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Starring: George Clooney, Shailenne Woodley

Nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Clooney), Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay

Golden Globe Winner, Best Motion Picture (Drama)

Independent Spirit Award Nominations: Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress (Woodley)

The Descendants is the sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey of Matt King, an indifferent husband and father of two girls. He is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a reconciliation with his young daughters while he wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land.

• Director: Alexander Payne
• Rating: R
• Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
• Genre: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent

Oscar nomination for Best Actress (Streep)

Golden Globe Winner for Best Actress in a Drama (Streep)

The Iron Lady is a surprising and intimate portrait of Margaret Thatcher, the first and only female Prime Minister of The United Kingdom. One of the 20th century’s most famous and influential women, Thatcher came from nowhere to smash through barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male dominated world.

• Director: Phyllida Lloyd
• Rating: PG-13
• Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
• Genre: Drama, Biography

Starring: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, John Hurt

Oscar Nominated for Best Actor (Oldman), Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Original Score

The time is 1973. The Cold War of the mid-20th Century continues to damage international relations. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), a.k.a. MI6 and code-named the Circus, is striving to keep pace with other countries’ espionage efforts and to keep the U.K. secure. When things go awry, it's up to top lieutenant, George Smiley, a career spy with razor-sharp senses, to get things back on track.

• Director: Tomas Alfredson
• Rating: R
• Runtime: 2 hours 7 minutes
• Genre: Thriller

Starring: Bérénice Bejo, Jean Dujardin

Nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Dujardin), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay

Golden Globe Winner: Best Motion Picture (Comedy/Musical), Best Actor (Comedy or Musical)

Winner Best Actor (Jean Dujardin) at Cannes Film Festival

Independent Spirit Awards Nominations: Best Feature, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography

Hollywood 1927. George Valentin is a silent movie superstar. The advent of the talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller, it seems the sky's the limit - major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.

• Director: Michel Hazanavicius
• Rating: Not Rated
• Runtime: 1 hour 40 minutes
• Genre: Romance, Silent

Starring: Lisa Cardellini, Michael Shannon, John Slattery

Debuted at the Cannes Film Festival

A soldier returns to her family, friends, and old job after a tour of duty, though she finds herself struggling to find her place in her everyday life.

• Director: Liza Johnson
• Runtime: 1 hour 38 minutes
• Genre: Drama

Starring: Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet

Winner Little Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival

Tells the story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.

• Director: Roman Polanski
• Genre: Drama, Comedy

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kiera Knightley, Viggo Mortensen

Golden Globe Nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Mortensen)

On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A DANGEROUS METHOD explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them.

• Director: David Cronenberg
• Genre: Drama, Thriller

Starring: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan

Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When he wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirs memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life spirals out of control.

• Director: Steve McQueen
• Rating: NC-17
• Genre: Drama

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Ezra Miller, John C. Reilly

We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her evil son. Tilda Swinton plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin. Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva's own culpability is measured against Kevin's innate evilness.

• Director: Lynne Ramsay
• Rating: R
• Runtime: 1 hour 50 minutes
• Genre: Drama, Thriller

Starring: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi

Oscar Nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay

Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader. When Nader hires a young woman to assist with his father in his wife's absence, he hopes that his life will return to a normal state. However, when he discovers that the new maid has been lying to him, he realizes that there is more on the line than just his marriage.

• Director: Asghar Farhadi
• Rating: PG-13
• Runtime: 2 hours
• Genre: Drama

Starring: Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska

Oscar Nominations for Best Actress (Close), Best Supporting Actress (McTeer), and Best Makeup

Albert Nobbs is a woman passing as a man in order to work and survive in 19th century Ireland. Some thirty years after donning men's clothing, she finds herself trapped in a prison of her own making.

• Director: Rodrigo García
• Rating: R
• Runtime: 1 hour 53 minutes
• Genre: Drama