41. Letter to Momo, A ( Momo e no tegami )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hiroyuki Okiura
Actors: Karen Miyama, Yuka, Daizaburo Arakawa, Toshiyuki Nishida, Kôichi Yamadera, Yoshisada Sakaguchi
Plot: After the sudden death of her father, a young girl and her mother retreat from the bustle of Toyko to a more secluded island of Shio. Momo, hanging on to an unfinished letter her father started, has trouble adjusting. Things don't get any easier when she meets up with three goblins - spirits only she can see. But she learns soon enough these spirits are connected to her father, and may hold a key to finishing the letter she holds so dear.
42. The Duke of Burgundy
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Peter Strickland
Actors: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D'Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Kata Bartsch, Fatma Mohamed
Plot: The relationship between two women involves role playing and humiliation alongside the road to love.
43. Winter Sleep ( Kis uykusu )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Turkish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Actors: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, Nejat Isler
44. Wild
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Michiel Huisman, Gaby Hoffmann, Laura Dern, W. Earl Brown, Charles Baker
Plot: Following some life-changing and harrowing events in her life, Cheryl Strayed begins a solo journey - a 1,100 hike across the Pacific Crest Trail - stretching from Canada to Mexico - in hopes of recovery. Based on a true story.
45. Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Gregory
Actors: Richard Stanley, Kier-La Janisse, Michael Gingold, Graham Humphreys, Edward R. Pressman, Robert Shaye
46. The Equalizer
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Actors: Denzel Washington, Chloë Grace Moretz, Haley Bennett, Marton Csokas, Melissa Leo, Robert Wahlberg
Plot: A former black ops commander has settled down in Boston - having faked his own death in order to enjoy a normal life. But when a young girl gets herself in trouble, his need for justice brings him out of retirement - even if it means going up against a group of dangerous Russian gangsters.
47. Still Alice
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Actors: Kristen Stewart, Julianne Moore, Kate Bosworth, Alec Baldwin, Victoria Cartagena, Hunter Parrish
Plot: A linguistics professor in a loving marriage with three grown children starts to forget certain words. After meeting with a doctor, she receives a devastating diagnosis, one that will test the bonds between her family.
48. The Babadook
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jennifer Kent
Actors: Essie Davis, Daniel Henshall, Tim Purcell, Noah Wiseman, Benjamin Winspear, Craig Behenna
Plot: A woman loses her husband in a car crash on the way to giving birth to her child, Samuel. Coping with life as a single mother, she watches as Samuel grows, and as he begins to see monsters everywhere, with often violent reactions. One particular book, The Babadook, talks of a monster hiding in the dark places in houses - it affects not only Samuel, but her as well.
49. The Fault in Our Stars
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Josh Boone
Actors: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Willem Dafoe, Laura Dern, Nat Wolff, Lotte Verbeek
Plot: Hazel and Gus are two teens who share a lot in common, especially their unconventional outlook on life - and it brings them together - even if their other constant companions happen to be on oxygen tank and a prosthetic leg and their first meeting was in a cancer support group.
50. Snowpiercer
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Chris Evans, Kang-ho Song, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Ah-sung Ko, Ed Harris
Plot: The near future: a second ice age has wiped out most of humanity. The survivors travel by train through the cold, lonely world - but even here, at humanities end, class division rears its ugly head - and those as the back of the train are ready to revolt.
