The Hindenburg

IT’S A DISASTER! The promise of a peaceful zeppelin cruise goes up in flames for George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning and Rene Auberjonois in this based-on-a-true-disaster movie from Robert Wise (West Side Story, Star Trek: The Motion Picture).

Earthquake

IT’S A DISASTER! The big one finally hits Los Angeles, shaking up the lives of Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene and Geneviève Bujold, destroying Richard (Shaft) Roundtree’s motorcycle stunt track, and spilling Walter Matthau’s drink. Cowritten by Mario Puzo (The Godfather)

The Dictator

Sacha Baron Cohen disappears into another character — this time, Middle-Eastern dictator Hafez Aladeen, supreme leader of the Republic of Wadiya — who finds himself stranded in New York, where his authority is far from absolute.

Cosmopolis

Cronenberg’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel about a young billionaire taking an apocalyptic limo ride across Manhattan is “a weird, heady and entrancing portrait of individual alienation in a super-rich, corporate world where money, sex, love, happiness and death are rapidly losing all meaning.” (Time Out London) (In other words,

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

When a group of British pensioners abandon their homeland for the promised (if not actual) luxury of the eponymous Indian hotel, the result is “charming, delightful and amusing — just what you’d expect from the star-studded cast of veterans” including Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson. (Empire)

The Avengers

When writer/director Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity, The Cabin in the Woods) teams up with Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and The Hulk, the bad guys don’t stand a chance.

Airport ’79 – The Concorde

IT’S A DISASTER! Terrorists try to bring down the Concorde on its maiden flight, but luckily for the passengers — including Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia (Emmanuelle) Kristel, Eddie Albert, Charo, John Davidson, Jimmie Walker and David Warner — the man in the cockpit is George Kennedy (the

Airport ’77

IT’S A DISASTER! A hijacked 747 makes an unexpected landing under 100 feet of water, leaving its passengers — including Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotton, Olivia de Havilland, James Stewart, George Kennedy, Darren McGavin, Christopher Lee and Gil Gerard — anything but straight and in the upright

Jatt & Juliet

The Maiden Danced to Death

FILMMAKERS IN ATTENDANCE Steve returns to his native Hungary after 20 years in Canada, determined to make an international success of the dance troupe he left behind — which is now headed by his brother — in this meticulously choreographed examination of sibling rivalry and the realities of the new