Drama Movies 2012 List

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Anna Kendrick • Michael Peña • Frank Grillo • Cody Horn • David Ayer • America Ferrera • John Lesher • Natalie Martinez

Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play young Los Angeles police officers Taylor and Zavala who patrol the city's meanest streets of south central Los Angeles. Giving the story a gripping, first-person immediacy, the action unfolds through footage from the handheld HD cameras of the police officers, gang members, surveillance cameras, and citizens caught in the line of fire to create a riveting portrait of the city's most dangerous corners, the cops who risk their lives there every day, and the price they and their families are forced to pay.

With Bruce Willis • Vince Vaughn • Rebecca Hall • Frank Grillo • Catherine Zeta-Jones • Stephen Frears • Peter Gethers • John Lyons • D.V. DeVincentis • Laura Prepon • Anthony Bregman

A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.

With Kate Mara • Natalie Dormer • Cary Elwes • Maggie Grace • Derek Magyar • Hal Holbrook • Christine Lahti • Gideon Raff • Jenny Hinkley • Alan Loayza • Tom Kuehl

With her life at a crossroads, 25 year old Sophie Conway returns home to the small town she always wanted to forget. Once home, she is faced with the friends and lovers she left behind, a tangled relationship with her Mother, and Harry Pleasant, an Alzheimer's Disease patient who, in an opposing way, shares Sophie's struggle to remember.

With Gabrielle Union • Jena Malone • Zach Gilford • John Slattery • Brian Savelson

A portrait of two couples at a crossroads. What was supposed to be a romantic getaway for two young lovers, turns into an uncomfortable confrontation when the young man's estranged father shows up ... with his own girlfriend. As their collisions mount, the weekend transforms into a major turning point for each of them.

With Rodrigo Santoro • Angie Cepeda • Jose Henrique Fonseca • Aline Moraes

Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs would threaten his career.

With Olivia Colman • Laura Linney • Bill Murray • Samuel West • Kevin Loader • Richard Nelson • Olivia Williams • Roger Michell • David Aukin

In June 1939, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Bill Murray) and his wife Eleanor (Olivia Williams) host the King and Queen of England (Samuel West and Olivia Colman) for a weekend at the Roosevelt home at Hyde Park on Hudson, in upstate New York – the first-ever visit of a reigning English monarch to America. With Britain facing imminent war with Germany, the Royals are desperately looking to FDR for support. But international affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR’s domestic establishment, as wife, mother, and mistresses all conspire to make the royal weekend an unforgettable one. Seen through the eyes of Margaret "Daisy" Suckley (Laura Linney), Franklin’s neighbor and intimate, the weekend will produce not only a special relationship between two great nations, but, for Daisy – and through her, for us all – a deeper understanding of the mysteries of love and friendship.

With Edward Burns • Connie Britton • Heather Burns • Kerry Bishé • Dara Coleman

With The Fitzgerald Family Christmas, Ed Burns returns to the working-class, Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen. Reuniting with McMullen co-stars Connie Britton, and Mike McGlone, along with Noah Emmerich and Kerry Bishe, Burns weaves an ensemble story of adult siblings dealing with the desire of their estranged father (Ed Lauter) to return home for Christmas for the first time since he walked out on his family 20 years ago. Family rifts emerge, and like with any family, Christmas brings a mixed bag of complicated emotions and dynamics. Alliances form, old wounds are reopened or glossed over, and the possibility for a new hope and forgiveness emerges.

With Felicity Jones • Julian Wadham • Luke Treadaway • Mackenzie Crook • James Norton • Elizabeth McGovern • Zoe Tapper • Donald Rice

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

With Cate Blanchett • Ian McKellen • Benedict Cumberbatch • Peter Jackson • Orlando Bloom • Elijah Wood • Martin Freeman • Evangeline Lilly • Lee Pace • Luke Evans • Andy Serkis • Guillermo del Toro • Stephen Fry • Philippa Boyens • Hugo Weaving • Richard Armitage • Graham McTavish • Adam Brown • James Nesbitt • Jed Brophy • Carolynne Cunningham • Aidan Turner • Mark Hadlow • Conan Stevens • Ken Stott • Barry Humphries • Fran Walsh • Phillippa Boyens • Ken Kamins • John Callen • Stephen Hunter • Peter Hambleton • Sylvester McCoy • Mikael Persbrandt • Ryan Gage • William Kircher • Bret McKenzie

This prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy follows Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of the "little people,” on the hazardous journey with Gandalf the Grey. Together with 13 fortune-seeking dwarves, Bilbo Baggins will be swept out his door and into a dangerous but grand adventure through the Lonely Mountains, where he must contend against all manner of enemies, from dragons, to giant spiders, hostile elves, ravenous wolves, and – perhaps the most perilous of all – a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring (the ring that rules them all) in a riddling contest!

With Alan Cumming • Frances Fisher • Garret Dillahunt • Isaac Leyva • Gregg Henry • Travis Fine

When a teenager with Down syndrome is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced to fight a biased legal system to save the life of the child they have come to love as their own.

With Felicity Jones • Julian Wadham • Luke Treadaway • Mackenzie Crook • James Norton • Elizabeth McGovern • Zoe Tapper • Donald Rice

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

With Chris Pratt • Jessica Chastain • Joel Edgerton • Jason Clarke • Edgar Ramirez • Jennifer Ehle • Mark Strong • Kathryn Bigelow • Mark Boal • Nash Edgerton • Megan Ellison • Mike Colter

For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate Osama bin Laden.

With Isabelle Huppert • Michael Haneke • Jean-Louis Trintignant • Emmanuelle Riva

In the film, Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their 80's. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter (Isabelle Huppert), who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. The couple's bond of love is severely tested.

With Tom Cruise • Robert Duvall • Dana Goldberg • Christopher McQuarrie • Rosamund Pike • David Oyelowo • David Ellison • Werner Herzog • Don Granger • Richard Jenkins • Paula Wagner • Josh Olson • Ken Kamins • Gary Levinsohn • Alexia Fast

Ex-military homicide investigator Jack Reacher seeks the truth behind what seems an open-and-shut murder case after a trained military sniper is arrested for shooting five random victims.

With Ewan McGregor • Naomi Watts • Tom Hollander • Juan Antonio Bayona • Geraldine Chaplin • Sergio G. Sanchez • Marta Etura

Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking forward to a few days in tropical paradise. But on the morning of December 26th, as the family relaxes around the pool after their Christmas festivities the night before, a terrifying roar rises up from the center of the earth. As Maria freezes in fear, a huge wall of black water races across the hotel grounds toward her.

With Brad Garrett • John Magaro • Christopher McDonald • Lisa Lampanelli • Mark Johnson • James Gandolfini • Bella Heathcote • Jack Huston • David Chase • Will Brill • Steven Van Zandt

It's 1964, the Rolling Stones appear on television and three best friends from the suburbs of New Jersey decide to form a rock band.

With Kristen Stewart • Francis Ford Coppola • Garrett Hedlund • Amy Adams • Kirsten Dunst • Viggo Mortensen • Sam Riley • Charles Gillibert • Walter Salles • John H. Williams • Nathanaël Karmitz • Rebecca Yeldham • Jose Rivera • Marin Karmitz

The story of Sal Paradise, an aspiring New York writer, and Dean Moriarty, a devastatingly charming ex-con, married to the very liberated and seductive Marylou. Sal and Dean bond instantly instantly upon meeting. Determined not to get locked in to a constricted life, the two friends cut their ties and take to the road with Marylou. Thirsting for freedom, the three young people head off in search of the world, of other encounters, and of themselves.

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Samuel L. Jackson • Quentin Tarantino • Jamie Foxx • Don Johnson • Walton Goggins • John Jarratt • James Remar • Christoph Waltz • RZA • Kerry Washington • James Russo • Stacey Sher • Todd Allen • Tom Wopat • Pilar Savone

Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Django Unchained stars Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead him to his bounty. The unorthodox Schultz acquires Django with a promise to free him upon the capture of the Brittles – dead or alive.

Success leads Schultz to free Django, though the two men choose not to go their separate ways. Instead, Schultz seeks out the South’s most wanted criminals with Django by his side. Honing vital hunting skills, Django remains focused on one goal: finding and rescuing Broomhilda (Kerry Washington), the wife he lost to the slave trade long ago.

Django and Schultz’s search ultimately leads them to Calvin Candie (Leonardo DiCaprio), the proprietor of “Candyland,” an infamous plantation. Exploring the compound under false pretenses, Django and Schultz arouse the suspicion of Stephen (Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson), Candie’s trusted house slave. Their moves are marked, and a treacherous organization closes in on them. If Django and Schultz are to escape with Broomhilda, they must choose between independence and solidarity, between sacrifice and survival…

With Peter Chernin • Andy Fickman • Bailee Madison • Lowell Ganz • Marisa Tomei • Bette Midler • Tom Everett Scott • Billy Crystal • Dylan Clark • Babaloo Mandel • Lisa Addario • Joe Syracuse

Comedy legends Billy Crystal and Bette Midler play Artie and Diane Decker, who are called in by their daughter (Marisa Tomei) to help care for their three grandkids. When their old-school parenting methods collide with their daughter’s new-school ways, the once-orderly household spins out of control.

With Laura Soveral • Ana Moreira • Miguel Gomes • Teresa Madruga

A two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar’s quest to fulfill her friend’s wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband’s best friend.

With Dustin Hoffman • Ronald Harwood • Maggie Smith • Billy Connolly • Michael Gambon • Tom Courtenay • Stewart Mackinnon

Beecham House is abuzz. The rumor circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it's a star. For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins) this sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they're in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of her arrival particularly hard. Can the passage of time heal old wounds? And will the famous quartet be able to patch up their differences in time for Beecham House's gala concert?

With Matt Damon • John Krasinski • Scoot McNairy • Gus Van Sant • Rosemarie DeWitt • Frances McDormand • Chris Moore • Dave Eggers

Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate salesman who is sent along with his partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), to close a key rural town in his company's expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company's offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (John Krasinski), as well as the interest of a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt).