What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

After their small Australian country town is annihilated by an overwhelming airborne attack, a group of civilians evade capture and discover they are now among the last remaining survivors of an extraterrestrial invasion engulfing the entire planet. As humanity falls under world-wide occupation, they form a home-grown army to fight back against vastly superior enemy forces. On the front lines of the battle for Earth, they are our last hope.

A recent high school graduate cares for his mother and navigates his first relationship in the wake of his father's suicide.

A gorilla named Ivan tries to piece together his past with the help of an elephant named Ruby as they hatch a plan to escape from captivity.

Former high school friends run into each other years later and drunkenly decide to make good on their promise to marry each other if they're both still single by 30 - Only to discover too late all the things they liked about each other when they were younger have changed.

A couple starts to suspect that their acclaimed fertility doctor has sinister intentions for their unborn child.

When Lucy Windsor's (Amanda Schull) childhood sweetheart plans to demolish her great aunt's Gilded Age estate and replace it with a golf course, she fights to preserve it. As they set out to find a compromise, they learn that embracing the past may be the key to protecting the future.

Screen legend Gregory Peck brings to life C.S. Forester's classic nautical hero, Captain Horatio Hornblower. Hornblower battles the French and the Spanish forces during the Napoleonic wars, but also finds time for romance with Virginia Mayo in this story from director Raoul Walsh.

In LUCY IN THE SKY, Natalie Portman plays astronaut Lucy Cola, who returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space - and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.

A duel between two feuding Napoleonic officers eventually evolves into a decades-long series of duels, after each bout - for various reasons - ends unresolved.

Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need, a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.

When cholera takes Mary Lennox's parents, she is shipped from India to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven, in England. His manor is dark and drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that he does not wish to see her, which is fine with her as she herself is rude and spoiled. While walking the gardens the next day, she notices that there is a garden surrounded by a high stone wall and no door. Dickon, brother of her maid, Martha, tells her about it. A raven uncovers the hidden key so that they are able to enter it to find it overgrown and neglected. Inside the manor, Mary finds that she has a cousin named Colin, who is crippled and as spoiled as her. Together they work to make the secret garden their own world.

Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying on the family's traditions and heritage. For five generations, men in the family have been cantors in the synagogue, but Jakie is more interested in jazz and ragtime music. One day, they have such a bitter argument that Jakie leaves home for good. After a few years on his own, now calling himself Jack Robin, he gets an important opportunity through the help of well-known stage performer Mary Dale. But Jakie finds that in order to balance his career, his relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to make some difficult choices.

A rough-living sailor has trouble adjusting to domestic life when he marries a librarian.

Miles' life is disorganised and, at a friend's advice, buys himself a computer. However, nothing prepares him for the chaos that ensues, when the computer (who calls himself Edgar) starts expressing human thoughts and emotions culminating in both man and machine falling in love with the same woman: Madeline, the beautiful cellist who lives upstairs.

Frances, now age 18, is still in love with Moondoggie. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her friends and two of his, but they must take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome their beautiful guide Daniela fascinates the guys and makes the girls jealous, especially Gidget, who starts looking elsewhere.

Sean Casey is the newest member of the District Attorney's office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the N.Y.P.D. Then his father is critically wounded in a stake-out, Sean is chosen to prosecute the case.

Harry and Janice Angstrom of Reading, Pennsylvania, have a young adolescent son, Nelson Angstrom. An artificial stone siding salesman, Harry is still most defined as a star basketball player from his high school days, then when he was nicknamed Rabbit. On a Friday evening, Harry, based on events earlier in the day that made him quit smoking cold turkey to be a better person, decides, also on the spur of the moment, to abandon his job and the family, alcoholic Janice who he only married because she was pregnant with Nelson and who in turn doesn't seem to care about him or Nelson, except for the support she requires from him to survive. Him leaving is despite Janice being pregnant. With no plans, he hops in the car with nothing more than the clothes on his back. In the short term, he decides he wants to stay with a friend of a friend he meets the following night, Ruth Leonard, a party girl. What happens in the intervening months is that life around him still dictates what he does, his attempts to foster some semblance of what he considers a normal, a loving relationship even on the first night with Ruth still only him reacting to life around him. Harry still knows about what is going on with the family as Janice's family's pastor, Reverend Jack Eccles, enters his life, his end goal to get Harry to return to Janice on his own want. Through it all, Harry may or may not ultimately find what he's looking for for himself.

Otto Keller and his wife Alma work as caretaker and housekeeper at a Catholic church in Québec City, Québec. While robbing a house where he sometimes works as a gardener, Otto is caught and kills the owner. Racked with guilt, he heads back to the church where Father Michael Logan is working late. Otto confesses his crime, but when the police begin to suspect Father Logan, he cannot reveal what he has been told in the confessional.

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in white sheets aren't intent on holding a fair and impartial trial, Garth takes to the woods as the Klansmen lynching party hunts him down.

The Dog House is a legendary New York dive bar, owned by an extraordinary family. Three people from different backgrounds enter at closing time on separate nights carrying the world on their shoulders; but by the time each of them leaves after "last call", their souls are saved, while two of them realize how connected they are.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Fixel has always felt out of sync; with her affluent Portland parents, with her private school peers, and with herself. When Alex's parents interrupt her impetuous attempt to seduce her high school English teacher, they plan to ship her off to boarding school. But before Alex leaves, she finds an old letter in her mother's desk indicating her biological father is not the man who raised her; instead he's a small-town mechanic - and former convict - named Karl Hendricks. Alex escapes her new boarding school and tracks down her father. Over the next week, Alex and Karl's fragile and volatile attempts at connection tenuously blossoms into a sincere father/daughter bond... Until Alex discovers the devastating truth about her roots, threatening to destroy both her old and new family.

Alex has just turned sixteen and she desperately wants to have a cool car of her own. She envies her older brother Bart's recent graduation present from their parents, a classic candy apple red 1966 convertible Mustang. Alex envisions it as the perfect car to help raise her social status from band geek to cool girl in hopes of capturing the attention of her dream boy Randy. When her parents leave town to take her brother on a college admission trip, Alex and her best friend Claire decide to take the Mustang on a wild weekend joyride that leads the two girls on a crazy life changing adventure. Can they get through the weekend and return her brother's car unscathed before Alex's parents return?

Birdie Case is a successful attorney, but her husband Alden's indecisiveness about his career is causing tension in their marriage. When Alden secretly takes classes to become a private investigator and gets involved in a murder case, he must come clean to Birdie to unravel the mystery. However, he begins to suspect that Birdie may be hiding her own secrets.

Daniel, a gay artist from the countryside, was brought up within the structures of the Catholic Church. His relationship with his boyfriend Olek is evolving in secret when the suicide of a religious queer girl from his village pushes him to fight for tolerance. Daniel tries to unite his highly religious community while people turn their backs on him. His story is based on real-life events.