Popular Drama Movies on Hoopla - Page 96

Frank & Jesse

1994

Frank & Jesse

1994
5.1
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by Chicago railroad investors, the James and Younger brothers, Bob and Charlie Ford, Clell Miller and Arch Clements take to robbing banks, trains and coaches, with Pinkerton sworn to bringing them to justice.
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

1989
7.5
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
Martian Child

2007

Martian Child

2007
6.7
A recently-widowed science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
The Third Murder

2017

The Third Murder

2017
6.6
A lawyer tasked with defending a robbery-and-murder suspect begins developing doubts about what truly happened.
Jackie

2012

Jackie

2012
6.6
Two Dutch twin sisters travel to the United States, looking for their long-lost mother.
36th Precinct

2004

36th Precinct

2004
6.9
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
November Christmas

2011

November Christmas

2011
7.5
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Falling Up

2009

Falling Up

2009
5.3
A nursing student forced to quit school for family reasons winds up taking a job as a doorman in an elite apartment building in New York City, where he sparks to one of his residents.
Falling Away

2012

Falling Away

2012
5
When a school bus accident devastates an inner city Los Angeles neighborhood, it will forever change the paths for all. Friendships will be challenged, beliefs questioned and it become a time when they must choose which way to fall.
Zenith

2010

Zenith

2010
5.2
In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack receives a mysterious videotape of his dead father, he sets out to unmask the dangerous conspiracy that has created this dystopian world.
Beautiful Boy

2011

Beautiful Boy

2011
6
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass-shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Heartbeats

2017

Heartbeats

2017
6.7
When a bubbly American hip hop dancer goes to India with her family for a wedding, she is impressed by a new dance style and falls in love with the man who introduced her to it.
One Eight Seven

1997

One Eight Seven

1997
6.6
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad. He then moves to California to be a sub for a predominantly Native Hispanic/Latin-American high school in Los Angeles. He is tormented by members of a Native Hispanic/Latino-American tag crew named K.O.S. (Kappin’ off Suckaz).
Beau Geste

1926

Beau Geste

1926
6.1
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
Fugitive Dreams

2020

Fugitive Dreams

2020
7
In this allegorical road movie touching on issues of homelessness, mental health, and addiction, two lost souls embark across a dreamscape America. Their darkly strange journey confronts them with their traumatic pasts, and bonds them in compassion and love.
Martial Law

1990

Martial Law

1990
6.1
An undercover cop teams up with a martial-arts expert to stop a gang of drug smugglers and car thieves.
Rollover

1981

Rollover

1981
5.1
The wife of a murdered petrochemical company chairman and a banker investigating the liquidity of his new bank stumble upon an international financial scheme that could lead to global economic collapse.
Hyena

2015

Hyena

2015
5.6
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Birds Without Names

2017

Birds Without Names

2017
6.3
An unstable young woman pines for the ex-boyfriend who nearly beat her to death – and who has mysteriously disappeared.
El Camino

2008

El Camino

2008
3
Three young people drive to Mexico to scatter their friend's ashes, they are forced to confront their own sense of family, identity and future.