Drama Movies 2012 List

With Leonardo DiCaprio • Kate Winslet • James Cameron • Frances Fisher • Victor Garber • Kathy Bates • Rae Sanchini • Jon Landau • Billy Zane • Bill Paxton • Gloria Stuart • Al Giddings

An epic, action-packed romance set against the ill-fated maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" Titanic, at the time, the largest moving object ever built.

With Guy Maddin

After a long absence, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home to a house haunted with memories, towing the body of a teenaged girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused on one thing: journeying through the house, room by room, and reaching his wife Hyacinth (Isabella Rossellini) in her bedroom upstairs. The equilibrium of the house has been disturbed and his odyssey eventually becomes an emotional tour, as the ghostly nooks and crannies of the house reveal more about the mysterious Pick family.

With Nanni Moretti • Michel Piccoli

Follows the story of Melville, a cardinal who suddenly finds himself elected as the next Pope. Never the front runner and completely caught off guard, he panics as he's presented to the faithful in St. Peter's Square. To prevent a world wide crisis, the Vatican's spokesman calls in an unlikely psychiatrist who is neither religious or all that committed, played by Moretti, to find out what is wrong with the new Pope. As the world nervously waits outside, inside the therapist tries to find a solution. But Cardinal Melville is adamant: he does not want the job, or at least needs time to think it over. What follows is a marvelous insight into the concept of a human being existing behind the title of God's representative on Earth.

With Josh Peck • Margarita Levieva • Brian Geraghty • Peter Safran • Chris Sparling • Paul Brooks • Norm Waitt • Scott Neimeyer • Dan Clifton

Three co-workers on a routine stop at an ATM unexpectedly end up in a desperate fight for their lives.

With Chris Hemsworth • Bradley Whitford • Drew Goddard • Joss Whedon • Brian J. White • Kristen Connolly • Richard Jenkins • Jesse Williams • Anna Hutchison • Fran Kranz

The Cabin in the Woods storyline provides a new twist on a classic scenario -- in this case, five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods and bad things happen. Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford will play white-collar co-workers with a mysterious connection to the cabin.

With Kurt Russell • Randall Emmett • Brian Presley • George Furla • Ryan Bundra • Rob Cowan • Christine Lahti • Marc Blucas • Sarah Wright • Drew Powell • Kevin Covais • Melanie Lynskey • Lisa Kearns • Don Handfield • Shannon Gardner • Derek Beumer • Kevin Matusow • Adam Griffin • Sianoa Smit-McPhee

Former high school football star turned farmer and family man, Scott Murphy (Brian Presley) finds himself with a unique opportunity to revisit his glory days during the Ohio State championship game where he permanently injured his knee in a game-winning play. Given a second shot at his destiny, Scott seeks counsel from Coach Hand (Kurt Russell), Scott's longtime mentor on and off the field, to help him decide whether to let his fate unfold, or follow a path that will change his future.

With Philippe Falardeau

Bachir Lazhar has emigrated from his native Algeria to Canada, where he is awaiting approval of his asylum application. When he is hired as a substitute teacher at a French-Canadian school, Bachir finds that he is often ill-equipped to deal with his new students and their shock over their previous teacher’s death.

With Tania Raymonde • Marshall Allman • Steve Taylor • Claire Holt

In Blue Like Jazz, Don (Marshall Allman), a pious nineteen-year-old sophomore at a Texas junior college, impulsively decides to escape his evangelical upbringing for life in the Pacific Northwest at one ofthe most progressive campuses in America, Reed College in Portland. Upon arrival, Reed's surroundings and eccentric student body proves to be far different than he could possibly imagine from the environment from which he came, forcing him to embark on a journey of self-discovery to understand who he is and what he truly believes.

With Neema Barnette

David (Underwood) and Kari (Leal) Ames seem to have the perfect life until their young daughter is kidnapped, and over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that threaten to rip their marriage and lives apart

With David Thewlis • Luc Besson • Michelle Yeoh

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris and the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.

With Neema Barnette • Nicole Beharie • Sharon Leal • Blair Underwood • Pam Grier • Jaqueline Fleming

A couple with past secrets unravel when their six-year-old daughter is kidnapped.

With Danny Trejo • Craig Moss • Ron Perlman • Charles S. Dutton

A Vietnam veteran becomes a local hero after saving a man from attackers on a city bus and decides to take action when his best friend is murdered and the police show little interest in solving the crime.

With Julie Gavras • Isabella Rossellini • William Hurt • Doreen Mantle

Late Bloomers begins when Mary (Isabella Rossellini) and Adam (William Hurt), a high-functioning couple, realize that they have entered the senior category. Adam's reaction to this "discovery" is as frantic as his denial, and he desperately looks for a fountain of youth. Mary, on the other hand, decides to deal with the situation by doing what she does best: taking care of everyone.

With Ben Press • Jeannine Kaspar • Mark Bacci • Rino Piccolo • Jordan Bridges • Brooklyn Sudano • Elle McPherson • Louise Linton

Story centers on a small-town policeman struggling to pursue his passion for break-dancing while dealing with a secret from his past.

With Zac Efron • Kevin McCormick • Taylor Schilling • Blythe Danner • Scott Hicks • Will Fetters • Denise DiNovi • Alison Greenspan • Douglas McGrath

U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive—a photograph he found of a woman he doesn’t even know. Learning her name is Beth (Taylor Schilling) and where she lives, he shows up at her door, and ends up taking a job at her family-run local kennel. Despite her initial mistrust and the complications in her life, a romance develops between them, giving Logan hope that Beth could be much more than his good luck charm.

With Sarah Gadon • Scott Speedman • Sarah Bolger • Lily Cole • Mary Harron • Edward R. Pressman

A teenage girl at a boarding girl suspects her roommate is a vampire.

With Mia Hansen-Løve

Fifteen-year-old Camille (Lola Creton) is a serious girl who has fallen in love with the cheerful Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), an older boy who returns her feelings, mostly, but wants to be free to explore the world. When he leaves her to travel, she is devastated, but develops over the following years, into a more fully formed woman, with new interests and a new love - and the possibility that she'll be less defenseless when Sullivan enters her life again.

With Nicholas Ozeki • Jennifer Esposito • Joaquim de Almeida • Josue Aguirre • Jesse Garcia • Veronica Diaz-Carranza • E.J. Bonilla

At school, Jordin (Bonilla) is a cocky but charming Latino firebrand; at home he is a doting grandson who can't seem to please his perpetually cranky father. On the day he's suspended for insulting a teacher, Jordin meets Felipa (Diaz-Carranza), a bookish, no-nonsense New York girl who sees past the swaggering facade. The two immediately embark on an unlikely friendship that inspires Jordin to find out who he really is.

With Hans Ritter • Christopher Denham • Brit Marling • Nicole Vicius • Zal Batmanglij • Shelley Surpin

Peter and Lorna, a young Silver Lake couple, delve into the underworld of a cult that meets in the San Fernando Valley. At the center of the group is an enigmatic young woman named Maggie who never leaves her basement chamber. The members follow Maggie blindly—growing her food, obsessively sanitizing the house, giving her their own blood for transfusions.

With Te-Sheng Wei

Some eighty years ago, in the mountains of Taiwan, two races clashed in defense of their faiths. One believed in rainbows, the other believed in the sun. Neither side realized that they both believed in the same sky.

With James Franco • Michael Shannon • Stacey Miller

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

With Andrew Dosunmu

An African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is his greatest risk.