Top Rated Drama Movies on Amazon Video - Page 483

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

2006

Hello Sister, Goodbye Life

2006
6.1
A college student must take care of her 7-year-old half sister after the death of their parents.
Enemies, a Love Story

1989

Enemies, a Love Story

1989
6.2
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
The Catered Affair

1956

The Catered Affair

1956
7.1
An Irish cabby in the Bronx watches his wife go overboard planning their daughter's wedding.
The Beautiful Prisoner

1983

The Beautiful Prisoner

1983
6.1
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Strangers When We Meet

1960

Strangers When We Meet

1960
6.2
A suburban architect loves his wife but is bored with his marriage and with his work, so he takes up with the neglected, married beauty who lives down the street.
Variety

1985

Variety

1985
5.2
A repressed young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.
What Happened Was...

1994

What Happened Was...

1994
7
Jackie and Michael are coworkers at a large law firm. They decide to meet at Jackie's for dinner one night.
In Old Chicago

1938

In Old Chicago

1938
6.6
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
Miracle in Lane 2

2000

Miracle in Lane 2

2000
6.1
Young tween Justin Yoder, who's known for his outgoing demeanor and wit despite being confined to a wheelchair, dreams to be like his athletic older brother and propels himself into the world of soapbox derby racing. It's a field he's sure he has a chance in. Unfortunately, he finds that because of his condition, not everyone is eager to see him compete.
Absolution

1978

Absolution

1978
6.4
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
Born to Be Wild

1995

Born to Be Wild

1995
5.3
Rick Heller is a juvenile delinquent who keeps getting himself into trouble. To keep him out of trouble his mother puts him to work cleaning the cage of a gorilla named Katie which she is teaching to communicate through the use of sign language. When the owner of the gorilla takes her back to become a flea market freak Rick takes it upon himself to break Katie out and take her on an adventurous journey to get her out of the country.
Siberiade

1979

Siberiade

1979
7
The story about a very small god-forgotten village in Siberia reflects the history of Russia from the beginning of the century till the early 1980s. Three generations try to find the land of happiness and to give it to the people. One builds the road through taiga to the star over horizon, the second 'build communism' and the third searches for oil.
The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958

The Barbarian and the Geisha

1958
5.9
Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility to foreigners, as well as the love of a young geisha.
The Arbor

2010

The Arbor

2010
7.2
The lives of the late Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar and Lorraine, one of her daughters, and the community of Bradford, in the 30 years since the 18-year-old Andrea penned a play about growing up in the community titled "The Arbor".
Sunshine State

2002

Sunshine State

2002
6.3
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.
These Three

1936

These Three

1936
7.1
Close friends Martha and Karen build a private boarding school together with the aid of the local doctor Joe. The school takes off and many students enroll, one of whom is a trouble-maker who tells a scandalous lie that threatens to destroy the trio's lives.
Kings Row

1942

Kings Row

1942
7.2
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

1974
7
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
The Emperor's New Clothes

2001

The Emperor's New Clothes

2001
6.7
Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He'll swap places with commoner Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don't go at all well; first, the journey proves more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.
The FBI Story

1959

The FBI Story

1959
6
A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.