2012 Drama Movies

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The Impossible(2012)

PG-13

3.7/5 (with 2,831 votes)

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

Directed by J. A. Bayona - With Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura, Samuel Joslin, ...

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Flight(2012)

| 2h 18min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 2,686 votes)

Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Directed by Robert Zemeckis - With Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Kelly Reilly, Melissa Leo, Don Cheadle, Nadine Velazquez, ...

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Life of Pi(2012)

| 2h 7min | Adventure, Drama

3.7/5 (with 6,246 votes)

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Directed by Ang Lee - With Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu, Tabu, Adil Hussain, ...

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The Hunger Games(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 22min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy

3.6/5 (with 10,411 votes)

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. Part twisted entertainment, part government intimidation tactic, the Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which “Tributes” must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she’s ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. The world will be watching.

Directed by Gary Ross - With Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Willow Shields, ...

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The Hunt(2012)

| 1h 56min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 1,756 votes)

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

Directed by Thomas Vinterberg - With Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Alexandra Rapaport, Susse Wold, Lars Ranthe, Anne Louise Hassing, ...

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Lincoln(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 29min | History, Drama

3.4/5 (with 1,695 votes)

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.

Directed by Steven Spielberg - With Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, ...

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Argo(2012)

| 2h | Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 3,762 votes)

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

Directed by Ben Affleck - With Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber, Michael Cassidy, ...

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The Master(2012)

| 2h 17min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 1,484 votes)

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson - With Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Laura Dern, Rami Malek, Jesse Plemons, ...

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Big Miracle(2012)

| 1h 47min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 215 votes)

A small-town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer enlist the help of rival superpowers to save three majestic gray whales trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle.

Directed by Ken Kwapis - With John Krasinski, Drew Barrymore, Kristen Bell, Vinessa Shaw, Stephen Root, Ted Danson, ...

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The Raven(2012)

| 1h 51min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery

3.1/5 (with 673 votes)

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

Directed by James McTeigue - With John Cusack, Alice Eve, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally, Pam Ferris, ...

Red Tails(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 5min | Drama, Action, Adventure, History, War

3.3/5 (with 318 votes)

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.

Directed by Anthony Hemingway - With Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, Daniela Ruah, Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Method Man, ...

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Shameless(2012)

1h 21min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 21 votes)

In an incendiary story of love, desire, and betrayal between siblings, the rebellious young Tadek returns to his half-sister Anka’s home in search of solace and affection. Bound together by a painful shared family history, brother and sister must find a way to break free in order to survive. This formidable debut fearlessly yet tenderly explores one of society’s last taboos.

Directed by Filip Marczewski - With Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Anna Próchniak, Adam Cywka, Paweł Królikowski, Dariusz Majchrzak, ...

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Disconnect(2013)

| 1h 55min | Drama, Thriller

3.5/5 (with 562 votes)

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

Directed by Henry Alex Rubin - With Jason Bateman, Alexander Skarsgård, Paula Patton, Max Thieriot, Andrea Riseborough, Colin Ford, ...

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The Paperboy(2012)

| 1h 47min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery

2.8/5 (with 375 votes)

As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

Directed by Lee Daniels - With Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo, ...

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Mud(2013)

PG-13

| 2h 10min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 1,403 votes)

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

Directed by Jeff Nichols - With Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Paulson, Michael Shannon, Sam Shepard, Ray McKinnon, ...

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Trouble with the Curve(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 51min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 796 votes)

Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.

Directed by Robert Lorenz - With Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard, Robert Patrick, ...

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On the Road(2012)

| 2h 17min | Adventure, Drama

2.8/5 (with 379 votes)

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

Directed by Walter Salles, Sam Riley - With Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Tom Sturridge, Alice Braga, ...

Kon-Tiki(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 58min | Adventure, History

3.5/5 (with 379 votes)

The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.

Directed by Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg - With Gustaf Skarsgård, Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Odd-Magnus Williamson, Agnes Kittelsen, Jakob Oftebro, ...

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About Cherry(2012)

| 1h 42min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 126 votes)

A drama centered on a troubled young woman who moves to San Francisco, where she gets involved in pornography and aligns herself with a cocaine-addicted lawyer.

Directed by Stephen Elliott - With Ashley Hinshaw, James Franco, Heather Graham, Dev Patel, Lili Taylor, Jiz Lee, ...

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Chasing Mavericks(2012)

| 1h 57min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 246 votes)

Surfer Jay Moriarity sets out to ride the Northern California break known as Mavericks.

Directed by Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted - With Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer, Leven Rambin, Taylor Handley, Jonny Weston, ...

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Emperor(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 45min | Drama, History, War

3.1/5 (with 107 votes)

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Directed by Peter Webber - With Matthew Fox, Tommy Lee Jones, Kaori Momoi, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida, Masatoshi Nakamura, ...

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Promised Land(2012)

| 1h 46min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 300 votes)

A salesman for a natural gas company experiences life-changing events after arriving in a small town, where his corporation wants to tap into the available resources.

Directed by Gus Van Sant - With Matt Damon, John Krasinski, Frances McDormand, Rosemarie DeWitt, Lucas Black, Titus Welliver, ...

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The Magic of Belle Isle(2012)

| 1h 49min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 169 votes)

In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.

Directed by Rob Reiner - With Morgan Freeman, Virginia Madsen, Madeline Carroll, Kenan Thompson, Kevin Pollak, Fred Willard, ...

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Paradise: Love(2012)

2h | Drama

3.4/5 (with 98 votes)

On the beaches of Kenya they’re known as "Sugar Mamas" —European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to this vacation paradise, moving from beach to beach.

Directed by Ulrich Seidl - With Margarethe Tiesel, Maria Hofstätter, Inge Maux, Dunja Sowinetz

Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)

PG-13

| 1h 33min | Drama, Fantasy

3.4/5 (with 470 votes)

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Directed by Benh Zeitlin - With Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry

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Starlet(2012)

| 1h 43min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 64 votes)

An unlikely friendship forms between 21 year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at Sadie's yard sale.

Directed by Sean Baker - With Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Asa Akira, Manuel Ferrara, ...

StreetDance 2(2012)

1h 25min | Music, Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 176 votes)

After suffering humiliation by the crew Invincible, street dancer Ash looks to gather the best dancers from around the world for a rematch.

Directed by Max Giwa, Dania Pasquini, Max Giwa - With Sofia Boutella, George Sampson, Tom Conti, Falk Hentschel, Flawless

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Great Expectations(2012)

PG-13

| 2h 8min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 154 votes)

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's Uncle Pumblechook to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love, then Pip—a humble orphan—suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

Directed by Mike Newell - With Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jason Flemyng, Robbie Coltrane, Holliday Grainger, Ewen Bremner, ...

Broken(2012)

| 1h 31min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 133 votes)

Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

Directed by Rufus Norris - With Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear, Zana Marjanović, Bill Milner, Denis Lawson, ...

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Betrayal(2012)

1h 55min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

While examining one of her patients, a doctor reveals that her husband is cheating with the patient's wife.

Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov - With Albina Dzhanabaeva, Artūrs Skrastiņš, Franziska Petri, Guna Zariņa, Ivan Fominov

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2012 Drama Movies

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The Impossible(2012)

Flight(2012)

Life of Pi(2012)

The Hunger Games(2012)

The Hunt(2012)

Lincoln(2012)

Argo(2012)

The Master(2012)

Big Miracle(2012)

The Raven(2012)

Red Tails(2012)

Shameless(2012)

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Disconnect(2013)

The Paperboy(2012)

Mud(2013)

Trouble with the Curve(2012)

On the Road(2012)

Kon-Tiki(2012)

About Cherry(2012)

Chasing Mavericks(2012)

Emperor(2012)

Promised Land(2012)

The Magic of Belle Isle(2012)

Paradise: Love(2012)

Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)

Starlet(2012)

StreetDance 2(2012)

Great Expectations(2012)

Broken(2012)

Betrayal(2012)

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