What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Clowning
With his girlfriend pregnant, Dante, a pacifist hippie who makes lip balm called, Mama Earth; is struggling to keep his bills paid. After finding a mysterious flyer for a Birthday Clown Wanted, Dante calls the number and obtains the job. At the Birthday Party he meets a female clown named, Pele. After joining her Pity Party, Dante is pulled into an underworld and quickly finds himself in over his head.

- 2022
Beneath the Banyan Tree
After her son is jailed, a Chinese mother with high expectations struggles to protect her family's remaining reputation by parenting her independent daughter, whom she must seek shelter from in the U.S. with her son's two unmanageable adolescents.

- 2021
Hell Is Empty
A tension filled crime drama set in Prague in which Major Morton (Anthony Steel), leads a daring robbery. In the excitement of their success, Jess, the youngest of the three man gang, reveals his identity to one of the security guards, who is shot dead to ensure his silence. On the run, they ditch their car and hide out in an isolated island mansion, holding its five, very different inhabitants at gunpoint. Jess and Caterina fall for each other but the atmosphere between the rest reaches fever pitch. When the police discover their hideout, Morton takes the fiery Martine as his hostage and attempts to escape, however things don't go as planned.

- 1967
Kadaisi Vivasayi
Octogenarian Maayandi is the last active farmer in his remote village in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His farm work, his fields and livestock are enough for him, and he refuses to sell his land to a property developer. But Maayandi's pleasantly predictable way of life comes to an abrupt end when he is wrongly accused of killing three peacocks - the national symbol of India - and burying them on his property.

- 2021
Petite Maman
Céline Sciamma continues to prove herself as one of the most accomplished and unpredictable contemporary French filmmakers with her follow up to Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), the uniquely emotional PETITE MAMAN. Following the death of her beloved grandmother, 8-year-old Nelly accompanies her parents to her mother's childhood home to begin the difficult process of cleaning out its contents. As Nelly explores the house and nearby woods, she is immediately drawn to a neighbor her own age building a treehouse. What follows is a tender tale of childhood grief, memory and connection.

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- 2021
The Dress
Lust, sexuality and physicality. These are the deepest desires virgin Julie suppresses while working at a wayside motel. That is until she crosses paths with a handsome truck driver, who soon becomes the objective of her fantasies.

- 2020
Walk with Me
As Amber braves life after divorce, the young mother must challenge herself to take some personal risks after finding love in an unexpected place. “Walk with Me” addresses the many aspects of what it means to be a woman — motherhood, marriage, family, career, sexuality — and deftly explores how to balance them.

- 2021
Summering
As their last summer before middle school comes to a close, four best friends face the uncertainties of growing up and embark on their biggest adventure yet.

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- 2022
Happening
Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. When she falls pregnant in 1960s France, where abortion is illegal, she resolves to act, no matter the risk.

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- 2021
Good Life
When Olive, 35, discovers her boyfriend cheating, she decides to escape to her family’s home in Greece to mend her broken heart. There she is met with hostility from the local villagers who band together to make her life unbearable. That’s when Olive meets Jet, a nine-year-old boy who comes to her rescue. He becomes her guide, negotiator and friend, teaching Olive how to live "The Good Life."

- 2021
If There's a Hell Below
Abe is an ambitious young journalist at an independent Chicago weekly. He has a lead on a story that could make his career. Debra, a woman claiming to work in national security, has a serious revelation to leak. She insists on meeting Abe in a desolate place in the American West - perhaps because it is near her undisclosed work site, or perhaps because she will only reveal her information in absolute isolation. In minutes they will meet. An hour later, one of them will be dead. This simple premise unfolds multiple layers of depth as the tension is raised to almost unbearable levels.

- 2016
Mezquite's Heart
This is the story of Lucia, a Yoreme (indigenous) girl in Mexico who fights for her dream to play the harp, which is traditionally only played by men in her culture. Along the way, she gets closer to her strict father and finds her place in the community.

- 2019
Rusty
RUSTY is a gritty account of redemption, love, forgiveness, and pain set against a traditional American landscape. The film tells the story of Rusty McCaan, who is recently released from prison and struggling to find work in a rural American town. While trying to be a father to his 4 year old daughter, he finds solace in the arms of Maria, a truck stop prostitute who never stays in one place for too long.

- 2019
Bhadram Be Careful Brotheru
Bhadram Be careful Brotheru is the story of a short film maker Karthik (Charan Tej) who has to earn one crore in six months in order to marry the love of his life. In the process, he meets an aspiring actor Sampoornesh Babu and convinces him to star in his movie. Will he be able to earn one crore is the story to watch out for.

- 2016
Thuhire Meri Jaan
Thuhire Meri Jaan movie is about a guy searching for his love after college. Will he find the girl whom he was searching for? Will he be able to make her fall in love is the crux of the story.
- 2016
Detention
After some personal trauma, Wilson Walmsley is invited to work as a substitute teacher in a suburban public high school. He finds lack of authority and interest in the school direction and teacher body; uncontrolled and abusive students in an environment of disrespect and lack of discipline. He becomes close to the arts teacher Louise and to the smart and abused student Joey. When he saves Louise from a sexual assault of the student Davey, Louise and him are sued by Davey's family lawyer; then Davey's girlfriend beats Louise. The upset Walmsley lures, drugs and kidnaps Joey and six troublemakers of his class and brings them to his isolate real estate in Alpine, Texas. When the seven students wake up, they are naked and caged in cages with electric fences. When Walmsley arrives, he advises that his class will begin, and any disrespect or lack of discipline will be duly punished, and shots Joey to make clear his intentions. And the class begins.

- 1998
Altin in the city
Altin, aspiring Albanian writer arrived in Italy aboard a large ferry in the 90, works in a butcher shop when he selected to audition for a reality of writers and finally sees a chance to be successful with his book "the journey of Ismail." Instead, this is the time they begin his adventures that lead him to learn about revenge, loneliness and extreme poverty, to the dark side of wealth and success. "Altin in the city" is fourth independent feature film by Fabio Del Greco, italian filmmaker, this film is important to delve into the depths of the human soul in a society dominated by the pursuit of power, the rampant materialism and greed of money. These things are not necessary to achieve individual well-being, happiness and inner balance.

- 2017
Bommala Ramaram
Ruthless Ramanna seeks his deceased father's property and MLA position. He manipulates Soori, a peacekeeper, stopping at nothing to achieve his goals.

- 2016
Paragraph
On the coast of a foreign land, Sophia and her son wander, their only property a red suitcase and only obstruction to find a way to eat and a place to sleep. But who are they? Are they fleeing from a distant memory or are they themselves a memory from years ago in someone else's mind? What happens when past visions and future facts collide? Inspired by a real entry in a forgotten diary, Paragraph treads the delicate line between storytelling and memory.
- 2015
Automatic at Sea
On a whim, Eve, a Swedish traveler, accepts an invitation from Peter to vacation on his family's private island off the coast of New England. As a series of unexpected delays prevent other guests from arriving, Eve discovers that she has little in common with the increasingly erratic Peter. Gradually the idyllic natural beauty of the island gives way and Eve finds herself trapped in a state of surreality punctuated by bizarre visions, dimensional shifting and secret soda.

- 2016
Elanne Starlight

- 2016
El peso de la ley
Gloria is a lawyer who throughout her career has never been able to defend someone who was not guilty. His new client seems to be not so different: a man accused of rape in a small town where no one believes his story.

- 2017
I Do... I Did!
Vivian thought she had it all as she married the man of her dreams, but on her way to the honeymoon things went south: she was struck by a vehicle. She was in a coma for three years--plenty of time for her husband to move on to Jenny, the second woman he is about to marry. As he goes to take poor Viv the divorce papers after taking her off life-support 18 months ago, he is very sure of his new life--until Vivian wakes up. Now he must deal with pleasing Jenny and falling in love with Vivian all over again. Will he choose Vivian or Jenny? Or will one of them move on before he decide? Will he choose the one he lusts after--or the one he truly loves?
- 2009
God Has a Rap Sheet
Eight men of various backgrounds get arrested for the evening, and share the holding cell with a homeless man who awakens and claims to be God.

- 2003