Top Rated Drama Movies on Amazon Video - Page 318

Partisan

2015

Partisan

2015
6.1
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community - and how to kill. With the birth of a new baby brother weighing on his mind, Alexander begins to question Gregori’s overpowering influence on the children and their training to become assassins. Threatened by his increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and the commune’s way of life disintegrating, the residents fear a violent resolution is at hand.
The Nine Lives of Christmas

2014

The Nine Lives of Christmas

2014
6.7
With Christmas approaching, a handsome fireman afraid of commitment adopts a stray cat and meets a beautiful veterinary student who challenges his decision to remain a confirmed bachelor.
Shelter

2014

Shelter

2014
5.9
Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future.
Sunset Song

2015

Sunset Song

2015
6.2
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Proxy

2014

Proxy

2014
5.5
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. Her life of sadness and solitude is opened up to friendship, understanding, and even acceptance. However, friendship and understanding can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people.
Kill for Me

2013

Kill for Me

2013
5.7
Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s her dad. For Amanda, it’s a stalkery ex-boyfriend. But problems can be solved and, you know, you scratch my back, I scratch yours. In other words, Kill for Me, I kill for you.
Blue Caprice

2013

Blue Caprice

2013
5.7
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Concussion

2013

Concussion

2013
5.1
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
Why Stop Now?

2012

Why Stop Now?

2012
5.4
When a college piano prodigy tries to check his mother into rehab, he is taken hostage by her drug dealer and swept along on a wild adventure.
Fast Girls

2012

Fast Girls

2012
6.1
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
War Witch

2012

War Witch

2012
6.5
Somewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, Komona a 14-year-old girl tells her unborn child growing inside her the story of her life since she has been at war. Everything started when she was abducted by the rebel army at the age of 12.
The Snake Pit

1948

The Snake Pit

1948
7.1
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Choose

2011

Choose

2011
4.5
Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.
Hilary and Jackie

1998

Hilary and Jackie

1998
6.5
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.
Django, Prepare a Coffin

1968

Django, Prepare a Coffin

1968
6.3
A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

2005

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures

2005
6.9
1942, in the middle of Northeastern Brazil, two very different men meet along the road: Johan, an aspirin salesman avoiding the German draft, and Ranulpho, a rural Brazilian seeking escape from the drought.
O Lucky Man!

1973

O Lucky Man!

1973
6.8
An ambitious coffee salesman has a series of improbable and ironic adventures seemingly designed to challenge his naive idealism.
Vital

2004

Vital

2004
6.8
A young man awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to medical school. There he catches the eye of a fellow student, but it's another who becomes his obsession: the dead woman on the cadaver table.
Totally F***ed Up

1994

Totally F***ed Up

1994
6.6
Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.
A Walk on the Moon

1999

A Walk on the Moon

1999
6
The world of a young housewife is turned upside down when she has an affair with a free-spirited blouse salesman.