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Junebug Drama about a Chicago art dealer who travels to North Carolina to meet her husband’s estranged family and finds cracks in the tightly-wound clan’s façade. Phil Morrison makes his feature directorial debut from a script by Angus MacLachlan. With Benjamin McKenzie (TV’s “The O.C.”), Embeth Davidtz (“The Emperor’s Club), Alessandro Nivola (“The Clearing”) and Amy Adams (“The Wedding Date”). 106 min. R: Sexual content; language. Aug. 5. Sony Pictures Classics.     Night Watch Episodic Russian-language fantasy-thriller, set in a present-day Moscow, about a hapless vampire slayer dealing with an outbreak of evil. Based on the novel by Sergei Lukyanenko. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov from a screenplay by Bekmambetov and Lukyanenko. With Konstantin Khabensky, Vladimir Menshov, Valeri Zolotukhin, Mariya Poroshina, Galina Tyunina, Yuri Kutsenko, Aleksei Chadov, Zhanna Friske, Ilya Lagutenko, Viktor Verzhbitsky, Rimma Markova and Mariya Mironova. Also known as “Nochnoy dozor.” Flat. 115 min. R: Strong violence; disturbing images and language. Aug. 26. Fox Searchlight.       Red Eye Thriller about a beautiful young woman held captive on an airplane by her seatmate – a stranger who threatens to order her father killed unless she helps murder the deputy secretary of Homeland Security. Wes Craven (the “Scream” trilogy, “Cursed”) directs from a screenplay by veteran TV writer Carl Ellsworth (TV’s “Cleopatra 2525”). With Rachel McAdams (“The Wedding Crashers”), Cillian Murphy (“Cold Mountain”), Brian Cox (“The Bourne Supremacy”), Kyle Gallner (“Wet Hot American Summer”), Amber Mead (“Monster-In-Law”) and Brittany Oaks (“The Cat in the Hat”). PG-13: Some intense sequences of violence; language. Aug. 19. DreamWorks.     Skeleton Key Thriller, set in New Orleans, about a young caretaker who encounters spooky, unexplainable occurrences while looking after a housebound invalid. Directed by Iain Softley (“Wings of the Dove,” “K-PAX”) from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger (“The Ring,” “The Ring Two,” “The Brothers Grimm”). With Kate Hudson (“Raising Helen”), Joy Bryant (“Spider-Man 2”), Peter Sarsgaard (“Kinsey”), John Hurt (“Hellboy”) and Gena Rowlands (“The Notebook”). PG-13: Violence; disturbing images; some partial nudity; thematic material. Scope. Aug. 12. Universal.     2046 Mandarin-dialect drama about a science fiction novelist whose memories of past romances help him build a futuristic story about a man who makes love to a beautiful android. Written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai (“In the Mood for Love,” “Happy Together”). With Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (“Hero”), Gong Li (“Zhou Yu’s Train”), Ziyi Zhang (“House of Flying Daggers,” “Zu Warriors”), Faye Wong (“Jet Li’s Hero”) and Maggie Cheung (“Hero”). R: Sexual content. 123 min. R: Sexual content. Aug. 5. Sony Pictures Classics.     Unknown White Male Documentary about a young British man who awoke on the New York City subway in Coney Island without any memory of who he is. Rupert Murray makes his feature directorial debut. Flat. 80 min. PG-13: Drug references; brief strong language. Aug. 26. Wellspring.         Moonlight English-language Dutch drama about a neglected teen who happens upon a very young, wounded cocaine “mule” in her foster parents’ garden shed – and decides to care for him. Directed by Paula van der Oest from a screenplay by Carel Donck. With Laurien Van den Broeck, Hunter Bussemaker, Andrew Howard (“Below,” “Heights”), Johan Leysen (“Queen Margot”), Franck Sasonoff (“CQ”) and Jemma Redgrave (“I’ll Be There”). 91 min. Aug. 12. Indican.       Pretty Persuasion Dark comedy, set in a Beverly Hills high school, about a teen who frames her drama teacher for sexual harassment. TV director Marcos Siega (“Eyes,” “Veronica Mars”) makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Skander Halim. With Evan Rachel Wood (“The Upside of Anger”), James Woods (“Be Cool”), Ron Livingston (“Little Black Book”), Selma Blair (“In Good Company”), Jaime King (“Sin City”), Jane Krakowski (“Alfie”), Christopher Meloni (“Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle”), Christina Applegate (“Surviving Christmas”) and Navid Negahban (TV’s “The Shield”). Scope. 110 min. Aug. 12. IDP.     Romance & Cigarettes Musical comedy, set in Bensonhurst, N.Y., about a cheating husband forced to choose between his wife and his mistress. Written and directed by John Turturro (“Mac,” “Illuminata”). With James Gandolfini (“Surviving Christmas”), Steve Buscemi (“Coffee and Cigarettes”), Christopher Walken (“Around the Bend,” “Domino”), Kate Winslet (“Finding Neverland”), Mary-Louise Parker (“Saved!”), Mandy Moore (“Saved!”), Susan Sarandon (“Alfie”), Eddie Izzard (“Ocean’s Twelve”), Bobby Cannavale (“Shall We Dance?” “Happy Endings”) and Amy Sedaris (“Bewitched”). R: Sexual content; some violence. Aug. 19. MGM.     Supercross Action drama about two brothers competing on the same international motorcycle racing circuit. Directed by Steve Boyum (“Meet the Deedles”) from a script by Ken Solarz (“City of Industry”). Starring Steve Howey (TV’s “Reba”), Mike Vogel (“Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”), Daryl Hannah (“Silver City”), Robert Patrick (“Ladder 49”), Cameron Richardson (TV’s “Point Pleasant”) and Sophia Bush (“Van Wilder”). PG-13: Language; some sexuality. Aug. 12. Fox.   Undiscovered Comedy-drama about a group of young men and women struggling to make it as actors and musicians in Los Angeles. Directed by Meiert Avis (“Far From Home”) from a screenplay by John Galt. With Fisher Stevens (“Anything Else”), Carrie Fisher (“Wonderland”), Ashlee Simpson (“The Hot Chick”), Kip Pardue (“Imaginary Heroes”), and Pell James (“Uptown Girls,” “Broken Flowers”). Aug. 26. Lions Gate.     Valiant Animated comedy about a pigeon who gets into the homing business and becomes a hero of World War II-era Britain. Gary Chapman makes his feature directorial debut from a screenplay by Jordan Katz (“Incognito”), George Webster and George Melrod (TV’s “Mike Hammer, Private Eye”). Featuring the voices of Ewan McGregor, John Cleese, Ricky Gervais, Tim Curry, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Laurie and John Hurt. Flat. G. 75 min. Aug. 19. Buena Vista. Beautiful Country War drama about the son of an American man and a Vietnamese woman and his search for identity. Directed by Hans Petter Moland (“Aberdeen”) from a screenplay by Sabina Murray (“True Crime,” “Crime and Punishment in Suburbia”). With Damien Nguyen, Nick Nolte (“Hotel Rwanda”), Bai Ling (“Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”) and Phat Trieu Hoang (“Three Seasons”). R: Some language; a crude sexual reference. 136 min. July 8. Sony Pictures Classics.