gain, the machine takes over their lives and controls their future, with devastating results.
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, Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
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
A chronicle of British street artist Banksy's "Better Out Than In" project, a surreptitious residency in New York City boroughs that drew a devoted following eager to find a new piece for each day in October 2013.
Director: Chris Moukarbel
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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/English/Hebrew
Genre: Drama
American Heist
James (Hayden Christensen) owes his life to his older brother Frankie (Adrien Brody) after Frankie took the rap for a crime they both committed. After Frankie serves his time, he convinces James to join him in an ill-fated bank robbery in the hopes that one last job will change both their lives.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Action
Preggoland
When 35-year-old Ruth ruins a baby shower with her juvenile antics, her old high school cronies-who are all mothers now-promptly de-friend her. But when she is later mistakenly thought to be ‘with child’ she is inexplicably welcomed back into the group. Although she initially tries to come clean, the many perks of pregnancy are far too seductive to ignore. Preggoland is a comedy about our societal obsession with babies and the lengths we’ll go to be part of a club.
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, English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Hungry Hearts
New York City newlyweds Jude and Mina have a seemingly perfect relationship. But things take an unsettling turn with the birth of their son. Convinced that the baby must be kept free of all contaminants, Mina (Alba Rohrwacher) becomes increasingly isolated from the world and outrageously protective of the baby, while Jude (Adam Driver) tries to cope with his wife's escalating obsessions.
Director: Saverio Costanzo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Robot Overlords
Following an alien invasion, Earth’s inhabitants are forbidden from leaving their homes while their new Robot Overlords carry out their mysterious research. But when a band of adoptive siblings find a way to override their implants, a quest begins to find a missing father, even if it means defying an empire.
Director: Jon Wright
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi
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, Italian
Genre: Thriller, Drama
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
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
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
Left heartbroken by the woman he loved and lost many years ago, AJ Manglehorn (Al Pacino), a small-town locksmith, tries to start his life over again with the help of a new friend (Holly Hunter).
Director: David Gordon Green
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
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
Rams
In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
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
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, Sci-Fi
Dheepan
Winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes. An improvised "family" flees civil war in Sri Lanka only to end up in another violent conflict in Parisian slums.
Director: Jacques Audiard
Year: 2014
Language: French, Tamil
Genre: Drama, Crime
Fall
Father Sam Ryan, (Michael Murphy), an aging Roman Catholic Priest living contentedly at a Niagara Falls parish, receives a letter forcing his complacent life into a downward spiral. The letter, from "Christopher," confronts him about an incident that happened 40 years ago. Father Sam was a young, charismatic priest, serving a remote, Northern Ontario parish. Christopher was a 14-year-old adolescent, whom Sam mentored. The letter asks Father Sam for the truth: what did take place all those years ago? Were lines blurred or crossed? What choices were made?
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
Un été en Provence
Lea, Adrian, and their little brother Theo go on holiday in Provence with their estranged grandfather, whom they have never met because of a family quarrel. It is not the holiday they dreamed of, especially since their parents have just announced that they are splitting up. But despite the initial disappointment and the inevitable clash of generations, over the course of their turbulent summer, both generations will be transformed by the other.
Director: Roselyne Bosch
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance
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
Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded
Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of the US. With over an hour of previously unreleased material, including never-before-seen interviews, stories and archival news footage, this is the most comprehensive look at Miami's Cocaine Wars yet, exposing the biggest, most ruthless players in the business.
Director: Billy Corben
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Crime, Documentary
God's Not Dead
Director: Harold Cronk
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
By the Gun
Nick Tortano is an ambitious criminal from the streets of Boston whose life spirals out of control once he joins the mafia. When he comes head-to-head with the ‘Boss’ (Harvey Keitel), Nick’s girlfriend, family, and friends’ lives are placed in danger. To protect himself and the ones he loves, Nick is forced to gun down anyone that stands in his way.
Director: James Mottern
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
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: 2014
Language: English, Hebrew
Genre: Documentary, Biography
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Sports, Drama, Biography
Alien Outpost
Ten years after a devastating alien invasion, an elite team of marines continues to fight, and die, defending the crucial but deadly zone known as Outpost 37. When a soldier disappears during an ambush, the unit launches a raid deep into enemy territory to rescue him… only to discover that the first invasion was only the beginning.
Director: Jabbar Raisani
Year: 2014
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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, Crime, Biography
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: History, Documentary, Biography
Princess Grace
Nicole Kidman stars as legendary Hollywood actress-turned-princess Grace Kelly in this lavish biographical drama from acclaimed director Olivier Dahan. Six years after leaving Hollywood to become Princess of Monaco, Grace, now a mother of two, considers a comeback in the movies against her husband's wishes. But with political strife threatening war in her country, Grace must choose once and for all between her life as a film star and her role as princess.
Director: Olivier Dahan
Year: 2014
Language: English, French
Genre: Drama, Romance, 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: History, Documentary, Biography
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, Family
Long Way Down, A
A Long Way Down is a funny and charming comedy starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots and Sam Neill. On New Year’s Eve, four strangers meet atop a London skyscraper, each looking for a way out. Instead, these perfect strangers make a pact to stay together until Valentine’s Day, sparking a media frenzy as they help one another find the beauty in being alive. Based on the novel by acclaimed writer Nick Hornby (About a Boy, Fever Pitch).
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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: 2014
Language: French
Genre: War, Drama
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Action
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
Open Windows
From the visionary director behind the sci-fi classic Timecrimes comes another technical masterpiece. Elijah Wood stars as Nick, a super fan who has won a contest to meet his favourite actress, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey), star of a series of sci-fi action films. But when Jill refuses to honour the contest, her manager—an ominous figure named Chord—makes Nick an offer he can't refuse: the opportunity to spy on Jill through his computer. Nick begins watching the unknowing star, unaware that his actions will put both himself and Jill in mortal danger.
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Action, Sci-Fi
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Romance, Comedy
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman's point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it's a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Director: James Kent
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, 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: Drama, Comedy
Jimmy's Hall
In 1921 Jimmy opened a dance hall, where he encouraged young Irish men and women not only to dance, but to discuss the cultural oppression and poverty of the time. However, Jimmy's past as a leader of the Revolutionary Workers' Group, a predecessor of the Communist Party of Ireland, sparked protests against Jimmy running a hall where he was influencing young people.
Director: Ken Loach
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: History, Drama, Biography
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
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Drama
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: Adventure, Comedy, Animation
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
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
Director: Andreï Zviaguintsev
Year: 2014
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama, Crime
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, Crime
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: 2014
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, 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
Wedding Guest, The
When Jay (Scott Speedman), a charming ladies man, meets Daisy (Evan Rachel Wood), a free-spirited but sheltered woman, he’s not looking for love. Instead, he needs a convincing date to take to his estranged brother's wedding so he can trick his family into believing that he's finally straightened out his life. What starts out as a simple deception turns into a wild road trip.
Director: Andrew Fleming
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Devil's Hand, The
In the small, isolated village of New Bethlehem, members of the quietly devout community live in fear. The Elders have warned that an ancient prophecy may soon be fulfilled – that upon turning 18 years old, one of six girls, all born on the sixth day of the sixth month, will become the “Devil’s Hand.” As that day approaches, one-by-one the girls begin to die. Could this be the act of a serial killer, a village elder, or the horrific prophecy come true...?
Director: Christian E. Christiansen
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Premature
You're in highschool. Facing the biggest day of your life. You need to nail a college interview ensuring your admittance to your parents' beloved alma mater. To keep cool when your life-long crush finally seems to show interest. And then you wake up one morning and realize someone's playing a sick joke, because you're reliving the day's events over and over...and over again. Are you A.) stuck in a dream? B.) Experiencing déjà vu? C.) Having a psychotic break? Whether it's finding a way to get into college, into your life-long crush's pants, or having an even bigger epiphany, you must figure out how to break the cycle before losing your mind. This is the set-up for Premature, the hilarious-yet-heartfelt comedy from first time feature director (and co-writer) Dan Beers that won over audiences at this year's SXSW. An ingenious collision between Groundhog Day and American Pie.
Director: Dan Beers
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy
Amapola (INTL)
Director: Eugenio Zanetti
Year: 2014
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Musical
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi
Ex Machina
When a young programmer arrives at his reclusive CEO's private mountain retreat, he learns that he will be a key player in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence. The subject is Ava, a breathtaking A.I. whose emotional intelligence proves more sophisticated - and more deceptive - than the two men could have imagined.
Director: Alex Garland
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Crème de la crème, 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: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Cam 2 Cam
In this dark and haunting thriller, Five Bangkok tourists have gone missing after making online contact with an unknown party. Newly-arrived Allie Westbrook (Tammin Sursok) meets a pair of ex-pats, Michael and Marit, who perform on a provocative interactive website. The dark menace beneath Michael's easy charm and the strange magnetism of the group's leader, Marit, drive Allie to the brink of madness. In a city where foreigners come to re-invent themselves, Allie learns, too late, that nothing is what it seems.
Director: Joel Soisson
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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: History, Drama, Biography
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: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
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
An expectant father undertakes a perilous/delicious mission to see what the hidden sugars in seemingly healthy products can do to both his body and brain chemistry in this eye-opening new documentary that must be seen to be believed.
Director: Damon Gameau
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
Saint Laurent
The life of acclaimed fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent during the peak of his career, from 1967 to 1976.
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Year: 2014
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Biography
Kelly & Cal
Kelly, a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future she doesn't yet fit in. Seventeen-year-old Cal is frustrated at his lack of control over the hand he's been dealt. When the two strike up an unlikely friendship, it's the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back to life.
Director: Jen McGowan
Year: 2014
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Family
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: Drama, Romance, Biography
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: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Comedy
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
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
After a car accident leaves them stranded in a rundown, secluded inn, David and his family discover the old innkeeper has locked a young girl in the basement. When they set her free they realize, too late, that she is possessed by an evil spirit from centuries past. What’s worse, the spirit can jump from person to person, creating a deadly dynamic among the once loving family. Before it destroys all that he loves, David must figure out a way to seal this ancient evil up for good.
Director: Víctor García
Year: 2013
Language: English & Spanish
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: Drama, Romance
Fanny (La Trilogie Marseillaise)
Fanny loves Marius and is expecting his child, but he has set off on a 5-year journey at sea without knowing about the baby. For the sake of the baby's future, Fanny agrees to marry a prosperous shopkeeper. Meanwhile, Marius has finally realized his profound love for Fanny but his father convinces him to stay out of her life for the sake of the child's future and the honor of the family.
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: 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: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Action, Sci-Fi
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
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
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: Music & Live Performance, 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, Romance
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, Crime, Action
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, Fantasy, Action, Family
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
Get up close and personal with 16 of the most successful women in the adult film industry as they shed their clothes for an intimate photo shoot with director Deborah Anderson. As questions are asked, personal stories about their lives are revealed - from why they chose the business of sex to how they got into it in the first place. These porn stars have always been discreet about their private lives, yet Anderson has a way of opening up a dialog allowing them to share more than just their naked skin on screen.
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: German, English
Genre: War, Drama
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: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Romance, Comedy
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, Family
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: 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: 2013
Language: French, English
Genre: Drama
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
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, Fantasy, Action
Resurrection, A
Following the murder of his older brother, a troubled high school student devises a sinister plan to resurrect his sibling from the grave and exact revenge on the students responsible for his death. When these students become trapped in their high school, a guidance counselor, the school principal and a local police officer must fight to save them before the resurrected brother kills them all.
Director: Matt Orlando
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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, French, German
Genre: Documentary
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: 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, Romance, Comedy
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, Biography
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: 2013
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
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
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
A feisty teenage girl (Hailee Steinfeld) orchestrates a romance between her nanny (Kristen Wiig) and her father (Guy Pearce) in this funny and moving love story based on award-winning Canadian author Alice Munro’s acclaimed short story. Also starring Nick Nolte, Christine Lahti, Sami Gayle and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Director: Liza Johnson
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
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, Comedy
Fading Gigolo
In this hilarious sex comedy, Woody Allen stars as Murray, a cash-strapped guy who "pimps" his shy friend Fioravante (John Turturro) out as a male escort to pay the bills. As business begins to boom, Fioravante finds an unexpected connection with one of his clients, while Murray soon discovers that the life of a pimp is not so easy. Also starring Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, and Liev Schreiber.
Director: John Turturro
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
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: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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: Fantasy, Drama, Family
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: History, Drama, Documentary
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, Fantasy, Action, 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, Romance, 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, Romance
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: Adventure, 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, Romance
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, Family
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
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, Drama, Action
Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz
In the closing stages of WWII, an elite squad of Russian soldiers fall victim to a counter-attack by the Nazis. Those who aren’t killed are taken to a secret bunker where horrifying experiments are under way to create a breed of undead Nazi super soldiers. In order to survive, the prisoners must outrun and outgun the most vicious and powerful enemies they have ever faced.
Director: Kieran Parker
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi
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
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
Lucie (Kristin Scott Thomas) presumes that her husband Paul (Daniel Auteuil), an older neurosurgeon, is having an affair. Indeed, Paul’s recent behavior has been strange, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.
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, Mystery
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, Drama
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, Mystery
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, Crime, Mystery
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
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, Romance, 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, Biography
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)
François Cluzet (The Intouchables) stars in this high seas adventure as a sailor determined to win a grueling 3-month-long solo around-the-world yacht race. After a brief lay-up, Yann (Cluzet) rejoins the race and discovers a teenage stowaway. While realizing his dream of winning is imperiled by the presence of the young man, Yann's hostility slowly gives way to empathy and an understanding of his predicament.
Director: Christopher Offenstein
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Adventure, Sports, Drama
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: Adventure, Horror
VHS-2
From the innovative minds that brought you last year’s V/H/S comes V/H/S/2, an all-new anthology of dread, madness, and gore. Searching for a missing student, two private investigators break into his abandoned house and find a collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying 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: Horror, 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: Dutch, 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: Drama, Crime, 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: Thriller, 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, Drama, Crime, Action
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
An all-star voice cast brings to life this epic adventure of a one-of-a-kind zebra named Khumba who is born with only half his stripes. After being rejected by his superstitious herd, Khumba embarks on a daring quest to find a legendary waterhole rumored to grant zebras their missing stripes. But when he discovers a villainous leopard on his trail, he must find the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.
Director: Anthony Silverston
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Family, Animation
Lucky Them
Toni Collette stars as Ellie Klug, a beloved rock journalist working for a struggling music magazine. When her boss (Oliver Platt) orders her to look into the mysterious disappearance of a onetime local rock star, who also happens to be her ex, Ellie joins forces with a music-hating, dot com millionaire (Thomas Haden Church) to hunt down the singer.
Director: Megan Griffiths
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Marque des Anges, La
A choir master is found mysteriously murdered in a Paris church with his eardrums blown out and no witnesses. Investigating is homicide Police Commander Lional Kasdan (Gérard Depardieu), just-retired but desperate to come back to action. Kasdan teams with a short-tempered younger cop, Interpol Captain Frank Salek, who believes the murder is connected to a secret organization that he’s been tracking. Together they work to crack the case, leading to a dark secret from the Captain’s past.
Director: Sylvain White
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Thriller
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, Crime, Biography
Adult World
Fresh out of college, quirky but naïve Amy (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story) is convinced she’s going to be a famous poet – she just needs someone to finally acknowledge her greatness. But being unemployed and saddled with debt, her prospects for literary fame look grim. At the behest of her parents, she takes a job at a local sex toy shop, Adult World, where she juggles her newfound retail responsibilities with pursuing a mentorship under a reclusive, crusty and alcoholic poet (John Cusack). But as Amy tries to make her voice heard among a social circle of eccentrics, including Adult World’s adorable young manager Alex, she discovers that a little humility may be just what she needs to achieve her success. Satirically funny and thoroughly-if-awkwardly sexy, ADULT WORLD is a unique comedy about the realities of growing up.
Director: Scott Coffey
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Blue is the Warmest Color
At 15, Adele doesn't question that girls go out with boys. But her life changes when she meets a mysterious girl with blue hair who helps her discover desire in an intense and complicated love story that spans a decade.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Romance
Au Bonheur des Ogres
While his mother is off on one romantic adventure or another, Benjamin, professional scapegoat and oldest son, is responsible for his horde of siblings. But when strange incidents happen wherever he goes, police and colleagues begin to eye him suspiciously. It soon becomes a matter of life and death to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life.
Director: Nicolas Bary
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Zero Theorem, The
From visionary director Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Brazil) comes a new sci-fi spectacle starring two-time Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz as Qohen, a computer genius on the verge of a great discovery. Under constant surveillance by a shadowy figure known as “Management” (Matt Damon), Qohen is tasked with deciphering the seemingly unsolvable Zero Theorem, a mathematical formula that could unlock the meaning to everything. But his work is soon interrupted by a mysterious and sexy woman whose sudden presence may point to a greater conspiracy against him…
Director: Terry Gilliam
Year: 2013
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy, 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: History, Drama, Romance, Biography
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
Francois is a Tour de France fanatic. When he gets fired by his boss and his wife leaves, he decides the best way to deal with the emotion of it all is to ride the Tour just days ahead of the pros. As rumours of his adventure spreads he is soon joined by others, who are inspired by his challenge.
Director: Laurent Tuel
Year: 2013
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Kiss of the Damned
A Hollywood writer develops an obsession with a seductive female vampire, leading him into the hidden world of the eternal. When her violent sister arrives and unleashes her anger on the local town, loyalties are put to the test, and the entire vampire community is threatened.
Director: Xan Cassavetes
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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: Horror, Thriller, Drama
Jack & Diane
Jack (Riley Keough) and Diane (Juno Temple), two teenage girls, meet in New York City on a hot summer day and become instant friends. Bubbly and naive, Diane’s charming innocence softens tomboy Jack’s tough-skinned heart. But when Jack discovers that Diane is moving at the end of the summer she pushes Diane away. Overwhelmed by her new feelings, Diane's emotions begin to cause mysterious and violent changes to her body. Young love is a monster – can Jack and Diane survive?
Director: Bradley Rust Gray
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
Brass Teapot, The
John and Alice are 20-something, married, very much in love, and broke. Once voted “most likely to succeed,” Alice (Juno Temple) struggles to make ends meet while her friends enjoy the good life. Her husband John (Michael Angarano), neurotic and riddled with phobias, just wants to get the bills paid. But an accident leads them to a roadside antique shop where Alice is 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…The Brass Teapot is a magical dark comedy that reminds us to be careful what we wish for.
Director: Ramaa Mosley
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Fantasy, Comedy
Molière à Bicyclette
A TV heartthrob embarks on a journey with a clear mission in mind: to convince his old friend and once great actor to return to the stage in the lead of Molière's The Misanthrope. But for three years this friend has lived in solitude, avoiding the pressures of the limelight. Can he be coaxed out of retirement or will his misanthropic ways get the better of him?
Director: Philippe Le Guay
Year: 2012
Language: French, Italian
Genre: Drama, 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, Romance, 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, Family, Mystery
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: Comedy
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, English
Genre: Comedy, Biography
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, English
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: Drama, Romance, Comedy
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: 2012
Language: French
Genre: Canadian, Drama
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, Romance
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: Crime, Documentary
30 Beats
Featuring an all-star ensemble cast that includes Academy-Award Nominee® Jennifer Tilly and Paz de la Huerta (Boardwalk Empire), 30 Beats is a light-hearted exploration of seduction, spontaneity and self-discovery. Sparked by a summer heat wave, ten New Yorkers are connected in a series of steamy sexual encounters as sultry and vibrant as the city in which they live.
Director: Alexis Lloyd
Year: 2012
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Crawlspace
Deep in the heart of the Australian desert lies Pine Gap, a top-secret underground compound run by the United States military. When the base comes under attack from unknown forces, an elite team is sent in to extract the military scientists. There they encounter a beautiful young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group discovers the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.
Director: Justin Dix
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Mystery
Reality
Reality is a dark comedy about a charming man whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on the reality show "Big Brother" leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia. So overcome by his dream of being on reality TV, his own reality begins to spiral out of control, making for one of the most compelling tragicomic character studies since Scorsese's The King of Comedy.
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
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: 2012
Language: English
Genre: 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: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, 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
Under the Bed
Two years ago Neal knew there was something under his bed but no one believed him. When he burned down the family home trying to kill it he was sent to live with relatives. Now he’s back, but his little brother Paul is being terrorized by the same monster. With no support from their parents the two brothers must band together to get rid of the creature, and their nightmares, once and for all.
Director: Steven C. Miller
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama
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
Nominated for an Academy Award, A Royal Affair is an epic romance about the scandalous love triangle between a Queen, her German doctor (Mads Mikkelsen), and the mad King of Denmark. Drawn together in the pursuit of freedom for their people, their high-flown idealism is undone by blind passion in this notorious true story of illicit love and political intrigue.
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
Year: 2012
Language: English, Danish, German
Genre: History, Drama, Romance
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
LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED is directed by Golden Globe (R) and Oscar (R) winning filmmaker Susanne Bier, written by Bier and Anders Thomas Jensen and starring Pierce Brosnan and Trine Dyrholm. 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, Thilde. 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. With warmth, affection and confidence, Susanne Bier has shaken a cocktail of love, loss, absurdity, humor, and delicately drawn characters that will leave only the hardest heart untouched. 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, Danish
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Charm
Charm is an irreverent black comedy hosted by Malcolm (Ashley Cahill), a New Yorker who's had enough with gentrification and decides to take matters into his own hands. How? By personally starting a murderous crime wave designed to make the news, drive real estate values down, and thereby bring back the golden days of creativity. The only problem is: nobody is paying attention.
Director: Ashley Cahill
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Crime, 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
When Jimmy is brutally murdered by two hooded figures, Becky, Kurtis, Neville and the other residents of the Serenity House tower block are witnesses to the killing but, fearing retribution, are too scared to give detectives any information and the police investigation is going nowhere. One year later, someone has decided to take justice into their own hands. Picked off one by one, the tenants of Serenity House are under threat from a mystery sniper who has set deadly traps throughout the building. Unsure of why they have been targeted, the group undertake daring attempts to escape the building.
Director: Ronnie Thompson, James Nunn
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
2 Days in New York
Hip talk-radio host and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock) and his French photographer girlfriend, Marion (Julie Delpy), live cozily in New York with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. When Marion's jolly father, her oversexed sister, and her sister's lewd boyfriend unceremoniously descend upon them for an overseas visit, it initiates two unforgettable days of family mayhem. Written and directed by Julie Delpy (2 Days in Paris).
Director: Julie Delpy
Year: 2012
Language: English & French
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
L'Homme qui Rit
A carnival boss (Gérard Depardieu) rescues two orphans in a winter storm - a beautiful, blind girl and a boy whose face is deformed by a scar that makes him look as though he's constantly laughing. They travel together for many years performing a show in which the boy is the star - people come from everywhere to see The Man Who Laughs. As he becomes famous and rich, he gradually grows distant from the only two people in the world who love him for what he is.
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: Adventure, Comedy, 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
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: Sports, Documentary
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: Crime, Documentary, Biography
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, Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
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
For Greater Glory
What would you pay for the price of freedom? In the exhilarating action epic For Greater Glory, an impassioned group of men and women risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country. Starring Oscar-nominee Andy Garcia (The Godfather), Oscar-winner Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia) and Eva Longoria, the film’s adventure unfolds against the 1920s Cristero War, a civil war between peasant guerrillas defending the Church and the Mexican state.
Director: Dean Wright
Year: 2012
Language: English, Spanish
Genre: History, War, Drama
Branded
In this mind-bending, sci-fi thriller set in a surreal, not-so-distant future, mega-corporations rule. A terrifying conspiracy has been unleashed - one that controls the minds of the citizens. One man is determined to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy. His quest to find it will plunge him into a tangled web of power and intrigue, leading to a shocking revelation and an epic battle with the hidden forces and creatures that threaten the fate of mankind.
Director: Jamie Bradshaw, Aleksandr Dulerayn
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi
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
When a successful, legendary painter meets a feisty teenage runaway, their lives seem destined to connect. He has fled his life and family without explanation and she is avoiding her abusive stepfather. Striking up a strong friendship and eventually living together as father and daughter, these two misfits help each other make sense of their lives once more.
Director: Jean Becker
Year: 2012
Language: French
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, Crime
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 (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn't really have an apartment. She is an apprentice for a dance company, but she's not really a dancer. She has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Greta Gerwig shines in Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha, a modern comedy about a charming 27-year-old who wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness.
Director: Noah Baumbach
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview
Shot in 1995 for “Triumph of the Nerds,” a PBS documentary series, most of this hour-long interview by Robert X. Cringely was, until now, presumed lost. Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview offers rare and intriguing insights into the mind of the late Apple chief executive and high-tech visionary.
Director: Paul Sen
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
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, English
Genre: Drama, Romance
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
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, Fantasy, 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: Romance, Comedy
Maniac
Maniac stars Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings) as Frank, a brutal serial killer with a fetish for scalps. Psychologically damaged from an abusive childhood, he uses the fresh scalps for his mannequin collection. When a friendship develops with a beautiful art student, Frank struggles to overcome his psychotic urges, but his twisted obsession only escalates and his compulsion to stalk and kill is unstoppable.
Director: Franck Khalfoun
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The
Kiefer Sutherland, Kate Hudson and Liev Schreiber star in this explosive political thriller about a brilliant young man (Riz Ahmed) from Pakistan whose meteoric rise on Wall Street puts the American Dream well within his reach. But when the Twin Towers are attacked, his dream turns into a nightmare as he finds himself embroiled in a hostage crisis and torn between the conflicting ideologies of his two homelands.
Director: Mira Nair
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Struck by Lightning
Chris Colfer (“Glee”) stars as Carson Phillips, a small-town high-school senior with big-league ambitions and no one who believes in him. Desperate to escape his hometown and make it big in New York City, Carson, along with his new best friend (Rebel Wilson, Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids), devises a scheme to blackmail the jocks and cheerleaders into writing for his literary magazine. Also starring Christina Hendricks ("Mad Men"), Allison Janney (Juno, "The West Wing"), Sarah Hyland ("Modern Family"), Angela Kinsey ("The Office") and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding).
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, Comedy
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
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, Biography
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: Horror, Thriller, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Simon Killer
A heartbroken American on a soul-searching trip to Paris finds his buried secrets clawing their way to the surface in this neo-noir thriller from writer/director Antonio Campos (Afterschool). Lovelorn in the aftermath of a recent break-up with his longtime girlfriend, American college graduate Simon (Brady Corbet) wanders the streets of Paris aimlessly, and drifts into a sex parlor where he encounters mysterious prostitute Victoria (Mati Diop). His emotions suddenly reawakened, Simon hatches a plan to blackmail one of her wealthy clients -- a crime that has some unexpected repercussions for all involved.
Director: Antonio Campos
Year: 2012
Language: English, French
Genre: Thriller, Drama
What Maisie Knew
Starring Academy Award-nominee Julianne Moore (The Kids Are All Right), Steve Coogan (Ruby Sparks) and Alexander Skarsgård (True Blood), What Maisie Knew is the touching story of Maisie, a captivating six-year-old girl searching for grace in the midst of her parents' separation. Maisie navigates this ever-widening turmoil with a child’s innocence and generosity of spirit, and eventually finds love in the most unlikely of places.
Director: Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Drama
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, English
Genre: Drama
Searching for Sugar Man
In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.
SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN is a film about hope, inspiration and the resonating power of music.
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Year: 2012
Language: English
Genre: Music & Live Performance, Documentary, Biography
Pieta
In this intense and haunting drama, a loan shark mercilessly collects debts from desperate borrowers. One day, a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. After coldly rejecting her, he gradually accepts her into his life and decides to quit his cruel job to seek a better path. When a dark secret resurfaces, he realizes it may be too late to escape the horrific consequences already set in motion.
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Year: 2012
Language: Korean
Genre: Drama, Crime
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, Spanish
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: Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Drama, Action, Sci-Fi