What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Stealing Charlie Chaplin
In 1978, three months after Comedy Icon, Charlie Chaplin's death, his body disappeared from it's grave in Corsier-Sur-Vevey, Switzerland. After being left initially with no clues, only outrageous and often ridiculous rumors, the robbers finally made contact with the family. What ensued was a tense, but often comedic game of cat and mouse.

- 2017
Broken Mile
A drug addict awakens to find the girl he is with is dead, and must rush to escape the consequences. A real-time thriller presented in a single, unbroken take.

- 2016
Transcendence
Transcendence offers insight into extreme sports psychology backed by the research of Dr. Eric Brymer. Follow the worlds most talented extreme sports athletes through in-depth personal accounts and breathtaking cinematography.
- 2012
1/2 New Year
The story follows a group of friends who have an annual 1/2 New Year Party. This year in particular, relationships are tested, friendships made and feelings revealed as the group bands together to send off one of their own with lots of love and compassion. After all, friends are the family you get to choose.

- 2019
Knife in the Head
One night while seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works, just when the police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center. Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

- 1978
White on White
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, a violent and hostile territory, to immortalize the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated with the bride-to-be’s beauty, he betrays the rules and is left to face a land crawling with violence and marked by the genocide of its indigenous inhabitants.

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- 2019
Anyone Home?
A single mother entertains a dangerous fantasy after she's recruited to live in an unsold property in an empty development.

- 2018
Foxtrot
A troubled family must face the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son's desolate military post.

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- 2017
September 12th
September 11th was a day we'll never forget, but what will we remember? In the first dark hours of September 12th, 2001, five college freshmen stay up all night in a dorm room confronting the promises of youth that have been severed by national tragedy.

- 2017
Faustina: Love and Mercy
Docudrama tracing the life of Saint Faustina Kowalska, whose visions of Jesus Christ inspired the Roman Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy and earned her the title of "Apostle of Divine Mercy".

- 2019
Campeones
A young teenager discovers his father terminal disease the same day that their favourite football team is going to play the final match of the championship
- 1997
Pennsylvania Holy Ghosts
Theo, Clair, and Renee forge their way through life in an attempt to find their place and purpose in a bleak Pennsylvania town. Theodore, alone for the first time in his life, broods over past personal tragedies while trying to figure out what comes next. Across town, Theo's grandson Clair is forced to deal with the consequences of his inaction following a devastating breakup. Along the way both men meet Renee, a teenage caretaker to a recovering addict mother, dealing with issues in her own way. Struggling to find a direction, our characters wander lost through life ruminating on past and present failures trying to answer the age old question: What do I do now?

- 2014
Christmas Crime Story
A botched Christmas Eve robbery leads down a destructive path for a police officer reconnecting with his estranged mother, a coming-apart-at-the-seams amateur photographer, his vindictive and murderous fiancee, her secret lover and a strung-out mall Santa…as they all converge in one explosive and deadly night.

- 2016
A New Christmas
Kabir is a lonely medical student in New York, estranged from his wife and grieving the loss of his mother. When he meets Kioni, a charming film student from Kenya, she persuades him to show her the city's Christmas decorations, thereby leading him to rediscover the magic of the holiday season and get his life back on track.

- 2019
Do Re Mi Fa
An ensemble set in Malta that focuses on four characters: Bozo, a children's party clown who is a closet pedophile; Claudia, a stage actress who is paralyzed with feelings of insignificance and is driven to do the extreme; Kyle, a family man with a deaf son who finds it increasingly difficult to cope with challenges at home and at work; and DJ Trim, a talk radio show presenter suffering from an anxiety disorder who advocates for the rights of illegal immigrants and becomes the target of unwanted attention from a threatening caller.

- 2016
Pali Road
PALI ROAD is a mesmerizing and chilling journey into the mystery of the human psyche and the power of love. Lily (Chen), a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident to discover she is now married to her boyfriend's affluent rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne (Kang), has a five year old son, and an established life she has no recollection of. Everyone around her, including her parents, deny that her boyfriend, Neil (Rathbone), ever existed, sending her on a desperate search for the truth. Determined to reclaim a life everyone insists is nothing more than an illusion, Lily eventually begins to doubt her own sanity. Struggling to overcome her seemingly hopeless situation, Lily endures a series of unexplainable and haunting incidents while bravely making her way to an ultimate mind bending truth about the power of true love.

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- 2015
Spreading Darkness
Stu Undercoffler (Eric Roberts) is a corrupt CEO whose drive for power has led him to make some highly unethical choices. Once Stu's unethical choices have begun to spread darkness through the world, there is no stopping it. After losing his wife, Stu begins to have a crisis of conscience, but starts to believe he is being stalked and has been hallucinating. Is he losing his mind or have his former victims come back to wreak havoc on him? An avant-garde psychological thriller where the true protagonist of the film may be the darkness itself.

- 2017
The Pastor's Daughters
A well known minister is on his deathbed. His family must grapple with the realities of their dysfunction, and find peace.

- 2016
Case 219
The story of a school shooting unfolds in series of tense documentary style interviews where we learn what triggered the violent acts. These provocative and haunting interviews leave the audience with the dilemma of who is really to blame.
- 2010
Smaller and Smaller Circles
A serial killer in Payatas leaves the bodies of young boys in the dump as two Jesuit priests try to solve the murders.

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- 2017
BearCity
Set in New York's gay "bear" scene, BearCity follows a tight-knit pack of friends experiencing comical mishaps.

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- 2010
Lost in Vagueness
It's a music documentary that tells the story of Roy Gurvitz, who created Lost Vagueness, at Glastonbury and who, as legendary founder, Michael Eavis says, reinvigorated the festival. With the decadence of 1920's Berlin, but all in a muddy field. A film of the dark, self-destructive side of creativity and the personal trauma behind it.

- 2018
Holding On
A man trapped in his own emotions, struggles to let go of the past to build a relationship with his 8 year old son.
- 2015
Gangster Land
The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power, GANGSTER LAND examines Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn. Once an amateur boxer, McGurn is lured into the Italian mafia after the murder of his stepfather. Upon joining, he rises swiftly through the ranks along with friend and eventual boss, Capone. As the Italian mob becomes the most lucrative criminal organization in the country, tensions build with "Bugs" Moran and the Irish mob which ignites a brutal gang war culminating with the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

- 2017