What Drama Movies to watch on Tubi

A nurse is taking an amnesia victim, who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW II, to the United States in a plane piloted by Richard Denning. The passengers include a Japanese colonel on his way to Manila to face war-crime charges, and a couple who were married on the day they were liberated from a Japanese prison camp. During the flight, the colonel breaks away from his guards, causes the plane to go out of control, and it crashes into the sea. The survivors get into a rubber boat and go through a minor-league version of "Lifeboat, with no Alfred Hitchcock sightings, until Air-Sea Rescue pilot Jim Willis rides to the rescue.

Henry is a troubled drifter; a man aimlessly migrating from place to place committing a brutal series of murders one after another. His random pattern of behaviour allows him to act with relative impunity, frustrating any attempts law enforcement might make to connect his numerous crimes and bring him to justice.

A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A mysterious man arrives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Buntings' daughter is a blonde model who is seeing one of the detectives assigned to the case. The detective becomes jealous of the lodger and begins to suspect that he might be the avenger.

Watch as struggling artist, Arthur Roselli, bumbles through life and stumbles upon his dream...but at what price? Call him a garbage man and he will tell you he is a Sanitational Technician with a love for painting real life scenarios.

Songwriter Danny (Pryor) believes that the only way to jump-start fading movie star Polly's (Bradley) career is to end his partnership with lyricist Mike (Newell). Polly's friend Mattie (Kelton) manages to comfort Mike in the interim. Then, Mike concocts a plan to separate Danny from Polly: he sends blonde seductress Blossom (Compton) to pretend to be Mike's girlfriend. But all ill feelings and misunderstandings are resolved by the climactic musical finale.

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out.

While on a case in Mississippi, federal agent Alonso White falls for schoolteacher Norma Shepard and rescues her from the evil clutches of a local crime kingpin. But when Alonso and Norma escape to Harlem, safety still eludes them.

Young Master Cao Lei chases his pregnant girlfriend away from the family castle. He does it in order to save her from vicious bandits who are going to murder his family.

One day Sammy and his younger sister Ellie happen upon a cabin where Alice, a partially-deaf young girl with epilepsy is being kept by her abusive stepfather. The three soon become friends, and Sammy and Ellie hope to get Alice an education and help her escape from the daily torture she endures. However, Alice's stepfather finds out about the friendship she has struck up and punishes her brutally. This story of friendship and youth shows that everyone is human and deserves to be treated so, no matter their disability or weakness.

A Marine officer leads a rescue mission through the Vietnamese jungle to rescue his brother, a doctor who has been taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.

The last 18 years in the life of Jesse James, showing his home life in Missouri, his experiences with Quantrill's raiders, his career of banditry with his brother Frank and the Younger brothers, and his attempt to lead a peaceful life after the disastrous attempt to rob the bank at Northfield, Minnesota.

28-year-old Kansas University doctoral student Omar Razaghi has won a grant to write a biography of Latin American writer, Jules Gund. But Omar must get authorization from the three people who were closest to him: his brother, his widow and his younger mistress.

An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.

16-year-old Genevieve and 20-year-old Guy are very much in love. Her kind mother, who runs an umbrella shop, won't hear of her marrying, particularly as Guy has yet to complete his compulsory military service. Genevieve is heartbroken when he leaves for his army service in colonial Algeria and is upset to have received only one letter from him in two months. Her mother's solution to this situation is kind diamond-merchant Roland Cassard, who has helped them in the past.

James Kennedy (Cameron Mitchell) is a rich American businessman whose son is kidnapped in England. Ignoring the assistance of Scotland Yard - and with a devious plan in mind - he sends twice the amount of ransom money demanded by the gang.

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly encounter the friendly but disreputable Mr. Jingle, who becomes a continual source of trouble for all who know him. Pickwick himself is the victim of a number of misunderstandings that bring him both embarrassment and problems with the law.

This endearing, insightful film takes an intimate look at one family's struggle to understand each other as they begin to grow apart.

Joe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sights on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he gambled for and in the end is a much bigger man for it.

Tom Morris, a writer of western novels, receives an invitation to visit "Mystery Ranch", where he will see western men that make his characters look like sissies.Tom and his secretary Percy Jenkins arrive and are soon involved in a lot of staged happenings --- a lynching, a runaway, a fake feud, a chase after horse thieves --- strictly for his benefit. Tom is not fooled at all and ranch owner Mrs. Henderson and her daughter Mary and the ranch hands are ready to give up. Then, two real crooks, Blake and Kern, show up and Tom discovers they are carrying a bag of gold bullion. Tom thinks they are just part of another trick and decides to start playing some of his own.

Rena nearly gets killed on her way home from the meatpacking plant. Saved from a pack of wild teens, Rena falls head over heels and places her heart in the hands of Torben, a dashing young high-diver. Submerged in the fantasy of true love, will it take a dive of her own for Rena to bare all and bring Torben's truth to light?

T, as most of his friends, lives in a self-constructed 'house', built on top of an old building in the city. Their one passion is 'combat'. Combat is a dance/streetfight during which the contestants try to push each other out of the arena, while not allowed to actually touch each other. When drugdealers move into the neighbourhood and kill T's best friend he embarks on a mission to eradicate the drug-presence in the neigbourhood. His friends are reluctant to help though, knowing what happened to T's friend when he crossed them.

Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds--and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly-ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.

Going home to Stockholm after his latest tour in the U.S., renowned concert violinist Holger Brandt needs to look for a new accompanist for his next tour in a few months, as his long-time accompanist and friend Thomas Stenborg is retiring. Not really noticing her until she plays at a social gathering, Holger believes he's found Thomas' replacement in Anita Hoffman, his daughter Ann Marie's piano teacher who is an accomplished pianist in her own right. As Holger and Anita begin to spend more time together, they fall in love with each other. Despite their love, they must decide what to do, not only about the upcoming tour but about their feelings for each other in not wanting those feelings to be the cause of the end of Holger's family life, which not only means his marriage to his wife Margit, who can see what is happening between her husband and Anita, but also his relationship with their two children, especially Ann Marie who idolizes her father. Anita must also view her love for Holger in relation to her own career as she is in line for a prestigious scholarship. With all these factors, they will find if their love will sustain their relationship, or if each will only be an intermezzo in the other's life.

After an Irish woman moves from the suburbs to Dublin, she begins receiving phone calls from a stranger. Coincidentally, the city is being plagued by a serial killer who uses this method to lure his victims in. Even though she is aware of this, she finds herself inexplicably drawn to this man. Will she be the next victim of the "Phone Call Killer"?