What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

A Seattle history professor, drawn back to his estranged family on the Oregon coast to execute his late mother's estate, is reaquainted with his best friend from childhood, with whom he has a long-awaited tryst. Caught in an accelerating series of events, he discovers aspects of his father's New Age cult which take on a dangerous and apocalyptic significance.

Always one for helping the course of true love, college student Chandu decides to steal away a friend's sweetheart from her unwanted arranged marriage. But instead of reuniting the lovers, Chandu abducts the wrong bride. However, this bride, Pooja, is grateful for the mix-up as she was already planning her own escape. On the run, the pair fall in love. But to take Pooja's hand in marriage, Chandu needs to win over her family, which is made up of two feuding uncles and their clans.

R, a man of Korean origin, is sentenced to death in Japan for the rape and murder of two teenage girls. After his hanging-and against all logic-he is found still alive once he has been taken down. The prison officials therefore wish to carry out the execution again, but there's a problem: R no longer remembers who he is, let alone the murders he committed. Under such circumstances, it is impossible to hang him again, and so the authorities decide to make every effort to help him recover his memory by having him reenact the crimes he committed.

The drama follows an 11-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.

A hastily married couple quickly devolve into a life of affairs, meddling parents, and therapy.

Massie Block is the leader of a small group of privileged schoolgirls who arrogantly call themselves 'The Pretty Committee'. These so-called pre-teen 'mean girls' (cynical, egotistical, selfish and narcissistic females) and their clique are respected and feared in their middle school as well as their upper class Rhode Island suburban neighborhood. But Massie's life takes an unexpected turn when her parents friends, a lower-middle class family with a self-assured daughter named Claire move into the Block's guest house and Claire threatens to undermine the superficial Massie's position of the clique.

Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.

Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. She has engineered a very special crimson flower, remarkable not only for its beauty but also for its therapeutic value: if kept at the ideal temperature, fed properly and spoken to regularly, this plant makes its owner happy. Against company policy, Alice takes one home as a gift for her teenage son, Joe. They christen it 'Little Joe' but as it grows, so too does Alice's suspicion that her new creations may not be as harmless as their nickname suggests.

The story of several generations of a Kazakh family from the 1930s to the present time, the film traces the most momentous events in the history of Kazakhstan through war, separation and the determination of the clan to remain united.

Two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.

A Puerto Rican family living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago face what may be their last Christmas together.

What if a boy's coming of age included a relationship with a woman in her 30s, a free spirit who paints and who numbers the President of the United States among her lovers? In Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1963, junior-high student Adam Stafford becomes obsessed with his new neighbor, Catherine Caswell. He steams open her mail, reads her diary, peers into her windows, and hides in her closet. CIA agents notice him; he sees them meet with her and with an anti-Castro Cuban. She hires Adam to work in her garden, and they become friends of sorts. Is theirs an American affair?

Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.

In the latest film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa — part travelogue, part showbiz satire — a tv-show host on location with her crew in Uzbekistan abandons her assignment and sets out on her own journey of self-discovery.

Peter is approaching 30 and still trying to navigate modern online dating culture. After a whimsical, romantic evening with a mysterious young woman ends with him waking up alone, Peter tries to put the night behind him by turning to a mythically effective dating site guaranteed to find his perfect match. But with each date from the site, Peter notices strange similarities between each woman and that first amazing date. As he learns the truth about their connection, he'll discover a whole new world of people and experiences that will make him question the nature of identity, attraction, and love.

A young poet and an aspiring actress pursue their creative dreams, while supporting each other, as they navigate the balancing act of family responsibilities, modern dating and the inevitable strain of limited finances.

Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counselor, drinking buddy Marcus and Marcus' girlfriend SophieBeginnings, endings, tricks...could the French be on to something?

Die Hochs und Tiefs unterschiedlicher Paare zeigen, dass am Ende nur eines zählt: die Liebe.

A mean trashy exploitation picture about three convicts who escape from jail and hole up at the house of a black minister. There are a few nasty scenes where the minister's family is being repeatedly terrorized by the thugs. In the end the minister turns the tables on the 3 convicts and gives them their just desserts.

TEACHER is an unflinching portrayal of trauma as a contagion passed between people and generations, all set within the prism of modern suburbia. The film follows the downward spiral of a high school English teacher (Dastmalchian) as he goes to disturbing lengths to protect his favorite students from bullies and challenge the power of a wealthy patron (Pollak) within the community.

Huguette who left her husband and daughter 14 years ago to settle in Rio shows up at the family farm her daughter Julie manages after her father's demise a year ago. Huguette who showed up for an indefinite time also causes the farmhand to leave in Julie's absence. In search of a new farmhand, Djibril shows up. Desperate for her mother to leave, Julie presents him as her fake fiancé Jean-Marc. Djibril, a medical attendant from Mali had followed a French woman to France and had a daughter, Matilda and has no experience with farm life, tries to fit in both as the fake fiance and as farmhand. The relations among Djibril, Julie, Huguette, and Matilda will change all their lives.

Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must take drastic action to reclaim her life.

A young writer attempts to escape his slacker surroundings for the great American unknown by checking himself into a medical research facility to pay off his debt, fix up his RV and finally hit the road. When he meets a mysterious young woman with whom he shares a true connection, he thinks may have just found the co-pilot on the road of life he's been looking for all along. However their pasts and personal fears threaten to ruin a good thing before it even begins.

Jennifer Fox (Laura Dern) faces a host of life-altering questions after a short story from her middle school days forces her to re-examine her first sexual relationship and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive.