Stanley Townsend

England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

Dir. Philipp Stölzl · With Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, Olivier Martinez

Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.

Dir. Damien O'Donnell · With James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Steven Robertson

The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Dir. Stephen Frears · With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg

A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.

Dir. Mike Leigh · With Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman

Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.

Dir. Catherine Hardwicke · With Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac, Hiam Abbass

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Dir. François Girard · With Tim Roth, Clive Owen, Catherine McCormack

Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult

A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

Dir. Marjane Satrapi · With Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick

On a remote Irish farm, five people become unwilling participants in an experiment that goes nightmarishly wrong.

Dir. Billy O'Brien · With John Lynch, Essie Davis, Sean Harris

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Dir. Laurence Dunmore · With Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich

The story of one year within the walls of the palace of a modern European regime as it begins to unravel.

Dir. Will Tracy · With Kate Winslet, Matthias Schoenaerts, Guillaume Gallienne