Drama Movies 2012 List

With Mel Gibson • Peter Stormare • Bruce Davey • Dean Norris • Adrian Grunberg • Stacy Perskie

The story centers on a career criminal who gets caught by Mexican authorities and is sent to a drug- and crime-filled prison, where he learns how to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

With Dev Patel • Tom Wilkinson • Julie Christie • Graham Broadbent • Judi Dench • John Madden • Peter Czernin • Deborah Moggach • Bill Nighy • Peter O'Toole • Maggie Smith • Ol Parker

Follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

With Andy Serkis • Anthony McCarten • Michael McElhatton • Astrid Kahmke • Thomas Sangster • Ian Fitzgibbon • Philipp Kreuzer • Sharon Horgan

A teenage comicbook artist suffering from leukemia finds escape from the harsh realities of life in his illustrated adventures, in which the indestructible Miracle Man fights a never-ending battle against his arch-nemesis, the mad scientist known as the Glove.

With Blake Lively • Chloë Grace Moretz • Juliette Lewis • Eddie Redmayne • Derick Martini • Steven Siebert • Christian Taylor • Andrea Portes • Charles de Portes

The story is about a 13-year-old who runs away to Las Vegas after being abandoned by her parents in Nebraska. Along the way, the girl learns some truths about American society and the peril of her own sexual curiosity.

With Rebecca Hall • Jason Ritter • Lucy Barzun Donnelly • Jake Sandvig • Brian Crano

Two slackers run a valet-parking scam to steal cars, but their operation is threatened when a stressed-out single mom and her street-smart young son move in next door.

With Eva Mendes • Matthew Modine • Patricia Arquette • Patricia Riggen

Grace (Eva Mendes) is a single mom. She is too busy juggling work, bills, and the very married Dr. Hartford (Matthew Modine), to give her daughter, Ansiedad (Cierra Ramirez) the attention she desperately needs. When Ansiedad's English teacher, Ms. Armstrong (Patricia Arquette), introduces her students to classic coming-of-age stories, Ansiedad is inspired to skip adolescence and jump-start her life without mom. While Grace becomes preoccupied with the increasing affections of her co-worker (Eugenio Derbez), Ansiedad enlists the help of her loyal friend, Tavita (Raini Rodriguez), to plot her shortcut to "adulthood". But as her misguided plan unravels, Ansiedad and Grace must learn that sometimes growing-up means acting your age.

With Hirokazu Koreeda

Twelve-year-old Koichi lives with his mother and retired grandparents in Kagoshima, in the southern region of Kyushu, Japan. His younger brother Ryunosuke lives with their father in Hakata, northern Kyushu. The brothers have been separated by their parents' divorce and Koichi's only wish is for his family to be reunited. When he learns that a new bullet train line will soon open, linking the two towns, he starts to believe that a miracle will take place the moment these new trains first pass each other at top speed. With help from the adults around him, Koichi sets out on a journey with a group of friends, each hoping to witness a miracle that will improve their difficult lives.

With Nadine Labaki

A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.

With Stephen Curry • Brendan Gleeson • Ray Winstone • Kirk D'Amico • David Lee • Simon Wincer • Lance Hool • Eric O'Keefe • Jan Bladier • Joel Pearlman

Born into a legendary racing family, jockeys Damien Oliver (Damien Oliver) and his brother, Jason (Daniel MacPherson), were destined for greatness. However, tragedy strikes when Jason is in a deathly riding accident just days before the prestigious Melbourne Cup race. Damien considers bowing out of the race and wonders if he’ll ever ride again, but with the encouragement of famed Irish horse trainer Dermot Weld (Brendan Gleeson), he realizes that racing is the one way he can pay tribute to the memory of his beloved brother. In a moment that captured the attention – and the hearts – of the world, Damien and his horse Media Puzzle victoriously cross the finish line at the Melbourne Cup.

With Elizabeth Banks • Jennifer Lopez • Cameron Diaz • Dennis Quaid • Anna Kendrick • Chris Rock • Thomas Lennon • Brooklyn Decker • Genesis Rodriguez • Rodrigo Santoro • Heather Hach • Arnie Messer • Shauna Cross • Erik Murkoff • Kim Fields • Mike Medavoy • Chace Crawford • Heidi Murkoff • Amir Talai • Kirk Jones • David Thwaites • Doug McKay • Ben Falcone • Rob Huebel • Matthew Morrison

Follows five couples whose intertwined lives are turned upside down as they experience the trials and triumphs of impending parenthood.

With Dev Patel • Tom Wilkinson • Julie Christie • Graham Broadbent • Judi Dench • John Madden • Peter Czernin • Deborah Moggach • Bill Nighy • Peter O'Toole • Maggie Smith • Ol Parker

Follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

With Emma Roberts • Susan Johnson • Dustin Lance Black • Gus Van Sant • Jennifer Connelly • Toby Jones • Ed Harris • Yeardley Smith • Amy Madigan • Jay Froberg • Michelle Weisler

A pariah to most in her small beach boardwalk town, Virginia was diagnosed early-on as a hair shy of mentally stable. Her closest friend and 15- year-old son, Emmett, is more father than son to his impulsive, ill-behaved mother. Their shared dream: to skip town for California. They've been packed for years. Mussing things up, we discover Emmett's father is likely the older married Mormon sheriff his mother's been having an affair with for decades, and whose daughter Emmett dreams of eloping with. But secrets have a way of not staying so secret, and circumstances surrounded by madness have a way of getting dire. In their bent world a perfectly reasonable solution arises: to rob Virginia Beach blind on the day the President of the United States pays a much-anticipated visit.

With Felicity Jones • Rupert Everett • Gemma Jones • Maggie Gyllenhaal • Hugh Dancy • Jonathan Pryce • Judy Cairo • Ashley Jensen • Sheridan Smith • Anna Chancellor • Sarah Curtis • Stephen Dyer • Jonah Lisa Dyer • Tanya Wexler

Doctors in London treat cases of hysteria, characterized at the time by a woman's irritability, anger or unexplained tears, with a new electrical device for treatment for the ailment.

With J. Todd Harris • Adam Leff • Gil Birmingham • Steve Rash • Brandon Routh • Mitchell Peck • Todd Baird • Jacques Vroom III • Marc Marcum • Crystal Allen

A mixed-blood Native American, Joe Logan, eager to modernize his reservation, must first prove himself to his father, the traditionalist Tribal Chairman, by rediscovering his spirit. He is tasked with coaching the reservation’s high school lacrosse team which competes against the better equipped and better trained players of the elite Prep School League. Joe inspires the Native American boys and teaches them the true meaning of tribal pride. Ignited by their heritage and believing in their new-found potential, coach and team climb an uphill battle to the state championship finals against their privileged prep school rivals…will they win?

With Patrick Horvath • Dallas Richard Hallam

Explores the thin line between anxiety and naked horror in the life of Suzy (Suziey Block), a young woman in Los Angeles who can’t get comfortable in her own skin. A loner who wallows in nostalgia and finds herself wandering aimlessly through life in the city, she can’t shake the gnawing suspicion that a true menace grows just outside her field of vision. As she scrambles to take control of her life, her anxiety rises to a fever pitch that boils over into a waking nightmare.

With Sai Yoichi

Based on a true story, Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog is the sweet tale of a yellow Labrador Retriever guide dog for the blind named Quill. We follow Quill from the litter to his selection as a guide dog shortly after his first birthday. After training at a school for guide dogs, Quill is paired with a blind man named Watanabe who at first is reluctant to rely on him. But Quill's great patience, gentleness and skill eventually win him over and they become inseparable friends.

With Matt D'Elia

Jimmy is a terminally ill young man. He is also quite eccentric, bordering on plain old crazy, and starting today he has decided that he is ‘happy’ and no longer sick. Jimmy’s roommate James is a healthy, dreamy young man. They’re best friends. They live together. They don’t do much of anything and they seem very happy that way. Today, they have two female friends - both named Angela - over to their downtown Los Angeles loft for just another day of drinks, drugs, board games and casual sex, among other things. All seems well. But trouble arises when it gets revealed that James will be leaving for a new job in the morning. Jimmy, feeling betrayed, is not pleased by this development. He sees it as nothing short of the destruction of the perfect little world that they’ve set up, and a humorous battle of wills ensues as James prepares for the real world and Jimmy falls deeper and deeper into his world of illness, isolation, and make-believe.

With Samuel L. Jackson • Tom Wilkinson • Ruth Negga • Luke Kirby • David Weaver • Mark Musselman • Andras Hamori • Elan Mastai • Geoffrey Brandt

Samuel L. Jackson plays Foley, a grifter trying to escape from his past having spent 20 years in prison. But he gets ensnared in the plans of a young protege and it becomes all too clear to Foley that some wrongs can never be made right.

With Joey Starr • Nicolas Duvauchelle • Emmanuelle Bercot • Maiwenn Le Besco • Karin Viard • Marina Fois • Karole Rocher

Centers on individuals and officers working in and around a child protection unit in Paris.

With Josh Lucas • Jon Tenney • Ayelet Zurer • Casey LaBow • Chris Eyre • James Cromwell • Taylor Nichols

Follows the story of a successful businessman (Josh Lucas) attempting to resurrect his life. Entering an idyllic harbor as a broken and haunted man, he buys and boards the dilapidated sailboat, Hesperus. Disturbed at night by unsettling dreams of his past, the boat becomes a beacon of hope as he begins the challenge of bringing back the shine to the tarnished vessel--and to his life.

With Joachim Trier

Thirty-four-year-old Anders (Anders Danielsen Lie) is a fortunate, but deeply troubled man battling drug addiction. As part of his rehabilitation program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview, but instead uses the opportunity as a way to drift around and revisit old friends. The day grows increasingly difficult as he struggles to overcome personal demons and past ghosts for the chance at love and a new life.

With Omar Sy • Francois Cluzet • Eric Toledano • Olivier Nakache • Anne Le Ny

Based on the true story of a wealthy paraplegic who develops an unlikely friendship with a guy from the street whom he hires to be his aide.

With Bruce Willis • Bill Murray • Wes Anderson • Jason Schwartzman • Tilda Swinton • Scott Rudin • Frances McDormand • Ed Norton

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore -- and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle. Bruce Willis plays the local sheriff. Edward Norton is a Khaki Scout troop leader. Bill Murray and Frances McDormand portray the young girl's parents. The cast also includes Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward as the boy and girl.