Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 93
Language: English
Director: Sean McNamara
Plot: Based on a true story of the American Civil War, culminating at the Battle of New Market in May 1864, a group of teenage cadets, sheltered from war at the Virginia Military Institute, must confront the horrors of an adult world when they are called upon to defend the Shenandoah Valley.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 103
Language: English
Director: Hong Khaou
Plot: LILTING (Drama/LGBT) Directed by Hong Khaou. Set in contemporary London, LILTING tells the story of a Cambodian-Chinese mother mourning the untimely death of her son. Her world is suddenly disrupted by the presence of a stranger. Though they don’t share a common language, a translator helps piece together the memories of a man they both loved. LILTING is a touching film about unlikely connections and the tragedies that bring us together even though we may be worlds apart.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 146
Language:
Director: Richard Ramsey
Plot: THE SONG follows aspiring singer-songwriter Jed King (Alan Powell, Anthem Lights lead singer) as he struggles to catch a break and escape the long shadow of his father, a country music legend. After reluctantly accepting a gig at a local vineyard harvest festival, Jed is lovestruck by the vineyard owner’s daughter, Rose (Ali Faulkner, TWILIGHT: BREAKING DAWN), and a romance quickly blooms. Soon after their wedding, Jed writes Rose “The Song,” which becomes a breakout hit. Thrust into a life of stardom and a world of temptation in the form of fellow performer Shelby Bale (Caitlin Nicol- Thomas, “Nashville”), Jed’s life and marriage begin to fall apart.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 149
Language: English
Director: Jason Michael Brescia
Plot: A group of twenty-something friends in Long Island evolve over the course of 2012. Sal (Ryan Metcalf) and Meghan (Brianne Berkson) are married, and wanting to start a family, though they’ve been unsuccessful. Eric (Chris Viemeister) and Lina (Natalie Knepp) are drifting apart, as Lina wants to live the big city live in New York City, while Eric is reluctant to leave Long Island. Terry (Arjun Gupta) has been busted for driving while intoxicated after a New Year’s party, and Nate (Joe Murphy) is unlucky in love, working for his uncle (Wass Stevens) at the local bar. Their lives intersect and play out as new relationships start and end, old secrets are revealed and life moves steadily forward.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 101
Language: English
Director: Roberto Minervini
Plot: Sara is a young girl raised in a family of goat farmers. Her parents homeschool their twelve children, rigorously following the precepts of the Bible. Like her sisters, Sara is taught to be a devout woman, subservient to men, while keeping her emotional and physical purity intact until marriage. When Sara meets Colby, a young amateur bull rider, she is thrown into crisis, questioning the only way of life she has ever known.
In a stunning portrayal of contemporary America and the insular communities that dot its landscape, Stop the Pounding Heart is an exploration of adolescence, family and social values, gender roles, and religion in the rural American South.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 140
Language: English
Director: Livi Zheng
Plot: A painter, a fighter, both artists in their own way. Brother and sister, forced to flee their home, arrive at Seattle, The Emerald City, inside a shipping container. Trying to make their way in a new strange world the pair struggle to survive. Until, one day, an art dealer, takes an interest in the sister’s painting, and the pair find themselves living a dream come true. The sister loses herself in her art, painting, and the brother seizes the opportunity to express himself, as a fighter.
But it really is all just a dream. Conned by her patron into forging a long lost Van Gogh. Purchased by a ruthless criminal with a passion for fine art. The brother and sister soon find themselves embroiled in Seattle’s criminal underworld and a Brush With Danger.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 149
Language: English
Director:
Plot: THE DROP is a new crime drama from Michaël R. Roskam, the Academy Award nominated director of BULLHEAD. Based on a screenplay from Dennis Lehane (MYSTIC RIVER, GONE BABY GONE), THE DROP follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski (Tom Hardy) through a covert scheme of funneling cash to local gangsters – “money drops†– in the underworld of Brooklyn bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv (James Gandolfini), Bob finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living – no matter the cost.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 145
Language: English
Director: Claudia Myers
Plot: Decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother Maggie Swann (Michelle Monaghan) returns home from an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan to discover the bond with her five-year-old son has been broken. As she struggles to reclaim his affection, life after deployment is made more difficult by her persistent memories of Afghanistan. When news of another deployment threatens the fragile balance she has achieved, she must find a way to reconcile her duties as a mother and her obligations as a soldier.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 151
Language: English
Director: Craig Johnson
Plot: When estranged twins Maggie and Milo feel that they’re at the end of their ropes, an unexpected reunion forces them to confront why their lives went so wrong. As the twins reconnect, they realize the key to fixing their lives may just lie in repairing their relationship.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 95
Language: English
Director: Pascale Ferran
Plot: The airport hotel: more often than not the dreary site of a woeful inconvenience—a missed flight, an impediment standing in the way of a destination and the chance to move on with one’s life. But not so for Gary (Josh Charles) and Audrey (Anaïs Demoustier). The principal setting of BIRD PEOPLE, a hotel at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport represents a place of promise and hope and serves as the unlikely establishment that brings these two lost souls together.
Fed up with the stresses of his work and home life, Gary, an American businessman en route to Dubai, views his overnight layover as an opportunity to start fresh in Europe. For Audrey, a Parisian chambermaid, the hotel is her ticket through college and a path away from her humdrum life. As their paths cross nearer in the halls of the hotel, their lives change in a way neither ever could have imagined.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 132
Language: English
Director: Donavon Thomas
Plot: Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 146
Language: English
Director: James Manera
Plot: Approaching collapse, the nation’s economy is quickly eroding. As crime and fear take over the countryside, the government continues to exert its brutal force against the nation’s most productive who are mysteriously vanishing – leaving behind a wake of despair.
One man has the answer. One woman stands in his way.
Some will stop at nothing to control him. Others will stop at nothing to save him.
He swore by his life. They swore to find him.
Who is John Galt?
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 151
Language: English
Director: Michael Berry
Plot: Set in the tumultuous Border area of Arizona and Mexico, Frontera follows the events that take place after a former Arizona Sheriff’s wife (Amy Madigan) is killed while riding on their Ranch property. It would appear a Mexican man (Michael Pena) crossing in to the US illegally is at fault. As former Sheriff (Ed Harris) and current Sheriff (Aden Young) search for answers, lives are changed forever and the facts as to who is really at fault in this tragedy are nearly as tenuous and complex as the issues and tensions between the people who live in this region on either side of the line.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 131
Language: English
Director: Jen McGowan
Plot: Punk-rocker turned suburban mom, Kelly (Juliette Lewis), 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 (Jonny Weston) 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.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 151
Language: English
Director: Dustin Marcellino
Plot: Identical twin brothers (both played by Blake Rayne) are separated at birth during the Great Depression. Their parents (Brian Geraghty, Amanda Crew) just cannot afford to give them both a life beyond poverty, so one is adopted by loving family. Despite their very different upbringings, the boys’ shared passion for music causes their lives to unknowingly intersect as they experience a powerful and mysterious connection often felt by twins.
One of the boys becomes the most famous rock ‘n’ roll legend in the world, Drexel Hemsley, while Ryan Wade struggles to find balance between his love for music and trying to please his evangelist father (Ray Liotta) and his devoted mother (Ashley Judd) who have very different plans for his life in the ministry.
Ryan is encouraged by his wife Jenny (Erin Cottrell) and lifelong friends Dino and Avi (Seth Green, Joe Pantoliano) to follow his musical dreams. And oh, can he sing, just like his world famous brother!
A timeless tale of love, hope, and redemption. A captivating journey about the restoration and the reconciliation of a family broken apart by culture, creed and tradition.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 159
Language: English
Director: Hilary Brougher
Plot: Haunted by the death and dreams of her beloved mother in a Montauk surfing accident, 16 year old Beckett and her father, novelist Miles Warner, move to Manhattan and attempt to piece together their shattered life. Now enrolled at the exclusive Hamilton preparatory school, her psychosis and hallucinations intensify with the dubious suicides of current and past students as does her first love for Tobey Crawford. The discovery that her new school may be run by a coven of beautiful and seductive women who perpetuate their youth by drinking the blood of virgins becomes the ultimate challenge of Beckett and Tobey’s young lives.
INNOCENCE is a chilling allegory of the precarious state of an American teenager, explores themes of loss, the human condition and a society torn between purity and narcissism.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 152
Language: English
Director: Richard Glatzer
Plot: Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling Hollywood star and notorious ladies man, flouted convention all his life, but never more brazenly than in his last years when, swimming in vodka and unwilling to face his mortality, he undertook a liaison with an aspiring actress, Beverly Aadland. The two had a high-flying affair that spanned the globe and was enabled by the girl’s fame-obsessed mother, Florence. It all came crashing to an end in October 1959, when events forced the relationship into the open, sparking an avalanche of publicity castigating Beverly and her mother – which only fed Florence’s need to stay in the spotlight. THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD is a story about the desire for fame and the price it exacts.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 152
Language: English
Director: Thomas Carter
Plot: nspired by a true story, WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL tells the remarkable journey of legendary football coach Bob Ladouceur (Jim Caviezel), who took the De La Salle High School Spartans from obscurity to a 151-game winning streak that shattered all records for any American sport.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 81
Language: English
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Plot: Co-directors Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller reunite to bring Miller’s visually stunning “Sin City†graphic novels back to the screen in FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. Weaving together two of Miller’s classic stories with new tales, the town’s most hard boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants. FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR is the follow up to Rodriguez and Miller’s 2005 groundbreaking film, FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 153
Language: English
Director: R.J. Cutler
Plot: In a single moment, everything changes. Seventeen-year-old Mia has no memory of the accident she can only recall riding along the snow-wet Oregon road with her family. Then, in a blink, she finds herself watching as her own damaged body is taken from the wreck… A sophisticated, layered, and heartachingly beautiful story about the power of family and friends, the choices we all make—and the ultimate choice Mia commands.