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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Idlewild

2 hrs 1 min

A musical set in the Prohibition-era American South, where a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend with gangsters who have their eyes on the club while his piano player and partner Percival must choose between his love, Angel or his obligations to his father.

Idlewild

Miss Potter

1 hr 28 mins

Blending animation and live-action sequences, this unconventional biopic chronicles the life of beloved children's author-illustrator Beatrix Potter.

Miss Potter

The Mirror Has Two Faces

2 hrs 6 mins

Rose and Gregory, both Columbia University professors meet when Rose's sister answers Gregory's "personals" ad. Several times burned, the handsome-but-boring Gregory believes that sex has ruined his life, and has deliberately set out to find and marry a woman with absolutely no sex appeal. Greg thinks he's found what he's looking for in Rose, a plain, plump English Lit professor who can't compete with her gorgeous mother and sister. More out of mutual admiration and respect than love, Greg and Rose marry. Greg assumes that Rose understands that he is not interested in a sexual relationship. He's mistaken, and their marriage is nearly destroyed when Rose tries to consummate their relationship. While Gregory is out of the country on a lecture tour, Rose diets and exercises to transform herself into a sexy siren in a last-ditch attempt to save her marriage.

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Brawler

1 hr 24 mins

Based on true events, BRAWLER is the gripping tale of two brothers caught in the web of a vicious, bone-breaking underground “fight club” set on mob-run New Orleans riverboats. After a devastating personal betrayal, the once-inseparable brothers go head-to-head in a fight to the death.

Brawler
  • 2011

One 2 Ka 4

2 hrs 49 mins

Javed Abbas (Jackie Shroff) is a widowed police officer with four children. His partner is Arun Verma (Shahrukh Khan). Both Javed and Arun are honest, hard-working and diligent. This leads to the "death" of Javed in mysterious circumstances. After Javed's death, Arun takes over the responsibility of looking after his four children. He runs into several problems and decides to seek the help of Geeta Choudhary (Juhi Chawla), who readily agrees and moves in with him and the four children. The children take an instant liking to Geeta and things seem to settle down. One day Arun finds out that his former partner's death was really a homicide. When he attempts to investigate, charges of drug-trafficking and bribery are brought out against him. He also finds out that Geeta is not what she claims to be.

One 2 Ka 4
  • 2001

Interview

1 hr 24 mins

Everyone wants a piece of a celebrity. Pierre is a political reporter, assigned to write a fluff piece on Katya, a blond who acts in slasher movies and a Fox show about single girls in the city. The interview, at a restaurant, goes badly: she's late, he's unprepared and rude. After leaving, he bangs his head in a fender bender and she takes him to her loft to clean the wound. Lubricated by alcohol and competitive natures, the interview resumes. She takes phone calls from her fiancé, Pierre reads her diary on her computer. They discuss wounds, he expresses concern, father-daughter feelings arise. Out come camcorders to tape their darkest secrets. Is friendship or more in the offing?

Interview

Superman/Doomsday

1 hr 15 mins

When LexCorps accidentally unleash a murderous creature, Doomsday, Superman meets his greatest challenge as a champion. Based on the "The Death of Superman" storyline that appeared in DC Comics' publications in the 1990s.

Superman/Doomsday
  • 2007

Sergeant York

2 hrs 14 mins

Somewhat fictionalized account of the life and war service of Alvin York, who went from humble beginnings to being one of the most celebrated American servicemen to fight in World War I. As depicted in the film, Alvin turned to religion when he was struck by lightning during one of his drunken outings. Alvin took his newfound religion seriously claiming to be a conscientious objector when receiving his draft notice. When that was refused, he joined the infantry where he served with valor, capturing a large number of Germans and saving the lives of many of his men who were under heavy fire.

Sergeant York
  • 1941

Palm Springs Weekend

1 hr 40 mins

Several Los Angeles college students flock to Palm Springs, California for a long, fun-filled spring-break weekend. Jim finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of a harried, stressed-out Palm Springs Police Chief. Jim's bumbling roommate Biff tries to get tomboyish Amanda's attention with a so-called love gadget. Gayle Lewis, a high-school senior posing as a wealthy college girl, is pursued by wealthy, spoiled college preppie Eric Dean but has eyes for a Texas cowboy called Stretch. Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where they're all staying, but faces interference from Naomi's troublemaking brat son "Boom-Boom."

Palm Springs Weekend
  • 1963

Dark Victory

1 hr 44 mins

Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery, she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. Learning this, Judith becomes manic and depressive. Her horse trainer Michael, who loves her, tells her to get as much out of life as she can. She marries Steele who intends to find a cure for her illness. As he goes off to a conference in New York failing eyesight indicates to Judith that she is dying.

Dark Victory
  • 1939

Red-Headed Woman

1 hr 19 mins

Lil works for the Legendre Company and causes Bill to divorce Irene and marry her. She has an affair with businessman Gaerste and uses him to force society to pay attention to her. She has another affair with the chauffeur Albert.

Red-Headed Woman
  • 1932

Avalon

2 hrs 8 mins

From the Academy Award® winning director of BUGSY, AVALON is based loosely on Barry Levinson's own family and their real experiences emigrating to Baltimore in the early 20th century from Eastern Europe. The third in Levinson's group of "Baltimore" chronicles, which include DINER and TIN MEN, AVALON.

Avalon

Harvest of Fire

1 hr 39 mins

In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell (Lolita Davidovich) is sent in to investigate this possible hate crime. What she finds however is a community with little trust for outsiders or "The English" as they call them. However, in her investigations, Agent Russell makes friends with one entrepreneurial widow, Annie Beiler (Patty Duke) who has her own curiosity about this stranger. Together, Annie introduces Russell in-depth to this close-knit community bearing many appealing attributes. However, as Sally's investigations continue, she discovers secrets that reveal uncomfortable truths about the religious community that are linked to the arson attacks.

Harvest of Fire
  • 1996

Grace & Glorie

1 hr 38 mins

When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn't be more different. However, as time passes, the two find much kinship and much in common, including a lost child. Slowly the two build a bond and learn about life.

Grace & Glorie
  • 1998

Disclosure

2 hrs 8 mins

Tom Sanders is a manager at a computer company in Seattle. Happily married with children, Tom had big hopes for a promotion by his boss, but it goes to Meredith Johnson, Tom's seductive ex-girlfriend, instead. Somehow Tom takes it with a grain of salt, until a personal meeting turns into a seduction when Meredith decides to relive her sexual fantasy and pick up from where they left off. Tom refuses, making Meredith frustrated. Tom's only choice; to sue for sexual harassment. But everyone believes it was the other way around and his boss wants to transfer him to another division, forcing him to lose everything. Tom discovers not only is the system rigged against him, but Meredith's going to destroy his career, and bolster her own by blaming him for a serious error of judgment on her part.

Disclosure

Abandoned

1 hr 28 mins

Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished. An administrator can find no record of him, and a police search turns up nothing. Increasingly frantic, Mary's taken to staff psychiatrist Dr. Bensley, who pronounces her unstable. Now she must not only find her missing boyfriend, but prove her own sanity as well. When a stranger informs her he knows Kevin's whereabouts and demands a $10 million ransom, she has one hour to comply... and her boyfriend's life hangs in the balance. Forced to embezzle the money from the bank where she works, Mary soon discovers the shocking truth behind the disappearance. Now time is running out and she must take matters into her own hands to save herself.

Abandoned
  • 2010

Jab Harry Met Sejal

2 hrs 23 mins

The story revolves around Harry & Sejal’s journey across Europe. A search for Sejal’s engagement ring makes Harry understand love & relationships better. Sejal experiences new found freedom, security & solace in Harry’s company and in between all of this… there is love, life, lies, thrill, fantasy and the voice within.

Jab Harry Met Sejal
  • 2017

Artists and Models

1 hr 49 mins

Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.

Artists and Models
  • 1955

Age of Heroes

1 hr 34 mins

Based on the real-life events of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando during World War II this is a story which takes our heroes from the edge of defeat on the beaches of Dunkirk to the mountains of Norway on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines that, if successful, could change the course of the war.

Age of Heroes
  • 2011

Nutcracker

1 hr 41 mins

Madame Carrere (Joan Collins) is a beautiful and distinguished socialite who runs an International Ballet School. She is a powerful and determined figure, and when a defecting Russian ballerina, Nadia, arrives, Madame takes her under her wing. Soon however, the Russians are on her tail and, as the net tightens, it becomes clear there is more to Nadia than anyone suspected.

Nutcracker
  • 1982

Anuvahood

1 hr 28 mins

Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A pulls-no-punches, coming-of-age story, centering on one directionless hopeless "shotter", who finds his true worth in the face of urban adversity.

Anuvahood
  • 2011

The Real St. Nick

1 hr 25 mins

Devitto stars as psychiatrist Kate, who attends to a handsome but unconscious man in a Santa Claus suit who saved her during an earthquake. When he awakens and insists he is Santa Claus, he is placed in the hospital's psychiatric wing, where his Christmas spirit soon "infects" everyone in the ward and Kate can't help falling for the man even before she finds out his real identity.

The Real St. Nick
  • 2012

Day of the Falcon

2 hrs 10 mins

In early-20th-century Arabia, Emir Nesib of Hobeika defeats Sultan Amar of Salma after years of war between their tribes and they make a peace treaty that creates "The Yellow Belt," a large no-man's-land that would separate their lands and would belong to neither of them. Further, Nesib demands that Amar's sons, Saleh and Auda, be raise with his children, Tarik and Leyla, in Hobeika as a guarantee of their agreement. 15 years later, representatives of the Texas Oil find oil in the Yellow Belt and the modern and liberal Emir Nesib sees the opportunity to improve and modernize the life of his tribe, building hospitals and schools, and the American Company begins the exploitation of the oil field, violating the peace pact. Nasib sends a representative to make an agreement with the fundamentalist Sultan Amar, but he rejects the offer. Saleh decides to travel to Salma to talk to his father and kills his two companions, but he is captured and murdered by Tarik. Prince Auda and Princess Leyla, who have been in love with each other since childhood, get married with the full permission of Nesib. Auda travels to Salma expecting to convince his father to associate to Nesib, but the conservative Amar rejects the proposal and decides to fight against Nesib. Now, Prince Auda shall decide on which side he will fight.

Day of the Falcon

Daydream Nation

1 hr 38 mins

Big city girl Caroline is new to a small town, she disregards her high school classmates, and then just for kicks starts a sexual relationship with her teacher, Mr. A. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer roaming the town, an industrial fire burning on the outskirts, and Thurston is mourning the loss of his best friend. As Thurston falls in love with Caroline, realities quickly catch up to all characters, and they are all going to have to mature or face the consequences.

Daydream Nation
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