What Drama Movies to watch on Google Play
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Holiday Road
Stranded at the airport on the way to Denver, a group of strangers decides to share a rental bus and travel to Denver by road. It becomes an interesting journey where they get to know each other and their respective backgrounds and challenges. Everyone has reasons to reflect on where they are heading in life, and sometimes they find support in each other. Clay and Dana, who didn't have a good start at the airport, discover sides of each other that they didn't anticipate initially, despite being opposites in many ways.

- 2023
My Norwegian Holiday
JJ, grieving the loss of her grandmother and seeking dissertation inspiration, stumbles upon an unexpected holiday destiny. Meeting Henrik, a Norwegian from Bergen, their connection deepens when he discovers she has a troll figurine from his hometown. To explore the troll's history and her grandmother's ties, JJ agrees to join Henrik on a journey to Norway. In Bergen, they're drawn into Henrik's family Christmas and wedding traditions, with his sister's wedding the day before Christmas Eve. JJ embarks on a holiday adventure, uncovering the troll's origins and finding her own path to healing, love and family.

- 2023
Better Days
After her husband dies, a woman starts to do whatever she wants. When her children order her to go back to being her old self, she must decide whose happiness matters most in a delightful comedy about starting over before it’s too late.

- 2023
Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
After his sister-in-law dies in a freak motorcycle accident in Saigon, Thien is bestowed the task of delivering her body back to their countryside hometown. It is a journey in which he also takes his nephew Dao (5), who miraculously survived the crash. Amidst the mystical landscapes of rural Vietnam, Thien begins a search for his older brother who vanished years ago to hand Dao over to him - a journey which deeply questions his faith.

- Metascore94
- 2023
Housekeeping for Beginners
Portrait of an unconventional family: the film tells the story of a vibrant yet complex multiethnic LGBT community living together in Dita's large apartment. After Dita loses her partner to cancer, she finds herself entrusted with the care of their two daughters, with support from a fake husband and his young lover. The relationships among them prove to be stronger than any racial, social, gender, or generational conflict.

- Metascore80
- 2023
Do Not Disturb
A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure.

- 2023
Ariel: Back to Buenos Aires
ARIEL is the story of a brother and sister who return to the country of their birth, Argentina, for the first time in their adult lives. Against the backdrop of glamorous tango clubs of Buenos Aires, they uncover dark family secrets and the reason for their parents' emigration to Canada.

- 2022
Saturn Bowling
When his father dies, Guillaume, a police officer, inherits the family bowling alley and decides to give it to his half-brother Armand. But the gift is cursed, setting off a series of brutal murders. Both brothers find themselves drawn into a demon-filled abyss and will have to face their tainted heritage. Darkness reigns over their world where the only rules are the rules of the hunt.

- 2022
Merry Good Enough
Lucy has a complicated relationship with her dysfunctional family, but when her mother disappears on Christmas Eve, she must bring her family back together whether she knows it or not.

- 2023
Beneath Us All
Julie, played by Angelina Danielle Cama, is a foster child heading for her 18th birthday. She finds an item buried in the woods with something unspeakable inside. Whalen plays Todd, Julie’s step father, who struggles with his gambling issues.
- 2023
In the Fire
A doctor from New York (Amber Heard) travels to a remote plantation in the 1890s to care for a disturbed boy who seems to have inexplicable abilities. She begins treating the child, but in doing so ignites a war of science versus religion with the local priest who believes the boy is possessed by the Devil and is the reason for all the village's woes.

- 2023
Nightsiren
A young woman returns to her native mountain village, searching for answers about her troubled childhood, but as she tries to uncover the truth, ancient legends begin to invade modern reality, leading the villagers to accuse her of witchcraft and murder.

- 2022
Bullets
It tells the story of a boy from a socially deprived suburb who is forced to help his friend out of trouble with the local 'gang'. This risks changing the course of his life and sending him to a path that he did not choose himself.

- 2023
R BnB
Ryan Davies, 40’s, and his young bride, Mia, 20’s, vacation at a secluded Airbnb to celebrate their first year wedding anniversary. Upon arrival and unbeknownst to the unsuspecting guests, the owners of the Airbnb, Kylo and Aubree, 20’s, secretly begin videotaping their every move, going so far as kidnapping Mia and attempting to kill Ryan.

- 2023
Checkin' It Twice
A journeyman hockey player falls for a real estate agent in a career crisis when he’s traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey loving family’s backyard.

- 2023
American Star
An assassin on final assignment (Ian McShane) arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met.

- Metascore66
- 2024
Your Friend, Memphis
Memphis is wild at heart. But as a young man with cerebral palsy, he feels stuck. His parents waver between supporting his desire for independence and pushing him towards a more pragmatic reality. YOUR FRIEND, MEMPHIS is an intimate portrait of Memphis’ dogged determination to bridge the distance between the world’s expectations and his own aspirations.

- 2022
The Promised Land
The poor soldier Ludvig Kahlen arrives in 1755 on the barren Jutland heath with a single goal: to follow the king's call to cultivate the land and thereby achieve wealth and honor himself. But Kahlen quickly makes an enemy. The merciless landowner, Frederik De Schinkel, who is sole ruler of the area, believes that the wealth belongs to him and not the king. When De Schinkel's serf runs away with his wife Ann Barbara and seeks refuge with Kahlen, the landowner does everything to drive Kahlen away and at the same time exact a cruel revenge. Kahlen does not bow, but stubbornly takes up the unequal battle and now risks both his life, but also the bond with the small, troubled family that has arisen around him on the heath.

- Metascore77
- 2023
Robot Dreams
Based on the popular graphic novel by the North American writer Sara Varon, Robot Dreams tells the adventures and misfortunes of Dog & Robot in NYC during the ’80s.

- Metascore87
- 2023
Wildcat
Follows the life of writer Flannery O'Connor while she was struggling to publish her first novel.

- Metascore55
- 2023
Summer Solstice
Leo, a trans man, and his cisgender and straight friend Eleanor go on a weekend trip, during which they uncover some old secrets, new challenges, and find the answer to the age-old question: can good friends and bad sex mix?

- Metascore85
- 2023
20,000 Species of Bees
During a summer in a village house linked to beekeeping, an eight-year-old and her mother experience revelations that will change their lives forever.

- Metascore80
- 2023
After the Murder of Albert Lima
After 13 years of failing to bring his father's killer to justice through the legal system, a young man sets out to find, capture, and deliver him to the federal prison once and for all.

- 2019
Reefa
Israel "Reefa" Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist, is spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship. While Israel and his friends skateboard the city streets and spray paint the walls of Wynwood, Miami's graffiti Mecca, anxieties emerge twofold: Israel and his family nervously await their Green Cards while he desperately seeks recognition for his art. On August 6, 2013, as Israel spray paints one last wall which would command immediate respect from his peers, a fatal encounter with a police officer leaves his family and friends devastated, the Miami community outraged, and the country reeling from another case of police brutality.

- 2021