What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
Find what to watch on Google Play including the latest releases. Filter by movies, TV shows, release years, genres and more.
Alifa
Ali, a daily wage earner living in the vicinity of a sprawling city, has to cope with uncertainty, hardship and abuses. He is at the mercy of a forest guard for not being evicted from his family's new-found habitat in a green hilly area overlooking the city. He finds solace in his hardworking, young wife and their two children. Ali is used to create stories to answer queries by his children about the night sky and about his past. His stories hide his inability to understand nature - for deep down his senses there is the real story of sorrow, as his riverside village is now extinct due to heavy flood and erosion. But he is little aware that most cruel troubles are brewing and about to threaten their meek existence. It remains an impossible task to enroll his daughter Alifa and son Faisal in primary school despite his wife Fatima working as a construction labour. As fate would have it, Fatima developed an affair with a co-worker that caused grave injury to Ali's faith and longing for her. Meanwhile in a dramatic turn of events Ali and his neighbours in the hills are forced to spend sleepless nights for fear of a prowling leopard that came out of the woods. What follows is the hardest fate befalling Ali's family.

- 2018
Bristol Fashion
A young transgender woman escapes her troubled home to find solace in a dilapidated boatyard.

- 2022
Winona
Seems like an ordinary trip to a remote beach. Four young women enjoy the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the sea and one another's company. None of them is "Winona". They spent the day on silly games, girl talk, songs and dance. Laughter punctuated by tears, the tears washed away by make believe. Slowly the day comes to a close and our four heroines must say goodbye. An unassumingly mysterious and deeply moving story revealing itself with a language of intimacy, woven out of love and grief. Its secret will be kept till the very end.

- 2019
The Rose Maker
Eve is one of France’s greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy.
- Metascore65
- 2020
In Front of Your Face
She manages her daily life with a sense of mindfulness while keeping a grave secret to herself, and she decides to meet with a younger director who asked her to join his project, and after they meet there is sudden rainfall and thunder.

- Metascore85
- 2021
The Art of Return
Noemí is a young actress who returns home after 6 years in New York for an audition that could change her career. During the first 24 hours back in Madrid, she has a series of encounters that teach her how to cherish the seasons of life.

- 2020
Dangerous Methods
An ambitious Hollywood assistant finds herself in a hellish, live-or-death situation when she agrees to live in isolation with an overbearing Method actor who wants an extreme experience far from civilization while preparing for his next role.

- 2022
Seal of Desire
An attractive psychologist who specializes in couples therapy uses his intuitive skills to expose cheating spouses and seduce their heart-broken wives. But the player becomes a pawn when he meets a woman capable of beating him at his own game and the lines between love and trust, passion and obsession become blurred.

- 2022
The White Fortress
When a chance encounter brings together two teens from opposite sides of life in post-war Sarajevo, a blossoming romance conceals their desperate and disturbing motives.

- Metascore79
- 2021
The Godfather Buck
Two brothers, who meet once a year at a cabin in the woods in Big Bear to hunt white-tailed deer for a week, uncover hidden family secrets and lies when their stepbrother drops by for an evening, changing their lives forever.

- 2022
Chronology
Hakan and Nihal seem to have a perfect marriage. The problems of the young architect couple start to emerge when Nihal suddenly disappears. While looking for his wife with the police, Hakan has to face the facts of their relationship.

- 2019
Homebound
A twisted psychological thriller, Homebound follows Holly (Aisling Loftus), a young woman who travels with her new husband (Tom Goodman-Hill) to meet his estranged family, only to find his ex-wife is missing and the children behaving in strange ways.

- Metascore50
- 2021
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko
Brash single mother Nikuko is well-known for her bold spirit, much to the embarrassment of Kikuko, her pensive yet imaginative daughter. In contrast to her mother, Kikuko wants nothing more than to fit in as she navigates the everyday social dramas of middle school. Life in the harbor is peaceful until a shocking revelation from the past threatens to uproot the pair's tender relationship.

- Metascore68
- 2021
Revoir Paris
Mia, an interpreter, notably for radio, lives in Paris with her partner, Vincent, a doctor. One evening, the two are having dinner at a brasserie when Vincent, called away for an emergency, has to leave. Mia takes her motorbike home, but, surprised by the rain, stops at a restaurant where a birthday is being celebrated. Suddenly, armed men appear, wreaking havoc in the establishment. Mia, wounded by a bullet, survives, but remains permanently scarred by the tragedy. Some time later, she returns to the scene to meet other survivors.

- Metascore71
- 2022
Vaillante
A 24-year-old child marriage activist, Sali, is on a mission to end the harmful practice of child marriage. She seems to be the only person able to help the 14-year-old, soon-to-be child bride, Adi, living in a rural West African village. The tale of Adi's uncertain future and Sali's painful past shows the devastating impact child marriage can have over multiple generations as well as the bravery it takes to speak out against it.

- 2021
Blue Thermal
Tamaki Tsuru, a freshman at Aonagi University, was overzealous about volleyball when she was in high school. Following a romantic rejection due to being an athletic girl, she joined the tennis club in college to be less athletic. One day, she accidentally hits Daisuke with a tennis ball as he was transporting a glider, causing damage to it. Tamaki was charged with a repair cost of two million yen, but as she couldn't pay the amount, she joins the sports association aviation club as a helper.

- 2022
One of These Days
In a small Texas town, car dealer Raymond "Bubba" Boudreaux of "Budreaux's Auto and Truck" is organizing his annual PR event, "Hands On." In this extreme competition, 20 participants battle it out for a brand-new Chevrolet Avalanche. The contest follows a simple but ruthless rule: whoever stays awake, standing, and holding onto the vehicle with one hand for the longest time without interruption wins. Short breaks for food or bathroom visits are allowed—but sleeping is strictly forbidden. The physical and mental pressure quickly pushes the participants to their limits.

- Metascore42
- 2020
The End of Sex
The End of Sex tells the story of a married couple (Hampshire and Chernick) who are feeling the pressures of parenting and adulthood. After they send their young kids to camp for the first time, they embark on a series of comic sexual adventures to reinvigorate their relationship.

- Metascore43
- 2022
Tommy Guns
In 1974, after years of liberation war, the Portuguese and their descendants fled the colony of Angola where pro-independence groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and danger when her path crosses that of a young Portuguese Officer. Meanwhile, another group of Portuguese soldiers is barracked inside an infinite wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

- 2022
You Can Live Forever
When lesbian teen Jaime is sent to live in a Jehovah's Witness community, she falls hard for a devout Witness girl and the two embark on an intense affair with consequences that will reshape the rest of their lives.

- Metascore68
- 2022
Out and About
Inside the mind of a middle-aged man as he tries to come to terms with his life over the course of an afternoon walk through his hometown.

- 2022
Leave
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.

- 2022
When Time Got Louder
A coming of age drama that follows Abbie (Willow Shields) as she departs for college, leaving her parents Mark (Lochlyn Munro) and Tish (Elizabeth Mitchell), and her brother Kayden (Jonathan Simao) who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her newfound independence, Abbie is torn between her new life and the guilt of leaving her brother as her family struggles to care for him in light of her absence. When Time Got Louder is a story of a family's resilience driven by unconditional love.

- 2022
MobKing
After returning home from a lengthy prison sentence, a loyal crime family confidant quickly realizes that he and his family are the targets of the organization that he remained devoted to all of his life. In order to save his family, he must choose whether to run or fight back.

- 2023