Popular Drama Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 186

Signs of Life

1968

Signs of Life

1968
6.7
During World War II, three German soldiers are withdrawn from combat when one of them, Stroszek, is wounded. They are assigned to a small coastal community on the Greek island of Kos while Stroszek recuperates. The men become increasingly stir crazy in their uneventful new assignment. Stroszek eventually goes mad.
Guardian Angel

1994

Guardian Angel

1994
4.7
Detective - turned - bodyguard Cynthia McKay (Cynthia Rothrock) is hired by a psychotic icy seductress, Nina Lindell (Lydie Denier), the same woman who killed Mckay's lover months earlier. With vendetta in her heart McKay accompanies the flamboyantly playful womanizer through the glamourous world of the super-rich as his protector. In a unique role reversal, it is the woman protecting the man from another woman, erupting into a deadly triangle of passion, suspense and action.
The Penthouse

2021

The Penthouse

2021
3
Peter and Amanda spy on a bickering couple from their penthouse, but when the man finds out, he vows to make the nosy couples life a living hell.
The Day We Died

2020

The Day We Died

2020
5.5
Film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
Dark Lies the Island

2019

Dark Lies the Island

2019
6.7
A long standing family feud rocks a small town that comes to a head when the Patriarch of the ruling family decides to upend the status quo. Married to a much younger woman who calls him Daddy, she loves his power but is still in love with her first love, Doggy who is Daddy’s estranged son! Doggy is a criminal running various shady businesses with his dimwit brother, Martin when a mysterious newcomer Richie arrives in town to shake things up. Now watch the fireworks start in this Fargo-esque delight!
Asylum

1997

Asylum

1997
4.5
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Point Last Seen

1998

Point Last Seen

1998
5.7
Fact-based story about a tracker who searches for a little girl who was lost in the desert, but suffers internally because her own children were kidnapped by her ex-husband.
Getting Straight

1970

Getting Straight

1970
6.4
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
James vs. His Future Self

2019

James vs. His Future Self

2019
5.8
When an uptight time-travelling obsessed young scientist is visited by his nihilistic future self, he's told that he needs to give up his dream of becoming the world's first time traveler, or else. But when he won't go along with the plan, it becomes a wicked battle of man versus himself - literally.
My Best Enemy

2011

My Best Enemy

2011
5.8
Poland 1943: An unlikely pair - a concentration camp prisoner and a captain in Hitler's notorious SS - free themselves from the wreckage of a crashed SS airplane. The two appear to be strangely familiar with each other and the extent of their extraordinary relationship is thrillingly revealed.
Target of Opportunity

2005

Target of Opportunity

2005
4.2
Jim Jacobs and Nick Carlton, childhood friends, are CIA operatives on a sting operation in Chechnya. The raid of a rebel militia group goes bad and the entire teams gets wiped out except for Jim and Nick, who manages to save them both. Five years later, they are out of the CIA game.
The Trouble With Bliss

2011

The Trouble With Bliss

2011
5.1
35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he still shares an apartment with his widowed father, and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie, the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
Cold

2018

Cold

2018
3.7
UFC fighting star Felice Herrig stars in her first drama thriller about two co-workers who get trapped in a freezer box over the Christmas holidays.
Soda Springs

2012

Soda Springs

2012
5.6
The story of a man's struggle to claim his future by confronting his past. The road is not an easy one as old demons resurface to threaten everything Eden has fought to overcome.
Badge of Faith

2015

Badge of Faith

2015
8
A Midsummer's Fantasia

2015

A Midsummer's Fantasia

2015
7.2
Reality and fantasy melds as a Korean documentary film director attempts to capture life in the small town of Gojo, Japan.
Forbidden

1932

Forbidden

1932
6.7
On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be a rising politician. She passes herself off as the baby's nanny. When Bob learns what is going on, he adopts the little girl, not telling his wife or anyone else where she came from. Lulu gets a job at a newspaper. Things get complicated when the editor gets the dirt on Bob, but also wants to marry Lulu.
Amelia 2.0

2017

Amelia 2.0

2017
5.5
After his wife Amelia suffers an aneurysm that leaves her bedridden and slowly dying, police officer Carter Summerland searches for a way to revive her. He's approached by Wesley Enterprises pioneering a new program to extend life through robotics, they get caught in a public debate over human’s relationship with technology and her right to exist.
One Special Night

1999

One Special Night

1999
6.8
Builder Robert is visiting his ailing wife in a nursing home and is having problems getting a taxi home due to an intense snow storm. One of the doctors, Katherine offers him a lift home however their car gets stuck and they have to spend the night in an empty cabin nearby. They talk and bond, but afterwards seem to have difficulty beginning a relationship.
Nomads

2010

Nomads

2010
6.7
Susan is a filmmaker working on a documentary about subway suicides at Mexico City. Roberto is an undocumented Mexican immigrant who cleans windows in New York. Roberto meets Susan and they start hanging out, sharing their own experiences.