Top Rated Drama Movies on The Cw - Page 4

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015
6.6
Wisecracking, gum-chewing 12-year-old Gilly is well known in the foster system. Totally unmanageable, she has stayed with more families than she can remember and has outwitted them all. After all, how can she settle down when her real mother, the beautiful and glamourous Courtney, might be out there waiting for her? When Gilly is sent to live with the Trotters, the weirdest family yet, she isn’t planning to stick around. But cheerful, affectionate Maime Trotter isn’t giving up on Gilly just yet...
Family Weekend

2013

Family Weekend

2013
6.3
A 16-year-old girl takes her parents hostage after they miss her big jump-roping competition.
Manglehorn

2015

Manglehorn

2015
5.4
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday, and eats at the same place every day. But there is more to Manglehorn than meets the eye: he’s an ex-con who, 40 years ago, gave up the woman of his dreams for a big ‘job’. After a dramatic effort to start over, Manglehorn faces a terrifying moment and is unmasked as a guy with a very, very dark past.
Born to Be Blue

2015

Born to Be Blue

2015
6.6
Jazz legend Chet Baker finds love and redemption when he stars in a movie about his own troubled life to mount a comeback.
Bottle Shock

2008

Bottle Shock

2008
6.3
Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
According to Greta

2009

According to Greta

2009
6.1
Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.
Atlas Shrugged: Part I

2011

Atlas Shrugged: Part I

2011
5.5
A powerful railroad executive, Dagny Taggart, struggles to keep her business alive while society is crumbling around her. Based on the 1957 novel by Ayn Rand.
Forever Strong

2008

Forever Strong

2008
7.1
Rick Penning lives life just like he plays rugby; fast, hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail, prison ward Marcus Tate offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for his rival, Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick joins the team where he must adopt the grueling training schedule that Coach Gelwix enforces, or finish out the season behind bars.
CBGB

2013

CBGB

2013
6.4
A look at New York's dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the ground-breaking Lower East Side club started by eccentric Hilly Kristal in 1973 which launched thousands of bands.
My All American

2015

My All American

2015
7.1
Freddie Steinmark, an underdog on the gridiron, faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship season.
Rosewater

2014

Rosewater

2014
6.5
In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran's volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he made an appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview was intended as satire, but if the Tehran authorities got the joke they didn't like it - and it would quickly came back to haunt Bahari when he was rousted from his family home and thrown into prison.
Raising the Bar

2017

Raising the Bar

2017
6.4
16-year-old Kelly quits an elite gymnastics program and moves to Australia. To help out a new friend and show up an old rival she re-enters competitive gymnastics, she'll have to find a way to move forward while making amends with her past.
Fisherman's Friends

2019

Fisherman's Friends

2019
6.7
Ten fishermen from Cornwall are signed by Universal Records and achieve a top ten hit with their debut album of Sea Shanties. Based on the true-life story of Cornish folk band, Fisherman's Friends.
Communion

1989

Communion

1989
5.3
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
4:44 Last Day on Earth

2012

4:44 Last Day on Earth

2012
4.7
A look at how a painter and a successful actor spend their last day together before the world comes to an end.
The Perfect Game

2009

The Perfect Game

2009
7
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
Cold Souls

2009

Cold Souls

2009
6
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
LBJ

2017

LBJ

2017
6.4
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
The Winning Season

2009

The Winning Season

2009
6.4
A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he's asked to run his local high school's girls basketball team
The Yellow Handkerchief

2009

The Yellow Handkerchief

2009
6.3
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.