What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

Twelfth-century Lombardy lies under the iron heel of German overlord Count Ulrich 'The Hawk', but in the mountains, guerillas yet resist. Five years before our story, Ulrich stole away the pretty wife of young archer Dardo who, cynical rather than embittered, still has little interest in joining the rebels. But this changes when his son, too, is taken from him. The rest is lighthearted swashbuckling, plus romantic interludes with lovely hostage Anne.

An Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film, MONSIEUR VINCENT chronicles the remarkable journey of St. Vincent De Paul (PIERRE FRESNAY) who rose from slavery to become a trusted advisor to queens and princes. Director Maurice Cloche's powerful and dramatic biopic reveals how St. Vincent De Paul's unwavering commitment to the poor made him one of the greatest humanitarians in history.

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

An irrigation project in the rural bayous of Louisiana unearths living mummy Kharis, who was buried in quicksand twenty-five years earlier.

Rich, ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder--just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn't know or care whose wife she is. He takes care of her well, and eventually she falls in love with him. But Ruger feels humiliated. Full of hate, he sets out to kill him--and Melissa too, if necessary. Together with his friends and the newest technology in guns, which carry 800 yards, he initiates a battle on Calder and his gang.

A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with, and for a time, lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her. After uncovering disturbing new information about her husband's infidelity, she finally comes to realize her marriage is truly over. And it is only then that she discovers what is truly important in life.

Film that relates the story, as told by high-school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high-school kids to come to Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital. Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy.

Marshal Calem Ware (Randolph Scott) of Medicine Bend is tired and alone. Tired of killing to keep himself from being killed, and alone because of an unspoken past disappointment. The realization that someone in town is paying to have him killed, and the arrival with a show troupe of the special someone from the past, coincide to force more than one type of showdown.

Following the plot of the opera, "Carmen," this story follows the wild gypsy's adventures as a siren and bandit. Carmen lures an innocent soldier to his ruin, getting him expelled from the army. He then turns to banditry, killing Carmen's husband and others. All this makes for an unhappy ending with the innocent repenting his sins and dying for them.

After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?

A remake of 1941's "Ladies in Retirement" has Stella Stevens playing companion to a wealthy, loony widow and bringing her brother and sister to live with them after their are released from a psychiatric institution where they had been since brutally murdering their parents years before. Now the skeletons that she worked so hard to keep hidden are ready to tumble out of her closet.

In this touching story, a dedicated African-American teacher in an inner-city school in the midwestern United States facing tough odds helps inner-city children to succeed. Meanwhile, she faces an adversarial colleague and a principal who disapproves of her teaching methods. To top it off, a youth regularly messes up the classroom after school to tick the teacher off.

A Canadian commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden (Sir Dirk Bogarde) at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, that he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney (Sir Dirk Bogarde). The Canadian, the baronet, and the actor were all prisoners in the same German camp during the war and escaped together. One of them was believed killed during the escape. Was he Sir Mark or Welney? The tabloids have a field day with the Canadian's accusations, and Lady Margaret Lodden (Olivia de Havilland) urges her husband to sue for libel and engage the distinguished barrister Sir Wilfred (Robert Morley). The long drawn-out case is made complex by the fact that Sir Mark claims to have significant memory loss. Injured during his escape from a prisoner camp he stutters on occasion and has difficulty remembering portions of his life. As the evidence sways back and forth in court, it begins to appear that Sir Mark is an impostor and the possible murderer of the missing baronet. Even his wife is convinced of his guilt and turns against him. She denounces him as a stranger who stole her love until the trial ordeal triggers Mark's memory of the escape events.

A drama about a young man who records his life on webcam. A starkly photographed film about promiscuity, loneliness, and the internet.

On the same day two boys are born: the pauper Tom and prince Edward. As a kid, Tom sneaks into the palace garden and meets the prince. They change clothes with each other but the guards discover them and throw out the prince, since they are almost identical. Nobody believe them when they try to tell the truth. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne. The evil earl of Hertford attempts to murder the prince to gain power for himself.

Set during the Korean War, a Navy fighter pilot must come to terms with with his own ambivalence towards the war and the fear of having to bomb a set of highly defended bridges.

To keep musical-comedy star Linda Keene (Ginger Rogers) from retiring to marry, her manager Arthur Miller (Jerome Cowan), suggests to the press that she's already married to Petrov (Fred Astaire), the ballet dancer. The two ultimately decide to marry so that they can have very public divorce and clear the air, but true love blossoms between them.

Spectacular feats of martial arts prowess highlight this fast-paced thriller as two GIs stalk an international arms dealer.

A scientist and his team of underwater explorers search for the culprit who has stolen the world's supply of nerve gas and hidden it somewhere in the ocean.

Ray Charles attempts to help a down-on-their-luck boozing family whose son is blind. He wants to finance the recovery of his eyesight, but the family is afraid of what might happen if something goes wrong.

After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose's demand for a lavish lifestyle pushed her husband to a life of crime, and they blame her for his death. Widower Frank Valente is attracted to Rose, and must convince her that real love exists. He must also deal with his own daughter, who has her own reasons for opposing his marriage to Rose.

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia's Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via Ferrara. He murders his sister's husband and makes it appear that Alfonso D'Este of Ferrara was behind the killing. To avenge herself against Ferrara and D'Este, Lucretia Borgia marries D'Este and intends to poison him. But...she falls in love with him.

The Ceddo try to preserve their traditional African culture against the onslaught of Islam, Christianity, and the slave trade. When King Demba War sides with the Muslims, the Ceddo kidnap his daughter, Princess Dior Yacine, to protest their forcible conversion to Islam. After trying to rescue the princess, various heirs to the throne are killed, and the King is murdered during the night. Eventually the kidnappers are killed and the princess is brought back to the village to confront the Imam, as all the villagers are being given Muslim names.

George Raft, as legendary Brooklyn Bridge jumper Steve Brodie, and rival fire chief Wallace Beery let Chinatown burn as they vie for the love of “skoit” Fay Wray, while no ethnic group is spared by bowery boy Jackie Cooper, in Walsh’s rowdy celebration of Gay 90s low life.