Advertisement

What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

Find what to watch on Google Play including the latest releases. Filter by movies, TV shows, release years, genres and more.

20,554 results

Treeless Mountain

1 hr 29 mins

What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for their work. They earn more money catching, grilling, and selling grasshoppers. They miss their mother. The bank fills. They watch for her from a mound of dirt. Will she return? Will stoic faces give way to a smile?

Treeless Mountain

My Dinner with Hervé

1 hr 50 mins

A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit '70s TV series Fantasy Island (1977), who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50.

My Dinner with Hervé
  • 2018

One Night in Taipei

1 hr 34 mins

In this wild spin on THE HANGOVER, a man is sent on a wacky trip through Taiwan's nightlife on the hunt for an engagement ring.

One Night in Taipei
  • 2015

Wonderful World

1 hr 29 mins

Ben is a failed children's folk singer and less-than-extraordinary weekend dad. Deeply cynical, Ben's sole pleasure in life is derived from chess games with his Senegalese roommate Ibou. When Ibou is suddenly struck ill and an insensitive municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, Ben's pessimistic world view seems unequivocally confirmed. But when Ibou's sister Khadi takes his place in their apartment, what starts as an awkward living arrangement becomes something more, and Ben finds that cynicism may be all a matter of perspective.

Wonderful World

Bopha!

2 hrs 0 mins

Micah Mangena (Danny Glover), a Black police officer during South African apartheid, believes that he is trying to help his people, even while he serves as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid movement, he finds himself torn between his family, including his long-suffering wife (Alfre Woodard), and what he believes to be his duty.

Bopha!

40,000 Horsemen

1 hr 40 mins

Three young Australians join the army at the beginning of World War I and are assigned to the Australian Light Horse cavalry, which is serving in Palestine. The three eventually take part in the attack during the Battle of Beersheba, which was the last cavalry charge in modern warfare.

40,000 Horsemen
  • 1940

Roundabout American

1 hr 26 mins

A young French chef with a fondness for America and a life in shambles pushes the limits of the American Dream by converting a Chicago pizza shop into an escort-service for the super-rich with the help of a suburban slacker who dwells in his parents' basement.

Roundabout American
  • 2012

Blood Ransom

1 hr 41 mins

Crystal, the girlfriend of Roman, Jeremiah's American boss whom he kidnaps. As Jeremiah's plans fail, Roman sends Bill, a psychopathic hitman after them. Crystal and Jeremiah tread the dangerous path of a love on the run. But as they run farther and as they fall deeper, a dark secret burns even stronger.

Blood Ransom
  • 2014

Ark

1 hr 24 mins

The population of the planet Alcyone is split in two; the cultures of the Ceveans and the Storrions are locked in eternal war, destroying their home. Led by their priestess Amiel, the Ceveans constructed the Ark in an attempt to flee their world, but the Ark was seized by the Storrions, enslaving some of the Ceveans and banishing the rest to the wastelands. The priestess Amiel vanished. Too late the Storrions realized that they needed the priestess to move the Ark and so they keep searching the wastelands for a sign of her... Building on the techniques of "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" and enriching them with a unique storyline, this South Korean animation draws you into the world of Alcyone to witness the struggle between Ceveans and Storrions and a world in ruins.

Ark
  • 2005

Days of Gray

1 hr 18 mins

It is a world without language. A world where one is raised to respect the rules. Only one Boy questions the verity of what he has been taught, and he must decide whether to continue living in a society of fear or choose his own destiny.

Days of Gray
  • 2013

Hands Across the Rockies

0 hrs 56 mins

Wild Bill and Cannonball arrive looking for the killer of Cannonball's father only to become involved in a family feud. A man has been charged with kidnaping the girl he plans to marry. So this time Bill turns into a defense lawyer and among the opposition is the killer he is looking for. Only when the killer is revealed does Bill put his guns to work.

Hands Across the Rockies
  • 1941
  • 1959

Colt 38 Special Squad

1 hr 43 mins

A police commissioner forms a secret motorized brigade in order to fight a dangerous terrorist who is depositing bombs throughout the city of Turin.

Colt 38 Special Squad
  • 1976

Seeta Aur Geeta

2 hrs 42 mins

Seeta is ill-treated by her cruel aunt Kaushalya. Fed up with her atrocities, one day Seeta leaves the house and runs into Raka. Meanwhile, her look-alike, Geeta, is apprehended by the police and brought to Kaushalya. Geeta, unlike Seeta, is unafraid and soon assumes control of the house. But as fate would have it, Geeta's cover is blown and she is arrested for impersonation. Seeta, in the meantime, is unable to meet life's harsh demands, including dancing in the street, as was Geeta and Raka's profession. As Geeta is banished, Kaushalya locates Seeta and brings her back to her life of mute slavery, abuse, and confinement.

Seeta Aur Geeta
  • 1972

Tomorrow Morning

1 hr 24 mins

After twelve years spent abroad, the main character returns to his native city, where he meets his old love, friends and parents again They spend four days together and after that nothing will be the same in their lives. TOMORROW MORNING is a love drama. It speaks of a deep passion, sensuality, tenderness, jealousy, possessiveness , infidelity -conflict between irrational and rational. But, above all, it speaks of a need to bring back time, to treasure the moment of happiness and togetherness, the time of great expectations, the moment that happens once and never returns. It speaks of self rediscovery.

Tomorrow Morning
  • 2006

Colorado

0 hrs 57 mins

Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason joins them. When Burke catches up with them he also finds Mason, his brother.

Colorado
  • 1940

Dark Mountain

0 hrs 56 mins

A woman doesn't realize that the man she has just married is a gangster. When she is implicated in a murder he committed, she turns to an ex-boyfriend, who is now a park ranger, for help. He hides her out in a cabin up in the mountains, and her husband goes on the hunt for both of them.

Dark Mountain
  • 1944

Nicotina

1 hr 30 mins

"Nicotina," is a crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to explode in one tumultuous night over a fortune in diamonds. Diego Luna stars as computer hacker Lolo, who is infatuated with his neighbor Andrea and catalogs her every move via high-tech peeping devices. Lolo teams with amateur criminals Tomson and his younger counterpart Nene in a deal with a Russian mobster that involves the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts. But the deal goes terribly wrong after Lolo's attempts to spoil Andrea's romantic trysts spiral out of control. Down the street, the irritable pharmacist Beto and his fed-up wife Clara get inadvertently entangled in the exchange, along with the humble barber Goyo and his domineering other half Carmen. Infected with diamond lust, these characters become obsessed with the intoxicating possibility of an easy life and their greed quickly transforms into fiery desperation. When the haze finally clears, computers have been hacked, people have been whacked and lives have gone up in a cloud of smoke.

Nicotina

In the Company of Women

1 hr 37 mins

Sexting. Ghosting. Catfishing. Professor Peter Boyle finds himself newly single and lost in this modern age of hookup culture and online romance. Peter hires a charismatic wingman to guide him through the battlefield of the dating world to find true, old-fashioned, real love- in a single night. Peter soon realizes that he is in over his head and must answer the age-old question: do you still believe in love?

In the Company of Women
  • 2015

Freetown

1 hr 53 mins

Monrovia, 1990: An aggressive civil war has escalated, threatening many lives, including a group of native Liberian missionaries and their leader. Now they must be willing to give up all that they have, to make a desperate cross-country trip, with little chance of survival, in order to protect one of their own. FREETOWN is the powerful true story of faith, survival, and freedom.

Freetown
  • 2015

A Fan's Notes

1 hr 30 mins

A writer has a mental breakdown, unable to deal with the society around him. Based on Frederick Exley's novel.

A Fan's Notes
  • 1972

Purgatory House

1 hr 37 mins

PURGATRORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of a lonely teen who abandoned her life of peer pressure only to find herself caught between Heaven and Hell. Here she will remain 14-years-old forever unless she can find within herself the courage to change. Filmed in 2001 with miniDV cameras and edited on early home-based computers, "Purgatory House" marked the beginning of the democratization of film. Written by and starring a 14-year-old at-risk high school student, Celeste Davis was the [then] first youngest sole-credited feature screenwriter to have a feature distributed.

Purgatory House
  • 2004

Five Superfighters

1 hr 35 mins

Three young martial arts students and their teacher are beaten up badly by a wandering man who proclaims himself ''a corrector of bad kung-fu.'' Determined to avenge their teacher and regain their honor, the three students all go their separate ways to find kung-fu masters who will take them as students.

Five Superfighters
  • 1979

It Happened in Soho

0 hrs 52 mins

Murder drama set in Soho involving a police inspector, a newspaper reporter and a country girl.

It Happened in Soho
  • 1948
Advertisement