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Directed by Melissa B. Miller-Costanzo. With Brendan Meyer, Sam McCarthy, and Jemima Kirke. A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.

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Directed by Emma Forrest. With Jemima Kirke, Jamie Dornan, and Lola Kirke. Andrea is a recently sober writer whose career has stalled since she published her debut novel several years ago. She strikes up an affair with Nick, a doctor-turned-writer who is hailed for his wartime memoir. At the same time, her sister Tara, a massage therapist dating an aging rock star, finds herself inexorably drawn to a newfound religious zeal and, particularly, to a politically engaged rabbi.

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Directed by Drake Doremus. Stars: Léa Seydoux, Ewan McGregor, and Rashida Jones. Two colleagues at a revolutionary research lab design technology to improve and perfect romantic relationships. As their work progresses, their discoveries become more profound.

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Directed by Eva Vives. With Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Common, and Chace Crawford. Nina Geld (Winstead) is a bracingly funny and blisteringly provocative stand-up comedian whose career is taking off, but whose personal life is a near-complete disaster. To escape a difficult ex and to prepare for a prospectively life-changing audition, Nina flees to Los Angeles where she meets Rafe (Common), who challenges almost every preconception she has — including those around her own deeply troubled past.

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Directed by Karen Gillan. With Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, and Matthew Beard. When her best friend takes her own life, Liusaidh has to deal with stresses of such a situation.

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Directed by Sebastián Lelio. With Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola. A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.

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Directed by Meredith Danluck. With Katherine Waterston, Michael Shannon, and Luke Evans. A woman grapples with the consequences of her celebrity husband's double life after he commits suicide.

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Directed by Michael Mayer. With Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, and Annette Bening. An aging actress named Irina Arkadina pays summer visits to her brother Pjotr Nikolayevich Sorin and her son Konstantin on a country estate. On one occasion, she brings Trigorin, a successful novelist, with her. Nina, a free and innocent girl on a neighboring estate, falls in love with Boris Trigorin. As Trigorin lightly consumes and rejects Nina, so the actress all her life has consumed and rejected her son, who loves Nina. The victims are destroyed while the sophisticates continue on their way.

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Directed by Fabien Constant. With Sarah Jessica Parker, Renée Zellweger, and Taylor Kinney. A singer in New York gets a grim diagnosis that puts her life and dreams into perspective.

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Directed by Jason Reitman. With Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, and Mark Duplass. The film is about Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, who is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.

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