2012 watch list

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence.

In late-19th-century Russian high society, St. Petersburg aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the dashing Count Alexei Vronsky.

When a boy's beloved dog passes away suddenly, he attempts to bring the animal back to life through a powerful science experiment.

Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.

A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.

A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.

A street-toughened parolee finds his two boys abandoned by their mum and fending for themselves. Time to step up, or not.

A documentary on the life, music, and legacy of Bob Marley.

In London, a military plane crashes leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware that the city is in lockdown, a group of people become trapped inside a storage facility with a highly unwelcome guest.

Two 12-year-olds, who live on an island, fall in love with each other and elope into the wilderness. While people set out on a search mission, a violent storm approaching them catches their attention.

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Dracula, who operates a high-end resort away from the human world, goes into overprotective mode when a boy discovers the resort and falls for the count's teenaged daughter.

The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.

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

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.

A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

A happily married woman falls for the artist who lives across the street.

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

The story of the tragic relationship between the son of a property developer and the daughter of an auto rickshaw owner.

A misunderstood boy takes on ghosts, zombies and grown-ups to save his town from a centuries-old curse.

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Two teenage brothers must face their own prejudices head on if they are to survive the perils of being Egyptians growing up on the streets of gangland London.

Martin has the task of taking care of the newly deceased in the afterlife, while awaiting his ascension to heaven. But when a newcomer disappears in a seaside town, he has to find him.