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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Trafficked

1 hr 48 mins

Millions of vulnerable girls worldwide are being ensnared by human traffickers into the insidious world of sex slavery and exploited relentlessly to generate profits of one hundred billion dollars a year. That is more than the annual profits of Google, Microsoft, Nike and Starbucks combined. Inspired by real characters from the award winning book 'Sex Trafficking' by Siddharth Kara, this is the story of three such girls from America, Nigeria and India. After being trafficked through an elaborate global network of illicit human, organ, and drug trafficking, all three girls end up as sex slaves in a brothel in Texas. Together they attempt to escape their enslavement and reclaim their freedom.

Trafficked

Marrowbone

1 hr 50 mins

Four siblings seek refuge in an old home after the death of their mother, only to discover that the house has another, more sinister, inhabitant.

Marrowbone

The Gambler

1 hr 51 mins

Jim Bennett is a risk taker. Both an English professor and a high-stakes gambler, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Always one step ahead, Bennett pits his creditor against the operator of a gambling ring and leaves his dysfunctional relationship with his wealthy mother in his wake. He plays both sides, immersing himself in an illicit, underground world while garnering the attention of Frank, a loan shark with a paternal interest in Bennett's future. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must take the ultimate risk for a second chance.

The Gambler

Lizzie

1 hr 45 mins

In 1892, after the Borden family welcomes a new Irish maid called Bridget Sullivan (Kristen Stewart), she and Lizzie (Chloë Sevigny) become friends. The friendship between these women becomes something more, even as Lizzie's relationship with her own parents unravels at a frightening level.

Lizzie

A Belfast Story

1 hr 39 mins

A series of murders put a wartorn city on edge.

A Belfast Story
  • 2013

End of the World

1 hr 25 mins

A group of Apocalyptic fanatics must use their knowledge of apocalyptic movies to save the world from a devastating solar flare.

End of the World
  • 2013

Joe

1 hr 57 mins

In order to provide for his destitute family of drifters, a likable, sincere, able-bodied 15-year-old boy comes to hire on among a burned-out ex-con's group of aging forest laborers. As the man becomes more and more aware of the boy's abusive home life, his deeply buried humanity is roused. Drinking and smoking incessantly to remain detached from his volatile temper, he finally takes the matter into his own hands - come what may - when the boy's alcoholic father finally goes too far.

Joe

Cimarron

2 hrs 27 mins

The epic saga of a frontier family, Cimarron starts with the Oklahoma Land Rush on 22 April 1889. The Cravet family builds their newspaper Oklahoma Wigwam into a business empire and Yancey Cravet is the adventurer-idealist who, to his wife's anger, spurns the opportunity to become governor since this means helping to defraud the native Americans of their land and resources.

Cimarron
  • 1960

Snow Cake

1 hr 52 mins

Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman, who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex's vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne's mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a highly functional autistic woman who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.

Snow Cake

Just Add Water

1 hr 35 mins

Close to the entrance to Death Valley is the God-forsaken town of Trona. It's nearly empty: dry, with polluted water and poisoned soil. Dilapidated houses hold slackers and stoners. The town is virtually owned by Dirk, a heartless young meth dealer. In the midst of this lives Ray Tuckby, a naïf, unhappily married with a slothful son. The highlight of Ray's day is chatting with Nora, a clerk at the market. When Ray comes home early from work and finds his wife in bed with his brother, a few things start to change. Then he meets Merl, who's putting in a Chevron station, and Merl encourages Ray to dream. Can he? A recipe for meringue may hold one of the keys.

Just Add Water
  • 2008

Starter for 10

1 hr 32 mins

Set in 1985, working-class student Brian Jackson (McAvoy) navigates his first year at Bristol University.

Starter for 10

Afterschool

2 hrs 0 mins

Having joined a recently created video club, a lowly prep-school sophomore - desensitized from reality by frequently viewed Internet imagery - accidentally captures on video the final moments of admired twin senior classmates dying from poisoned drugs. Rather than galvanize the school or this lad's life in any profound or meaningful way, the tragedy causes barely a ripple in the already emotionally diminished and out-of-touch lives of everyone around.

Afterschool

Fame

1 hr 47 mins

An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.

Fame

Down by the River

1 hr 56 mins

Skylar Ford (Sean Johnson) is an aspiring writer with too much weight on his young shoulders. Bogged down by family responsibilities and career setbacks, Skylar searches for a balance between helping his mother (Alethea Bailey) take care of his sister Hannah (Adriana Ford), who suffers from sickle cell anemia, and finding a publishing house that will accept his work.

Down by the River
  • 2012

Love Takes Flight

1 hr 27 mins

In the Hallmark Hall of Fame Presentation, single-mom Lizzie Beauman is encouraging when her young daughter unexpectedly befriends a widower named Walter as part of her Mission: Find a Friend.

Love Takes Flight
  • 2019

Knight of Cups

1 hr 58 mins

A Los Angeles screenwriter (Christian Bale) indulges his wild side with a stripper (Teresa Palmer), a model (Freida Pinto) and a married woman (Natalie Portman).

Knight of Cups

Enough Said

1 hr 33 mins

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband.

Enough Said

Girl, Interrupted

2 hrs 7 mins

In 1967, Susanna Kaysen has a headache and chases a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka. This lands her in the mental institution Claymoore, where Dr. Melvin Potts diagnoses her with borderline personality disorder. When she arrives at Claymoore Nurse Valerie Owens greets her and shows her around the women's ward where she meets Georgina Tuskin, a pathological liar fixated on "The Wizard of Oz"; Polly Clark, a childish schizophrenic; Janet Webber, a sardonic anorexic patient; Daisy Randone who won't let anyone into her room and only eats her father's chicken; and Lisa Rowe, a sociopath who controls the other patients and makes the Claymoore nurses' lives hell. Through the movie, Lisa gains and loses control over Susanna and shows how bad she can be. How long will Susanna last at Claymoore and how does she take back control of her life? This movie battles subjects such as mental heath, abuse, self-harm and suicide.

Girl, Interrupted

Denial

1 hr 49 mins

Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

Denial

Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe

1 hr 22 mins

When Darcy returns home to plan a Christmas charity event with her old rival Luke, she realizes what is important in life by repairing her relationship with her father and finding love. Stars Lacey Chabert and Brendan Penny.

Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe
  • 2018

My Mistress

1 hr 44 mins

It's a long hot summer for Charlie Boyd. He's sixteen, his hormones are raging and he's just found out his mother is having an affair with his father's best friend. One thing takes his mind off his problems, the mysterious woman down the street who has visitors day and night, and has just advertised for a gardener. But she is forgotten when a tragic family event tumbles Charlie into a world of pain, a pain so intense Charlie thinks no-one can help him. He's wrong. Someone can. Maggie, the beautiful French stranger. She's a professional, and she specialises in pain. Giving it, exploring it, sharing it, all for money. So Charlie falls in love, and despite herself so does she, drawn to this troubled boy who takes all the pain she can give and uses it to heal himself. And as Charlie heals, he turns that healing back onto her, his Mistress.

My Mistress
  • 2014

SGT. Will Gardner

2 hrs 5 mins

Will Gardner tells the story about Iraq War veteran Will Gardner (Max Martini) who is suffering from a traumatic brain injury (TBI) he sustained during a bombing that he and his platoon suffered while in combat. His injuries make it difficult for him to reintegrate into society so after a series of setbacks, he goes on a spirited motorcycle journey across America to pick up pieces of his life lost since combat. Martini (13 Hours, Captain Phillips) also penned the script and directs the film.

SGT. Will Gardner

Morning Glory

1 hr 47 mins

Becky (Rachel McAdams) is a hard-working morning TV show producer, or at least she was until she got fired. Desperate to get a job, she finally gets an interview with Jerry (Jeff Goldblum) - who is desperate to hire a producer for the struggling show "Daybreak". Becky accepts the job and it proves to be more difficult than even she might be able to handle. She has to fire the sexist co-host, then try to convince egotistical news reporter, Mike Pomeroy (Harrison Ford), to take the job, and then try and get him to actually do the job, properly. And she has to do this while falling for handsome Adam (Patrick Wilson), and trying to save the show from plummeting ratings. Will Becky be able to hold on to her dream job and her sanity?

Morning Glory

99 Homes

1 hr 52 mins

A recently unemployed single father struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate broker who is the source of his frustration.

99 Homes
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