This is very crude but should sort your posts by year (meta_value) and then by title. It does depend on how the query is setup so it will only work with the query below or with similar ones.
function alter_order_wpse_103181($order,$qry) {
remove_filter('posts_orderby','alter_order',1,2);
$order = explode(',',$order);
$order = implode( ' ASC,',$order);
return $order;
}
add_filter('posts_orderby','alter_order_wpse_103181',1,2);
$q = new WP_Query();
$q->query( array(
'post_type' => 'movies',
'distribution' => 'companyA',
'meta_key' => 'year',
'orderby' => 'meta_value_num title',
'order' => 'ASC',
'posts_per_page' => -1,
'post_status' => 'publish',
));
var_dump($q->request);