Drama and Romance Movies | 2012 Movie Releases

The Lady (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

The Lady is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. THE LADY also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement.

Drama and Romance Movies / IFC Films / Teen Romances

Liberal Arts (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Thirty-five year old Jesse Fisher, an admissions officer at a New York City post-secondary institution he who loves English and literature, has somewhat lost his passion in life, which includes recently being unceremoniously dumped by his latest girlfriend, who could no longer be the person to prop him up emotionally. He has a chance to find that passion again when he is invited to the retirement dinner of his second favorite Ohio University college professor, Peter Hoberg, as his time there was when his life held the most passion.

Drama and Romance Movies / Lionsgate Films / Romantic Comedies

Life Happens (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Deena (Kate Bosworth) and Kim (Krysten Ritter) each bring home a guy one night. Realizing they have no condoms, they go looking around in their house where Kim ultimately finds the last one, but Deena takes it and Kim has unprotected sex. One year later, Kim is a single mother. She still lives with her two girlfriends, Deena and Laura (Rachel Bilson), while trying to juggle her son named Max.

20th Century Fox / Drama and Romance Movies / Family Films

Life of Pi (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

A writer, looking for a story idea, is visiting with South Asian-Canadian Pi Patel. They were brought together by Pi’s deceased father’s longtime friend Francis, who Pi calls Mamaji, who knew Pi’s family when they lived in Pondicherry, India, where the writer met Mamaji. Mamaji felt Pi telling the writer his story would be karmic as the writer was a Canadian in French India, and Pi an Indian man in French Canada.

Drama and Romance Movies / Millennium Entertainment / Teen Romances

Little Birds (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Lily (Juno Temple) and Alison (Kay Panabaker) are best friends living in their poverty-stricken home near the Salton Sea. The two are complete opposites: Lily, a suicidal, lives with her single mother, Margaret (Leslie Mann) trying to raise Lily on her own, although Lily thinks she is being neglectful. Alison grew up with her alcoholic dad but somehow finds solace under her uncle Hogan’s (Neal McDonough) automotives and horse.

Drama and Romance Movies / Lionsgate Films / Romantic Comedies

LOL (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

In this re-make of the 2008 French movie of nearly the same name and set in Chicago, Illinois, Lola (Miley Cyrus) leads an ordinary life, with her boyfriend Chad (George Finn), and best friends Emily (Ashley Hinshaw), Janice (Lina Esco) and Kyle (Douglas Booth). When they return to school after summer vacation, Lola discovers that Chad has cheated on her over the summer, so the two of them break up.

Drama and Romance Movies / Fox Searchlight Pictures / Romantic Comedies

Lola Versus (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Lola Versus opens with Lola on top of the world. She’s preparing to defend her thesis (on the place of silence in poetry and prose. Ha!) and madly in love with longtime boyfriend Luke (Joel Kinnaman), an artist. They’re in sync in bed and comfortably co-habitating in his nice loft.

20th Century Fox / Drama and Romance Movies / Teen Romances

London, Paris, New York (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

The movie starts with Nikhil Chopra being interviewed by a reporter in New York asking him about his newly directed movie and why he chose a serious subject and he replies saying that he was asked by someone to be true to yourself and this movie shows the biggest truth about him. He then receives a message and rushes outside to catch a cab.

Drama and Romance Movies / Teen Romances / Warner Bros Pictures

The Lucky One (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

US Marine Logan Thibault is on his third tour of duty in Iraq. The morning after a deadly battle, he spots among some rubble a photograph of a young Caucasian woman, with only the words “Keep Safe X” scrawled on the back.

Comedy Films / Drama and Romance Movies / Romantic Comedies / Warner Bros Pictures

Magic Mike (2012)

February 7, 2019February 7, 2019

Tampa based Mike Lane has long worked several jobs to reach his life goals. Of those jobs, he would like solely to design and build custom furniture, his dream to start his own business doing so. But the job that pays the biggest bills is that of stripper, he now the star attraction among the stable of men working at Xquisite, a male strip club owned and operated by Dallas, a former male stripper himself who has his own dreams of a having a strip club empire.