Missionary (2014)
Rating: R
Running Time: 90 Minutes
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Released on October 31, 2014
Magical Universe (2014)
Jeremy Workman’s “Magical Universe” is a home-video introduction to Al Carbee and his odd, glam Barbie photography.
Running Time: 78 Minutes
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Braddock America (2014)
“Braddock America” chronicles the troubles of Braddock, Pa., a steel town that has seen better days.
Running Time: 100 Minutes
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Blood Ransom (2014)
“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
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True Son (2014)
“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
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Hit By Lightning (2014)
“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
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Point and Shoot (2014)
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
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Bitter Honey (2014)
“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
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Nightcrawler (2014)
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
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Plot for Peace (2014)
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
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Private Peaceful (2014)
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
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Before I Go To Sleep (2014)
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
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Horns (2014)
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
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A Letter to Momo(2014)
“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
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A Walk Among the Tombstones(2014)
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
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Abus de Faiblesse(2014)
“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
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Addicted(2014)
“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
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Adieu au langage(2014)
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
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Advanced Style(2014)
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
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day(2014)
“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
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Algorithms(2014)
The documentary “Algorithms” follows three blind chess players in India.
Release Date: Oct 24, 2014
Running Time: 96 Minutes
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Alive Inside(2014)
Music is used to care for the aging in a documentary by Michael Rossato-Bennett.
Release Date: Jul 18, 2014
Running Time: 74 Minutes
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And So it Goes(2014)
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
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Annabelle(2014)
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
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Art and Craft(2014)
“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
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As Above, So Below(2014)
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
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Awake: The Life of Yogananda(2014)
“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
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Bang Bang(2014)
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
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Before I Go To Sleep(2014)
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
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Bird People(2014)
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
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Birdman(2014)
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
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Bitter Honey(2014)
“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
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Blood Ransom(2014)
“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
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Botso(2014)
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
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Braddock America(2014)
“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
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Brush With Danger(2014)
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
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Calvary(2014)
“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
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Camp X-Ray(2014)
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
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Child of God(2014)
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
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Citizenfour(2014)
“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
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Copenhagen(2014)
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
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A Fuller Life(2014)
In “A Fuller Life,” staged readings recount the lengthy career of the director Samuel Fuller.
Release Date: Aug 6, 2014
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A Most Wanted Man(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
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