What Drama Movies to watch on Tubi

When his mother dies the week before Easter, widowed hotshot LA exec Nate Lassiter (David Lee Smith) must finally return to his Ohio hometown with his headstrong Latina daughter Chloe (Mishka Calderon), and face the daunting task of signing away his family's factory. He collides with the spitfire cousin-with-a-grudge (Jenni-Kate Deshon) he had forced to run the factory when he left years before, a labor-strike led by a high-school wrestling buddy (Austin St. John), and a legal battle over the factory sale--brought on by the girl he left behind: Grace (Ashley Bratcher). Forced to search his soul and embrace his past, in rediscovering his hometown, Nate just might reconnect with his Grace.

When real estate tycoon Alexander Malone sets in motion a proposal to turn the small ski town of Fillmore into a posh year-round resort he finds himself up against local attorney Lisa Donahue who will do whatever possible to stop the demolition of the town.

For as long as she could remember, Dakota Skye has been cursed with a super power. She has the ability to see the truth in any lie she hears. From small, harmless white lies, to the more devious kind, they have come from the people that she should trust the most; her family, friends and teachers. These lies have snowballed, leading to her becoming bitter and apathetic towards the world around her. Now seventeen, Dakota just watches the world happen around her, unmotivated to join it. She has a boyfriend who plays in a semi-popular local rock band and her best friend from childhood, but finds little joy in her own life. One day, Jonah comes into town. It only takes a few days before Dakota notices something about him that sets him apart from the other people in her life. He doesn't lie. Through her friendship with Jonah, her eyes are opened to the world around her and she sees that there is something out there more than all the lies. There is a possibility of something different... something better. If only he wasn't her boyfriend's best friend. Now she must make a choice. Can she go back to the apathy that has dictated her life, ignoring something potentially amazing? Can she take the leap into the unknown with Jonah, ignoring all the repercussions that may come from that decision? Is he really the person that she thinks he is and wants him to be? The only thing that becomes clear is that Dakota can no longer be a spectator in her own life. She has to look at her life as it was, is and could be and make a choice for the first time.

Winter 1839. LIBERTY, MISSOURI. Local jailer, Samuel Tillery (Jasen Wade) is tasked with watching Missouri's most wanted men as they await their upcoming hearing. Caught between the local Missourians' increased drive to remove the prisoners, and the prisoners' desperate efforts to survive, Tillery is pushed beyond what any lawman can endure. Based on actual recorded accounts, OUT OF LIBERTY is an intense, evocative western, with an outcome you have to see to believe.

A genre-bending tale of a boy trying to fulfill his unrequited love for a girl who has risen from the dead. It tells the story of twin brothers Patrick and Carol Darling, newly graduated from high school and struggling to come to terms with the mysterious disappearance of their friend, the bright and beautiful Wendy Hearst. When a drive through the countryside surrounding their suburban community leads to the discovery of Wendy's mysteriously animated corpse, the boys secretly transport the un-dead Wendy to an empty house in hopes of somehow bringing her back to life. As the sweltering summer pushes on, they must maintain the appearance of normalcy for their friends and family as they search for ways to revive the Wendy they once knew, or, failing that, to satisfy their own quests for love amongst the living and the dead.

Julie follows clues from her missing lover's workplace to the remote Maracudi region, where warnings, threats, and evasive witnesses point toward a seaside villa. Gerda's eccentric household appears devoted to art, performance, and private rituals, yet Julie gradually discovers that several residents knew her lover and have reasons to conceal his presence. Attempts on Julie's life intensify as she searches for physical evidence, while Frank presents himself as her protector and presses her investigation forward. The villa's secrets become increasingly entangled with crime, blackmail, and missing memories, leaving Julie trapped between unreliable testimony and a past she cannot fully recall.

A life-altering friendship is formed between a man and 11 year old child after the passing of the boy's father.

Through her attempt to ignite a romance with a much older man, Sarah, a fiercely independent teenager, learns to appreciate not only her youth but also her overbearing mother.

Sikil tells the story of two men and a woman who are involved in a bizarre love triangle. These three friends grew up in a small town south of Manila. Enzo is a young closeted gay prostitute who's obsessed with his childhood friend who happens to be a call-boy and has a girlfriend. Other interesting characters are the bi-sexual pimp, a regular bathhouse customer, and a sampaguita-vendor/pickpocket/shoplifter and caretaker of Adong's daughter.

The plans to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant.

A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.

A Chinese posing as an American goes to Monte Carlo where he falls in love with Alanna, who later goes berserk upon learning his true identity.

Red Mathews and his gang are out to stop the railroad from coming to Coyote Gulch. When gunslinger Thunderbolt arrives in town, Banker Wingate tries to get him to take the job of kicking the gang out of town. Attracted to Judy Lane he accepts. He Succeeds once but is then captured just as the gang rides to town to break up the ceremony honoring the railroad president.

A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.

Guy Carrell (Ray Milland) is obsessed with the idea that he will be buried while in a state of catalepsy. He marries a woman who promises to cure him with love but then his fears become real.

A woman's husband is murdered and she and her lover must find the killer or stand accused of doing it themselves.

In 1942 in the Bronx, Evelyn Kurnitz has just passed away following a lengthy illness. Her husband, Eddie Kurnitz, needs to take a job as a traveling salesman to pay off the medical bills incurred, and decides to ask his stern and straight talking mother, from whom he is estranged, if his two young sons can live with her and their Aunt Bella in Yonkers. She reluctantly agrees after a threat by Bella. Despite their Grandma owning and operating a candy store, Jay and Arty don't like their new living situation as they're afraid of their Grandma, and find it difficult to relate to their crazy Aunt Bella, whose slow mental state is manifested by perpetual excitability and a short attention span, which outwardly comes across as a childlike demeanor. Into their collective lives returns one of Eddie and Bella's other siblings, Louie Kurnitz, a henchman for some gangsters. He is hiding out from Hollywood Harry, who wants what Louie stole and is hiding in his small black bag. Jay and Arty's mission becomes how to make money fast so that they can help their father and move back in together, that money which may entail stealing the $15,000 their Grandma has hidden somewhere. Bella's mission is to find a way to tell the family that she wants to get married to Johnny, her equally slow movie theater usher boyfriend, the two who could also use $5,000 of her mother's money to open their dream restaurant. And Louie's mission is to survive the next couple of days.

President Kongi (Wole Soyinka), the dictator of an African developing nation, is trying to modernize his nation after deposing King Oba Danlola (Rasidi Onikoyi). The different tribes are resisting unification, so he tries to reach his goal by any means necessary, including forcing government officials to wear traditional African outfits and seeking advice from the man he deposed. He demands tribute from Danlola in the form of a yam, an important food in the culture. Danlola's former lover Segi brings the dictator the head of her father as sacrifice.

A woman tormented by an abusive, sadistic husband desperately tries to find her way out of her predicament. When she takes a cooking class, she discovers a possible solution: one of her classmates is even more of a sadistic psychopath than her husband, and she proposes that he kill her husband.

Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.

A talented musician, about to trade his dreams for a safe career in his girlfriend's family business, finds his voice, but loses the girl, when a mysterious record label owner introduces him to a group of Brooklyn beat boxers.

Scarlet forms an instant bond with a girl named Dylan at a wilderness camp for troubled youth. However, the new friendship is soon devastated by betrayal and an unexpected twist of events.

The story of legendary jazz drummer, Gene Krupa. Since his youth, all Gene ever wanted to do is play the drums and make music. This is something his parents would not approve of- they want him to be a priest. When Gene's father dies he promises to enter the priesthood. He soon realizes that he doesn't belong there and leaves to join his friend, Eddie's band. Ethel, Eddie's girlfriend, convinces Gene to go to New York and make it big. The 3 of them head to New York. Here Ethel and Gene soon fall in love and Gene makes a name for himself. Gene starts to live in the fast lane, with drugs, alcohol, women and parties. Ethel, unhappy with Gene's lifestyle, leaves him. Gene soon "hits rock bottom" where he has to face reality and choose where to take his life.

A gang of desperate boys, a tough, hot-tempered killer, a hardfisted but tenderhearted young man, and a sensitive girl encounter wealth, violence and tender love in New York City's Lower East Side. One of Hollywood's finest with a cast to match.