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What Drama Movies to watch on YouTube Premium

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Casanova Brown

1 hr 34 mins

Cas Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cas kidnaps the infant to keep her from being adopted. Isabel's parents hunt for the child and discover that Cas and Isabel are still hopelessly in love.

Casanova Brown
  • 1944

The Rats of Tobruk

1 hr 32 mins

Tells the story of three men--Bluey, a tough two fisted drover (Taylor), Milo, a laconic dingo trapper (Rafferty), and Pete, an intellectual English "new chum" (Finch). Together they serve in North Africa, fighting against the forces of Rommel in what has now become one of Australia's greatest wartime legends--The Rats of Tobruk.

The Rats of Tobruk
  • 1944

Border Phantom

1 hr 0 mins

Cowboy Larry O'Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith happen upon a distraught Barbara Hartwell, who is about to be arrested for the murder of her uncle. With Barbara behind bars, Larry is determined to find the real killer and soon finds himself in the middle of a mystery involving crazed German entomologists and a smuggling ring bringing Chinese "picture girls" across the Mexican border for sale to wealthy Chinese bachelors.

Border Phantom
  • 1937

I Passed for White

1 hr 33 mins

Biracial but light-skinned, Angelena Bernice Lee, quite often mistaken for being white, is shunned by both white and Black people after it's discovered that she is biracial. Although she embraces her heritage, against her Black grandmother's advice to live life truthfully, Bernice heads to New York to start fresh under the assumed name Lila Brownell. Almost immediately she meets and attracts the interest of Rick Leyton, who is from a prominent white New England family. After thinking long and hard about it, she accepts his marriage proposal, believing that their love for each other will see them through. Confiding only in her one true New York friend, Sally Roberts, a Caucasian, Lila builds a proverbial house of cards made up of half-truths and complete lies that has the potential to come crashing down around her.

I Passed for White
  • 1960

Kings of the Sun

1 hr 48 mins

An historical epic about a great Mayan king who moves his surviving tribesmen to the coast, where tense rivalries and political conflict will result in a savage war.

Kings of the Sun
  • 1963

A Most Wanted Man

2 hrs 2 mins

When a brutally-tortured half-Chechen, half-Russian immigrant turns up in Hamburg's Islamic community laying claim to his father's ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man's true identity--oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist? Based on John le Carré's novel, A MOST WANTED MAN is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

A Most Wanted Man

Mad Bull

1 hr 40 mins

After his brother is shot by a crazed fan, Mad Bull the hulking wrestler, fights without his usual regalia defeat his foe, captures the killer and win the love of his girl.

Mad Bull
  • 1977

The Intended

1 hr 50 mins

In 1924, Sarah and Hamish travel from England deep in to the jungle to earn their fortune surveying an ivory trading post. Instead of an exotic retreat, the couple encounters an oppressively small community. Despite their best intentions, their presence in the jungle unleashes a downward spiral that ends in greed, murder and madness.

The Intended

The Return of a Man Called Horse

2 hrs 9 mins

In this sequel to A Man Called Horse, Richard Harris is back as a blue-blooded Englishman who returns to America to help the Indians who had once adopted him. Seeing their lands being taken over by greedy whites, he joins forces with the Sioux tribe to help them defend their birthborn rights.

The Return of a Man Called Horse
  • 1976

The Dalton Girls

1 hr 11 mins

The four daughters of a slain notorious outlaw decide to continue in their father's footsteps--with a life of banditry and robbery. Two of the daughters soon want out. The other two love it. Cornered, all four will have to gun their way to freedom.

The Dalton Girls
  • 1957

Fort Massacre

1 hr 20 mins

During the Indian Wars in the Southwest, a sergeant assumes command of a cavalry detachment after it is mauled in an Apache ambush that killed its captain and seriously wounded its lieutenant. The surviving troopers must reach either a larger cavalry column or a wagon train the column is to escort. But first they need water and the nearest water hole is in Apache hands....

Fort Massacre
  • 1958

Ugetsu

1 hr 36 mins

In the beginning of the springtime in the period of the Japanese Civil Wars of the Sixteenth Century in Lake Biwa in the Province of Omi, the family man farmer and craftsman Genjurô travels to Nagahama to sell his wares and makes a small fortune. His neighbor Tobei that is a fool man dreams on becoming a samurai, but he can not afford to buy the necessary outfit. The greedy Genjurô and Tobei work together manufacturing clay potteries, expecting to sell the pieces and enrich; however, their wives Miyage and Ohama are worried about the army of the cruel Shibata that is coming to their village and they warn their ambitious husbands. Their village is looted but the families flee and survive; Genjurô and Tobei decide to travel by boat with their wives and baby to sell the wares in a bigger town. When they meet another boat that was attacked by pirates, Genjurô decides to leave his wife and son on the bank of the river, promising to return in ten days. Genjurô, Tobei and Ohama raise a large amount but Tobei leaves his wife to buy the samurai outfit and seek fame and fortune. Meanwhile the female aristocratic Lady Wakasa and her servant ask Genjurô to bring her shopping to her fancy Kutsuki House. Sooner Genjurô and Tobei discover the price they have to pay for their ambition.

Ugetsu
  • 1953

Mission to Moscow

2 hrs 4 mins

"Mission to Moscow" was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. The movie covers the political machinations in Moscow just before the start of the war and presents Stalin's Russia in a very favorable light. So much so, that the movie was cited years later by the House Un-American Activities Commission and was largely responsible for the screenwriter, Howard Koch being Blacklisted.

Mission to Moscow
  • 1943

Triple Deception

1 hr 37 mins

A plot to flood Britain with counterfeit notes is discovered by the CIA in Paris. They know the identity of some of the gang, including someone named Steve Chancellor, a gold smuggler. A suspect freighter is stopped and a man who resembles Chancellor is arrested. It is not him, but the CIA persuade the man to take on his identity in order to infiltrate the gang and foil their plan.

Triple Deception
  • 1956

Borderland

1 hr 22 mins

Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco, the head bad guy, deflects suspicion from himself by pretending to be a moron.

Borderland
  • 1937

Swing High, Swing Low

1 hr 32 mins

In Panama, Maggie King (Carol Lombard) meets soldier Skid Johnson (Fred McMurray) on his last day in the army and reluctantly agrees to a date to celebrate. The two become involved in a nightclub brawl which causes Maggie to miss her ship back to the States. Now stranded, she's forced to move in with Skid and his pal Harry (Charles Butterworth). She soon falls in love with Skid. Skid gets a job playing the trumpet at a local club and becomes a big success, but fame and fortune go to his head and threaten to destroy their relationship and his career.

Swing High, Swing Low
  • 1937

Pandora's Box

1 hr 49 mins

Lulu is a beautiful young woman who can seemingly work her charms on all of the men around her. She is currently being kept by the rich editor Dr. Ludwig Schön. She is just a plaything however and he is engaged to be married to Charlotte, a woman of his own class. He arranges for Lulu to appear in his son Alwa's musical revue and he too falls for all of her charms. When Dr. Schön and his fiancée go to the theater, Lulu ensures that he is put in a compromising situation and the elder Schön feels he now must marry her, knowing full well it will ruin his reputation. On his wedding day, Dr. Schön reaches his breaking point. His actions cost him his life however and Lulu is convicted of manslaughter. She escapes with the help of her old cronies but together they begin a downward spiral.

Pandora's Box
  • 1929

South of Pico

1 hr 26 mins

"South of Pico" is an emotionally charged drama in which four strangers witness an unimaginable tragedy and are catapulted into the defining moment of their lives. Set present day in Los Angeles, a chauffeur, a waitress, a doctor and a young boy each deal with life's daily challenges, only to find themselves at the scene of an accident the moment it happens. Riding on emotional overload, the balance of life rests in their hands. The film explores raw emotion and the human condition with brutal honesty. Filled with moments of joy, anticipation, regret and sorrow, South of Pico will take you on a journey to the core of your own soul.

South of Pico
  • 2007

8 ½ Women

1 hr 58 mins

After his wife dies, fifty-five-year-old businessman Philip Emmenthal (Sir John Standing), at the prompting of his playboy son Storey (Matthew Delamere), populates his Geneva villa with eight and a half concubines. Three are from Kyoto, Japan, where Storey manages Pachinco palaces. Each has a distinctive personality: a nun, a child bearer, a gambler, a student of Kabuki, a horsewoman with a pet pig, and a maid. Philip throws off his strait-laced and repressed attitudes, immersing himself in pleasure. After about a year, the women begin to assert their own power. Side adventures pre-figure the household's break-up, and the women depart in one way or another, one at at time. Philip's fate is in the hands of Palmira (Polly Walker), his favorite.

8 ½ Women

A Life at Stake

1 hr 18 mins

An unemployed architect meets a married woman with a business proposition. The architect soon suspects her interest isn't just financial - and might be deadly.

A Life at Stake
  • 1955

Nancy, Please

1 hr 23 mins

A twisted, diabolical and comedic tale of revenge that will make you think twice about who you choose as your next roommate. A FilmBuff Presentation.

Nancy, Please

Entrance

1 hr 23 mins

ENTRANCE is about the limits of our perception, how the things lurking on the periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; about how she fell out of love with the city, but it wouldn't let her go.

Entrance
  • 2012

Cézanne et moi

1 hr 57 mins

Cezanne et Moi traces the parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cezanne and novelist Emile Zola. The two boys grew up in Aix-en-Provence. Emile was fatherless and poor. Paul came from a wealthy family. As young men, dreaming of glory and beautiful women, they left the south to conquer the art scene in Paris. Soon Emile had it all, success, money, and the perfect wife, and embraced the very bourgeoisie he mocked in his books. Meanwhile, Cezanne rejected the Parisian scene to focus only on his work, ignored by his peers and the establishment.

Cézanne et moi

If I Could Tell You

0 hrs 36 mins

Abby Taylor believes in her soul that she was meant to be a mother. But starting late in life, she and her husband were forced to try fertility treatments that left them broke and without options. Looking for a fresh start now that they have decided to officially "stop trying", Abby attends a transformational "Breakthroughs and Miracles" seminar led by best-selling author and self-help guru, Sarah Linda McCormick. But what she isn't telling anyone, including her husband, is that she is really there to meet with an anonymous sperm donor that she found online and take one more chance at a miracle. Even if it means she could lose so much more in the process.

If I Could Tell You
  • 2015
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