Drama Movies 2012 List

With Charlize Theron • Kristen Stewart • Chris Hemsworth • Ian McShane • Sam Claflin • Rupert Sanders • Hossein Amini • Evan Spiliotopoulos • Lily Cole • Joe Roth • Evan Daugherty • Sam Spruell

Kristen Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.

With Chris Stokes • Lynn Whitfield • Marques Houston • Valarie Pettiford • Mekia Cox • Christopher Michael Jones

Battlefield America takes a steady look at the underbelly of the youth battle dance culture in Long Beach, California. Sean Lewis, a young, charismatic, successful businessman finds himself in the mix with a bunch of disheveled misfits Bad Boys, who have virtually no dance talent. Realizing his dilemma, Sean brings aboard a professional dance instructor to ease his responsibilities to these kids. Meanwhile, he finds himself falling for Sara, who runs the community center where the kids hangout and practice their moves. With Sean motivating them, The Bad Boys find the confidence to be contenders...

With Eva Longoria • Andy Garcia • Oscar Isaac • Catalina Sandino Moreno • Bruce Greenwood • Peter O'Toole • Ruben Blades • Dean Wright

An impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War — the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th Century North America.

With Jessica McNamee • Sean Byrne • Richard Wilson • John Brumpton • Xavier Samuel • Robin McLeavy • Victoria Thaine

Lola Stone asked Brent Mitchell to the prom, but Brent said no, and now he's screwed. What happens when Lola doesn't get what she wants? She enlists Daddy's help to throw a prom of her own, where she is queen and Brent is king — whether he likes it or not. The Loved Ones is what happens when puppy love goes horribly, violently wrong. Brent should have said yes….

With Rodrigo Cortés • Michael O'Keefe • Rick Gonzalez • Fiona Glascott • Gia Mantegna • Carles Torrens • Kai Lennox

A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs, are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infra-red filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group's attempts to contact the "other side" will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return...

With Elizabeth Olsen • Jeffrey Dean Morgan • Catherine Keener • Jonathan Burkhart • Chace Crawford • Christina Mengert • Jane Fonda • Bruce Beresford • Joseph Muszynski • Brice Dal Farra • Claude Dal Farra • Lauren Munsch

For uptight Manhattan lawyer Diane (Catherine Keener), crazy means driving her teenage son Jake (Nat Wolff) and daughter Zoe (Elizabeth Olsen) to Woodstock to visit their grandmother Grace (Jane Fonda). The crazy part is that the kids have never met Grace. In fact, Diane hasn't spoken to her mother in twenty years. Grace is the epitome of the term "hippie": she stages protests and hootenannies in the town square, smokes (and sells) a lot of dope, and howls at the moon once a month with her goddess-worshipping girlfriends. But what's meant to be a weekend getaway turns into a summer adventure of romance, music, family secrets, and self-discovery.

With Robert Pattinson • Uma Thurman • Kristin Scott Thomas • Nick Ormerod • Uberto Pasolini • Declan Donnellan • Rachel Bennette

Biopic about 19th Century French writer Guy de Maupassant, a young man who scandalously slept his way to the top of Paris' high society in the 1890's with some of the city's most influential women.

With Alice Rohrwacher

A 13-year-old girl's coming-of-age in the poor southern Italian province of Calabria.

With James Caan • Jonathan Lipnicki • Oded Fehr • Steven Bauer • Cody Longo • Delphine Chaneac • Jeffrey Tambor • Paul Sorvino • Edward Furlong • Yehuda Levi • Ellie Kanner

Spanning over two decades, For the Love of Money follows the true account of a Jewish immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream. The story begins in Tel Aviv in 1973, where young Izek is raised in a seedy, gangster filled illegal casino that operates behind his family’s bar. The casino is a haven for unsavory characters who seek to corrupt him to their way of life. When violence and crime finds its way to him and his family, Izek (played by Yuda Levi) and his family relocate to Los Angeles. Hoping to start anew, he pursues his ambitions. Success seems to find him at every turn and after falling in love with the beautiful Aline (Delphine Chanéac), Lady luck seems to be on his side. However, it isn’t long before the world of crime that Izek tried to escape so long ago continues to doggedly follow his every step. Threatened by a temperamental gangster (James Caan), his criminal cousin (Oded Fehr), and even a Colombian drug lord (Steven Bauer), Izek finds that starting with a clean slate is all but impossible. As those close to him fall victim to the promises of quick money by the way of the gun, violence surrounds Izek until he has no choice but to confront it.

With Emily Blunt • Rosemarie DeWitt • Mark Duplass • Lynn Shelton • Steven Schardt

A year after his brother Tom's death, Jack (Duplass) is still struggling emotionally. When he makes ascene at a memorial party, Tom's best friend Iris (Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so Jack can seek catharsis in solitude. Once there, however, he runs into Iris' sister Hannah (Dewitt) who is reeling from the abrupt end of a seven-year relationship and finds solace in Tom's unexpected presence. A blurry evening of drinking concludes with an awkward sexual incident, made worse by Iris' sudden presence at the cabin the next morning.

With Salma Hayek • Chiara Mastroianni • Geraldine Chaplin • Mathieu Demy

A fictional narrative about coming to terms with unattended grief and uncomfortable pasts.

With Raul Cimas • Nacho Vigalondo • Michelle Jenner • Julian Villagran • Carlos Areces

When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment after a night of partying, he's pleasantly surprised to discover it belongs to a beautiful one-night-stand he can't remember--Julia. What's already an awkward situation is made even more so when they discover a giant flying saucer hovering above the city, which is now deserted. Now Julio must contend with a jealous ex-boyfriend, an eccentric neighbor--and very possibly the end of the world!

With Ellen Page • Alec Baldwin • Penelope Cruz • Greta Gerwig • Jesse Eisenberg • Woody Allen • Alison Pill • Judy Davis • Roberto Benigni • Letty Aronson • Stephen Tenenbaum

A story about a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into.

With Harry Thomason • Kaley Cuoco • Henry Thomas • Rick Dial • Howard Klausner • Stephen Tobolowsky • Jesse James • Ray McKinnon • Dub Cornett • Will Koberg

Henry Thomas stars as country crooner Hank Williams, revolves around Williams' final days and the young man (Jesse James) hired to drive him from Alabama to a New Year's Eve concert in Canton, Ohio. Kaley Cuoco will play a gas-station owner the duo meet during their travels who has a brief, innocent romance with the driver.

With Stephen Rea • Martin Sheen • Thaddeus O'Sullivan • Trystan Gravelle • Marcella Plunkett

Martin Sheen plays a priest whose love of movies inspires him to open a cinema in an Irish village to raise money for a new church, resulting in a passionate struggle between the priest, the church and the townsfolk.

With Raul Cimas • Nacho Vigalondo • Michelle Jenner • Julian Villagran • Carlos Areces

When Julio wakes up in a strange apartment after a night of partying, he's pleasantly surprised to discover it belongs to a beautiful one-night-stand he can't remember--Julia. What's already an awkward situation is made even more so when they discover a giant flying saucer hovering above the city, which is now deserted. Now Julio must contend with a jealous ex-boyfriend, an eccentric neighbor--and very possibly the end of the world!

With Benh Zeitlin • Quvenzhane Wallis

Facing her father's fading health and the release of an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her home in search of her mother.

With Elizabeth Banks • Jon Favreau • Olivia Wilde • Alex Kurtzman • Michelle Pfeiffer • Chris Pine • Mark Duplass • Bobby Cohen • Robert Orci • Jody Lambert

Chris Pine stars as Sam, a twenty-something, fast-talking salesman, whose latest deal collapses on the day he learns that his father has suddenly died. Against his wishes, Sam is called home, where he must put his father's estate in order and reconnect with his estranged family. In the course of fulfilling his father's last wishes, Sam uncovers a startling secret that turns his entire world upside down: He has a 30-year-old sister Frankie whom he never knew about (Elizabeth Banks). As their relationship develops, Sam is forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about this family—and re-examine his own life choices in the process.

With Andre Techine • Melanie Thierry • Carole Bouquet • Andre Dussollier • Adriana Asti

Francis is a successful crime writer who moves to Venice to work on his next novel. When he meets model-turned-real-estate-agent Judith, he is instantly infatuated. Francis and Judith eventually marry and move to a remote house on Torcello Island, but Francis' newfound happiness hinders his writing. Obsessing over what Judith does while at work, he hires a young ex-convict to investigate. As Judith's sexual past is revealed both men become increasing fixated on the mysterious woman.

With Seth Rogen • Sarah Polley • Michelle Williams • Sarah Silverman • Luke Kirby • Susan Cavan

28-year-old Margot lives in Toronto with her husband Lou, but when she meets Daniel, there is an immediate connection between them. Although she stays faithful to Lou, her attraction to the seemingly perfect Daniel intensifies until she realizes something about herself and has to tell Lou about her feelings.

With Monica Bellucci • Louis Garrel • Philippe Garrel • Celine Salette • Jerome Robart

A drama starring Monica Bellucci and Louis Garrel from French master Philippe Garrel, examines the once-happy marriage between brooding painter Frederic (Louis Garrel, the director's son) and his movie-star wife Angele (Bellucci) as it hits the rocks. When another young couple--actors Paul (Jerome Robart) and Elisabeth (Celine Sallette)--joins them on a Roman holiday, tensions and passions flare.

With Hugo Weaving • Tom Russell • John Brumpton • Glendyn Ivin • Anita Hegh

In Last Ride, a desperate father takes his ten year old son, Chook, on the run after committing a violent crime. As the two journey into the desert and an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other. Chook eventually takes control, and the choice he is forced to make has a devastating effect on both their lives.