Popular Drama Movies on Hoopla - Page 114

Bent

1997

Bent

1997
6.8
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Kontroll

2003

Kontroll

2003
7.2
A subway enforcement officer working in the oppressively gray Budapest metro gets a chance at love — but first he needs to find out why passengers are jumping — or being pushed — to their deaths onto the tracks.
The Last Word

2017

The Last Word

2017
6.6
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
The Operative

2019

The Operative

2019
5.8
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Run Boy Run

2014

Run Boy Run

2014
7.2
A true story of Jurek, an eight-year-old boy, who escapes from the Warsaw ghetto, then manages to survive in the woods and working as a farmhand, disguising himself as a Polish orphan.
The Second Mother

2015

The Second Mother

2015
8
After leaving her daughter Jessica in a small town in Pernambuco to be raised by relatives, Val spends the next 13 years working as a nanny to Fabinho in São Paulo. She has financial stability but has to live with the guilt of having not raised Jessica herself. As Fabinho’s university entrance exams approach, Jessica reappears in her life and seems to want to give her mother a second chance. However, Jessica has not been raised to be a servant and her very existence will turn Val’s routine on its head. With precision and humour, the subtle and powerful forces that keep rigid class structures in place and how the youth may just be the ones to shake it all up.
Camera Store

2016

Camera Store

2016
5.7
On the eve of the transition from film to digital, the longtime denizens of a camera store confront their personal issues in this darkly comic story.
Elephant Song

2015

Elephant Song

2015
7
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Christmas on Cherry Lane

2023

Christmas on Cherry Lane

2023
6.3
Three couples at different parts of life navigate big turning points in their lives over the holidays.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

1976

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

1976
5.6
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.
The Way Home

2002

The Way Home

2002
8
This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.
Dark Horse

2012

Dark Horse

2012
5.7
Abe is a man who is in his thirties and who lives with his parents. He works regretfully for his father while pursuing his hobby of collecting toys. Aware that his family doesn't think highly of him, he tries to spark a relationship with Miranda, who recently moved back home after a failed literary/academic career. Miranda agrees to marry Abe out of desperation, but things go awry.
Alice

2022

Alice

2022
5.7
Alice spends her days enslaved on a rural Georgia plantation, restlessly yearning for freedom. After a violent clash with plantation owner Paul, Alice flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973.
Disco Dancer

1982

Disco Dancer

1982
5.9
Street singer Anil is humiliated and—with his mother—driven out of Bombay. He soon becomes an acclaimed performer but the enemies from his past plot to destroy his hard-earned career.
Somewhere in Queens

2023

Somewhere in Queens

2023
6.3
Leo and Angela Russo live a simple life in Queens, surrounded by their overbearing Italian-American family. When their son finds success on his high school basketball team, Leo tears the family apart trying to make it happen.
I Heard Sarah

2022

I Heard Sarah

2022
5
A troubled rockstar escapes mandated rehab in a desperate attempt to confront his deepest demons.
The Cry of the Owl

2009

The Cry of the Owl

2009
5.7
Fleeing New York City, a failed marriage and a fragile mental history, artist Robert Forrester moves to small-town Pennsylvania. There he becomes fascinated with the simple domesticity of a beautiful neighbor, watching her through the windows of her home --- until she invites him in for coffee. He is drawn into a relationship with the young woman whose boyfriend goes missing; Robert becomes a murder suspect, gradually sensing he is the target of a larger plot.
Hippopotamus

2018

Hippopotamus

2018
5.8
Ruby wakes from a bad dream to find herself in a real life nightmare. She's trapped in a basement, her legs are broken and she can't remember who she is or how she got there. Her kidnapper, Tom, tells her she will remain captive until she falls in love with him. Ruby is focused on trying to escape until Tom starts helping her to remember her past and she begins to question everything.
Listen Up Philip

2014

Listen Up Philip

2014
5.9
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
King Creole

1958

King Creole

1958
6.4
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. Success is imminent and the local crime boss Maxie Fields wants to hire him to perform at his night club The Blue Shade. Danny refuses, but Fields won't take no for an answer.