Top Rated Drama Movies on Amazon Video - Page 499

Buddha Mountain

2011

Buddha Mountain

2011
6.8
In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.
The Days of Abandonment

2005

The Days of Abandonment

2005
5.7
Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.
The Best of Everything

1959

The Best of Everything

1959
6.3
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
Yamla Pagla Deewana

2011

Yamla Pagla Deewana

2011
5.4
Dharmendra and Bobby play a crooked father-son pair based in Varanasi. Sunny plays a Canada based upright man who gets to know after two decades that he has a father and brother in Varanasi. The film is about Sunny's journey to his past.
Mahjong

1996

Mahjong

1996
7.5
Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
Zatoichi Challenged

1967

Zatoichi Challenged

1967
6.8
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.
Side Out

1990

Side Out

1990
5.2
A law student comes to California for the summer and ends up playing professional volleyball.
Possessed

1931

Possessed

1931
7
Marion is a factory worker who hopes to trade the assembly line for a beautiful penthouse apartment. Mark Whitney, a wealthy and influential lawyer, can make her dreams come true, but, there is only one problem; he will give her everything except a marriage proposal. Will this affair ever lead to marriage?
The Dawn Patrol

1938

The Dawn Patrol

1938
6.8
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. Insubordinate air ace Captain Courtney is another thorn in Brand's side...but finds the smile wiped from his face when he rises to command the squadron himself. Everyone keeps a stiff upper lip.
The World of Suzie Wong

1960

The World of Suzie Wong

1960
6.4
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
Spencer's Mountain

1963

Spencer's Mountain

1963
6.7
Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.
The Edge of the World

1937

The Edge of the World

1937
7.2
A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
New Best Friend

2002

New Best Friend

2002
4.9
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.
White Lightnin'

2009

White Lightnin'

2009
6.9
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.
Baby It's You

1983

Baby It's You

1983
5.8
In a 1966 New Jersey high school, Jill and new student Sheik from the other side of the tracks make their way in a first love romance.
The Stone Tape

1972

The Stone Tape

1972
6
A research team from an electronics company move into an old Victorian house to start work on finding a new recording medium. When team member Jill Greeley witnesses a ghost, team director Peter Brock decides not only to analyse the apparition, which he believes is a psychic impression trapped in a stone wall (dubbed a "stone tape"), but to exorcise it too - with terrifying results...
In My Sleep

2010

In My Sleep

2010
5.2
A sleepwalking, sexaholic masseur wakes up, covered in blood next to a bloody knife, when cops ring the doorbell.
Halls of Montezuma

1951

Halls of Montezuma

1951
5.9
Richard Widmark leads an all star cast of marine leathernecks including Jack Palance, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone and Jack Webb into battle on a heavily fortified island. This action-packed story follows the squad as they pick their way through enemy-infested jungles on a time sensitive mission to find the source of the enemy rockets. As the mission progresses, the squad and leader overcome many challenges as they are transformed into an effective and efficient fighting unit.
Angels of the Sun

2006

Angels of the Sun

2006
7
In Northeastern Brazil, twelve-year-old Maria is sold to have a better life as a housemaid. However, Maria is resold and sent to a brothel in the Amazon gold fields and put to work by the despicable Saraiva.
'night, Mother

1986

'night, Mother

1986
7.3
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.