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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Go for It!

1 hr 45 mins

Carmen is a good student with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be 'somebody' but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-class parents want her to stay in school and get an education, so she attends junior college while working at a grocery store. Carmen's professor catches her performing one day in the neighborhood and challenges her to audition to a formal dance school in California. She gets into a fight with her chaotic family and runs away to her best friend Gina's place only to find out Gina's been getting beat up by her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Carmen's boyfriend, Jared wants her to commit and move in with him. Pulled apart in every direction, her dream of dancing fades. Can Carmen overcome her fears and take the biggest chance of her life, or will she succumb to her self-doubt?

Go for It!

While She Was Out

1 hr 26 mins

Della Myers is an overwhelmed upper-middle-class housewife who lives in a large house in the suburbs with her twin children and her abusive husband, Kenneth. Kenneth lets Della know that he thinks she gives all her attention to the twins and neglects her house and her appearance. Late on Christmas Eve, Della drives to the local mall to buy gift-wrap. While searching for a parking space in the jam-packed lot, Della notices an old car taking up two spaces. Frustrated and annoyed, she decides to leave a paper message on the windshield of the old car, writing, "Hey, Jerk. Two parking spaces. How selfish can you be?" After the mall closes, Della's car is held by the driver of the old car and she is threatened by four punks -- Chuckie, Huey, Vingh, and Tomás. When the security guard of the mall attempts to protect Della, he is shot and killed by Chuckie. Della tries to escape from the criminals in her truck, but the gang chases her. In the chase, she crashes in a nearby forest. What unfolds in the woods is Della's lone fight for survival against a band of angry young men who would like nothing more than to see her dead.

While She Was Out

My Sucky Teen Romance

1 hr 17 mins

In this witty comedy from teen director Emily Hagins, young Kate visits a local comic convention and falls for good-hearted vampire Paul, but her friends are worried when she suddenly starts displaying eerie, undead qualities of her own.

My Sucky Teen Romance
  • 2011

The Carrier

1 hr 23 mins

'The Carrier' is a feature-length documentary that tells the inspiring story of an HIV-positive and pregnant mother trying to protect her baby from being born with HIV/AIDS. The film follows a Zambian subsistence farmer named Mutinta who is part of a polygamous marriage where everyone is HIV-positive. With the dangerously high mortality rates for HIV-positive babies on her mind, Mutinta enrolls in an innovative public health program called Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT).

The Carrier
  • 2010

Storm Seekers

1 hr 27 mins

Two hurricanes are approaching each other and will blend to become a catastrophic Catagory 5 storm. Meanwhile on the ground the Director of the Hurricane warning system refuses to act upon the information being given him by a crew of Hurricane Hunters who flying inside the hurricane.

Storm Seekers
  • 2009

Creation

1 hr 48 mins

English naturalist Charles Darwin struggles to find a balance between his revolutionary theories on evolution and the relationship with his religious wife, whose faith contradicts his work.

Creation

A Quiet Little Marriage

1 hr 30 mins

A woman (Mary Elizabeth Ellis) believes that a baby will solve all her problems, but her husband (Cy Carter) resists fatherhood.

A Quiet Little Marriage
  • 2008

Roadkill

1 hr 33 mins

Like a modern-day highwayman, Connor Shelby spends his days on the isolated highways of rural Australia stealing from unsuspecting victims. He justifies his actions by saving his earnings in the hope of taking the love of his life, Lucy Miller, out of the harsh and unforgiving Australian outback. Across the country, in his 'quest from God', a serial killer moves from town-to-town executing those he believes to be 'sinful'. Hot on his trail are Detectives Albert and Ernest, driven and logical, the pair follow the trail of bodies in an attempt to find and stop the brutal killer. Their hunt brings them to the South Australian town of Renmark, Connor's current refuge. After two young men report being mugged on the highway, the detectives investigate and discover the two cases may be closer to one another than he first realised. After having his identity exposed, Connor's hunt for redemption, justice and most importantly, revenge, begins.

Roadkill
  • 2022

The Tiger's Apprentice

1 hr 24 mins

The story centers on a normal boy, Tom, who gets drawn into this world against his wishes when his eccentric grandmother who he lives with in San Francisco's Chinatown turns out to be the guardian of the phoenix egg. When his grandmother perishes in battle and is spirited away in a ghost cart, Tom must apprentice with an unlikely mentor - a tiger, Mr. Hu - to learn ancient magic and become the egg's new protector. They team with an unlikely band of exotic creatures, each representing a different sign of the Chinese zodiac, who can morph into human form while retaining their innate animal characteristics.

The Tiger's Apprentice

A Scottish Love Scheme

1 hr 24 mins

Lily travels to Scotland with her mother and reconnects with Logan, a childhood family friend. Unbeknownst to Lily and Logan, their meddling mothers have come up with a plan to set them up.

A Scottish Love Scheme
  • 2024

Outlaw Posse

1 hr 48 mins

1908. CHIEF (Mario Van Peebles) returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen gold hidden in the hills of Montana. In his quest, he reunites an ensemble of fresh & familiar faces - together they fight off ANGEL, whose rationale to the gold leaves a trail of deception and dead bodies.

Outlaw Posse

Cinderella's Revenge

1 hr 25 mins

When Cinderella's (Staerck) wicked step-sisters and Step-Mother push her too far, she swaps her glass slippers for a blood-soaked vengeance with the help of her Fairy Godmother (Henstridge) in this twisted fairytale.

Cinderella's Revenge
  • 2024

Girls' Night Out

1 hr 29 mins

A night of partying takes a dark turn for best friends Brie and Abby, when they run into friends and enemies from their past.

Girls' Night Out
  • 2023

Snow White Dies at the End

1 hr 45 mins

The lives of a hikikomori, an Asperger's, an ad man, a video store clerk, a corner shop philosopher, and a gynecologist intertwine in three quirky tales of love, friendship, and commitment.

Snow White Dies at the End
  • 2022

Kill Me If You Dare

1 hr 34 mins

A winning lottery ticket has grave consequences for a married couple when they start hatching plans to kill each other for the prize money.

Kill Me If You Dare
  • 2024

Asleep in My Palm

1 hr 28 mins

Asleep in My Palm explores the nature of parenthood and class in America as a father and daughter live off the grid in rural Ohio near a small liberal arts college. The two must face the challenges of her sexual awakening and need for independence as he escapes his violent and conflicted past. At once poignant and mordantly funny, the film delves into an America rarely seen, while juxtaposing it with the rarified privileges of an elite college in the social media age.

Asleep in My Palm

1992

0 hrs 10 mins

A modern-day couple takes us behind the scenes of the dating world in 1992 Nairobi.

  • 2024

578 Magnum

1 hr 35 mins

A container truck driver, Hùng, lives an idyllic life with his little daughter, An. The father and daughter become the closest companions in every journey with their orange container truck. Life goes on like that until An has to leave her father to go to school. One day, Hùng is informed that An is suffering from severe depression. Relying on his old skills in the past and finding out the truth, Hùng becomes enraged and painful to know that his little girl was kidnapped by a male stranger. Starting his lone and intense journey looking for and chasing after the unknown abuser, Hùng realizes that to hunt down that psychopath he has to counter the massive underground forces behind him.

578 Magnum
  • 2022

Trail of Justice

1 hr 45 mins

An 1800's Western adventure, Trail of Justice follows brothers Jeff and Will Lawson as they become unwilling players to an ongoing feud between a Mayor struggling with his dark past, and nearby Blackfoot indians. Facing gunslingers, bandits and enemies on all sides the Lawson's form unlikely alliances to survive, bolstered by brotherhood, justice and revenge.

Trail of Justice
  • 2020

Evil Does Not Exist

1 hr 46 mins

Takumi and his daughter Hana live in Mizubiki Village, close to Tokyo. One day, the village inhabitants become aware of a plan to build a camping site near Takumi's house, offering residents a comfortable escape to nature.

Evil Does Not Exist

Decrypted

1 hr 52 mins

An outrageous and provocative dark comedy about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, and attempt to torture him for the information they need to destroy cryptocurrencies.

Decrypted
  • 2021

National Anthem

1 hr 39 mins

Dylan, a 21 year-old construction worker in New Mexico, joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. While working on a ranch in the breathtaking expanse of the Southwest, they contend with the undeniable forces of nature, family, and love.

National Anthem

From Scotland with Love

1 hr 16 mins

Made entirely of Scottish film archive, 'From Scotland With Love' is a 75-minute film by award-winning Director Virginia Heath with a transcendent score by Scottish musician and composer King Creosote. A journey into our collective past, the film explores universal themes of love, loss, resistance, migration, work and play. Ordinary people, some long since dead, their names and identities largely forgotten, appear shimmering from the depth of the vaults to take a starring role. Brilliantly edited together, these silent individuals become composite characters, who emerge to tell us their stories, given voice by King Creosote's poetic music and lyrics.

From Scotland with Love
  • 2014

Nune

0 hrs 30 mins

Dressed in mismatched hand-me-downs and armed with a glove to mask her scars, Nune (pronounced NOON-NAY) Lusparian is doomed and troubled. Raised on welfare by two lesbian moms who don't believe in her potential and rejected by kids at school, Nune wishes her life was different. Nune escapes to a colorful interstellar world that's free of the pain of rejection. But reality hits hard when her daily passage through school feels like a "walk down death row." She's met by a klatch of privileged wannabe thugs eager to break her. Hunched over and often in tears, Nune drifts through Paradise High School struggling for invisibility. Her dark shadowy figure grabs the attention of a star athlete, Briana Enright, who's the arch-rival's girlfriend. Briana's clique wonders why a girl who has it all, would jeopardize her rank by sympathizing with the high school's ugly duckling. Then start the rumors that Briana might be gay. Pained by an irrevocable yearning, Briana must brave going out on a limb to follow her heart. But will Nune rise up to catch her falling star?

Nune
  • 2016
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