What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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The Fabelmans
Loosely based on Spielberg's childhood growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, from age seven to eighteen, a young man named Sammy Fabelman discovers a shattering family secret, and explores how the power of movies help us see the truth about each other and ourselves.

- Metascore85
- 2022
Waiting for Bojangles
A young boy, Gary, lives with his eccentric parents and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment. And each night, Gary's parents Camille and Georges dance lovingly to their favorite song, Mr. Bojangles. There is only room for fun, fantasy, and friends at home. But as his mesmerizing and unpredictable mother descends deeper into her mind, it is up to Gary and his father to keep her safe.

- Metascore50
- 2021
Love and Other Cults
Born in a regional city, a young girl named Ai (Sairi Ito) is sent to a cult commune by her religious maniac mother and lives there for seven long years. After the cult is exposed by the police, Ai starts a new, normal life going to a regular middle school, but can't find a place to fit in normal society. Ai drops out to continue finding her path in life, first living with a rock-bottom delinquent family, then moving on to be part of a middle-class family, all along trying to find her place in this world. The only person who understands Ai is Ryota (Kenta Suga), another drop-out and cast-off from society. Ryota finds his path in a shady world of delinquents while Ai ends up working in the sex industry. Two teens' purity gets swallowed up by the urban jungle of a big regional city. A black comedy depicting lives of modern youth and their struggles in a place where there is no way out.

- 2017
Away You Go
The young Berlin schoolteacher Charlie (Victoria Schulz) no longer wants to continue as usual on her chosen path and asks herself what she really wants and needs.

- 2018
Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk
Actor Eric Stoltz’s feature film debut based on the book of the same name. Author Tony Dushane wrote a semi-autobiographical tale about coming of age during the Reagan years as a Jehovah’s Witness. His many humorous struggles with sexuality, discovering Punk Rock and Charles Bukowski led to a most tragic and liberating implosion.

- 2017
The End of the Chain
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go, because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other - all of them on the verge of a breakdown - or perhaps a breakthrough? The main character, Waitress, sees and absorbs it all. One by one - through their personal drama - the clients push the Waitress towards her own edge.

- 2017
Art Show Bingo
A creative and talented young man (Wil Hunter -played by James Maslow) is torn between his passion for painting and his promise to his father to one day take over the family business. With his family, his friends, and a newfound love, Wilbur must decide whether to follow his heart or do what's expected of him.

- 2017
Lie Low
Lie Low follows a young man who, after witnessing a stabbing, escapes to the French countryside with his family. Whilst confronting demons of the past, demons of the present threaten to catch up to his family with tragic consequences.

- 2019
This Little Land of Mines
This Little Land of Mines is an independent feature documentary about the resilience of the Lao people as they live among and work to clear 80 million unexploded bombs from when the United States secretly bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth.

- 2019
3 Days to Go
Tells the story of adult siblings who, after the sudden death of their father, are forced to return to their childhood home.

- 2019
Blood 13
A reckless female detective, Xingmin, when investigating a murder case, finds the victim dead naked, hung upside down in the basement bathroom. Old detective Laozhou assures that this is one of the prostitute serial murder cases that he has been after for 15 years. As Xingmin tracks down the murderer, she has to deal with her inner prejudice against prostitutes caused by her traumatizing childhood memory, while irresistibly resonate to the murderer herself. To breakthrough the case, she needs to conquer her nightmare and risk herself to uncover the truth.

- 2018
Anya
Marco is keeping a big secret from his wife Libby and doesn't know how to tell her. But after three miscarriages, Marco has no choice. When he tells Libby that his culture believes anyone who marries outside his community is cursed to never have kids, she thinks he's lying. Libby takes him to an ex-boyfriend geneticist, Seymour, to help talk some sense into him. When Seymour accidentally discovers Marco's people might be special from a scientific perspective, he offers to help them overcome their infertility. But in return, Seymour wants to pry open Marco's secretive community so he can publish on his groundbreaking discovery. Marco must decide between having a future with Libby or betraying his community.

- 2019
Call for Dreams
In a rain drenched Tokyo, from a high rise apartment, Eko complicates her life by publishing a 'Call For Dreams' ad in the newspaper. With her scooter she visits strangers who leave descriptions of dreams on her analogue answering machine, and carries a task in relation to their recording as a form of fantasy deciphering ritual. Details accumulate to a network of dreams involving her neighbor, a Russian mobster and a female body builder, an elderly woman and an Israeli detective investigating a murder in Tel Aviv, in a story that unfolds in parallel lines.

- 2018
Rounded Corners
Rounded Corners is a quirky, uplifting drama/comedy about a motherless girl and her new babysitter. At first, the girl and the babysitter have little in common. The girl, Sarah, is focused on school, colleges, jobs, and the financial markets. The babysitter, Nellie, is a carefree, happy person who worked in a restaurant before getting hired by Sarah's Wall Street father to spend time with her over summer vacation. Over time, Nellie teaches Sarah several important lessons about life, and finally prods Sarah into talking about what happened to her mother. Sarah has only fleeting memories about her mother, and is afraid to ask her father about the truth. It turns out, Sarah is also afraid of insects. Nellie teaches Sarah to overcome her fears, to find strength, and how to find balance that is missing in her life. We find out that Nellie had a life experience years ago that gave her strength to work through life struggles and achieve something amazing in her own right. After the lessons of the summer are almost over, Sarah finally confronts her father to find the truth about her past. Then, and only then, can she truly be free.

- 2019
Range Roads
When her parents are killed in a sudden car accident, television actor Frankie King (Alana Hawley Purvis) returns to her hometown in rural Alberta to face this tragedy after being estranged from her family for 20 years. As she struggles to reconnect with her brother Grayson (Joe Perry), old wounds are reopened and family secrets uncovered.

- 2021
Thorp
After fleeing Earth in the late 80s, an alien returns to his childhood home in search of his best friend. As he gets closer to finding her, his mysterious past gets closer to catching him.

- 2020
One in a Thousand
Iris has been expelled from school and spends her days with her cousins. When she meets Renata, she's fascinated, and they soon start flirting in spite of the growing rumours about Renata's past.

- 2020
Vengeance Served Cold
A 15 year old Madison watched her mother be murdered by a local pimp. As an adult, she takes justice into her own hands to get revenge on her mother's killer.

- 2021
Diablada
A group of girls from a little town in the desert, disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.

- 2020
Welcome to the Show
An invitation to a mysterious theatre piece, "The Show," sends four best friends down a rabbit hole of mistrust and madness as they try to figure out who are the actors, who is the audience, who is doing this to them, and why.

- 2021
Jessie: The Golden Heart
Striving to live up to the promise Master Walter Sinclair made at his dying father's bedside, he struggles to balance his newly inherited responsibilities of overseeing Stratton Estate and his secret passion for Jessie, a young beautiful Scottish servant girl. As Walter and Jessie's love affair intensifies it becomes difficult to keep their intimacy discreet, especially since Jessie is under constant scrutiny of her judgmental peers. Family secrets begin to unravel that force Jessie to make sacrificial decisions that ultimately threaten to destroy not only their love, but could ruin all of Stratton Castle.

- 2019
Repeat
A zealous cognitive psychologist stumbles across an unbelievable discovery-a way of communicating with the other side. His joy is short-lived, however, as his daughter is put into potentially grave danger.

- 2021
Christmas Time Is Here
Nia is a local realtor who is helping Julian find the ideal property to expand for his upscale property developer company. Julian sets his eye on Nia's family owned inn that is managed by her father who wants to sell and retire. Julian's company decides they want the property, but intend to change the inn. Nia sets out to find other options and hopes to save the family inn.
- 2021
Eight Gifts of Hanukkah
An anonymous suitor sends optometrist Sara a gift for each night of Hanukkah. On her journey to find her secret admirer, she learns her one true love might be someone she never expected.

- 2021