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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Up the River

1 hr 32 mins

Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed Judy unless Steve agrees to help him commit another crime.

Up the River
  • 1930

Tarzan's Secret Treasure

1 hr 21 mins

Tarzan's jungle home, and his family, Jane and Boy, are threatened by men greedy for gold.

Tarzan's Secret Treasure
  • 1941

There's Always a Woman

1 hr 21 mins

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring that she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

There's Always a Woman
  • 1938

You Can't Get Away with Murder

1 hr 19 mins

Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

You Can't Get Away with Murder
  • 1939

So Dear to My Heart

1 hr 19 mins

Jeremiah is a determined country boy who adopts a mischievous black lamb named Danny. When Jeremiah daydreams of Danny winning a blue ribbon, his scrapbook pictures magically come to life and convince him to enter Danny in the county fair! Along the way, Jeremiah learns valuable lessons on love and dedication.

So Dear to My Heart
  • 1948

Forced March

1 hr 44 mins

Sarandon stars as an actor struggling to depict the horrors of the Holocaust in WWII Hungary. He begins to merge with his character, blurring boundaries of truth & illusion, and must choose to act as hero or victim, because movies become the truth.

Forced March
  • 1989

Mobsters

1 hr 44 mins

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York City, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime. As their crime empire expands, they have to deal with many problems, including their own differing opinions on how to run their business, the local Godfather, Don Faranzano (Sir Michael Gambon), and the psychotic Mad Dog Coll (Nicholas Sadler).

Mobsters
  • 1991

Chungking Express

1 hr 42 mins

Wong Kar-Wai's movie about two love-struck cops is filmed in impressionistic splashes of motion and color. The first half deals with Cop 223, who has broken up with his girlfriend of five years. He purchases a tin of pineapples with an expiration date of May 1 each day for a month. By the end of that time, he feels that he will either be rejoined with his love or that it too will have expired forever. The second half shows Cop 663 dealing with his breakup with his flight attendant girlfriend. He talks to his apartment furnishings until he meets a new girl at a local lunch counter.

Chungking Express

The Last Days of Disco

1 hr 53 mins

Last Days of Disco loosely depicts the "last days" at a disco palace, where drugs, sex, and weirdness ran rampant. The story centers around a group of friends who frequent the disco and each other. All the characters are searching for something to make their lives more fulfilling. Some are searching for everlasting love and some just want something different. As the disco is closed, they all wonder: can disco ever really be dead?

The Last Days of Disco

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

1 hr 32 mins

Resurrected from an icy river tomb, Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) returns with a lust for life and blood. The most religiously-themed of the Dracula movies, this one has Dracula battling with a monsignor whose niece is the vampire's intended...victim, that is.

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

Elvira Madigan

1 hr 31 mins

Hedvig Jensen is a famous rope-walker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships. While on the run, Sixten meets a friend who tries to convince him to come back to his country and family.

Elvira Madigan
  • 1967

The Enemy General

1 hr 14 mins

Allan Lemaire, an American O.S.S. agent, masquerading as a Frenchman, in the Maquis underground during World War Two, is called on to assist the in the escape to London of the heinous Nazi General Bruger, responsible for, among other war crimes, the cold-blooded murder of Lemaire's fiancee and eleven other French hostages. Bruger has bought his escape with the promise of vital information to the Allies. However, it soon comes clear that he has been indulging in a counter-espionage plot, at which point Lemaire, unhappy at having to assist Bruger anyway, provides a vindictive solution.

The Enemy General
  • 1960

Vig

1 hr 30 mins

Happily-married bookie Vinnie has been running his operation out of his Brooklyn bar for 30 years. Time change and the boys up the chain want a bigger profit so Vinnie is expendable. He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be out. Tensions mount when Tony goes around Vinnie's paternalistic ways, takes a bet from an unemployed alcoholic, and demands that the loser's wife pay the vig in trade. Is there any way out for Vinnie--with or without his good name?

Vig
  • 1998

Bastards of Young

1 hr 20 mins

Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.

Bastards of Young
  • 2013

Love Happens

1 hr 49 mins

Burke is a motivational speaker whose book about dealing with grief is a best seller. His wife died in a car accident three years ago. He's in Seattle to lead a week-long workshop on healing and to negotiate a major multi-media deal. But something's amiss: he's a closet drinker, he won't ride elevators, his moods swing, he's estranged from his wife's father, and he's very much alone. In a hotel hallway, he bumps into a woman arranging flowers, tries to chat with her, and gets the brush-off. She's Eloise, a local florist who's just broken up with a boyfriend. He's persistent and they eventually go to dinner - it goes badly. What's blocking Burke? Can the physician heal himself.

Love Happens

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay

1 hr 35 mins

Henry Lefay has been married before. Depending on how you count, he's been married either five or six times. So when Henry is vacationing in Mexico and gets killed in a para-sailing accident, things get awfully complicated for all the wives involved. His daughter, Barbie, feels guilty for getting mad at him over his womanizing ways, and she feels responsible for keeping the funeral an honorable and dignified affair. But one crazy ex-wife, one hateful ex-wife, two first wives, one current wife, and one future wife all have their own plans for how Henry Lefay should be put to rest.

The Six Wives of Henry Lefay
  • 2009

Home of the Giants

1 hr 44 mins

A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a high-school journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the team's main "star," Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to steal money from a drug dealer's home. Gar tags along, but things go horribly wrong. One question to ask is "Will the Giants win the big game?"

Home of the Giants
  • 2007

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins

1 hr 49 mins

Controversial conceptual artist Vanessa Beecroft fights the governement to become the first foreigner in history to legally adopt a pair of Sudanese twins.

The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins
  • 2008

Genius Party

1 hr 42 mins

Seven short films from different directors. Atsuko Fukushima's intro piece is a fantastic abstraction to soak up with the eyes. Masaaki Yuasa, of MIND GAME and CAT SOUP fame, brings his distinctive and deceptively simple graphic style and dream-state logic to the table with "Happy Machine," his spin on a child's earliest year. Shinji Kimura's spookier "Deathtic 4," meanwhile, seems to tap into the creepier corners of a child's imagination and open up a toybox full of dark delights. Hideki Futamura's "Limit Cycle" conjures up a vision of virtual reality, while Yuji Fukuyama's "Doorbell" and "Baby Blue" by Shinichiro Watanabe use understated realism for very surreal purposes. And Shoji Kawamori, with "Shanghai Dragon," takes the tropes and conventions of traditional anime out for very fun joyride.

Genius Party
  • 2007

Wake

1 hr 37 mins

When things get tough for offbeat Carys Reitman, she does what any emotionally-isolated modern girl would do: she goes to strangers' funerals. At one fateful funeral, she unexpectedly meets Tyler, a man mourning his fiancée. Despite the warnings of her undertaker best friend Shane and her roommate Lila, she finds herself connecting to someone for the first time. Searching for answers, Carys goes to see her estranged mother to confront her past. As she tries to open herself to the risks of love with Tyler, she realizes that she may have more to fear than just a broken heart.

Wake
  • 2009

The Blessing

1 hr 15 mins

Katrine has just given birth to a beautiful little girl. Everything should have been wonderful but Katrine feels insecure on how to be a "real" mother.

The Blessing
  • 2009

The Tuskegee Airmen

1 hr 46 mins

Historical drama about the first African-American pilots in the US military during World War II. In 1942, a group of college graduates are selected for training as pilots in the Army Air Corps at the Tuskegee training base. In what is billed by everyone as an experiment, the men face not only the institutionalized prejudice of their white officers, but that generally found in the US South at the time. There are clearly those who would like to see this program fail, including the Major in charge of training and a southern US Senator. However, even when they distinguish themselves in North Africa, there is an attempt to disband them forever. In the end, they served their country with distinction and bravery, flying missions in Europe include providing bomber escort for the bombing of Berlin.

The Tuskegee Airmen
  • 1995

Barabbas

2 hrs 17 mins

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when the Jews chose Christ in his place. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiator arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons.

Barabbas
  • 1961

Slaves of New York

2 hrs 4 mins

Eleanor lives with the artist Stash. Just like his artist friends, he is completely unknown but is waiting for the big break. Stash is mean to her and finally she leaves him. Ironically, she gets her big break - as a hat designer.

Slaves of New York
  • 1989
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