Best Drama movies of 2012

Actors : Alexandra Doke, Ian Veteto, Olivia Harris, Jonathon McClendon,
Directors : Julia Dyer,

Four children in their attic hideaway make up a fantastic story, while downstairs their parents weave a drunken intrigue of their own.

Actors : Marin Ireland, Paul Sparks, Niesha Butler, Bennie Slay,
Directors : Noah Buschel,

A story centered on an actress who has become agoraphobic who reluctantly allows a plumber into her apartment after her toilet overflows.

Actors : Lou Taylor Pucci, Jayne Eastwood, Pam Hyatt, Cary Elwes,
Directors : Alonso Mayo,

Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.

Actors : Annalee Jefferies, Geoffrey Rivas, Austin West, Abbie Cornish,
Directors : David Riker,

A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.

Actors : Oded Fehr, Joshua Jackson, Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei,
Directors : Ruba Nadda,

Years after he left Damascus under suspicious circumstances, Adib Abdel Kareem must confront what he left behind when his daughter goes missing.

Actors : Addie Bartlett, Zach Cali, Aaron Buyea, Cody Hamric,
Directors : Tim Sutton,

Tim Sutton's debut feature, likened to films by Gus Van Sant and Pedro Costa, follows a laconic teenager (Max) who moves from an idyllic lakeside town to his father's home in arid suburban ...

Actors : Jane Adams, Kent Osborne, Larry Fessenden, Sophia Takal,
Directors : Joe Swanberg,

Jane Adams is an actress living in a house precariously perched above the beach in Malibu. Her age exempts her from more and more acting opportunities. That's when her young, ...

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Ryo Kase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Takeshi Kitano,
Directors : Takeshi Kitano,

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West.

Actors : Marin Ireland, Amy Madigan, Lili Taylor, Perla Haney-Jardine,
Directors : Jenny Deller,

When her single mom runs off to California, Lauduree, a passionate environmentalist, clings to her rural home and a carbon sequestration experiment. But her grandmother Greta, a caustic ...

Actors : Jeffrey Tambor, Ed Stoppard, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Leelee Sobieski,

In future Moscow, where corporate brands have created a disillusioned population, one man's effort to unlock the truth behind the conspiracy will lead to an epic battle with hidden forces that control the world.

Actors : Maxym Anciaux, Mahé Collet, Cathy Boquet, Christelle Cornil,

Comic-book artist Jung returns to Seoul for the first time since he was abandoned at the age of 5.

Actors : Sky Hirschkron, Tallie Medel, Kati Schwartz, Aundrea Fares,
Directors : Dan Sallitt,

17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.

Actors : Mem Ferda, Ed Skrein, Lee Allen, Riz Ahmed,
Directors : Plan B,

The lives of four drug dealers, one user and two prostitutes.

Actors : Jess Weixler, Tyler Labine, Justin Long, Addison Timlin,
Directors : Ted Koland,

A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.

Actors : Parambrata Chatterjee, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Vidya Balan, Saswata Chatterjee,
Directors : Sujoy Ghosh,

A pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata, but everyone she questions denies having ever met him.

Actors : Gabriel Byrne, Gad Elmaleh, Natacha Régnier, Liya Kebede,
Directors : Costa-Gavras,

The newly appointed CEO of a giant European investment bank works to hold on to his power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy out his company.

Actors : Will Rogers, Eleonore Hendricks, Rebecca Lawrence Levy, Santino Fontana,
Directors : Andrew Semans,

NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to ...

Actors : Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Karan Malhotra,

A young boy's father is lynched before his eyes; fifteen years later he returns home for revenge.

Actors : Cobie Smulders, Jason Biggs, Lauren Ambrose, Joel David Moore,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

After losing his job, a journalist reluctantly agrees to help his oddball friend with his bid to earn a seat on the Seattle City Council.

Actors : Amanda Good Hennessey, Jaime Ray Newman, Dennis Staroselsky, Alex Karpovsky,
Directors : Alex Karpovsky,

Paul Harris works at a small research facility on the outskirts of Boston. After a weekend tryst with a co-worker leaves him wanting more, his unreciprocated desires gradually mold into an ...