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What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play

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Peg of Old Drury

1 hr 15 mins

Feature film based on the life of the eighteenth-century actress Peg Woffington. Born in Dublin, she came to London and became a famous actress under David Garrick’s guidance. She suffered from a weak heart and died at Drury Lane following a performance of As You Like It.

Peg of Old Drury
  • 1935

Year of the Jellyfish

1 hr 50 mins

Chris, an 18-year-old from a wealthy family, is vacationing in Saint-Tropez with her mother. Unscrupulous, seductive, and confident in her sensuality, she stirs up trouble among all the men, especially those in relationships. The only one who resists her is Romain, a dandy with gigolo-like qualities who supplies wealthy yachtsmen with naive young vacationers. Romain only has eyes for Chris's mother.

Year of the Jellyfish
  • 1984

Reborn

1 hr 45 mins

During one 24-hour period in the city of Dallas, Texas, the paths of Alexander, Michelle, Joaquín, Jared, and Johnny interlace in a violent scenario that will change their destiny. Alexander gets too deep in the underground gambling circuit while falling in love with Michelle, sister of the underground boss; former Marine Joaquin adjusts to civilian life, realizing he's on borrowed time; and best friends Jared and Johnny look to go out with a bang during their senior year of high school.

Reborn
  • 2015

Reel

0 hrs 13 mins

It is the last day before Victor has to move to another city with his parents. So he and his best friend Robert do all the things they liked to do together so much: skateboarding, spraying, hanging out. But something is different this time.

Reel
  • 2013

R.P.M.

1 hr 32 mins

R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the heady days of campus activism in the late 1960's. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president.

R.P.M.
  • 1970

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War

1 hr 30 mins

A poorly executed attack on Apokolips results in the deaths of many of DC's heroes and Darkseid successfully conquering the earth. Now the remaining heroes must regroup and consider a new strategy in order to take their planet back from the intergalactic tyrant.

Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
  • 2020

Listen, Darling

1 hr 15 mins

To stop Pinkie's mother Dottie from marrying a man they know she does not love, Pinkie and her friend Buzz kidnap her in the family trailer to live a life on the open road without worries about how to make ends meet. They then get the idea to find a husband for her whom both she and Pinkie would like.

Listen, Darling
  • 1938

The Falcons

1 hr 37 mins

Every year, a major football tournament for kids takes place in the Westman Islands, off the south coast of Iceland. This year, ten-year-old Jón, who is competing at the event with his team, will have to grow up faster than he expected, both on and off the pitch.

The Falcons
  • 2018

Stroszek

1 hr 55 mins

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck. After they are harried and beaten by the thugs who have been Eva's pimps, they join Bruno's neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin. In that winter bound, barren prairie, Bruno works as a mechanic, Eva as a waitress. They buy a trailer. Then, bills mount, the bank threatens to repossess the trailer, Eva wants privacy, and inexorably, the promise of a new life deserts Bruno.

Stroszek
  • 1977

The Third Alibi

1 hr 8 mins

A composer plots to murder his wife, who happens to be the sister of his pregnant mistress and co-conspirator.

The Third Alibi
  • 1961

Sweetheart of the Campus

1 hr 10 mins

Ruby Keeler teams with the Nelsons (of TV and radio fame) as the singer in Ozzie's band. The setting is a college campus which is suffering from monetary woes, but somehow Ozzie's band manages to attract enough attention to increase the enrollment and keep the school from having to shut down.

Sweetheart of the Campus
  • 1941

The Right to Live

1 hr 9 mins

Maurice and Stella Trent are happily married. When Maurice is crippled in an airplane crash, he and his mother send for his brother Colin to come help keep Stella busy. He is to show her a good time during what promises to be a 5 month recovery before an operation will allow Maurice to walk again. Stella and Colin become very close, and things come to a boil when Maurice believes his life may not be worth living any longer after all.

The Right to Live
  • 1935

Wanted for Murder

1 hr 43 mins

The son of a Victorian hangman is driven insane by thoughts of his father's profession. The young man emulates his father by strangling young women. He then meets and falls in love with a woman who he believes can save him from himself. But can he suppress his urge to kill her?

Wanted for Murder
  • 1946

The World Moves On

1 hr 44 mins

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons. When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt. He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult.

The World Moves On
  • 1934

Cold War

1 hr 29 mins

Included with your Prime membership. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards including Best Director, comes a passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in the 1950s, the film depicts an impossible love story in impossible times.

Cold War

2 hrs 18 mins

Guido is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moment's peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making.

8½

Cheetah

1 hr 23 mins

Ted and Susan Johnson, an American boy and girl spending six months in Kenya with their scientist parents, Earl and Jean, adopt a cheetah, only to realize that they must set her loose so that she can learn to hunt and be free. However, when she is captured by poachers planning to race her against greyhounds, Ted and Susan, together with Morogo, a young African goat herder they befriended, head off into the wild to rescue her.

Cheetah
  • 1989

Wonder Valley

1 hr 13 mins
  • 1953

One Good Cop

1 hr 54 mins

When NYPD detective Artie Lewis' colleague and friend is shot in a police operation, he and his wife Rita want to adopt his three little children. But they have to realize that their income doesn't suffice for the required larger home. So Artie decides to take the money from the drug-dealing mobster Benjamino.

One Good Cop
  • 1991

Two Champions of Death

1 hr 45 mins

A few Shaolin martial artists gather to oppose the oppressive Qing government. A rival martial arts clan working for the government are determined to eliminate them.

Two Champions of Death
  • 1980

White Hunter Black Heart

1 hr 52 mins

The world famous movie Director John Wilson (Clint Eastwood) has gone to Africa to make his next movie. He is an obstinate, contrary director who'd rather hunt elephants than take care of his crew or movie. He has become obsessed with one particular elephant and cares for nothing else.

White Hunter Black Heart

Thunder in the East

1 hr 37 mins

During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments-loaded plane in Ghandahar province, hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, a parson's blind daughter.

Thunder in the East
  • 1952

Viva Riva!

1 hr 38 mins

Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell for a huge profit. Of course they're not the only ones who want the stuff. Cesar is a ruthless, sharply dressed foreigner thriving in Kinshasa's lawless streets. A female military officer joins the fray. Even the church will betray its tenets for a piece of the action. But Riva's main nemesis is Azor, a crime boss in the classic style: big, decadent and brutal. He's not a man to mess with, but his girlfriend, Nora, may just be the most seductive woman in all of DRC. Riva catches sight of her dancing at a nightclub and it's not long before Nora matches the fuel cache as a coveted object of his lust.

Viva Riva!

Omkara

2 hrs 35 mins

Advocate Raghunath Mishra has arranged the marriage of his daughter, Dolly, with Rajan, knowing fully well that Dolly loves Omkara Shukla. Before the marriage could take place, the groom's party is attacked, they flee, and Dolly is reportedly abducted. Raghunath is able to trace Dolly to Omkara, a criminal and hit-man, a verbal confrontation ensues until Politician Bhaisaab telephonically intervenes, and a crestfallen Raghunath faces the reality that Dolly was not abducted but is here with Omkara by her own free will. He warns Omkara, and departs. Shortly thereafter, Bhaisaab is shot at and wounded, announces that Omkara should stand in the next election, and as a result, Omkara appoints one of his lieutenants', Keshav Upadhyay in his place as the 'Bahubali". Omkara realizes that he may have blundered in having Keshav succeed him, as Keshav is unable to control his temper when under the influence of alcohol, which puts him in the bad books of Omkara. Then Omkara suspects that Keshav is having an affair with Dolly, as both had been fellow-collegians. With Omkara's marriage with Dolly getting close, he asks his other lieutenant, Ishwar Tyagi, to obtain proof of Keshav's affair with Dolly or face the consequences, as Omkara remembers Raghunath's warning that when a daughter is not true to her father, she will never be true to anyone. Watch what happens when Ishwar produces proof shortly after the marriage, and the impact this has on Dolly, Omkara, Keshav, Ishwar, and Ishwar's wife, Indu.

Omkara
  • 2006
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