SUFFRAGETTE is a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (played by Carey Mulligan), a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.’s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep), Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all walks of life. Inspired by true events, SUFFRAGETTE is a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of those who risked all they had for women’s right to vote—their jobs, their homes, their children, and even their lives.
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writers: Abi Morgan
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 46 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw, Romola Garai, Natalie Press, Meryl Streep
Cut Snake is a tense, psychologically driven crime thriller in which one man discovers his biggest enemy to putting the past behind him may be only himself. Set in Melbourne in the mid-1970s, Cut Snake tells the story of Sparra Farrell (Alex Russell), an ex-convict who is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city. He has found honest work and even becomes engaged, but the prospect of this new life is challenged when his foreboding and charismatic cellmate Pommie (Sullivan Stapleton) tracks him down upon his own release. Sparra finds himself enigmatically drawn back toward a world and a man that he was certain he had wanted to leave behind.
Director: Tony Ayres
Writers: Blake Ayshford
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 34 minutes
In Theaters October 30th, 2015
Cast: Sullivan Stapleton, Alex Russell, Jessica De Gouw
This drug-fueled rock ‘n roll joyride follows two New York City slackers on a surreal, life-altering road trip. Asthmatic artist Gus (Benedict Samuel) has hit bottom. With nothing to lose, he steals a Rolls Royce in an attempt to win over his tattoo artist crush, Ruby (Krysten Ritter). The pair embarks on a wayward journey that takes them everywhere from a neo-hippie commune to the bedside of Gus’ gravely ill mother as they come to terms with their feelings for one another. Featuring surprising cameos from Nick Nolte, Rosanna Arquette, and punk icon Iggy Pop, Asthma captures the highs and lows of being young, lost, and in love.
Director: Jake Hoffman
Writers: Jake Hoffman
Genre: Romance, Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015
Cast: Krysten Ritter, Nick Nolte, Benedict Samuel, Rosanna Arquette
In HARD LABOR, a middle-class couple slowly succumbs to the allures of entrepreneurship—and the horrors of a schizophrenic job market. As Helena (Helena Albergaria) gets ready to start her own business (a small grocery store), her white-collar husband Otávio (Marat Descartes) is let go from his job. Determined to stay afloat, Otávio goes on a series of ego-crushing job interviews and begins to adapt to the needs of a new economy. Helena, now the household’s breadwinner, discovers that the building housing her store has a sinister story in its past. Beautifully translating the evanescent forces of cyber-age economics into a Grand Guignol of kitchen-sink sensibilities, HARD LABOR is unlike any other Brazilian film you’ve seen in the last decade.
Director: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Writers: Juliana Rojas, Marco Dutra
Genre: Horror, Foreign, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 39 minutes
In Theaters October 30th, 2015
Cast: Helena Albergaria, Marat Descartes, Gilda Nomacce, Naloana Lima, Lilian Blanc, Thiago Carreira, Hugo Villavicenzio
Following a successful heist, modern day Robin Hoods Alejandro Toledo (Fernando Colunga) and Emilio Sánchez (Miguel Varoni) leave their lives of crime for a more civilian life. Ladrones sees Toledo return to his do-gooder robbing roots, and although Sanchez can’t quite commit to helping out, he introduces Toledo to the hilariously skilled Santiago Guzmán (Eduardo Yáñez) to help him with the mission of a lifetime. The two must work to reclaim land stolen from a hard working community by a ruthless family of crooks led by a beautiful but lethal diva. Action and comedy ensues as Toledo and Guzman recruit their new team of “Robin Hoods” to perform the biggest heist of their careers and save the future of an entire town.
Director: Joe Menéndez
Writers: Jon Molerio
Genre: Comedy, Family
Run Time: 1 hour 38 minutes
In Theaters October 9th, 2015
In 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from the family of a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her former betrothed. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break forever with the sacred way of the righteous assassins. Rich with shimmering, breathing texture and punctuated by brief but unforgettable bursts of action, THE ASSASSIN is a martial arts film like none made before it.
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama and the rise of superstar Tony Nathan.
Director: Jon Erwin, Andrew Erwin
Writers: Quinton Peeples, Jon Erwin
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 2 hours
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
Cast: Sean Astin, Nic Bishop, Caleb Castille, Sherri Shepherd, Jon Voigt
A hate crime has been committed. Five migrant labors are beaten, shot, then ditched near an abandoned industrial riverfront complex. The bodies are discovered six months later. Rolando Ramirez (a Mexican-American Detective, and a longtime resident of this community) has been assigned to the case. Was it chance? Or was it fate? His journey will force him to question his own identity and what it means to be a North American as he attempts to bring those who committed this crime to justice.
Director: Robert Fontaine
Writers: Robert Fontaine
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 2 hours 5 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
Cast: Michael Brainard, Robert Fontaine, Brad Lee Wind, Michael Derek, Grant Boyd
January 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra's mother, sick with worry, wants to know whether he has heard from her daughter. Electra's been missing for a long time. She's afraid something really bad has happened to her. Over the course of an endless rainy day, Murphy finds himself alone in his apartment, reminiscing about the greatest love affair of his life, his two years with Electra. A burning passion full of promises, games, excesses and mistakes...
Director: Gaspar Noe
Writers: Gaspar Noe
Genre: Drama, Romance
Run Time: 2 hours 14 minutes
In Theaters October 30th, 2015
Cast: Karl Glusman, Aomi Muyock, Klara Kristin, Juan Saavedra, Jean Couteau, Vincent Maraval
The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to living creatures. Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of a mysterious button that was discovered in its seabed. Chile, with its 2,670 miles of coastline, the largest archipelago in the world, presents a supernatural landscape. In it are volcanoes, mountains and glaciers. In it are the voices of the Patagonian indigenous people, of the first English sailors and also those of its political prisoners. Some say that water has memory. This film shows that it also has a voice.
Aja Naomi King plays Sophie Clé, the head of marketing for a high tech firm run by her father Jack Clé, played by Colm Feore. On the eve of launching a sleek device that allows users to relive their happiest memories, Sophie is kidnapped. After she escapes with a mysterious wound to her head, Sophie is haunted by increasingly violent visions of her late mother (Lela Rochon Fuqua) who committed suicide years earlier. When her father questions her sanity, Sophie enlists the family’s security guard (Gary Dourdan) to help uncover the family’s dark secrets.
Director: Jose Nestor Marquez
Writers: Elissa Matsueda, Jose Nestor Marquez
Genre: Science Fiction, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 24 minutes
In Theaters October 9th, 2015
Cast: Aja Naomi King, Colm Feore, Gary Dourdan, Amanda Plummer, Jeanette Samano, David Clennon
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard) designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger (Jim Gaffigan) strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha (Winona Ryder) stands by him through it all. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram’s whirring mind in this bracing portrait of a brilliant man whose conscience and creative spirit continues to be resonant, poignant, and inspirational.
Director: Michael Almereyda
Writers: Michael Almereyda
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 1 hour 37 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, John Leguizamo, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini, Dennis Hyasbert, Danny Abeckaser, Anton Yelchin
Five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this visually stunning, heart-pounding animated anthology featuring the voices of Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman and Guillermo del Toro. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe's imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history.
Director: Raul Garcia
Writers: Raul Garcia, Edgar Allan Poe
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Run Time: 1 hour 14 minutes
In Theaters October 23rd, 2015
Cast: Sir Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Roger Corman, Guillermo del Toro
The Forbidden Room is Guy Maddin's ultimate epic phantasmagoria. Honoring classic cinema while electrocuting it with energy, this Russian nesting doll of a film begins (after a prologue on how to take a bath) with the crew of a doomed submarine chewing flapjacks in a desperate attempt to breathe the oxygen within. Suddenly, impossibly, a lost woodsman wanders into their company and tells his tale of escaping from a fearsome clan of cave dwellers. From here, Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson take us high into the air, around the world, and into dreamscapes, spinning tales of amnesia, captivity, deception and murder, skeleton women and vampire bananas.
Director: Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson
Writers: Evan Johnson, Guy Maddin, John Ashbery, Kim Morgan
Genre: Science Fiction, Fantasy
Run Time: 2 hours
In Theaters October 7th, 2015
Cast: Clara Furey, Charlotte Rampling, Mathieu Amalric, Geraldine Chaplin, Roy Dupuis, Louis Negin, Maria de Medeiros, Udo Kier
Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night. This creepy anthology combines classic Halloween tales with the stuff of nightmares. SHORT STORIES INCLUDE: “SWEET TOOTH” Directed by Dave Parker “THE NIGHT BILLY RAISED HELL” Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman “TRICK” Directed by Adam Gierasch “GRIM GRINNING GHOST” Directed by Axelle Carolyn “DING DONG” Directed by Lucky McKee “THE WEAK AND THE WICKED” Directed by Paul Solet “THIS MEANS WAR” Directed by John Skipp and Andrew Kasch “FRIDAY THE 31st” Directed by Mike Mendez “THE RANSOM OF RUSTY REX” Directed by Ryan Schifrin “BAD SEED” Directed by Neil Marshall
Director: Axelle Carolyn, Neil Marshall, Mike Mendez
Writers: Axelle Carolyn, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez
Genre: Horror
Run Time: 1 hour 30 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
Cast: Pat Healy, Barry Bostwick, Noah Segan, Booboo Stewart, Greg Grunberg, Clare Kramer, Alex Essoe, Lin Shaye, Dana Gould, James Duval
Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door, and makes a friend in Champ (Ryan Lee). But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah’s mysterious dad is in fact R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret: the creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Stine’s creations are unintentionally released from their manuscripts it’s up to Zach, Hannah, Champ, and Stine to team up in a crazy night of adventure and get the creatures—including Slappy the Dummy—back in the books to save the town.
Director: Rob Letterman
Writers: Darren Lemke
Genre: Action and Adventure, Comedy
In Theaters October 16th, 2015
Cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Ryan Lee, Jillian Bell
Acclaimed musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson presents her meditation on love and death as relates to her dog in this playful, lucid and heartbreaking nonfiction feature. Dedicated to Anderson’s late husband Lou Reed (who floats almost unseen throughout), Heart Of A Dog takes as a jumping off point the recent passing of Anderson’s beloved terrier Lolabelle. Touching on what her love for her dog means to her by processing her childhood, music, and her life as an artist, Anderson draws upon her childhood experiences and political beliefs as she lovingly tries to help Lolabelle's spirit face the immediate tribulations it will experience immediately after death. Aided by a beautiful use of her own compositions, animation and 8 millimeter film from her family archive, Anderson creates a gorgeous tapestry on love and loss - reminding us that every love story is a ghost story.
Director: Laurie Anderson
Writers: Laurie Anderson
Genre: Documentary
Run Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
In Theaters October 21st, 2015
The Greek Submission for the OscarⓇ for Best Foreign Language Film Winner of Gold Hugo Best Film at the Chicago International Film Festival XENIA follows two young brothers in search of their birth father across the colorful landscape of Greece. Dany, 16, leaves Crete to find his brother Odysseus who lives in Athens and they journey to Thessaloniki where they think their father is living. When the handsome Odysseus isn’t protecting his daydreaming, gay younger brother, he auditions for the television talent show “Greek Star” where he pursues his fantasy of becoming a singing star. A comic and touching road trip of two brothers connecting and searching for their dreams.
Director: Panos H. Koutras
Writers: Panos H. Koutras, Panagiotis Evangelidis
Genre: Foreign, Drama, Romance
Run Time: 2 hours 8 minutes
In Theaters October 9th, 2015
In the outrageous R rated animated comedy from the Animation studio that brought you “Robot Chicken,” “Triptank” and “Bojack Horseman,” three friends embark on a wayward journey into the deepest, darkest depths of hell to rescue one of their own. While navigating their escape, they provoke a slew of misfit demons, a super sexy angel, infamous Greek legends, and the Devil himself; Hell has never been hotter!
Director: Tom Gianas, Ross Shuman
Writers: Zeb Wells, Hugh Sterbakov
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 1 hour 26 minutes
In Theaters October 2nd, 2015
Cast: Mila Kunis, Nick Swardson, Bob Odenkirk, TJ Miller, Danny McBride, Susan Sarandon
When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth. Olga Kurylenko (THE NOVEMBER MAN) breaks out as a leading action heroine in this dynamic thriller costarring James Purefoy (TVs THE FOLLOWING).
Director: Stephen Campanelli
Genre: Action and Adventure, Thriller
Run Time: 1 hour 36 minutes
In Theaters October 16th, 2015