Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 127
Language: English
Director: Robert Stromberg
Plot: The live-action film explores the origins of the evil fairy Maleficent and what led her to curse Princess Aurora in Disney’s animated classic Sleeping Beauty.
Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 120
Language: English
Director: PJ Raval
Plot: The subjects of Before You Know It are no ordinary senior citizens. They are go-go booted bar-hoppers, love struck activists, troublemaking baton twirlers, late night Internet cruisers, seasoned renegades and bold adventurers. They are also among the estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans over the age of 55 in the United States, many of whom face heightened levels of discrimination, neglect and exclusion. But Before is not a film about cold statistics and gloomy realities, it’s a film about generational trailblazers who have surmounted prejudice and defied expectation to form communities of strength, renewal and camaraderie—whether these communities be affable senior living facilities, lively activist enclaves or wacky queer bars brimming with glittered trinkets and colorful drag queens.
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 158
Language: English
Director: Seth MacFarlane
Plot: Seth MacFarlane directs, produces, co-writes and plays the role of the cowardly sheep farmer Albert in A Million Ways to Die in the West.
After Albert backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend leaves him for another man. When a mysterious and beautiful woman rides into town,
she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw, arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 106
Language: French
Director: Arnaud des Pellieres
Plot: An arresting medieval epic starring Mads Mikkelsen (A ROYAL AFFAIR, VALHALLA RISING, Hannibal), AGE OF UPRISING: THE LEGEND OF MICHAEL KOHLHAAS explores the high cost of vengeance. With the age of feudalism in decline, Europe rests at a tense crossroads between the old world and the new. Respected, well-to-do horse merchant Michael Kohlhaas is a loving husband and family man leading a peaceful existence, until a ruthless nobleman steals his horses, setting off a chain of irreversible events. Kohlhaas resorts to extremes after these crimes destroy his livelihood and trust in the law, igniting a rampage through the countryside in his quest for justice.
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 145
Language: English
Director: Don McKellar
Plot: A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract. When unlikely candidate and big city doctor Paul Lewis lands in their lap for a trial residence, the townsfolk rally together to charm him into staying. As the doctor’s time in the village winds to a close, acting mayor Murray French has no choice but to pull out all the stops and begin The Grand Seduction.
Genre: Thriller
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 146
Language: English
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Plot: NIGHT MOVES, the fifth feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt, is the story of three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam—the very source and symbol of the energy-sucking, resource-devouring industrial culture they despise.
Harmon is a former Marine, radicalized by tours of duty overseas. His life in the military is behind him, but at heart he remains the same reckless alpha male he always was, eager for adventure, excited by the prospect of mayhem and destruction.
Dena is a high society dropout, sickened by the consumer economy into which she was born. She’s moved west and cut ties with her family, edging ever deeper into radical politics.
And Josh, their leader, is a self-made militant, devoted to the protection of the Earth by any means necessary. A son of the middle class who works on an organic farm, he’s an intensely private person by nature and may have the deepest convictions of them all.
NIGHT MOVES is a tale of suspense and a meditation on the consequences of political extremism. When do legitimate convictions truly demand illegal behaviors? What happens to a person’s idealism when they find their back against the wall?
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 93
Language: English
Director: Thomas Beatty
Plot: In this hilariously dark comedy, three couples head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother — but are not prepared for the outrageous request he makes. With Gillian Jacobs, David Krumholtz, and Jason Ritter.
Genre: Romance
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 128
Language: English
Director: Cardinal Lamberto
Plot: Sandra (Drew Sidora), a small town country girl, returns home after college to take over the family business, her father’s beloved bed and breakfast. Facing an unfaithful husband and dysfunctional relationship with her mother, she finds herself at a difficult crossroads. Everything changes, however, when Terrance (Steven Sutton), a young, handsome lawyer checks in and opens her eyes to an entirely different life filled with happiness.
Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 116
Language: English
Director: Kirk Marcolina
Plot: Find out how a poor, single, African-American mother from segregated 1930s America winds up as one of the world’s most notorious and fabled jewel thieves.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 155
Language: English
Director: Anthony Joseph Giunta
Plot: Bullied high school student Tommy (Daniel Flaherty) is suddenly befriended by his chief tormentor, Matt (Kenton Duty), the school’s most popular student and star athlete. Tommy is suspicious, but is forced to accept the awkward friendship in order to enter a cooking contest with a big prize. And besides, it’s so much easier to impress his crush, Sarah (Katherine McNamara), when he’s not getting beat up by Matt and his team. As the cooking contest heats up, Sarah sniffs out a conspiracy, but nobody wants to hear about it. Can Tommy trust his budding friendship with Matt or is it all a huge joke on him?
Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 111
Language: English
Director: John Curran
Plot: Director John Curran (THE PAINTED VEIL, WE DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE) and the producers of THE KINGS SPEECH bring you the film TRACKS, which tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson (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 (Driver) who begins to photograph her voyage.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 140
Language: English
Director: Jim Mickle
Plot: 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.
Michael C. Hall brings a shell-shocked vulnerability to his portrayal of Dane that contrasts perfectly with the grizzled “badasses” portrayed by Sam Shepard and Don Johnson. Directed with an excellent eye for the visual poetry of noir, this pulpy, southern-fried mystery is a throwback to an older breed of action films one where every punch and shotgun blast opens up both physical and spiritual wounds. Cold in July is hard to shake as an east Texas summer.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 99
Language: English
Director: Sam Fleischner
Plot: “Stand Clear of the Closing Doors” is the story of Ricky, a 13-year-old boy with autism, and his mother, Mariana. An undocumented immigrant from Mexico, Mariana works long days cleaning houses while Ricky, deeply imaginative but painfully isolated, struggles to cope. They live in Rockaway Beach, Queens along with Ricky’s rebellious older sister, Carla, and semi-absent father, Ricardo Sr.
Carla doesn’t pick Ricky up from school one day and as he walks home alone, he is scolded by Mariana over the phone. Blocking out his mother’s wrath, he is swooned by a mysterious dragon figure into the subway. This marks the beginning of the young boy’s odyssey of self-discovery, where his confrontation with the bizarre, indifferent world of the subway pushes him to interact with the world. Mariana’s search brings her out into her neighborhood in new ways. She forms a new relationship with the beach and befriends a shopkeeper who knows her son. As days pass with no sign of Ricky and an impending hurricane, the divisions that the family has tried to ignore are brought to light.
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 121
Language: English
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Plot: Some people have bad days. Henry Altmann (Williams) has one every day. Always unhappy and angry at the world including everyone in it, Henry sits impatiently at the doctor’s office when he is finally seen by Dr. Sharon Gill (Kunis). Sharon, who is enduring her own bad day, reveals that Henry has a brain aneurysm. This news makes Henry even angrier, yelling at Sharon he demands to know how much time he has left. Faced with Henry’s anger and insults, Sharon abruptly tells him he has only 90 minutes. Shocked and reeling by this news, Henry storms out of the office leaving Sharon stunned by what she has just done in a lapse of judgment. As Sharon goes on a city-wide search, Henry struggles with his diagnosis, determined to make amends with everyone he has hurt in his life.
Genre: Action-Adventure
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 140
Language: English
Director: Bryan Singer
Plot: The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods in X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. The beloved characters from the original “X-Men” film trilogy join forces with their younger selves from “X-Men: First Class,” in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
Genre: Comedy
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 153
Language: English
Director: Frank Coraci
Plot: After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week.
Genre: Drama
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 136
Language: English
Director: Joseph Losey
Plot: Stephen (Dirk Bogarde), a married Oxford professor, struggles with his sexual attraction to young Austrian student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard) and subtly competes with his friend Charley (Stanley Baker) and pupil William (Michael York) for her affections. Unfolding with screenwriter Pinter’s trademark time-shifting, and framed by the rupture of a violent car crash, Accident explores hidden tensions and moral gray areas of desire. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, 1967.
Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 126
Language: English
Director: David Salzberg
Plot: The Hornet’s Nest tells the story of Mike Boettcher and his son Carlos embedding with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles “No Slack Battalion†in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan as the troops engaged hundreds of Taliban in Strong Eagle III. The 95-minute film follows Mike and Carlos as they try to reconnect as father and son, while providing unparalleled access to the action on the front lines, showcasing some of America’s most advanced fighting units.
Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 77
Language: English
Director: Jon Brewer
Plot: Narrated by Morgan Freeman, B.B. King: The Life of Riley is the untold true American story of an orphan boy from the heart of the Mississippi Delta who rose to music stardom around the world and inspired a generation of fans against all odds. The documentary includes never-before-seen interviews with rock legends including U2’s Bono, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Ringo Starr and many others.  Experience the inspirational journey of survival for the very first time with Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and 15-time GRAMMY winning artist Riley ‘BB’ King.
Genre: Documentary
Release Year: 2014
Runtime: 105
Language: English
Director: Bill Benenson
Plot: THE HADZA: LAST OF THE FIRST takes a lively look at human origins in the very place of our origins, Africa’s Rift Valley, where one of the world’s last remaining hunter-gatherer groups, the Hadza, have lived sustainably for over 50,000 years. The Hadza’s foraging lifestyle is much like that of our earliest ancestors, and many consider the group to be the oldest population in East Africa. Their way of life, which characterizes most of human existence, is currently under attack — this ancient culture and vital tie to our evolutionary roots may be lost forever.