What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Madhu
When Madhu proposes to a pious Mercy, she refuses. However, Madhu continues to follow Mercy and reaches her hometown. Things go wrong when Mercy's bold friend Esther comes to the village.

- 2006
Cannibal
Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

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- 2013
Syd for Tana River
Eva lands in Nairobi with one goal: to find her missing father. Her arrival attracts attention from several quarters, but no one will tell her where he is. In her search, Eva becomes aware of the atrocities committed in the ivory trade - illegalities which turn out to be linked to her father's life in Kenya.

- 1963
Ape
Trevor Newandyke is a struggling comedian. Not only does he bomb on stage, but he bombs in everyday life. To him, it's the little things that matter most. He's fed up with the threats from the cable company, 7-11 raising the price of the Slurpee, and all the jerks who think they can push him around. All he wants is a break, and for someone to get him. Not everyone, just someone. But instead of taking a breath and getting himself together or taking his anger to the stage, he turns to the loud din of his headphones and the crackling glow of fire to ease his mind. He's not only a lousy comic, but a pyromaniac, as well.

- 2012
Abel's Field
An inspiring drama about a solitary high school groundskeeper who becomes the unlikey mentor of a struggling teen.

- 2012
Dead Before Dawn
A wife with a young family finds life becoming unbearable with her successful but violent and abusive husband. After filing for divorce, she quickly learns that her husband, through fear of his personal life embarrassing his clients, has commissioned an assassin to murder her before going to court. Unfortunately for him, the hired assassin turns out to be an FBI agent. The FBI convinces her that she must "pretend" to have been murdered in order to prove her husband's involvement. Based upon a true story.

- 1993
Marilyn and Me
An alternative look at the screen icon's early years. Fantastically portrayed by Susan Griffiths, Marilyn lives and loves with Robert 'Bobbie' Slatzer, possibly her only true love.

- 1991
The Admirer
Welcome to Russia to experience a poignant love story. With a blend of the idealistic and the impossible, the two leading characters of this movie will show you that love is worth every tireless effort. In Saint Petersburg, Chekhov meets aspiring writer Lydia Avilova. Between them arises a mutual sympathy, which develops into a deep feeling. But Avilova is married, and Chekhov is terminally ill.
- 2012
The Patience Stone
Somewhere, in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only is he abandoned by his companions of the Jihad, but also by his brothers. One day, the woman decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their relationship to her silent husband. She talks about her childhood, her suffering, her frustrations, her loneliness, her dreams, her desires... She says things she could never have done before, even though they have been married for the past 10 years. Therefore, this paralyzed man unconsciously becomes syngue sabour, a magic stone which, according to Persian mythology, when placed in front of a person shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pains and miseries. In this wait for her husband to come back to life, the woman struggles to survive and live. She finds refuge in her aunt's place, who is a prostitute, and the only relative who understands her. The woman seeks to free herself from suffering through the words she delivers audaciously to her husband. But after weeks looking after him, she will actually reveal herself in the relationship she starts with a young soldier...

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- 2012
I Kissed a Girl
Jeremie wakes up alongside a pretty woman. But it's the first time for Jeremie, normally he prefers his future husband Antoine. It's a funny story of a "Comming In"

- 2015
The German Friend
In mid-1950s Argentina, Sulamit is the daughter of German-Jewish refugees and Friedrich is the son of German-Nazi refugees; the two are close friends as time goes by between the fall of Peron's government in 1955 and the years of prison, torture, and death in Argentina from 1976 to 1983. They grow up and go to Germany, and both get involved in the political struggles of 1968 and Friedrich, who always rejected his father's Nazi past, becomes a left-winged militant and decides to go back to Argentina to fight against the Military Government. Sulamit's love for Friedrich survives all these years, though he dedicates more time to his political commitments than to his personal feelings. But those two are destined to get together after all these years of separation and disagreements, because their love is more powerful than anything else.

- 2012
The Prophet's Son
THE PROPHET'S SON intertwines the lives of an internationally acclaimed young musician and a beautiful, young writer of equal popularity. While they discover their deep and abiding love for each other, they move powerfully in their faith and love for God and His people, boldly laying down their lives which are impacted through the teenage drama of school shootings and runaway youth, and in the aftermath of a nuclear hit on several large cities, including their own, in an attempted overthrow of the United States when the borders are opened after the election of a new, inexperienced president.

- 2012
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
When Lola's boyfriend is unfaithful to her on his summer holiday, she dumps him and flirts with his best friend as punishment. But as their class prepares to leave on an excursion to London, the relationship heats up.

- 2008
Quid Pro Quo
Isaac Knott is a public radio reporter in New York. He's been in a wheelchair since an auto accident in which his parents died. He's on the rebound from a relationship when he gets a tip about people who want to be disabled--and offer money to interns to cut off a limb. He searches out a group of these wannabes, but none will talk to him. Then he meets his tipster, Fiona Ankany, an art conservator: attractive, and attracted to him. She discloses her desire to be disabled, to be in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Isaac tries on a pair of wing-tips, spectators, that restore feeling to his feet. What are the connections? What's Fiona's quid pro quo? Will Isaac get his story?

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- 2008
It Happened Here
A compelling documentary explores sexual assault on campuses through the personal testimonials of five survivors who transform their experiences into a springboard for change.

- 2014
Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School Bus #17
In a story ripped from the headlines, a crazed lunatic takes a school bus of special needs children hostage. The hijacker is armed with C4 explosives, and one mistake could cause him to snap and kill everyone. It is up to a plucky school bus driver (Maria Conchita Alonso, The Running Man) and a young SWAT officer (Marcy Walker, TV's "All My Children") to stop him. Newly remastered.

- 1996
Nous York
Gabrielle et Samia, amies depuis toujours, ont quitte leur cite de Nanterre il y a deux ans, pour s’installer a New York. Samia s’apprete a feter ses 30 ans et a cette occasion, Michael, Nabil et Sylvain, leurs 3 amis d’enfance, débarquent a New York pour lui faire une surprise. Les cinq potes sont a nouveaux reunis, bien decides a profiter de cette semaine !

- 2012
Tall as the Baobab Tree
In a rural African village poised at the outer edge of the modern world, a teenage girl hatches a secret plan to rescue her 11-year-old sister from an arranged marriage.

- 2012
Applause for Miss E
Elestra Henton, better known as Miss E (Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lakeview Terrace), walked away from a promising career as a stand-up comedienne to save her marriage and raise her daughter. Years later, with her family estranged and her life all but empty, Miss E has another chance.

- 2009
Mind Game
The film follows Nishi, a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, the film follows Nishi as he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place. Nishi (and some friends) attempt to break out of their trap, and discover what it truly means to be alive along the way. This is a mind-bending trip that uses some of the most innovative animation ever created.

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- 2004
I Was an American Spy
Begins in documentary style when U.S. Army general Mark Clark authenticates Claire Phillips' adventures and achievements, as an American citizen who rendered invaluable services to her country in Manila during the Japanese occupation, and at the end, when she is presented a medal by a presidential representative: Claire Phillips, a café entertainer in Manila, marries a U.S. soldier on December 8, 1941, after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, and when he is killed fighting in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, she returns to her calling as a means of obtaining and transmitting to the Americans and Filipino guerrillas information, supplies, and services which the Filipino underground uses in its aid to the Allied forces fighting the Japanese invaders. She has narrow escapes from detection and detention, until she is finally exposed as a spy, arrested, convicted, and imprisoned.

- 1951
A Perfect Christmas List
As a last wish, a recently hospitalized grandmother, Evie, tasks her daughter and granddaughter, Sara, with a list of festive accomplishments to do together before Christmas, hoping that the adventure of the experience will repair their relationship. Along the way, Sara discovers an unlisted Christmas adventure of her own.

- 2014
Godmonster of Indian Flats
A Large mutated sheep Embryo is discovered by a rancher .The mutant is whisked away to the secret lab of Dr. Clemens and his faithful assistant Mariposa. Dr. Clemens discovers that the old mine gives off some strange Phosphorus vapors that may be the cause of the mutation, as well as being the origin for the old legend of a monster that once haunted the area. Clemens puts the Creature in an Incubation Chamber and it's not long before the mutant sheep has morphed into an 8-foot monstrosity, which escapes & terrifies the town.

- 1973
King Richard and the Crusaders
In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens. There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however. Two nobles in particular, Sir Giles Amaury (Robert Douglas) and Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat (Michael Pate), want to eliminate the English King and attempt to have him assassinated. Severely wounded and on his death bed, Richard is brought back to health by a Saracen doctor recruited by one of his loyal knights, Sir Kenneth of the Leopard (Laurence Harvey). The King recovers from his wounds but when he hears that Sir Lawrence wishes to marry Lady Edith Plantagenet (Virginia Mayo), the knight is banished only to be taken in by the very doctor who treated the King and who has an altogether different identity.

- 1954