What Drama Movies to watch on Tubi

1919. Stefan Sokolowski and his father, Mike, leave family behind in Ukraine, escaping Russia's war on their homeland. In Winnipeg, Canada, they struggle to earn enough to re-unite the family, falling prey to the slave wages and discrimination foist upon immigrants. Stefan is instantly smitten by his Jewish suffragette neighbor, Rebecca Almazoff, but Rebecca's brother, Moishe, and Mike oppose the would-be Romeo and Juliet. Returned soldiers, angry at the lack of post-war jobs, violently threaten the city's immigrants, including Emma, a refugee from racist violence in Oklahoma, and Gabriel, an Indigenous Métis war veteran. When a movement develops for workers to leave their jobs in protest, a wealthy lawyer, A.J. Anderson, pits all against each other in this dramatic and inspirational movie musical.

CALVIN WOLF, an Indigenous K-9 detective for the county sheriff's department, works at one of the busiest cross-country illegal drug entry ports in North America. Though he no longer lives on the reservation, Calvin grieves over the detrimental impact of substance abuse on his own people. Calvin is wounded when a trafficking take-down, carefully-coordinated with federal agent JACK GATES, is circumvented by heavily-armed intruders. During his recovery, a tribal peace officer - and long-time family friend - is murdered. With his partner SHEA PARKER, he meets park ranger IRENE McCLOUD at the ceremonial funeral. Calvin reconnects with his native roots for healing, as he digs into the convoluted case. Irene and her brother NATE McCLOUD help him navigate the backwoods investigation between the park and the reservation, putting their own safety at risk. The trail of the murder intersects with the trail of the drug heist - and Calvin is caught in the middle, not knowing whom to trust. He's up against crooked federal agents, tribal turncoats, and a professional hitman, - trying to catch a killer while saving himself and Irene.

Childhood friends, Derrick and Rilow, have been trapping in Atlanta for nearly 20 years being supplied by the plug Mook however, Derrick has aspirations of being the man in charge. Unbeknownst to Derrick, Mook finds out. Thirsty for revenge, Mook enlists none other than Rilow to kill his best friend with the reward of a place in Mook's organization. If Rilow refuses, Mook will kill Rilow as well as Derrick. Now, Rilow must decide what's more important - his own life or Derrick's

Dejected by love troubles, job upheaval and a fortune-teller's dire warnings, Thomas comes upon a mysterious old diary and begins to read its haunting tale of love and loss. Besieged by strange occurrences and with no one to trust, Thomas' treacherous journey unravels disturbing details about its writer -- a tormented and deranged soul named Jung Hoon, who is crazy in love -- and even about Thomas' own forgotten past - In this suspenseful, twist-and-turn romantic thriller (with doses of old-school horror and the occult), two fated love stories unfold - along with strange curses, meaningful coincidences, a train wreck, a car chase, devil worship, demonic possession, and Shakespearean-style tragic murder.

David is a trusted tax preparer battling an addiction that turns out to be darker than anyone could imagine.

Young, beautiful and smart, Sienna Castle travels to Mexico to unwind and celebrate a fabulous job offer as a fashion designer. Once over the border, Sienna attempts to purchase a large amount of inexpensive prescription drugs for her ailing mother where her vacation quickly turns into a nightmare.

Set on the night of February 25, 1964, "One Night in Miami" follows a young, brash Cassius Clay as he emerges from the Miami Beach Convention Center the new Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World. Against all odds, he defeated Sonny Liston and shocked the sports world. While crowds of people swarm Miami Beach to celebrate the match, Clay - unable to stay on the island because of Jim Crow-era segregation laws - spends the evening at the Hampton House Motel in Miami's African American Overtown neighborhood celebrating with three of his closest friends: Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown. During this historic evening, these icons, who each were the very representation of the Pre-Black Power Movement and felt the social pressure their cross-over celebrity brought, shared their thoughts with each other about their responsibilities as influencers, standing up, defending their rights and moving the country forward to equality and empowerment for all black people. The next morning, the four men emerge determined to define a new world for themselves and their community.

Tells the story of Sigga, a 17 year-old girl trying to leave home in Iceland and make her way to California.

A group of career thieves plan to take down a racetrack in Los Angeles.

The adventurer Manuel comes across Carlos, who is almost his identical twin. Manuel comes from a rich family so he offers Carlos some money to pass himself off as him for a young woman that wants to marry him. Carlos asks him to return the favor.

Jovana Fey (Sophie Desmarais) is a novelist. Her first two books received positive reviews, but were a commercial failure. Her third, Don't Read This on a Plane, has just been released - an amusing, risque chronicle of a woman's dalliances with a hundred women. Jovana hopes it will bring the success she craves. As she attempts to check into the first hotel of her 28-day European book tour, she learns that her publisher has gone bankrupt. Penniless and stranded, she decides to continue the tour regardless, resorting to hitchhiking and couch-surfing to meet her appointments across Europe, all the while attempting to project an image of success.

When madly in love high school graduates Riley (Alexandra Shipp) and Chris (Nicholas Hamilton) are separated by a tragic car accident, Riley blames herself for her boyfriend's death while Chris is stranded in limbo. Miraculously, the two find a way to connect. In a love story that transcends life and death, both Riley and Chris are forced to learn the hardest lesson of all: letting go.

When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.

At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously convoluted their lives will soon become in the filmmaker's pursuit of a work of art, which blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.

The Hague-based Europol agent Simon Fox (Morgan C. Jones) leads a troubled life after he accidentally shot and killed a child. Struggling with this trauma Simon is confronted with a secret post-war resistance organization called 'Gladio'. The organization is abused by illustrious politicians in their hunger for power, as a result of which The Netherlands is likely to degenerate into a police state. When it becomes clear that Simon's father established 'Gladio' after the war with very different intentions, Simon is determined to turn the tide..

After the overdose, all Dean wants is to get clean and off the streets. When Maria offers a hand, he finds out just how far he'll go for salvation, leaving a trail of blood and bodies behind them.

After Michael Washington is found dead in the streets, his brother and unfaithful widow hunt for answers, revenge, and redemption through their crime-ridden urban neighborhood. What will win out? Faith and family? Or lies and betrayal?

"You People" is a satirical comedy about modern stereotypes, chronicling the life of an intelligent, white-washed, African-American college student, adopted by a liberal Caucasian family, who has a crisis of identity while growing up in bible belt, white suburbia with his urban hip-hop culture obsessed, white best friend. When an attractive girl on campus approaches the black protagonist based on his "presumed" stereotypical traits, he has to undergo a "cultural transformation" with the help of his white companion to tap into his inner "blackness." With a fresh, topical examination of identity, an eclectic mix of minority characters (e.g. Asians, LGBT, Hispanics, etc.) playing against type, and a strong emphasis on self-discovery, empathy, and tolerance, "You People" aims to tell a conventional story, unconventionally.

Captain Bob Hayworth, his brother Lieutenant Gilroy Hayworth and Captain Derek Marbury are in a World-War 1 trench on the front-lines in France. Bob Hayworth resents Marbury greatly as the latter had married the girl, Lucy Neville, Marbury was courting in pre-war London. Ordered to go on a night patrol, the cowardly Gilroy committed suicide rather than face his fear. Bob and Derek arrange it to appear that Bob had been killed by a shell-burst, and Derek, with his face camouflaged, takes the patrol posing as Gilroy. While on patrol, Derek is hit by a shell-burst and found by the German Red Cross, who turn him over to a family of French peasants. Weeks later, Drek awakens in an English field-hospital and has amnesia. Since he had no papers on him when found, the hospital staff name him Private John Drake, and he is shipped back to England several months later. There, he is recognized by Bob Hayworth, who has been courting the widow Marbury. Despite the fact that Marbury had undertaken the mission on order to keep the Hayworth family-name from shame, Bob brings charges of battlefield desertion against Derek. The latter, not even knowing who he really is, has no defense against the charges.

Son Shine, follows the story of 12 year old Hakeem Brown on the heels of his thirteenth birthday. Known in his neighborhood as the good kid, Hakeem is a honor student and an obedient son. However, things begin to change for Hakeem as he becomes aware of the political climate in his South Los Angeles Neighborhood during the announcement of the Rodney King verdict. Watching his neighborhood erupt into flames from his bedroom window, Hakeem disobeys his parents by joining the chaos of the riots. Now face to face with the realities of the uprising, Hakeem has to make the decision to be a part of the solution or to become a part of the problem.

A post-apocalyptic thriller about a heartbroken man and his new friends who must together battle marauders in order to survive in a new lawless world.

Limbo is a wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the results of their asylum claims. It centers on Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician who is burdened by his grandfather's oud, the king of Arabic music instruments, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.

A lost surfer running from his past, has a chance encounter with an introvert running from his future, and the two must battle their fears together in the waves off the North Shore of Oahu to overcome their adversity.