Drama Movies 2012 List

With Dane DeHaan • Adam Schroeder • Max Landis • Luke Tyler • Josh Trank • Ashley Hinshaw • Anna Wood • 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 John Krasinski • Drew Barrymore • Kristen Bell • Ken Kwapis • Tim Bevan • Steve Golin • Jack Amiel • Michael Sugar • Ted Danson • Tim Blake Nelson • Vinessa Shaw • Eric Fellner • Liza Chasin • Michael Begler

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 • James D'Arcy • Kris Thykier • Madonna • Abbie Cornish • Alex Keshishian • James Fox • Andrea Riseborough • Richard Coyle • Laurence Fox • Colin Vaines • Scott Franklin • 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 • Vanessa Hudgens • Josh Hutcherson • Michael Caine • Marcus Viscidi • Luis Guzman • Brad Peyton • Beau Flynn • Tripp Vinson • Charlotte Huggins • Mark Gunn • Richard Outten • Michael Bostick • Richard Brener • Brian Gunn • Evan Turner • Samuel J. Brown

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

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

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 • Curt Hahn • Steve Talley

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 • Markus Schleinzer • Christine Kain • Michael Fuith

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 • Scott Duthie • Christopher Cain

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 Michael R. Roskam • Matthias Schoenaerts • 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 Tyler Perry • Gabrielle Union • Thandiwe Newton • Eddie Cibrian • Brian J. White • Jamie Kennedy • Jordenn Thompson • Rebecca Romijn • Phylicia Rashad

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.