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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Elena

1 hr 20 mins

Elena, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of Elena. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment Petra hopes to find Elena walking in the streets in a silk blouse. Gradually, the features of the two sisters are confused; we no longer know one from the other. When Petra finally finds Elena in an unexpected place, she has to learn to let her go.

Elena

King Charles

The King escapes to France after the battle of Worcester.

  • 1913

Figures of Speech

1 hr 33 mins

FIGURES OF SPEECH follows four duo teams from four different states over the course of one year, culminating at the National Speech and Debate tournament in Las Vegas. The teams represent a cross-section of American high school students. We travel with them to tournaments, to school and into their homes. We're with the teams as they learn to work together creatively, physically and emotionally. The movie brings to life the experiential rush of live Speech performance and competition and also incorporates the drama of a coming-of-age story. Each team must grapple with their own challenges: parental pressure, academic stress, sexual identity, failure, success and falling in love.

  • 2015

La Memoria de mi Padre

1 hr 27 mins

After the death of his mother, a repressed tv writer is forced to take care of his father who is loosing his memory, obsessed with his wife is still alive and lost.

La Memoria de mi Padre
  • 2017

Force of Nature

1 hr 31 mins

An NYPD detective accidentally kills his cop girlfriend after receiving a (fake) gun run call from a project. He's later sent to Puerto Rico for work despite not speaking Spanish. A hurricane hits the island. He and his new partner take a call that takes them via a market to an apartment building with a couple of old men who'll not evacuate. Five armed men come to rob one of them of his safe's content. Shooting begins.

Force of Nature

5 Galaxies

1 hr 23 mins

A collection of different futuristic sci-fi tales about space, technology, and family that take place in different dimensions and time zones, confronting the ongoing divide between human warmth and cold technology.

5 Galaxies
  • 2019

Dark Frontier

1 hr 36 mins

1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's beloved father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister, Sarah, to an isolated farm at the edge of the woods. But Nat's dream of living off the land has died and he is losing his grip on sanity. When three ex-soldiers arrive at their cabin one night Tom, like his father, believes they are providence. But their presence becomes more menacing when one of them reveals a secret: he's found gold. As the lure of gold infects everyone around him the cabin becomes a psychological battleground in which Tom's loyalty is put to the ultimate test.

Dark Frontier
  • 2009

Her Side of the Bed

1 hr 43 mins

Rachel Nolan, a twenty-something writer living in New York, watches as her seemingly perfect and planned out life, vanishes when her boyfriend dumps her for another woman and her latest manuscript gets ripped to shreds by her agent. Her free spirited best friend, Nicole, takes it upon herself to heal Rachel's heartbreak the only way she knows how: drugs, drinking and dudes. Rachel finds herself questioning whether friendship and sex are really as mutually exclusive as she'd like them to be when her friendship with Nicole evolves and deteriorates through a shared sexual experience. Her Side of the Bed touches upon the spectrum of sexuality, and the confusing, beautiful, ugly and selfish moments that comprise being in your 20's and trying to figure out who you really are.

Her Side of the Bed
  • 2017

The Retrieval

1 hr 32 mins

On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

The Retrieval

Fast Girls

1 hr 31 mins

A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.

Fast Girls
  • 2012

Advise & Dissent

1 hr 27 mins

Behind the lines in the Supreme Court confirmation wars ... where justice and politics collide.

Advise & Dissent
  • 2012

Kids of Töday

1 hr 37 mins

A legendary 70's rock critic takes hold of a group of young counter-culturalist. From Paris to Beijing, by way of New York, Montreal and Hong Kong, the nightdwellers ride a William Burroughsy wave. As the decadent pasts and urban futures interlace, music from yesterday and today pave a revolutionary road. With his skeleton silhouette coiffed with a big black chapka, the bizarre sixty-something introduces himself : 69-x-69, Yves Adrien's testament executor, the inventor of punk, of novö, the famed music critic of times past.

Kids of Töday
  • 2011

Stitch in Time

1 hr 37 mins

Family is business and business is money. Roy Stitch was the best collector his Uncle Norman had ever seen, but when an unforgivable act is committed, Roy is pushed into the depths of depression, unable to perform on the job. Trapped in a world of brutality and deception, tormented by memories of the past, Roy must now choose between loyalty to his family or control of his own destiny.

Stitch in Time
  • 2012

Alanis

1 hr 22 mins

A young Buenos Aires mother finds employment as a sex worker and struggles to live under the same laws that are supposed to protect her.

Alanis
  • 2017

The Mule

1 hr 43 mins

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.

The Mule

The Long Summer of Theory

1 hr 22 mins

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.

The Long Summer of Theory
  • 2017

One Million Dubliners

1 hr 20 mins

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

One Million Dubliners
  • 2014

Scalene

1 hr 37 mins

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?

Scalene

Not Yet Begun to Fight

1 hr 0 mins

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.

Not Yet Begun to Fight

Gavagai

1 hr 30 mins

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

Gavagai

The Machine

1 hr 31 mins

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.

The Machine

Hangman

1 hr 38 mins

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.

Hangman

Samui Song

1 hr 48 mins

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

Samui Song
  • 2017

Fancypants

1 hr 27 mins

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.

Fancypants
  • 2011
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