May Movie Release Schedule

MAY

Opened

THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL Some British oldsters get a new lease on life when their retirement hotel in India turns out to be a fixer-upper. John Madden directed; with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith.

CHRONICLING A CRISIS The Israeli filmmaker Amos Kollek contemplates his struggles as a director and his life as a son of Teddy Kollek, a longtime mayor of Jerusalem.

FIRST POSITION Aspiring ballet dancers compete in the Youth American Grand Prix in a documentary directed by Bess Kargman.

JANNAT 2 Kunal Deshmukh directed this Bollywood thriller, a sequel to the 2008 “Jannat.” With Emraan Hashmi, Randeep Hooda, Imran Zahid and Esha Gupta.

JESUS HENRY CHRIST A 10-year-old prodigy (Jason Spevack) with a ferociously independent mother (Toni Collette) crosses paths with a 12-year-old (Samantha Weinstein) whose father, a university professor (Michael Sheen), has used her as a subject for his gender identity experiments. Dennis Lee directed.

LAST CALL AT THE OASIS The global water crisis, examined in a documentary directed by Jessica Yu.

A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN Kate Hudson is a New Orleans single who finds herself falling in love with her doctor (Gael García Bernal). Nicole Kassell directed, with Lucy Punch and Peter Dinklage.

MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS The high-profile members of the Marvel stable of superheroes — Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow — get together to save the world in a 3-D film directed and written by Joss Whedon. With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson.

MOTHER’S DAY Darren Lynn Bousman (“Saw,” Numbers 2 through 4) directed this remake of Charles Kaufman’s 1980 thriller about a clan of bank robbers, led by Rebecca De Mornay, who seize the house that once belonged to them and take its inhabitants hostage.

THE PERFECT FAMILY Not so perfect, really, as the family matriarch — played by Kathleen Turner — discovers when she is nominated for Catholic Woman of the Year at her local parish. With Jason Ritter, Emily Deschanel and Richard Chamberlain; Anne Renton directed.

YOU HURT MY FEELINGS A lovelorn young man (John Merriman) finds work as a nanny to prove to his ex-girlfriend that he’s ready to have children. Steve Collins wrote and directed.

May 9

PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) Critics and colleagues gather to discuss the work of the German writer W. G. Sebald, with an emphasis on his 1998 book “The Rings of Saturn.” Grant Gee directed.

May 10

THE OBSERVERS Jacqueline Goss directed this experimental narrative, described as a “Minimalist landscape film,” about Mount Washington in New Hampshire, said to be the windiest mountain in the world.

May 11

A BAG OF HAMMERS A pair of scam artists (Jason Ritter and Jake Sandvig) contemplate reform when a 12-year-old boy enters their lives. With Rebecca Hall. Brian Crano directed.

BARFEE Anurag Basu’s film is a Bollywood blend of mystery and romance starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra.

BONSÁI Based on a novel by Alejandro Zambra, Cristián Jiménez’s Chilean film tells a multilayered story centered on a writer (Diego Noguera) who has trouble telling the truth.

DANGEROUS ISHHQ Bollywood’s Karisma Kapoor as a fashion model whose boyfriend is kidnapped. Vikram Bhatt directed.

DARK SHADOWS Johnny Depp plays the vampire Barnabas Collins, freed after two centuries in his tomb to enjoy the America of 1972. Tim Burton directed this pastiche of the gothic daytime soap opera (1966-1971) created by Dan Curtis; with Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloë Grace Moretz and Gulliver McGrath.

GIRL IN PROGRESS Eva Mendes as a single mom with a married lover; her life gets even more complex when her daughter (Cierra Ramirez) decides to take a shortcut to adulthood. Patricia Riggen directed; with Matthew Modine.

GOD BLESS AMERICA A middle-aged man with a possibly fatal illness (Joel Murray) teams up with a disaffected teenager (Tara Lynne Barr) to clean up America by killing its most irritating citizens. Bobcat Gold-thwait wrote and directed.