Top Rated Drama Movies on Amazon Prime Video - Page 272

Snake Fist of the Buddhist Dragon

1979

Snake Fist of the Buddhist Dragon

1979
3.5
When the Manchus plan to burn the Shaolin Temple, a young disciple trains in the Snake Fist style to fight them.
Symmetry

2013

Symmetry

2013
4.6
This film has been written symmetrically: the second half is strictly like the first, but played backwards and mirrored. The second part doesn't act like a simple rewinding, but as the following of the first. It explores all sorts of symmetry: compositions, shapes, sounds and music, scenario, colors, actions, time...
Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

1993

Father & Son: Dangerous Relations

1993
6
An estranged father and son are paroled from the same maximum-security prison with one unusual condition, they must become roommates. Their severed bonds are strained as the father battles to keep his son free from the lures of street life.
Duke

2013

Duke

2013
4.8
Duke is a modern day telling of a classic western film. Dare and Roost are brothers who have been raised in a reformatory, taught to survive and conditioned to trust no one. They have moved to West Los Angeles, where Dare moonlights himself as a Detective and Roost blankets himself in old John Wayne films and reclusive habit. Cleaning the streets and ridding the neighborhoods of scum, this contemporary study finds Dare obsessed with a phantom like criminal (Winky) who seems to be terrorizing the community. Simultaneously, the same exact investigation is being led by official and likely engrossed Detective Robert Morrison. As Dare closes in on Winky and the entire department closes in on them both, these brothers must make the ultimate commitment and pay the extraordinary consequences therein.
Gone in a Heartbeat

1996

Gone in a Heartbeat

1996
6
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.
Shanghai Affairs

1998

Shanghai Affairs

1998
4.4
A Shanghai doctor named Tangsan, is trying to help the town's poor people. Meanwhile, he has the murderous Axe Gang to deal with as well as his feelings for the gang leader's sister.
Go Tell It on the Mountain

1985

Go Tell It on the Mountain

1985
5
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy struggling to earn the approval of a self-righteous and often unloving stepfather.
Roommates

1994

Roommates

1994
4
The story of a macho straight and a well-educated gay man who have to share an apartment at a half-way house for aids-patients. Slowly they become friends.
Alex

1993

Alex

1993
5
It is New Zealand 1959. Teen swimmer Alex Archer has to battle set backs, intense rivalry and personal tragedy in her bid to win selection for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
Mr. Reckless

1948

Mr. Reckless

1948
4.5
An oil well digger tries to win back his former girlfriend, now engaged to another man.
Boy of the Streets

1938

Boy of the Streets

1938
5
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.
Blonde Comet

1941

Blonde Comet

1941
5.2
A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.
The Dark Room

1999

The Dark Room

1999
5
In hospital, photographer Jinx Kingsley wakes from a coma after a car crash - a failed suicide attempt, prompted by her fiance Leo jilting her to elope with Jinx's lifelong best friend, Meg. The discovery of Leo and Meg's bodies - brutally murdered in the same manner as Jinx's first husband - makes Jinx the prime suspect. Then, with the help of eminent neuroscientist Dr.Alan Protheroe, some memories begin to surface. Memories of desperation and paralysing terror.
Blind Obsession

2001

Blind Obsession

2001
5.1
Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
The O'Briens

2013

The O'Briens

2013
5.5
Two years after the death of his beloved wife, Pat O'Brien summons his children back to their homestead in the west of Ireland. Fionn travels from New York, Gareth from London, and daughter Una returns from Dublin, fearing the worst. Pat is not the only family member bearing the burden of a secret. The O’Briens is a modern comedy about a dysfunctional Irish family and the town they grew up in.
The Lithium Conspiracy

2015

The Lithium Conspiracy

2015
4.5
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
Back Page

1933

Back Page

1933
6.2
A former New York reporter (Peggy Shannon) is hired as editor of a failing, small town newspaper in California.
I Met My Love Again

1938

I Met My Love Again

1938
5.5
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship.
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

2005
6.1
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.
The Awakening

1995

The Awakening

1995
4.8
Sara lives in a small town where everybody knows everybody and her life is an open book. Left with the care of her family home, she has trouble meeting the mortgage payments and her ex-boyfriend is the bank manager attempting to foreclose. When she takes in boarders to meet expenses, she unwittingly rents a room to an international criminal hiding out from a bounty hunter, John Flynn. When the bounty hunter shows up, the criminal takes a hike. Reluctantly admitting that he might need her help, Flynn agrees to make Sara a partner for half the bounty if they catch the missing man in time. What follows is a wild ride where Sara discovered that she is anything but boring and predictable.