Drama and Romance Movies

Hyde Park on the Hudson
Drama and Romance Movies / Focus Features / Period Films / Real Life Stories

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Margaret Suckley (Laura Linney) – more commonly known as Daisy – recollects her relationship with her more famous distant cousin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Her recollections focus primarily on the year they were reacquainted as adults, 1939. With Daisy living in Hyde Park, New York, that reacquaintance was when Roosevelt more often visited Hyde Park to stay at his mother’s house there, Mrs. Roosevelt who was looking for people to keep her son company to take his mind off politics.

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In Darkness Movie
Drama and Romance Movies / Period Films / Sony Pictures Classics / War Movies

In Darkness (2012)

In Darkness is a dramatization of a rescue of Jewish refugees during World War II in the German-occupied city Lwów (Lemberg in German, L’viv in Ukrainian). For over a year, a Polish Catholic sewer maintenance worker and burglar, Leopold Socha along with his friend and co-worker Szczepek Wróblewski, hid and cared for a group of Polish Jews who had escaped the massacres and deportations during the liquidation of the Lwów Ghetto.

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The Inbetweeners Movie
Drama and Romance Movies / Romantic Comedies / Teen Romances / The Weinstein Company

The Inbetweeners Movie (2012)

Best friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland – who are not among the social outcasts, but also not cool enough to hang out with the cool kids who they aspire to be – have just graduated from their suburban London high school. Simon has finally been able to get Carli D’Amato, who he has been in love with since they were children, to be his girlfriend. Largely because they will be going away to different schools in the fall, Carli breaks up with him.

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The Intouchables Movie
Drama and Romance Movies / The Weinstein Company

The Intouchables (2012)

In Paris, the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer, with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue, Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his unemployment benefit. Philippe challenges Driss, offering him a trial period of one month to gain experience helping him. Then Driss can decide whether he would like to stay with him or not. Driss accepts the challenge and moves to the mansion, changing the boring life of Phillipe and his employees.

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Jeff Who Lives at Home
Comedy Films / Drama and Romance Movies / Paramount Pictures

Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)

Thirty year old Jeff Thompkins believes in the cosmic order of the world. Taking a cue from his favorite movie Signs (2002), Jeff is waiting for a sign from the universe for what he is supposed to do with his life. In the meantime, he doesn’t work, lounges around his long widowed mother Sharon Thompkins’ suburban Baton Rouge basement where he lives, and smokes weed. Seemingly responsible Sharon and Jeff’s older brother Pat Thompkins don’t understand Jeff, who they want to do something, anything, with his life, rather than waste it away. Little do they realize that their own lives are in shambles, despite the signs being obvious to anyone looking in at them.

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Joyful Noise
Drama and Romance Movies / Romantic Comedies / Warner Bros Pictures

Joyful Noise (2012)

After the untimely death of a small-town church choir director (Kris Kristofferson) in Pacashau, Georgia, Vi Rose Hill (Latifah), a no-nonsense mother raising two teens alone, takes control of the choir using the traditional Gospel style that their Pastor Dale (Courtney B. Vance) approves of. However, the director’s widow, G. G. Sparrow (Parton), the main benefactor to the church, believes she should have been given the position.

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Keep the Lights On
Drama and Romance Movies / Music Box Films

Keep the Lights On (2012)

It’s the late 1990s in New York City. Erik Rothman, a gay Danish documentary filmmaker, long broke off his last serious relationship with a man named Paolo. Since, he has moved from one one night stand to another, many of those connections through a telephone gay cruising service. It is through those means that Erik meets bisexual corporate lawyer Paul Lucy, who admits he is already in a heterosexual relationship.

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The Kid with a Bike
Drama and Romance Movies / IFC Films

The Kid with a Bike (2012)

At about 11, the stubborn and impulsive Cyril seems on his way to delinquency: he has no mother, his father wants a new life without him, so he’s in a foster institution. He searches for his father, wanting him and his bike. Through the intersession of Samantha, a hairdresser Cyril happens upon, he gets his bike back, and she offers to take him into her home on weekends. He remains aloof from her and gets involved with a young crook. Is Cyril intent on driving Samantha away – and what then?

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