Top Movies of 2012


The top movies of 2012 list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

121. Monsieur Lazhar

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Actors: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart, Jules Philip
Plot: Bachir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, takes over as an elementary school teacher after a tragic and sudden death. While the students in the class cope with the death, Lazhar deals with his painful past and threat of deportation.

122. North Sea Texas ( Noordzee, Texas )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Dutch
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bavo Defurne
Actors: Eva van der Gucht, Thomas Coumans, Jelle Florizoone, Mathias Vergels, Luk Wyns, Katelijne Damen
Plot: A teen boy searching for love happens to find that its much closer than he expected - in the boy next door.

123. Justice League: Doom

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Lauren Montgomery
Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Susan Eisenberg, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rosenbaum, Claudia Black
Plot: Batman's top-secret files on his fellow superheroes, a safeguard against rogue elements, have fallen into the clutches of Vandal Savage. With the Justice League's every weakness now laid bare, the entire planet hangs in the balance.

124. The Hunter

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Daniel Nettheim
Actors: Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, Sullivan Stapleton, Dan Wyllie, Morgana Davies
Plot: A professional hunter realizes there's something more to his new assignment - he has to hunt down the last allegedly seen Tasmanian tiger, but in Tasmania he finds out that the tiger's very existence is threatened.

125. Hysteria

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tanya Wexler
Actors: Felicity Jones, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Pryce, Anna Chancellor
Plot: Mortimer Granville has an idea that will revolutionize medical science or at least make a lot of women very happy when he develops the world's first vibrator.

126. My Uncle Rafael

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Marc Fusco
Actors: John Michael Higgins, Missi Pyle, Vahik Pirhamzei, Anthony Clark, Rachel Blanchard, Carly Chaikin
Plot: A TV producer looking is getting desperate for hit and convinces his Armenian uncle to star in a reality TV show where his has one week to mend the ways of a dysfunctional family. The only rules: his rules.

127. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Chris Renaud
Actors: Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito, Taylor Swift, Betty White, Rob Riggle
Plot: Based on the book by Dr. Seuss - A tale of greed vs. environmentalism as a young man leaves his industrialized city in order to show his girlfriend a tree and seeks out the Once-ler who tells his tragic tale of Thneeds and the Lorax who tried to stop him.

128. Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? ( Pitääkö mun kaikki hoitaa? )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Finnish
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Selma Vilhunen
Actors: Joanna Haartti, Santtu Karvonen, Ranja Omaheimo, Ella Toivoniemi, Jukka Kärkkäinen
Plot: A family tries frantically to get ready for a wedding they are running late for.

129. My Way ( Cloclo )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Florent-Emilio Siri
Actors: Jérémie Renier, Benoît Magimel, Monica Scattini, Sabrina Seyvecou, Ana Girardot, Joséphine Japy
Plot: The life of Claude François, known as the French Elvis Presley, who gained popularity through the 60s and 70s in France, going on to sell over 70 million records both during his career and following his accidental electrocution on the eve of a U.S. visit at age 39.

130. Rhino Season ( Fasle kargadan )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Persian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Actors: Behrouz Vossoughi, Beren Saat, Monica Bellucci, Yilmaz Erdogan, Belçim Bilgin, Caner Cindoruk
Plot: As the Iranian revolution approaches, a driver for a wealthy family becomes a high-ranking revolutionary. The woman he drives around, Mina, is in love with poet - but he himself is falling for Mina. Setting the two up - he uses his power to incarcerate both of them, Mina for 10 years, the poet Sahel for 30. When Sahel is finally released from his prison sentence, he wants nothing else but to connect with Mina - who has been told he has been dead for the past 20 years.

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