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Saint Laurent and Mommy
The Captive (Queen Of The Night)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Atom Egoyan; Writer: Atom Egoyan, David Fraser; Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson, Mireille Enos, Kevin Durand, Alexia Fast)
A father tries to find his kidnapped daughter.
Clouds Of Sils Maria
(Country: France, Switzerland, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Olivier Assayas; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche, Brady Corbet, Claire Tran, Johnny Flynn), Trailer
A reclusive actress on the brink of divorce is asked to take on a challenging role - that of a doomed woman whose betrayer she made her name as.
Foxcatcher
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Bennett Miller; Writer: E Max Frye, Dan Futterman; Stars: Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carell, Anthony Michael Hall)
The story of wrestling stars Mark and Dave Schultz and their poisonous relationship with John du Pont.
Goodbye To Language 3D (Adieu Au Langage)
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2013; Director: Jean-Luc Godard; Writer: Jean-Luc Godard; Stars: Kamel Abdeli, Dimitri Basil, Zoé Bruneau, Richard Chevallier)
Musings on relationship problems, betrayal and identity.
The Homesman
(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Tommy Lee Jones; Writer: Kieran Fitzgerald, Tommy Lee Jones; Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Jo Harvey Allen, Barry Corbin, David Dencik, William Fichtner, Evan Jones, Caroline Lagerfelt, John Lithgow, Tim Blake Nelson, Jesse Plemons, James Spader, Meryl Streep), Official Site, Trailer
Two pioneers unite to escort three mentally ill women from Nebraska to Iowa.
The Captive and Maps To The Stars
Jimmy's Hall
(Country: UK, Ireland, France; Year: 2014; Director: Ken Loach; Writer: Paul Laverty; Stars: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brían F O'Byrne)
The story of political activist Jimmy Gralton, deported from Ireland during the country's Red Scare in the 1930s.
Maps To The Stars
(Country: Canada, USA, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: David Cronenberg; Writer: Bruce Wagner; Stars: Julianne Moore, Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, Carrie Fisher, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, livia Williams), Trailer
Drink, drugs, sex and psychosis mix as a Hollywood dynasty comes into contact with the beautiful daughter of a deceased diva.
La Meraviglie
(Year: 2014; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Monica Bellucci, Alba Rohrwacher)
The idyllic lives of three sisters and their father are disrupted by the arrival of a stranger.
Mommy
(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Xavier Dolan; Writer: Xavier Dolan; Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément)
A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor insinuates herself into their household.
Mr. Turner (Mr Turner)
(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Mike Leigh; Writer: Mike Leigh; Stars: Tom Wlaschiha, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Timothy Spall, Lesley Manville)
A biopic of artist J.M.W Turner
Wild Tales and Two Days, One Night
The Search
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Michel Hazanavicius; Writer: Michel Hazanavicius; Stars: Annette Bening, Bérénice Bejo, Nino Kobakhidze, Nika Kipshidze)
An NGO worker forms a special relationship with a young boy in war-torn Chechnya.
Saint Laurent
(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Bertrand Bonello; Writer: Thomas Bidegain, Bertrand Bonello; Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Jérémie Renier, Helmut Berger, Louis Garrel, Léa Seydoux)
Biopic of Yves Saint Laurent.
Still The Water (Futatsume No Mado)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2014; Director: Naomi Kawase; Writer: Naomi Kawase; Stars: Makiko Watanabe, Hideo Sakaki, Jun Murakami, Miyuki Matsuda, Tetta Sugimoto)
A teenage couple investigate after a corpse is found floating in the sea during an island festival.
Timbuktu (Le chagrin des oiseaux)
(Country: France, Mauritania; Year: 2014; Director: Abderrahmane Sissako; Writer: Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall; Stars: Pino Desperado, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki, Kettly Noël, Hichem Yacoubi)
After a herdsman accidentally kills someone, he finds himself a victim of Sharia law fundamentalists.
Two Days, One Night (Deux Jours, Une Nuit)
(Country: Belgium; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Writer: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne; Stars: Marion Cotillard, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Salée, Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Cornil)
Sandra, a young woman assisted by her husband, has only one weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses so that she can keep her job.
Foxcatcher and The Search
Wild Tales
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2014; Director: Damián Szifron; Writer: Damián Szifron; Stars: Rita Cortese, Ricardo Darín, Nancy Dupláa, Darío Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Osmar Núñez, María Onetto, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Julieta Zylberberg)
Vulnerable before a reality that can suddenly be modified and become unpredictable, the characters of Wild Tales cross the thin line that divides civilization from brutality.
Winter Sleep (Kis Uykusu)
(Country: Turkey, France, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Writer: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag)
A hotel owner gradually has his delusions stripped away from him.
The Wonders (Le meraviglie)
(Country: Italy, Switzerland, Germany; Year: 2014; Director: Alice Rohrwacher; Writer: Alice Rohrwacher; Stars: Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Alba Rohrwacher, Sabine Timoteo, Agnese Graziani, Monica Bellucci, )
Nothing will be the same at the end of this summer for Gelsomina and her three younger sisters.
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