Directed by Scott Cooper. With Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson. When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice.

Source: Out of the Furnace (2013) – IMDb

Directed by Rowan Joffe. With Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Anne-Marie Duff. A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

Source: Before I Go to Sleep (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Will Gluck. With Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Diaz, Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne. A foster kid, who lives with her mean foster mom, sees her life change when business tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in.

Source: Annie (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Brad Anderson. With Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson. An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the “revolutionary” new treatments are inhumane and that there is more going on than meets the eye.

Source: Stonehearst Asylum (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland. With Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth. A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Source: Still Alice (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Don Hall, Chris Williams. With Ryan Potter, Scott Adsit, Jamie Chung, T.J. Miller. The special bond that develops between plus-sized inflatable robot Baymax, and prodigy Hiro Hamada, who team up with a group of friends to form a band of high-tech heroes.

Source: Big Hero 6 (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Bennett Miller. With Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Vanessa Redgrave. Mark and Dave Schultz, U.S. Olympic Wrestling champions, join Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul – but John’s emotional self-destruction threatens to consume them all.

Source: Foxcatcher (2014) – IMDb

Directed by James Marsh. With Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry. A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

Source: The Theory of Everything (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. With Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffmann, Michiel Huisman. A chronicle of one woman’s 1,100-mile solo hike undertaken as a way to recover from a recent personal tragedy.

Source: Wild (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Angelina Jolie. With Jack O’Connell, Miyavi, Domhnall Gleeson, Garrett Hedlund. After a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, Olympian Louis Zamperini spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.

Source: Unbroken (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Michaël R. Roskam. With Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts. Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood’s past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living – no matter the cost.

Source: The Drop (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Morten Tyldum. With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech. During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Source: The Imitation Game (2014) – IMDb