Best award winning movies with a giving a glimpse from 2012

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a giving a glimpse from 2012! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a giving a glimpse from 2012, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Act of Killing (2012)

Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.

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2012-11-01 | Documentary

Cast

Anwar Congo, Herman Koto

Rating

rating icon 7.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #35 for
    bludgeoned to death
  2. Ranked #93 for
    vivid depiction
  3. Ranked #141 for
    vomit-inducing

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2 The Sessions (2012)

Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Cohen-Greene to lose his virginity.

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2012-05-02 | Drama / Romance

Cast

John Hawkes, Helen Hunt

Rating

rating icon 6.918
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #83 for
    therapeutic
  2. Ranked #163 for
    explicit dialogue
  3. Ranked #176 for
    highly erotic

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3 Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.

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2012-06-30 | Music / Documentary

Cast

Stephen Segerman, Rodriguez

Rating

rating icon 7.88
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #13 for
    like Inside Llewyn Davis
  2. Ranked #32 for
    soulful music
  3. Ranked #93 for
    extremely talented

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4 Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.

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2012-12-19 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke

Rating

rating icon 6.986
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #49 for
    good story
  3. Ranked #104 for
    with memorable moments

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5 The Impossible (2012)

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.

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2012-09-09 | Adventure / Drama

Cast

Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor

Rating

rating icon 7.367
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #22 for
    Disaster Movie
  2. Ranked #108 for
    gut-wrenching
  3. Ranked #122 for
    emotional rollercoaster

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6 Wadjda (2012)

An enterprising Saudi girl signs on for her school's Quran recitation competition as a way to raise the remaining funds she needs in order to buy the green bicycle that has captured her interest.

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2012-08-31 | Drama

Cast

Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed

Rating

rating icon 7.212
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #204 for
    rambunctious
  2. Ranked #220 for
    tour de force
  3. Ranked #263 for
    like The Book Thief

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7 Amour (2012)

Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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2012-09-20 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva

Rating

rating icon 7.767
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #34 for
    masterpiece
  2. Ranked #38 for
    cruel twist
  3. Ranked #104 for
    downward spiral

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8 Lore (2012)

Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.

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2012-08-02 | Drama / War

Cast

Saskia Rosendahl, Kai-Peter Malina

Rating

rating icon 6.842
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #86 for
    matte shot
  2. Ranked #148 for
    Survival Movie
  3. Ranked #193 for
    perilous journey

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9 Game Change (2012)

During the Republican run of the 2008 Presidential election, candidate John McCain picks a relative unknown, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. As the campaign kicks into high gear, her lack of experience, in both political and media savvy, becomes a drain upon McCain and his strategists.

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2012-02-28 | TV Movie / Drama

Cast

Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson

Rating

rating icon 6.88
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #161 for
    game changer
  2. Ranked #233 for
    lowbrow
  3. Ranked #300 for
    conservative

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10 The Hunt (2012)

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

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2012-10-25 | Drama

Cast

Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #49 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #56 for
    innocent man
  3. Ranked #124 for
    proof positive

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The Hunt trailer
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