What Drama Movies to watch on Tubi

Tabitha is the new girl at school, who catches the eye of the local football hero. This gets her on the bad side of the high school cheerleading captain and she is lured to a secluded lake for drinks and a late night swim. There Tabitha is drugged, stranded and eventually murdered. But something brings Tabitha back to life, so she can take revenge on those who sent her to a watery grave.

Set in China during the warring 1920s, notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor, an identity that he had hijacked from Old Tang, himself a small-time imposter. Hell-bent on making a fast buck, Zhang soon meets his match in the tyrannical local gentry Huang as a deadly battle of wit and brutality ensues.

An unassuming pet photographer is thrown into serious action, adventure and romance when he’s forced to marry a Croatian bride and spend his honeymoon at a remote tropical resort where she is kidnapped.

On Christmas Eve, divorced Shannon McManus-Johnson is having trouble making Christmas merry for her adolescent son Trevor McManus-Johnson because of their post-divorce tight financial situation. She works as a driver for a limousine service while working toward getting licensed as a CPA to make a better life for Trevor and herself. She is being forced to work on Christmas Eve, driving around wealthy businessman Fred Nickells. She is initially unaware that Fred, who has never met her, specifically requested her to be his driver due to a shared history about which Shannon is further unaware. On this day, Fred seems determined to make it a Merry Christmas for anyone he encounters by spreading his wealth freely to others. Into their midst comes television reporter Peter Archer, who hears about Fred's actions and wants to get an exclusive on Fred's story. Partly from Peter's intervention, Fred and thus Shannon's story comes to light in bits and pieces, and which may include Fred actually being crazy. Peter has to decide how much he will actually put on their air, especially if what he discovers is potentially explosive or sensational in nature, as in competing priorities he feels he needs that one big story to secure his promotion to the national bureau in Washington DC, he one of two in the running, while he slowly starts to fall for Shannon and doesn't want to hurt her by making any of the information public.

A young teenage girl escapes her life in Nebraska and her alcoholic parents, taking a pistol along for the ride. Along the way she meets Glenda, who takes her under her wing.

As prisoner of war Clemens Forell, a German soldier during World War II, is sentenced to 25 year in a labor camp in far east Siberia. After four years working in the mines he escapes from the camp (in 1949) and tries to get home to his wife and children. For three years he journeys through Siberia. An odyssey of 14,000 kilometers, set against a backdrop of desolate and inhospitable landscape, beset by danger (from both animals and humans). Constantly battling the worst nature can throw at him, Forell makes his way, step by step towards Prussia and the longed-for freedom. Sometimes riding on trains, sometimes by boat, mostly on foot, he never knows if his next step will be his last. His prosecutor Kamenev is always right behind him, and more than once it seems that Forell is captured again.

Starring Cynthia Gibb. Single mom Valerie and her diabetic teen daughter Claire survive a plane crash, only to find themselves still in danger alongside a suspicious fellow passenger.

Irwin Miller's Cummins Diesel factory town of Columbus, Indiana was filled by Miller with many works designed by the world's most admired architects. When one of those architects, a Korean, returning to lecture there, has a seizure which is expected to be terminal, which brings his family to Columbus. A young woman who works in the public library, which is next door to the old Irwin family home which has turned into a b&b, meets the son of the architect. The woman and the young man become friends as she takes him on a tour of Columbus's architecture. She longs to go off to school to study architecture, but feels bound by her circumstances to stay here. In contrast the young man, his father's heir if he wants it, wants none of it, and resents the family duty to attend upon his father's death. The girl desperately desires what the boy would throw away. It's a pretty good introduction to the architectural feast of Columbus.

In Toronto, the nymphomaniac Leila spends the nights dancing and having sex with men to satisfy her sex drive. Leila learns that her parents are divorcing and she is affected by their decision. When Leila meets David, she has a torrid affair with him. David is an artist that lives with his father, who is very dependent on David. Leila and David have a complicated relationship since he is a possessive man that demands commitment but Leila does not know how to love a man and has the need of different partners in her sex life.

Jindabyne, in the southeast section of New South Wales, was moved to its current site from its original site upon the building of a hydroelectric dam, the resulting reservoir, Lake Jindabyne, which now sits atop the original townsite. Among its residents are a group of friends who socialize together: married Stewart and Claire, a service station owner/former race car driver and a pharmacist respectively, and their school age son Tommy; married Carl and Jude, who have been guardians to their granddaughter Caylin-Calandria, Tommy's friend and disruptive classmate, ever since her mother's passing; Rocco and his new Aboriginal girlfriend, Carmel, a teacher at Tommy and Caylin-Calandria's school; and young parents Billy and Elissa, Billy who works casually as a mechanic for Stewart. Despite Stewart and Claire loving each other, there has long been disharmony in their household. Claire left for eighteen months following Tommy's birth due to postpartum depression. Then, Stewart's mother moved to Jindabyne to look after Tommy, but still undermines Claire as a parent. And Claire doesn't like Stewart's closed emotional state, she who just wants them all to connect as human beings. As they do every year, the four men embark on a multi-day fly fishing trip to a remote section of the river. Shortly upon their arrival, Stewart discovers the dead body of a young Aboriginal woman in the river. What the men decide to do, or not to do, ends up receiving the wrath of general populace, but especially that of the Aboriginal community. It also has the potential to tear the friendship among this group, as well as Stewart and Claire's marriage, apart. Through it all, Claire, in that want for human connection, does what she believes is the right thing, which is not always met with what is her intent.

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

[Spoilers ahead!] Jack, a man wrongly convicted of murder is sent to a prison where the unscrupulous warden has political aspirations. The warden manipulates his wife, his political adviser/lover, the prisoners and the voters, all while maintaining a smiling "I'm a great guy" facade. After noticing Jack's interest in his neglected wife Melanie, the warden puts Jack into a no-win situation in an attempt to make Jack do something Jack doesn't want to do. The result has Jack abducting Melanie, followed by the police across the state. Then Jack reveals to Melanie the reason why he abducted her.

Blaming herself for her son's accidental death, young wife Cynthia risks redemption at the hands of an otherworldly intruder who appears in the couple's home during a night of apocalyptic world events and somehow knows every detail of Cynthia's guilt-ridden past.

A multidimensional drama based on actual events, following the story of an Australian teenage girl who goes missing.

Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals, influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms across the country and the violence spirals out of control, Dom realizes he wants out - until he learns it's not that easy to simply walk away.

A 14 year-old-boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his life in the inner city and find his passion in the process.

An indie app developer struggles to navigate his friendship with a very taken girl, risking the loss of his best friend, business partner and career.

A young man trying to live a fairly normal life finds himself having to deal with his newly divorced father who wants to immerse himself in the singles scene.

American Idol's third season winner Fantasia Barrino plays herself in a television movie that shows how the teenage single mother overcame poverty, sexual abuse and illiteracy to win the hit talent show. "Life Is Not a Fairy Tale: The Fantasia Barrino Story" will premiere in August 2006 on the women's cable channel, Lifetime Television.

Young educated beauty Fancy Day comes to town to teach school and care for her ailing father. Soon gossip around town turns to who Miss Day will marry. The lead contender is wealthy Mr. Shinar. Fancy, however, has also caught the attention of poor Dick Dewy and Parson Maybold. Poor Fancy is also caught in the middle of a feud between the parson and the former church choir when the parson introduces a harmonium to provide the church music, effectively usurping the choir, and asks Fancy to play.

Dee Dee returns to her hometown with her 11-year-old son Trooper, 13 years after she ran off with her boyfriend. Her childhood best friend Sam is now married and he and his wife Lydia are the town's veterinarians. Lydia is wary about Dee Dee after Sam tells her that they were best friends growing up and Dee Dee was his first crush. But Dee Dee and Trooper find their way into many of the townspeople's hearts with their sweet helpfulness and friendship. Dee Dee sets up a candle-making business in the town square and invites many of the town ladies to weekly candle-making parties, and through these parties she and Lydia become good friends. One evening, after dinner with Lydia and Sam, Dee Dee tells Sam that she's very sick, doesn't have much longer to live, and needs his help to find a good family in town to adopt Trooper. Sam later tells Lydia everything and they decide to adopt Trooper themselves if/when something happens to Dee Dee.

Martha is an autistic mathematical genius. Suddenly, her mother is viciously murdered before her eyes and she along with her cousin Nicole must use her unique abilites to catch the killer.

Depressed after the passing of his father (Dharamraj) and a ditching by his gorgeous girlfriend, Mumbai-based businessman Aditya Kashyap takes a BEST bus, goes to the Chatrapati Shivaji Train Terminus, and boards a train. There he meets Geet Kaur Dhillon, who is returning home to Bhatinda, and who pays for his ticket. At Bar Nagar, he decides to leave, but she follows him, missing her train. They manage to get a ride to Ratlam, miss the train again, but eventually make it to Bhatinda. Once there, he gets to meet her family, her pretty sister Roop as well as her to-be betrothed, Manjeet Singh Mann. Before the engagement can be finalized, she manages to convince her fiancé that she wants to marry Aditya. Before Aditya can take stock of these new developments, she elopes with him - not to get married but to re-locate to Manali where her true love, Anshuman, awaits, and to whom she hopes to get married.

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea -- a horror flick about a group of friends tormented by a villain with a bag over his head -- starts to come true?