Missionary (2014)
Rating: R
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Jeremy Workman’s “Magical Universe” is a home-video introduction to Al Carbee and his odd, glam Barbie photography.
Running Time: 78 Minutes
“Braddock America” chronicles the troubles of Braddock, Pa., a steel town that has seen better days.
Running Time: 100 Minutes
“Blood Ransom” follows a beautiful vampire-in-the-making as she goes on the run with a mortal man who loves her.
Running Time: 101 Minutes
“True Son” is a portrait of a violence-ridden California city sharply segregated by race and income and the Stanford senior who ran for a City Council seat.
Running Time: 72 Minutes
“Hit by Lightning” is a parody of “Double Indemnity” involving a man (Jon Cryer) venturing into online dating only to meet a femme fatale.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Marshall Curry’s documentary “Point and Shoot” seems to turn the tables on its subject, an American who joined the fight against Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya.
Running Time: 82 Minutes
“Bitter Honey,” a documentary by the U.C.L.A. anthropologist Robert Lemelson, examines a Polynesian island that remains mired in ancient patriarchy and domestic violence.
Running Time: 80 Minutes
In “Nightcrawler,” Jake Gyllenhaal plays a freelance videographer who tries to corner the market on grisly images of crime and accident scenes.
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity)
Running Time: 117 Minutes
The documentary “Plot for Peace” centers on a French commodities trader who helped broker a peaceful end to apartheid in South Africa.
Rating: NR
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Two brothers from rural England find different fates amid the trenches on the Western Front in “Private Peaceful,” based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, the author of “War Horse.”
Running Time: 100 Minutes
In “Before I Go to Sleep,” Nicole Kidman plays an amnesiac who awakens each day not knowing who she is, nor the man lying beside her (Colin Firth).
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
In “Horns,” starring Daniel Radcliffe, people start confessing their evil desires and doings to a young man after he suddenly sprouts horns.
Rating: R (Violence/Nudity/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 123 Minutes
“A Letter to Momo” covers a range of emotions as it tells the story of a young girl whose father was lost at sea.
Release Date: Jul 23, 2014
Running Time: 120 Minutes
In “A Walk Among the Tombstones” the private investigator Matthew Scudder, from the Lawrence Block novels, pursues a case that leads him to an underworld of brutality.
Release Date: Sep 19, 2014
Rating: R
Running Time: 114 Minutes
“Abuse of Weakness,” based on the director Catherine Breillat’s own book, focuses on a woman entranced by a swindler.
Release Date: Aug 15, 2014
Running Time: 104 Minutes
“Addicted,” a film by Bille Woodruff, is a cautionary tale of a restless businesswoman who seems to have it all but descends into sex addiction.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2014
Rating: R (Nudity/Strong Sexual Content/Profanity)
Running Time: 105 Minutes
In “Goodbye to Language,” Jean-Luc Godard weaves narratives around a man, a woman and a dog.
Release Date: Oct 29, 2014
Running Time: 70 Minutes
For Ari Seth Cohen, older women, their individuality on parade, have become an obsession and the subject of photographs, a blog and now a documentary.
Release Date: Sep 26, 2014
Rating: NR
Running Time: 72 Minutes
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” includes Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner in its adaptation of Judith Viorst’s children’s book.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2014
Rating: PG (Adult Situations)
Running Time: 80 Minutes
The documentary “Algorithms” follows three blind chess players in India.
Release Date: Oct 24, 2014
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Music is used to care for the aging in a documentary by Michael Rossato-Bennett.
Release Date: Jul 18, 2014
Running Time: 74 Minutes
Michael Douglas plays a crabby old guy who gets together with his next-door neighbor (Diane Keaton) in the comedy “And So It Goes.”
Release Date: Jul 27, 2014
Rating: PG-13 (Adult Situations/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 94 Minutes
Before the events of “The Conjuring,” a doll is up to her old tricks in “Annabelle.”
Release Date: Oct 3, 2014
Rating: R
Running Time: 98 Minutes
“Art and Craft” looks at Mark A. Landis, who liked donating faked paintings to American museums, and the museum official determined to expose him.
Release Date: Sep 19, 2014
Running Time: 89 Minutes
In “As Above/So Below,” fictional documentarians follow a group searching the Paris catacombs for the Philosopher’s Stone.
Release Date: Aug 29, 2014
Rating: R
Running Time: 93 Minutes
“Awake: The Life of Yogananda” tells the story of an Indian yogi who garnered relatively wide attention in the first half of the 20th century.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2014
Rating: PG (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Smoking)
Running Time: 87 Minutes
In the romance and action film “Bang Bang!,” the hero covers several continents in pursuit of a diamond from the Tower of London, among other prizes.
Release Date: Oct 2, 2014
Rating: NR
Running Time: 153 Minutes
In “Before I Go to Sleep,” Nicole Kidman plays an amnesiac who awakens each day not knowing who she is, nor the man lying beside her (Colin Firth).
Release Date: Oct 31, 2014
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity)
Running Time: 92 Minutes
In “Bird People,” a businessman and a maid at an airport hotel abruptly seek escapes from unhappy lives.
Release Date: Sep 12, 2014
Running Time: 128 Minutes
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Birdman” stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.
Release Date: Oct 17, 2014
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 119 Minutes
“Bitter Honey,” a documentary by the U.C.L.A. anthropologist Robert Lemelson, examines a Polynesian island that remains mired in ancient patriarchy and domestic violence.
Release Date: Oct 31, 2014
Running Time: 80 Minutes
“Blood Ransom” follows a beautiful vampire-in-the-making as she goes on the run with a mortal man who loves her.
Release Date: Oct 31, 2014
Running Time: 101 Minutes
Wachtang Korisheli grew up with Stalin and the Nazis, and then turned to elementary-school music teaching, in California.
Release Date: Oct 10, 2014
Running Time: 82 Minutes
“Braddock America” chronicles the troubles of Braddock, Pa., a steel town that has seen better days.
Release Date: Oct 31, 2014
Running Time: 100 Minutes
In “Brush With Danger,” the siblings Livi Zheng and Ken Zheng play immigrants trying to make it in America through paintings and martial arts.
Release Date: Sep 19, 2014
Running Time: 90 Minutes
“Calvary,” John Michael McDonagh’s mordantly funny murder mystery, revolves around an Irish Roman Catholic priest.
Release Date: Aug 1, 2014
Rating: R (Violence/Profanity/Sexual Situations/Drug Content)
Running Time: 100 Minutes
In “Camp X-Ray,” an Army private newly assigned to the Guantánamo Bay prison develops some empathy for a detainee.
Release Date: Oct 17, 2014
Rating: R (Brief Nudity/Profanity)
Running Time: 117 Minutes
James Franco is the director and co-writer of a screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel “Child of God.”
Release Date: Aug 1, 2014
Rating: R
Running Time: 105 Minutes
“Citizenfour,” about Edward J. Snowden’s quest to expose sweeping government surveillance of citizens, has the effect of a spooky and deeply unsettling thriller.
Release Date: Oct 24, 2014
Rating: R (Profanity)
Running Time: 114 Minutes
Love plays tricks on an American traveler, portrayed by Gethin Anthony, seeking answers about his ancestry in Denmark.
Release Date: Oct 3, 2014
Running Time: 98 Minutes
In “A Fuller Life,” staged readings recount the lengthy career of the director Samuel Fuller.
Release Date: Aug 6, 2014
In “A Most Wanted Man,” a grim German intelligence agent played by Philip Seymour Hoffman zeros in on a Chechen whom he believes he can link to terrorist cells.
Release Date: Jul 24, 2014
Rating: R (Violence/Not For Children/Profanity/Sexual Situations)
Running Time: 121 Minutes