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

Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski. With Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela. Anna, a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a dark family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

Source: Ida (2013) – IMDb

Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne. With Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salée, Batiste Sornin. Liège, Belgium. Sandra is a factory worker who discovers that her workmates have opted for a EUR1,000 bonus in exchange for her dismissal. She has only a weekend to convince her colleagues to give up their bonuses in order to keep her job.

Source: Two Days, One Night (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. With Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough. Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor’s struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.

Source: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski. With Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis, Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean. A young woman discovers her destiny as an heiress of intergalactic nobility and must fight to protect the inhabitants of Earth from an ancient and destructive industry.

Source: Jupiter Ascending (2015) – IMDb

Directed by Anthony Burns. With Katherine Heigl, Patrick Wilson, Madison Wolfe, Aiden Flowers. Don Champagne seems to have it all, but when his wife, Mona, learns of his affair with a pretty new salesgirl, she will stop at nothing to maintain their storybook life.

Source: Home Sweet Hell (2015) – IMDb

Directed by Peter Sattler. With Kristen Stewart, Peyman Moaadi, Lane Garrison, Tara Holt. A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

Source: Camp X-Ray (2014) – IMDb