My Top 100 First Time Viewings in 2012

A woman carries on an affair at an opulent gourmet restaurant, with deadly consequences.

A trainer attempts to retrain a vicious dog that's been raised to attack black people.

Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague.

A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?

During the Great Depression, a sheet-music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.

The young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed befriends her father's dead first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.

When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the city's residents one body at a time.

An allegory about humankind progresses from a savage state to a civilized form, that is only a cover for its innate barbarism.

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.

When George, a silent movie superstar, meets Peppy Miller, a dancer, sparks fly between the two. However, after the introduction of talking pictures, their fortunes change, affecting their dynamic.

A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town, and her older greaser boyfriend, embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota Badlands.

Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.

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

An ambitious scientist invents an eye drop formula that grants him X-ray vision, but his new powers have disastrous consequences.

A shop assistant, her cook husband, and their twin daughters go about their lives in a working-class London suburb.

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

A disturbed telepathic man is unable to fully control his ability to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him, or even influence reality. A female therapist tries to help him, but his mother gets in the way.

A rising star young gymnast is lured into a religious cult by a beautiful girl. Every moment with the group brings him more and more under the control of the cult's leader.

Courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.

During World War II, in a small English coastal town, teenage boys eager to join the army but unable to do so participate in their own homemade private brutal war games with tragic results.

A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.

A film director has an inspirational crisis while working on the production, Passion, and struggles with the nature of work and art.