Drama Movies 2012 List

With Dane DeHaan • Adam Schroeder • Ashley Hinshaw • Luke Tyler • Josh Trank • Anna Wood • Max Landis • Joe Vaz

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Drew Barrymore • John Krasinski • Kristen Bell • Tim Bevan • Eric Fellner • Michael Begler • Jack Amiel • Vinessa Shaw • Michael Sugar • Liza Chasin • Ted Danson • Ken Kwapis • Steve Golin

The tale of a small town news reporter (John Krasinski) and a Greenpeace volunteer (Drew Barrymore) who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle. Local newsman Adam Carlson (Krasinski) can’t wait to escape the northern tip of Alaska for a bigger market. But just when the story of his career breaks, the world comes chasing it, too. With an oil tycoon, heads of state and hungry journalists descending upon the frigid outpost, the one who worries Adam the most is Rachel Kramer (Barrymore). Not only is she an outspoken environmentalist, she’s also his ex-girlfriend. With time running out, Rachel and Adam must rally an unlikely coalition of Inuit natives, oil companies and Russian and American military to set aside their differences and free the whales. As the world’s attention turns to the top of the globe, saving these endangered animals becomes a shared cause for nations entrenched against one another and leads to a momentary thaw in the Cold War.

With Natalie Dormer • Oscar Isaac • Andrea Riseborough • James D'Arcy • Laurence Fox • Kris Thykier • Abbie Cornish • Madonna • Scott Franklin • Alex Keshishian • James Fox • Richard Coyle • Colin Vaines • David Parfitt

The year is 1998, and Manhattan is abuzz with anticipation about the upcoming auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. But the auction is far more than a diversion for Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish), a transplanted Southerner trapped in an unhappy and abusive marriage. Transfixed by the exquisite artifacts of the Windsors' lives, Wally becomes obsessed with the love story of Wallis Simspon (Andrea Riseborough), the chic, charismatic American who captured the heart of King Edward VIII (James D'Arcy). As she learns more about the sacrifices Wallis made in choosing to be with Edward, Wally finds the courage to follow her own heart and create her own happiness.

With Dwayne Johnson • Josh Hutcherson • Vanessa Hudgens • Luis Guzman • Richard Brener • Michael Caine • Samuel J. Brown • Tripp Vinson • Brad Peyton • Beau Flynn • Marcus Viscidi • Richard Outten • Charlotte Huggins • Michael Bostick • Mark Gunn • Brian Gunn • Evan Turner

The new journey begins when Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcherson) receives a coded distress signal from a mysterious island where no island should exist — a place of strange life forms, mountains of gold, deadly volcanoes, and more than one astonishing secret. The secret is rumored to involve Sean's missing grandfather, Alexander Anderson (Michael Caine). Unable to stop him from going, Sean's new stepfather (Dwayne Johnson) joins the quest. Together with a helicopter pilot (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful, strong-willed daughter (Vanessa Hudgens), they set out to find the island, rescue its lone inhabitant and escape before seismic shockwaves force the island under the sea and bury its treasures forever.

With Tim Blake Nelson • Noah Harlan • Linda Cardellini • Michael Shannon • John Slattery • Meredith Vieira • Amy Rapp • Liza Johnson • Paul Sparks • Talia Balsam

When Kelli returns home from war, she expected to slowly but surely settle back into her life with her husband and kids in the small town she grew up in. But she gradually realizes that the life she left behind is no longer there waiting for her.

With Ice Cube • Gwyneth Paltrow • Steve Buscemi • Sigourney Weaver • Woody Harrelson • Robin Wright • Ben Foster • Anne Heche • Clark Peterson • Cynthia Nixon • Oren Moverman • Paul Currie • Lawrence Inglee • James Ellroy

The story centers on the widespread corruption in the Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (or CRASH) anti-gang unit of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Rampart Division in the late 1990s. More than 70 police officers were implicated in varied misconduct.

With Agnieszka Holland

In Nazi-occupied Poland, a sewer worker and petty thief begin sheltering Jews in underground tunnels for profit.

With Eric Roberts • Steve Talley • Curt Hahn

the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved and unpunished for almost twenty years. But that changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper meets an idealistic young blueblood bent on discovering the truth. Harper undertakes the investigation despite the opposition of his publisher, violent threats from mysterious forces, a break-up with his fiancée and his father's cancer diagnosis. Deadline is a story of murder, family, race, and of redemption for a small Southern town and for Matt Harper.

With David Rauchenberger • Michael Fuith • Markus Schleinzer • Christine Kain

The last five months of a 10-year-old boy’s life under the control of a man who keeps him locked away in a room in a basement.

With Val Kilmer • Jon Gries • Christopher Cain • Scott Duthie

An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations.

With Andrew Okpeaha MacLean • Frank Qutuq Irelan • Adamina Kerr • John Miller • Josiah Patkotak • Sierra Jade Sampson

In the remote Alaskan town of Barrow, two Iñupiaq teenagers get in over their heads when a sealhunting trip in the snow-packed landscape leads to a quarrel and a fatal accident.

With Matthias Schoenaerts • Michael R. Roskam • Jeroen Perceval • Barbara Sarafian

For Jacky, a young man working on his family’s cattle farm in eastern Belgium, the crime ring surrounding the use of banned growth hormones represents both a financial opportunity and the possible exposure of his own troubled past. With an old friend urging him to agree to an illegal deal, Jacky finds himself drawn into a dangerous web that has already resulted in the death of a policeman investigating the ring.

With Gabrielle Union • Tyler Perry • Thandiwe Newton • Eddie Cibrian • Brian J. White • Jamie Kennedy • Rebecca Romijn • Phylicia Rashad • Jordenn Thompson

A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds (Tyler Perry) has always done what’s expected of him, whether it’s assuming the helm of his father’s company, tolerating his brother’s misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiancée, Natalie (Gabrielle Union). But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a down-on-her-luck single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building. When he offers to help her get back on her feet, the chance encounter with someone so far outside his usual circle ignites something in Wesley. This one good deed may finally spark his courage to exchange the life that’s expected of him for the life he’s always really wanted.

With Dominique Abel • Fiona Gordon • Bruno Romy

A hotel clerk searches all over Le Havre for the fairy who made two of his three wishes come true before disappearing.

With Joshua Marston

An Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own small internet business. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father becomes entangled in a dispute that leaves a fellow villager murdered. According to a centuries-old code of law known as the Kanun, Nik's family owes a life in return. Nik finds himself the prime target and becomes confined to home while his younger sister Rudina (Sindi Lacej) is forced to leave school and take over their father's business.