What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Growing Up Smith
When an Indian family moves to America in 1979 with the hope of living the American Dream, their 10-year-old-son, Smith, falls head-over-heels for the girl next door. With an American Dream of his own, Smith strives to become a “good ol’ boy,” propelling him and his family further away from their traditional ideals than ever before.

- 2015
Rock'n Roll
An aging star, Guillaume Canet, is told he is no longer "Rock n Roll" and with the help of his girlfriend, Marion Cotillard, tries to prove them wrong.

- 2017
Around the Bed
A screenwriter summons four actor friends to help him flesh out ideas for a new screenplay. The tale they spin has intrigue, action and more than enough twists to keep an audience engaged. --Lovelace Lee, III

- 2018
Race to Win
After losing her father, a young woman must find the strength to face her fears and compete in the race of her life or her family will lose everything.

- 2016
Pork Pie
In quirky, endearing adventure/comedy, PORK PIE, a trio of young misfits, with nothing to lose, chase lost love in a yellow, stolen Mini Cooper S across the length of the country, becoming folk heroes and most wanted criminals along the way with a posse of a cops in hot pursuit.

- 2017
The Wound
Brimming with sex and violence, John Trengove’s award-winning film is an exploration of tradition and sexuality set amid South Africa’s Xhosa culture.

- Metascore80
- 2017
Black Butterfly
Outside a mountain town grappling with a series of abductions and murders, Paul (Antonio Banderas), a reclusive writer, struggles to start what he hopes will be a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with a drifter named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay-and soon the edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul's work and the two men begin a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end.

- Metascore43
- 2017
A Frosty Affair
In this romantic comedy, a small-town teacher is on her way to the city for her wedding when a blizzard strikes and she is snowed in. An unlikely adventure with a lumberjack leaves her questioning her future wedding plans.

- 2015
Fatal Memories
Psychological thriller. A woman tries to help her sister remember the events surrounding the fatal stabbing of their mother.

- 2015
Mr & Mme Adelman
How did Sarah and Victor manage to put up with each other for more than 45 years? And who was actually this mysterious woman, living in the shadow of her famous husband? Love and ambition, treason and secrets blend together as we follow the odyssey of this extraordinary couple, within the greater story of the past century.

- 2017
All for Liberty
It is 1775. Henry Felder, a Swiss-German colonist, lives with his family in the British colony of South Carolina. After many years of struggling with corrupt British rulers, Felder is urged by the new patriot governor to write Articles of Separation from the English King. Felder's old Indian fighting comrade forms a Tory militia to assist the Crown as the fight heats up.

- 2009
I Promise You Anarchy
In a contemporary Mexico City, two skating lovers develop their relationship at the same time as they try to carry on business with drug mafia.

- 2015
Amka and the Three Golden Rules
"Amka and The Three Golden Rules" was reviewed as "Inspiring" (The Plain Dealer), "Chilling" (Village Voice), "Breathtaking" (Filmthreat), and "Stunning" (WCBE), and praised particularly for the performances of the lead actors. It was categorized in the Emirates Airlines onboard playlist as "one of the four great movies from around the world". The film was highlighted in the World Development Report 2017 as an example of how authentic filmmaking can impact policies. The film was screened at international film festivals around the world, winning multiple awards, including the "Special Jury Award for Bridging Cultures" at the Arizona International Film Festival and "Best Feature" at the Boston International Kid's Film Festival. The film is playing worldwide on Amazon Prime, and was included in the onboard movie playlist on American Airlines International Flights and Emirates Airlines International Flights. The story is about a ten year old, good-hearted, boy who discovers a gold coin. Consumed by greed, his life spirals out of control. Now his uncle must teach him the three golden rules of life.
- 2014
The Jungle Book
Watch Rudyard Kipling's world famous novel, The Jungle Book, come alive in this high quality entertaining animated feature for your kids and family. Join young Mowgli, and his animal friends Bagheera and Baloo, on their adventures in the wilderness.
- 1990
Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe
The Mongolian Border, 1979: Massive fossils of unknown creatures are discovered in the mountains, and the research team assigned to excavate the remains includes acclaimed Professor Yang (Wang Qingxiang), Hu Bayi (Mark Chao), and Ping (Yao Chen), the professor's beautiful daughter. When a freak explosion, lethal bat attack, and fall to the mountain's floor leaves only a handful of survivors, the small remaining band uncovers a mythic Cyclopean Temple - and an Interdimensional Portal that looses a pack of ravenous Hell-Beasts, leaving only Hu alive. New York City, Present Day: Now living a quiet but tormented life as a librarian, Hu studies demonology manuscripts to find answers for that fateful day. Little does he know that Professor Yang has just been found wandering the mountains thousands of miles from where he supposedly died; a young woman with amnesia was just discovered in a recently-uncovered tomb; and a Northern Chinese mining town has just been ravaged by giant, unknown creatures...

- 2015
Kadhal Agathee

- 2015
Back to Burgundy
Three siblings reunite at their home in picturesque Burgundy to save the family vineyard in this tender tale of a new generation finding its own unique blend from acclaimed director Cédric Klapisch (L'Auberge Espagnole). Jean (Pio Marmai), the black sheep of the family, unexpectedly returns home from a decade abroad to reconnect with his hospitalized father. He's welcomed by his strong-willed sister, Juliette (Ana Girardot), who took over the reins of the vineyard after their father fell ill, and Jeremie (Francois Civil), the youngest of the three who has recently married into one of the region's more prestigious wine families. Their father passes shortly after Jean's return, leaving them with the estate and a looming inheritance tax of half a million dollars. As four seasons and two harvests go by, Jean, Juliette, and Jeremie have to learn to reinvent their relationship and trust in each other as they work to preserve the land that ties them together.

- Metascore58
- 2017
Grandma's House
"A teenager and her siblings are forced to move in with their Grandma because their parents are going through some hard times. They come to learn the true meaning of love, faith, and family not only through the strict rules she imposes, but also the strength and devotion she maintains, as the extended family goes through ups and downs."

- 2016
The Price
A young Nigerian-American financier struggles with love, family, and a prescription drug dependency as his ambitions steer him down a criminal path.

- Metascore61
- 2017
Silver Skies
A group of eccentric tenants' lives are turned upside down when their beloved apartment complex is suddenly sold out from under them.

- 2016
The Happiest Place on Earth
As the film opens, Jonah and Maggie are in the process of buying their first home, picking out one that feels perfect to start a family. They move in, riding a wave of satisfaction at opening the next chapter in their lives. But it doesn't last. Days after moving in, the newspaper where Jonah works makes job cuts, his position among them. They try to muddle through and hold on to their dream. Maggie picks up a waitressing gig to supplement her daycare job, and Jonah tries desperately to find work and renegotiate the terms of their mortgage, to no avail. And trying to compete in a dying industry and a saturated job market, his opportunities are severely limited. After a particularly humiliating interview and another round of bad news about the mortgage, Jonah is at his wit's end. He heads to the coast to regroup, but never returns home. He is presumed to have drowned while kayaking in the ocean, but no one is certain. Maggie is left to pick up the pieces while weighing her grief, her hope for Jonah's miraculous return, suspicions regarding the circumstances surrounding his disappearance, and her own need to move on with her life ...

- 2015
One Under the Sun
Astronaut Kathryn Voss, sole survivor of a disastrous space mission, is desperate to reunite with her terminally ill daughter but becomes a fugitive when the government discovers she’s returned to earth with an extraordinary gift.

- 2017
The Light of Hope
In 1942, after three years of bringing back dignity to mothers interned in refugee camps and saving the lives of their babies, the Maternity of Elna has been ordered to close it's doors by the French authorities. Its director Elisabeth Eidenbenz, the mothers and their collaborators who have helped to make everything possible, will try to prevent it.

- 2017
We All Fall Down
Todd, a haunted young man, struggles to protect the innocence of Benny, his mute kid brother, in a post apocalyptic world where all the adults turned to zombies by a recessive gene. The gene continues to activate in the remaining feral kids as they reach adulthood, causing a short and vicious life span.

- 2016