What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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The Mule
It's 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach is detained by Australian Federal Police. Alone and afraid, ‘the Mule’ makes a desperate choice to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence...literally. By doing so, he becomes a “human time-bomb,” dragging cops, criminals, lawyers and his mother into his impossible escapade. Inspired by true events.

- Metascore57
- 2014
The Long Summer of Theory
Berlin, summer 2016. In the last house in the no-man's-land behind the new main station, Nola, Katja and Martina live in an artist-shared flat. Their time is numbered, because soon Europacity will be created here.

- 2017
One Million Dubliners
An immensely engaging documentary about a tour guide for Glasnevin Cemetery, One Million Dubliners explores life, death and the afterlife.

- 2014
Scalene
The mother of a mentally-handicapped son, is trying to care of him, and is out for revenge when her son, Jakob is charged with rape. The victim, was hired as a care-taker for Jakob and she also just wants what is best for him. But who's in the right, and what really happened?

- Metascore65
- 2011
Not Yet Begun to Fight
A Vietnam veteran brings men who have been severely injured in Iraq and Afghanistan to the rivers of Montana. He teaches them to fish. And to hope. A frank, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking look at the impacts of war and the journey to recovery. Directed by Shasta Grenier and Sabrina Lee.

- Metascore78
- 2012
Gavagai
A German businessman travels to Norway to finish the impossible translation of some poems into Chinese, a project of his late wife.

- Metascore91
- 2016
The Machine
Amidst a future cold war, a scientist develops a game-changing android weapon called The Machine. But when it shows signs of consciousness and is ordered to be destroyed, it fights back with vengeance.

- Metascore52
- 2013
Hangman
Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game hangman, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

- Metascore31
- 2017
Samui Song
A soap opera actress finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader.

- 2017
Fancypants
Fancypants is the story of a professional wrestler who is afraid of conflict in real life. He bashes heads in the ring, but he's afraid of old ladies in the supermarket.he Blue Lion, an over the hill wrestler, is about to be 'put out to pasture' times have changed.

- 2011
Sollers Point
Keith (Lombardi), a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father (Belushi) in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as he tries to find a way out of his own internal prison.

- Metascore73
- 2017
The Most Fun You Can Have Dying
Young and charming but with just a few months left to live, Michael "borrows" money raised for his treatment and heads overseas, intent on being carefree and irresponsbile with no ties or attachments. All goes to plan until he meets Sylvie, a beautiful and engimatic young French woman.

- 2012
Rzhev
After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses - only a third of the personnel remain from the company. Exhausted to the limit, the soldiers are waiting for reinforcements, but an order comes from the headquarters - to keep the village at all costs, and this is tantamount to a death sentence. The company commander faces a difficult choice - either to lose the remnants of the company, following a meaningless command order, or to withdraw his people from mortar fire, but at the same time leave their positions and go to the tribunal for violating the order. In extremely realistic details, only one fierce battle is shown, in which, like in a drop of water, the whole truth about the war is reflected.

- 2019
Like Someone in Love
In Tokyo, a young sex worker develops an unexpected connection with a widower over a period of two days.

- Metascore76
- 2012
Kelly & Cal
Kelly once played in a punk band. Now, after giving birth to her son and moving into a cozy (boring) suburb, she can't feel comfortable in the role of perfect mom/exemplary wife. Her 17-year-old neighbor Calvin, who now uses a wheelchair following an accident, also can't get used to his new position. A fleeting conversation between two people forced to spend much more time at home gives rise to a tender friendship in which both find what they lacked. Kelly, once a punk-rocker turned suburban mom, is nostalgic for a life she can no longer have and uncertain of a future into which she doesn't yet fit; 17-year-old Cal is frustrated at his loss of control of his life. The pair's unlikely friendship is the perfect spark needed to thrust them both back into life.

- Metascore64
- 2014
As Cool as I Am
Sixteen-year-old Lucy is a tomboy. She gets on well with her father but is frequently separated from him for months on end when he goes to work in Canada. Her relationship with her mother is easy-going and she takes care of most things around the house. She tunes into her sexuality and her not-so-'stable' family dynamics. She develops a relationship with her best friend Kenny and starts to realize that her parents' marriage is not as solid as she had previously imagined. She notices that her father's extended stays away from the family are not typical, and that her mother does not pine for her father as much as she herself does.

- Metascore28
- 2013
Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor
In the documentary, Comedy Warriors - Healing Through Humor, five severely wounded Iraq/Afghanistan veterans were given the opportunity to explore their experiences through the healing power of humor. This film follows their journey as they work with professional comedy writers, and A-List comedians: Zach Galifianakis, Lewis Black, Bob Saget, and B.J. Novak, who help them write and perform their own personal stand-up comedy routines. This exciting venture gives them new comedic perspectives from which to view their injuries and their lives, and culminates in one big night performing at LA's top comedy clubs.

- 2013
Kajillionaire
In Los Angeles, married Robert and Theresa Dyne and their only offspring, twenty-six year old daughter Old Dolio Dyne, are small time scam artists, their scams usually ones of opportunity rather than of any real forethought. Robert states that he prefers the small time nature of what they do rather than doing big scams to become proverbial "kajillionaires", it arguably more an excuse than the truth. This life is the only one that Old Dolio has ever known, her parents her entire life in she never having been properly socialized. Robert and Theresa treat Old Dolio as a partner rather than a daughter in they splitting everything three ways whether it be their take or their expenses. One of those expenses is rent, they, in having no money in their scams usually netting little, three months behind in where they live, an open office in a soap factory, one of their duties in a reduction in rent being to gather up and discard the liquefied soap bubbles that routinely seep over the wall from the factory into that office space. Regardless, they focus on needing to come up with that $1,500 imminently to prevent being evicted. In one of those scams that they believe will net them just the needed amount, Robert and Theresa meet a young woman named Melanie Whitacre. In the friendly and quite open nature of their discussion, Robert and Theresa tell Melanie what they do, she who seems amenable to joining "the family business" in she even proposing scams of her own involving connections with her job. Melanie being a fourth fundamentally changes the nature of the dynamics between the three Dynes.

- Metascore78
- 2020
The Princess and the Pilot
A handsome fighter pilot Charles must escort a beautiful princess through enemy lines to her betrothed. But Charles soon learns traversing an ocean alone, and into enemy territory, will prove to be a much more dangerous ordeal than anyone could have anticipated. Inspired by the story of Tristan and Isolde.

- 2011
Sulphur and White
David is a successful city trader in London who is relentlessly focused on work. Beneath the confident facade, he is trapped by memories of the past and hostile to anyone who dares to help. Flashbacks reveal a childhood in South Africa at the mercy of an inadequate bully of a father Donald and an ineffectual mother Joanne. The physical and sexual abuse he suffered threatens any chance of happiness he might have now.

- 2020
Megha
An injured Mugil (Ashwin) collapses in front of Angana Roy who happens to be his fiancée as well as a nurse working at a hospital. After recovering, Mugil starts narrating his own brewing love story with Megha (Srushti). The movie switches back and forth where the romance portions are narrated in the flashback and an intriguing series of sequences happen at the hospital.

- 2014
Shuttle Life
Ah Qiang lives in the big city and struggles to take care of his mentally unstable mother and his 5-year-old sister, Hui Shan. When a speeding car kills Hui Shan in an accident, Ah Qiang is desperate to claim his sister's body. Unfortunately, he can't prove his relation with Hui as she was never registered at birth. Ah Qiang's mother is no help given her condition. Ah Qiang is forced to face this predicament on his own.

- 2017
Adult Beginners
A self-absorbed, failed entrepreneur (Nick Kroll) moves in with his estranged sister (Rose Byrne) and brother-in-law (Bobby Cannavale) and becomes his 3-year-old nephew's nanny.

- Metascore57
- 2014
Limerence
A free-spirited, aspiring painter moves to Venice, California where she falls for a charismatic gallery director and learns that commitment is a choice... love is not.

- 2017