What Drama Movies to watch on Tubi

Set in Australia in the 1930s, this drama stars Nicholas Gledhill as P.S., a six-year-old motherless boy who lives with his Aunt Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Uncle George (Peter Whitford). When Lila's older sister, Venessa (Wendy Hughes), arrives and expresses interest in taking custody of the child, Lila decides to fight her in court.

Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that happened during a rodeo, the rodeo owner cheats him out of his horse. Ted must decide whether to pursue him and try to recover the horse, or whether to settle down with the doctor's daughter who is nursing him back to health.

WWII...1942. There's a savage 12-day fight for survival as the infantry of British Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army fights against German Field Marshal Rommel's fabled Afrika Korps in the windswept Libyan Desert.

A study in culture bridging, including ... a new US-born husband, trying to work within the traditional ways, a new China-born wife, eager to join the "dream" of America, two family-minded fathers, lots of gender-related social bifurcations.

Daniel, Sam(antha), and Peter are three old friends living together in a Los Angeles loft. Being gifted with a great cooking skill and good looks, Daniel uses his talent to bring home one beauty after another. As he gives public cooking lessons, there is enough female supply for his wishes. One day, a TV producer takes part in one of his courses and watches him work; then she offers him his own show, "Cooking for Two". Daniel is more than happy and accepts gratefully. The three friends promise one another that not even money can tear them apart. But the show accidentally develops into a new direction: female watchers pour out their problems on-air by telephone, while Daniel has to give partnership-counseling together with cooking recipes, and the subjects seem to be closely related. Daniel, being wealthy and famous, is now about to marry his new love Jacqueline when he finds out about some things going on behind the scenes that concern him, her, his old friends Sam and Peter, and the shifted relationships among them.

An archeologist is murdered after returning from a dig with a priceless gem, and now his widow has become a target.

Henri Miller is a successful restaurateur and family man living the American dream until he collapses from what appears to be a cerebral hemorrhage. Raced to the hospital Henri's wife Margaret learns that he has been seeing a neurologist in an attempt to diagnose unexplained headaches since his childhood. With one test remaining, Dr. Pullman convinces Henri to have the new FVMRI procedure-an MRI-like machine that reads long-term memory in video form. When the test reveals that Henri shot and killed two people on his farm, the first Superior Court trial with evidence introduced by the defendant's own memory is soon underway. Although Henri has no recollection of this memory, upon broadcast in court Henri's father Joseph immediately falls ill having witnessed that exact memory. With time running out and Henri's guilt of second degree murder all but assured, Margaret's desperate attempt to clear her husband soon reveals that Henri's mind will answer to all crimes-those of the past, present and beyond.

During the off-season at the Beauregard Hotel, the secrets of some guests are exposed. Lovely but vulnerable Ann Shankland travels to the hotel in hopes of starting over with her ex-husband, John, but she does not know that he is already engaged to Pat Cooper, the manager of the hotel. Meanwhile, Mrs. Railton-Bell and her daughter Sibyl discover the hidden truth about war veteran Major Pollack.

Fifteen-year-old Daniel Huffman is a normal teenager with a passion for football and grand hope for a college football scholarship. Raised by his grandmother Shirlee, the two have a warm and loving relationship. When Daniel fails to make the team. It is Shirlee who gave the motivation and support he needs to keep trying. But when the tables are turned Daniel is forced to make a difficult, heart-wrenching decision. He must sacrifice one of the two loves of his life. Gift of Love is a remarkable true story of courage and inspiration.

Protesting innocence (of course), 21-year-old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet-talking Melanee who (it's implied) makes unwanted lesbian advances toward Anne. The prison chaplain takes an interest in her case...or is it in her? As Anne meets the darker side of prison life, she learns that her greatest danger is the existence, somewhere out there, of unrecovered bank loot everyone thinks she hid.

To make a fast buck when he lands in debt to a powerful bookie, a Hollywood agent creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and enters them in a downhill race. If they win, they will get $20,000.

A TV weatherman tries to prove his theory that a series of unexplained catastrophes are the result of powerful winds found in the upper atmosphere coming down to ground level.

Joe Hawkins is not in good spirits. A long time drug-abuser and alcoholic, he sobers up with help from his brother Tom. When Joe discovers that his manager, Leon Redden, has cheated him out of $8,000,000 over the years, Joe, Tom, and a few friends set out to show Leon that karma is a mother, and that what goes around comes around.

A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang.

In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past...

Eddie Jones (Courtney B. Vance) is a eliminator working for the U.S. Government. He eliminates people the government has a problem with or does not like. He is "working" a lot and is saving some money for his retirement. A good, faithful Catholic (despite murdering people in cold blood), he has become celibate confessing to his priest trying to bargain his murders by his chastity with God. His boss is "Middleman" (Kathleen Turner), who likes him and wants to the best for him. She decides to arrange a date for him and orders Eddie to meet Lois Newton (Regina King). After confusion, mishaps and misunderstandings, mainly due to Eddie's profession, they fall in love with each other. Frank (Jason Alexander) is a competing boss who wants Eddie to join his eliminator corp but when Eddie love for Lois causes him to leave the job forever, Taylor (Ed Asner) orders Middleman and Frank to go after Eddie and eliminate him.

Alby Sherman is a man with a deli and a dream. He's looking to sell his greasy spoon in Brooklyn and buy a swanky Manhattan restaurant. His Uncle Benjamin will lend him the money, but only on the condition that Alby dump Elizabeth, his non-jewish girlfriend, and marry one of the faith. Now Alby has to choose between his business and a dish who's definitely not on the menu.

Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. He lives with his father, who supports them by fishing alone. He is not attending school; he is illiterate and ignorant. Mick's father resents any intrusion of their secluded life, be it a washed-up radio or a mob of idiot bird shooters who kill a number of birds before they are scared off by Fingerbone. Amongst the dead are some pelicans whose chicks are still in the nest. The boy brings them home to care for. His father isn't keen, but permits it. Three pelicans become a lot to feed when they reach maturity, so his father insists on releasing them. Two are never seen again, but one, Mr Percival, keeps coming back. Another intruder is the new primary school teacher, brought by the park ranger. She is concerned about the boy's education, and pushes hard for him to be sent to school, or at least to do schoolwork by correspondence. She means well, but she is resented by the father - he doesn't want anything to change in their reclusive life.

Jack London's immortal tale of courage and survival comes to life amid the breathtaking beauty of the great Alaskan frontier. Ethan Hawke stars as a young man trying to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon valley. His incredible Journey begins when he meets a veteran gold miner who guides young Jack to his father's claim. Along the way, Jack discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever a magnificent wolf-dog named White Fang. From the taming of a wolf, to the taming of the wild, he must find the courage to conquer his fears and become a man in this outdoor adventure.

Yoon-Jung accidentally calls a stranger instead of her boyfriend, and has phone sex with the unknown man. When her relationship with her boyfriend turns sour, she meets Hyun-Seung and falls in love with him, but finds out he is that stranger.

Charles Dickens' classic tale of Pip, a poor orphan who befriends an escaped convict and who grows up in the company of a bitter old woman, Miss Havisham, and her haughty young ward, Estella. Pip learns the rewards of both vindictiveness and gratitude as a result of these events.

Rachel is a quick-witted and lovable stay-at-home mom. Frustrated with the realities of preschool auctions, a lackluster sex life and career that's gone kaput, Rachel visits a strip club to spice up her marriage and meets McKenna, a stripper she adopts as her live-in nanny.

The setup is pure pulp: A former prostitute (a crackerjack Constance Towers) relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But in the strange, hallucinatory territory of writer-director-producer Samuel Fuller, perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface. Featuring radical visual touches, full-throttle performances, brilliant cinematography by Stanley Cortez, and one bizarrely beautiful musical number, "The Naked Kiss" is among Fuller's greatest, boldest entertainments.

Lloyd Bridges plays a WWII commando leader who leads a group of soldiers on a suicide mission to destroy a Nazi naval stronghold on the French coast.