What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Rumble Through the Dark
In the dark landscape of the Mississippi Delta, a bare knuckle cage fighter seeks to repay his debts in a final, desperate attempt to salvage the family home of his dying foster mother.

- 2023
Line of Fire
On his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marco Kroon heroically leads his men through firefights and is awarded the highest decoration in the Netherlands: the Military Order of William. However, in the years that follow, Kroon is discredited. He struggles with traumas he cannot share even with Mirjam, the love of his life and everyone has an opinion about him, in the media and in the street. Kroon finds himself swept up in an emotional rollercoaster. As he tries to exonerate himself, he may face his toughest mission yet.

- 2023
Rodeo
Julia, a young misfit who is passionate about riding, meets a crew of dirt riders who fly along at full speed and perform stunts. She sets about infiltrating their male-dominated world, but an accident jeopardizes her ability to fit in.

- Metascore70
- 2022
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
A giant talkative frog, a lost cat, and a tsunami help a bank employee, his wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.

- Metascore69
- 2022
Teenage Girl: Skip Day
This is the story of 4 girls named, Alayna, Bren, Darla, and Jennifer who skip school on senior skip day and get into all kinds of trouble. The cool kid, Bren, convinces Alayna, a school choir nerd, to skip school for the day. They run into Darla, the school's fashion model and Jennifer, the school's punk rocker reject. During this journey they will party, steal a trophy, meet boys, get put into (ISS) In School Suspension and become friends. Throughout this, Italy, the school's cheerleader bully, and their high school principal chase down the girls in order to ruin their skip day.

- 2022
Last Sentinel
In the year 2063, Earth has been mostly submerged by rising sea levels, leaving only two small continents in constant conflict with each other. On one of these continents, Last Sentinel's crew, led by Hendrichs, is stationed in a watchtower, armed and waiting for the next attack. Relief was supposed to arrive three months ago, but it has yet to show up. When an empty ship, the Aurora, drifts into view, the commander decides to use its supplies to continue their wait, but the crew is divided on whether to repair the ship and attempt to sail home or stay put. Sullivan and Baines want to escape, while Hendrichs insists on staying put and arming the watchtower's weapons. As tensions rise, a passing ship raises suspicions and Sullivan is sent to investigate, but Hendrichs is quick to consider it a threat and willing to blow it up without hesitation. Amid the chaos, it becomes unclear if the outpost is adrift and if the crew knows where they truly are. Will their fear and mistrust lead to their downfall? Only time will tell.

- 2023
Jayamma Panchayathi
Jayamma deals with issues in her village apart from performing her duties as a protective homemaker who cares for her family's well-being. When her family status turns upside down, will the town help her?

- 2022
Riceboy Sleeps
In the 90s, a Korean mother raises her son in suburban Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.

- 2022
Monica
A woman returns home to care for her ailing mother who she hasn't seen in years in this tender portrait of family, forgiveness, and acceptance.

- Metascore75
- 2022
Division
Andi James - a minor actress who has moved to Atlanta with her inattentive fiance, Zach - starts vlogging while stuck inside during the pandemic. In doing so, she connects more deeply with her fan, Mason, and is tempted by his attentions. With a mother who just wants her to have a baby, her friend Delaney, who fans the flames of her desire, and her neighbor, Aya, who confirms how out of place she is in her new neighborhood, Jaime attempts to connect to the chaotic world around her. As the election approaches, Jaime is horrified by the machinations of the Trump regime, not realizing that Mason is not only his follower, but is willing to go to great lengths to keep him in power, under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Mark. When Jaime and Mason's inevitable confrontation goes viral, it leads to consequences for them both which ripple far beyond her quiet southern street.
- 2022
Stampede
Set in the old west of 1897, Michelle, the daughter of a wealthy cattle rancher in Santa Fe, New Mexico, runs away to join a cattle drive to Albuquerque. On the way she encounters a mountain lion, out races a flash flood, survives a cattle stampede, and fights bandidos. When Michelle finds out her father wants to send her to Paris to a school to teach ladies proper etiquette, Michelle rebels and runs away. She joins her father's cattle drive to Albuquerque. Seth, who has been with the family since Michelle was a baby, leads the drive. On the way she meets cowboy Tommy, who influences her to pursue her owns dreams.
- 2022
Martyr or Murderer
Explores the assassination of Ninoy Aquino on August 21, 1983, three years before the events of Maid in Malacañang, and how the Marcoses were accused of as those responsible for killing him.

- 2023

- 2022
Leave No Traces
Poland, 1983. Despite the suspension, the martial law imposed by the communist authorities, aimed at suppressing the Solidarity opposition, is still in force in the country. On May 12, Grzegorz Przemyk, son of the opposition poet Barbara Sadowska, is arrested and badly beaten by a police patrol. Przemyk dies after two days of agony. The only witness to the fatal beating is one of Grzegorz's colleagues, Jurek Popiel, who decides to fight for justice and to testify against the police. Initially, the state apparatus, including the Ministry of the Interior, downplays the case. However, when over 20 thousand. People will march through the streets of Warsaw behind Przemyk's coffin, the authorities decides to use any tools against the witness and the deceased's mother to discredit them and prevent Jurek from testifying in court.

- 2021
Adam & the Water
Adam is stuck in the mundane existence of 9-5 life in New York City. His days are all the same; anxiety, OCD, depression. Nearing personal collapse, he meets Eva. As she continues to appear in Adam's life, a new, ethereal world guides him toward self-realization. Will Adam succumb to the crippling reality he's been living in, or rise to a free and infinite one? This debut from filmmaker Matthew Appleby is an intimate exploration of mental health, relationships, dependence on technology, and the dual worlds of fantasy and reality that we exist between.

- 2022
The Listener
Follows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all kinds of people feeling lonely, broken, etc.

- Metascore64
- 2022
Seagrass
A Japanese-Canadian woman grapples with the death of her mother as she brings her family to a retreat. When her relationship with her husband begins to affect the children's emotional security, the family is changed forever.

- Metascore84
- 2023
Jose Canseco: The Truth Hurts
No figure in recent sports history has been as polarizing as Jose Canseco. Millions of baseball fans remember him as a powerhouse slugger with first to reach the 40/40, 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a single season. A whistle-blower whose admission to steroid use exposed a scandal that overshadowed his own remarkable 16-year major league career, and led to congressional hearings that cast a pall over America's greatest pastime - baseball.

- 2016
Father K
When Palestinian Lutheran Pastor Khader El-Yateem decides to run to become NYC's first Arab American elected official in his conservative Brooklyn neighborhood, he does what no one thinks possible, igniting his marginalized community's hopes and dreams. In the election's aftermath, an unforeseeable blow threatens the foundation of the movement they started, and the community finds their newfound optimism tested to its limit. Father K must face the realities of what it takes to build lasting power in a divided America, but through it all, his voice emerges as funny, bold, and defiantly hopeful - a bridge-builder in a polarized time.

- 2018
Broken Keys
Karim, a pianist dreaming of a career in Europe, lives in a war-torn Middle-Eastern town where modern ways of living have been banned by an extremist group. He is forced to sell his piano to gather money and leave. But things entangle when his piano is shot. Karim then embarks on a dangerous quest to repair his broken keys.

- 2021
Princess Diana: The Quiet Revolution
No one in history has ever been so universally adored as Diana, Princess of Wales. In her short life she captivated the world with her beauty, charm and limitless compassion. Her legacy still lives on two decades after her tragic death.

- 2017
The Legend of Jack and Diane
Jack and Diane are forced to leave Indiana after discovering secrets about the death of Diane's mother. When their worst fears are confirmed by the chief of police, Jack and Diane create a "Hit List" and exact revenge on everyone involved.

- 2023
The Essential Church
When governments use Covid emergency act edicts to restrict the gathering and worship of the Church, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, and their own Churches splitting apart take a courageous stand and re-open in the face of a world that has chosen to comply.

- 2023
The Passenger
A young man tries to deliver a mysterious package to the city on a bus but another passenger thinks he is a killer carrying a mutilated body or bomb and is determined to stop him.
- 2023