What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Singles
Romantic comedy about six of Seattle's young people, most of whom live in the same apartment building and whose lives revolve around the city's ever-expanding music scene. The inter-related stories about each character's progress through the singles scene are intriguing and often very funny, and the soundtrack is a grunge fanatic's dream, with the likes of Soundgarden, Pearl Jam and Mudhoney.

- Metascore71
- 1992
Needful Things
Castle Rock, New England, is a nice place to live and grow and Sheriff Alan Pangborn moves from the big city to the town expecting a quiet life. When Leland Gaunt opens the store Needful Things, he seems to have the object of desire for each dweller. He charges small amounts to the things but requests a practical joke for each of them against another inhabitant. Soon hell breaks loose in town with deaths, violence and riot and Sheriff Pangborn discovers that Leland Gaunt is the devil himself. Further, Gaunt is manipulating the population like puppets exploring the weakness and greed of each person.

- Metascore43
- 1993
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco
Shadow, Sassy, and Chance are back. It's been three years since their trek through the woods and over the mountains. Now their owners live in San Francisco and are taking a vacation in Canada. There's only one problem, the pets escape from the airport while being put in the cargo hold of the plane. Now their owners are in Canada and they're all alone in San Fransisco. They meet scruffy bully dogs and a gang of rebel dogs who are all abandoned and have started their own group. Also looking for them is a "Blood Red Van" driven by bumbling dogcatchers.

- 1996
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Sitting on 35 acres of Georgia land coveted by a shopping mall developer, 90+years-old Noah Dearborn is untainted by modern life. He's never heard of the Beatles, and his only interest is his woodworking, in which he excels. The girlfriend of one of the developers is a psychologist, and is asked to evaluate Noah for a possible move to have him declared incompetent. But she soon falls under his spell of a simple life and becomes his ally in his fight to keep his land.

- 1999
Lolita
Urbane professor Humbert Humbert (Jeremy Irons) marries a New England widow (Melanie Griffith) to be near her nymphet daughter.

- Metascore46
- 1997
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness
In a classic true story of wartime heroics, Ingrid Bergman stars as Gladys Aylward, the English missionary who saw it as her destiny to live in China and saved more than 100 orphans after Japan invaded. A stirring tale of noble self-sacrifice, albeit with a fictitious romantic strand that embarrassed the real Aylward.

- 1958
Tickle Me
In 1965's Tickle Me, Elvis Presley stars as a guitar-playing rodeo rider working at a dude ranch for women who attracts all of them except the instructor, until he aids her in finding buried gold in a ghost town.

- 1965
Lock Up
With only six months left of his sentence, inmate Frank Leone is transferred from a minimum security prison to a maximum security prison by a vindictive warden.

- Metascore52
- 1989
The Bad Seed
Young Patty McCormack received an Oscar nomination for her performance as a murderous child in this chilling dramatic horror classic. Shocking at the time of its release in 1956, The Bad Seed remains unsettling to this day as a single mother discovers that within her seemingly angelic daughter beats the heart of a cold-blooded serial murderer.

- Metascore51
- 1956
He Slid Into Her DMs
Popular high schooler Berni's social media influencer life unravels as her best friend betrays her, she struggles for more followers to support her single mom, and her boyfriend dumps her for ignoring him due to social media obsession.

- 2024
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
After jumping back into the dating pool, single mother Bridget Jones finds herself caught between a younger man and her son's science teacher.

- Metascore72
- 2025
Before You Know It
A long-kept family secret thrusts codependent, thirty-something sisters into a literal soap opera. Starring Judith Light, Mandy Patinkin and Alec Baldwin.

- Metascore61
- 2019
The Green Knight
Basierend auf der zeitlosen Artus-Legende erzählt Regisseur David Lowery (A GHOST STORY) in THE GREEN KNIGHT die abenteuerliche Geschichte des tollkühnen Sir Gawain, Ritter der Tafelrunde. Um sich vor seiner Familie, seinem Volk und letztlich auch sich selbst zu beweisen, begibt sich der Neffe König Artus auf die Reise seines Lebens mit dem Ziel, sich der ultimativen Herausforderung zu stellen.

- Metascore85
- 2021
Wedding March 3: Here Comes the Bride
It’s a full Valentine’s Day weekend at the Inn when Olivia and Mick host Mick’s sister and her fiance, Mick’s daughter and her boyfriend, and Olivia’s mother and her boyfriend. Things get chaotic when Mick’s sister decides to have her wedding at the Inn that weekend and Mick’s daughter announces plans to drop out of college.

- 2018
Hours
In New Orleans just before Hurricane Katrina hits, a pregnant woman gives birth prematurely. She dies and her baby is in critical condition. The baby has to be kept in a neonatal incubator. When the hurricane strikes, all the power goes out and everyone in the hospital leaves. But the baby's father stays because the baby can't be moved so he has to take care of his baby by making sure the ventilator stays on. And because there's no power, the only power source is generator that he has to crank every few minutes. So he has to stay awake while waiting for someone to come for them.

- Metascore55
- 2013
Redwood Highway
Living in a comfortable retirement community in Southern Oregon, estranged from her family, unsatisfied with her surroundings, and generally not happy about life, Marie (Shirley Knight) decides to journey 80 miles on foot to the coast of Oregon to revisit the ocean of her past for the first time in 45 years. Once reluctant to attend her granddaughter's wedding, she now arrives as an unexpected guest. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary cast of characters and discovers that you're never too old to learn something about life... and about yourself.

- 2013
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
As an asteroid nears Earth, a man finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan.

- Metascore59
- 2012
God's Not Dead
When an atheist Philosophy professor (Kevin Sorbo) plans to forego "dusty arguments" in his class, he insists the new students declare that "God is dead." Unable to do this, Josh (Shane Harper) is challenged to defend his faith and prove to the class that God's Not Dead . Against all odds, Josh stands up for his faith and takes on the challenge.

- Metascore16
- 2014
- 2021
Apex
Serving a life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit, ex-cop Thomas Malone is offered a chance at freedom if he can survive a deadly game of Apex. Six hunters pay for the pleasure of hunting another human on a remote island, but once Malone arrives all hell breaks loose. Laying traps and playing mind games, Malone tries to turn the tables and fight for his life and his future.

- 2021
Halloween
Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers (Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney), the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

- Metascore67
- 2018
Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans
Earths collide when the mysterious “Master of Games” appears over Titans Tower and throws the Teen Titans in a fight against their taller, more serious selves. Now, our heroes must set aside their differences and work together to stop him. It’s a crisis of multiverse proportions that will take nothing less than two versions of the Teen Titans to solve!

- 2019
Brothers by Blood
In the City of Brotherly Love, eight-year-old Peter Flood helplessly watches on as his little sister is killed by a neighbor's reckless driving. Tormented with grief and resentment, his father finds revenge as the only solution, leaving lasting generational wounds. Thirty years later, Peter still wrestles with the guilt he feels over his sister's death and his father's vengeance. As he tries to distance himself from the criminal family business, his cousin, Michael, becomes more powerful in the hierarchy. Bonded by blood, neither man can escape violence as they are dragged further into a chilling cycle of betrayal and retribution.

- Metascore42
- 2020
She's in Portland
Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each other's lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away".

- 2020