Popular Drama Movies on Amazon Prime Video - Page 156

Try Seventeen

2002

Try Seventeen

2002
6.2
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane's ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.
Student Of The Year

2012

Student Of The Year

2012
5.8
Several alumni reminisce about their final year at St. Theresa's College and the events that shaped their lives.
Death Defying Acts

2007

Death Defying Acts

2007
6
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Solomon

1997

Solomon

1997
6.7
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon, fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be.
Callie & Son

1981

Callie & Son

1981
6.7
A fictional drama, covering a 30-year period, about a poverty-stricken teenager forced to give up her illegitimate son at birth, and the climb to wealth and power as the wife of a newspaper publisher who helps her locate her son, in whose future she becomes obsessed.
The Ninth Configuration

1980

The Ninth Configuration

1980
6.4
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.
Bhouri

2016

Bhouri

2016
7.4
A tragic love story of Bhouri, a 23-year old who is married to a 55-year old, the film highlights the exploitation of women in male dominated society.
Eden

2015

Eden

2015
5.1
After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon. Team spirit evaporates as disagreements cause the group to separate into factions - a violent one lead by an unbalanced ruler, and a compassionate one led by a selfless player.
The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

2019

The Obituary of Tunde Johnson

2019
5.2
A wealthy, Nigerian-American teenager is pulled over by police, shot to death, and immediately awakens, trapped in a terrifying time loop that forces him to confront difficult truths about his life and himself.
Mao’s Last Dancer

2009

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009
6.6
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Rushed

2021

Rushed

2021
6.7
Barbara O’Brien, an Irish Catholic mother, has her life turned upside-down when her son, a freshman in college, is involved in a tragic hazing incident. Taking justice into her own hands, she travels across the country recording mothers who have lost sons to hazing in an effort to prove the university’s liability. When she is confronted by corruption and cover ups, she seeks revenge on the one person she finds truly responsible, proving that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.
Dad, I'm Sorry

2021

Dad, I'm Sorry

2021
7.4
The story of Ba Sang – the second of the 4 noisy siblings: Giau, Sang, Phu, Quy. Ba Sang is a meddler, “too” kind and always sacrifice for others despite they want it or not. Quan – Ba Sang’s son is a modern young Youtuber.
Junction

2024

Junction

2024
4.3
Junction addresses the modern day opioid crisis in America, and asks how did this happen, from three different points of view. The CEO of a pharmaceutical company, a doctor, and a patient.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

1989

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase

1989
5.6
A Dickensian mock-Gothic tale of resourceful children, evil governesses, forged wills, cruel orphanages, and goodness triumphant set against an isolated country house, in an alternate 19th century where savage packs of wolves roam the snowbound countryside.
Golem

2018

Golem

2018
6.5
Golem, created by the Theatre group 1927, recorded for the BBC in 2018. With stunningly original animation, entrancing music and live performance, Golem explores one of the great questions of the modern world - do we control technology, or does it control us?
Bagdad Cafe

1987

Bagdad Cafe

1987
7.2
A German woman named Jasmin stumbles upon a dilapidated motel/diner in the middle of nowhere. Her unusual appearance and demeanor are at first suspicious to Brenda, the exasperated owner who has difficulty making ends meet. But when an unlikely magic sparks between the two women, this lonely desert outpost is transformed into a thriving and popular oasis.
Still Breathing

1997

Still Breathing

1997
6.4
Two lost souls: she a con-artist in L.A.; he a puppeteer in San Antonio have the same dream linking each with the other. He travels to L.A. to find this woman he has become obsessed with. She resists, afraid of his kooky ideas until she travels with him to San Antonio and meets his wise grandmother. Story of two disparate people linked by "fate" gets increasingly interesting as it rolls along.
The Steam Experiment

2009

The Steam Experiment

2009
4.2
A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
The Last Christmas Party

2020

The Last Christmas Party

2020
5.1
Over the course of one night a group of college friends try to navigate their complicated love lives before they leave for winter break.
Forbidden Dream

2019

Forbidden Dream

2019
7.1
A true historical drama about King Sejong, the greatest ruler in Joseon history who sought to enhance national prosperity and military power through astronomy, and Jang Yeong-sil, the most remarkable scientist.