Top Rated Drama Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 187

Bullies

1986

Bullies

1986
4.2
When the peaceful Morris family move to a small town and buy the town grocery store, they run afoul of the Cullen family. The Cullen's have been bullying the town's folk for years, and now they are harassing the Morris family every chance they get. Matt meanwhile meets and starts seeing a lot of Becky who also likes him. Unfortunately her last name is Cullen, and when the rest of the family finds out about their relationship, they decide to get even, and their harassment is elevated to vicious assault.
Before It Had a Name

2005

Before It Had a Name

2005
3.3
A young Italian woman inherits from her deceased lover an enigmatic modern house in the New York country side, and goes to see it for the first time. When she arrives she meets the caretaker of the house.
Chopin: Desire for Love

2002

Chopin: Desire for Love

2002
5.1
The biography of world famous Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin.
The Rainbow Tribe

2008

The Rainbow Tribe

2008
5.8
Morgan Roberts, a middle aged adult in crisis, reunites with his best friend when he returns to the summer camp of his youth. His troubles seem to magnify when he is joined by a rag-tag group of 10 year old campers. Through their struggles they collectively overcome their personal problems and exchange them for one of the best summers of their lives.
Second Skin

2000

Second Skin

2000
4.7
A man opens a small-town bookstore in order to escape his connections to a mobster, but is reluctantly drawn back to his dark past by a mysterious woman.
Flirting with Danger

2006

Flirting with Danger

2006
4.1
A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
The Maker

1997

The Maker

1997
5
Absent for 10 years, a teen's older brother returns and seeks his help with criminal activity.
Monogamy

2010

Monogamy

2010
4.2
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn - and creates a rift with his fiancée - when he’s hired by a provocative mystery woman.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997

Keep the Aspidistra Flying

1997
5.7
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
Summer Rain

2006

Summer Rain

2006
4.7
A coming-of-age tale charting the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation at the end of the 1970s.
Skins

2002

Skins

2002
5.2
An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Female Jungle

1956

Female Jungle

1956
5.5
Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.
Bomb the System

2002

Bomb the System

2002
6.9
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same insatiable addiction. With the other members of his ‘crew,’ Anthony parties, shoplifts spray-paint and 'tags' virgin walls with his signature 'Blest.' He does his best to avoid run-ins with the cops and hostile rival crews, but he can’t avoid the pressure from his mother to attend college, and from his girlfriend to leave New York with her. As tensions rise, a physical threat from the cops causes the crew to intensify their bombing excursions, calling an all out war on the city. When the inevitable confrontation happens, a tragedy results that pushes Anthony to make a decision that has even darker consequences.
Zyzzyx Road

2006

Zyzzyx Road

2006
4.8
A married man meets a beautiful woman in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
The Event

2003

The Event

2003
5.6
Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's loyal family members — mother Lila and sister Dana — she comes to learn that his closest pal, health-care worker Brian, is an ardent believer in assisted suicide and that he threw Matt a big party before his death. This presents a dilemma for the humane but dutiful Nick.
White Wall

2010

White Wall

2010
3.4
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of the world's population. The non-infected survivors now cling to life in four quarantined cities behind a wall. Shawn Kors and his brother, Jude, survived the VXII only to grow up in a squalid internment camp for orphaned children. Under the care of the militia, they were pitted against other children in backwoods death matches. Shawn, Jude, and the few who escaped became notorious for their incredible fighting skills. They have since parted ways. Shawn now makes a comfortable living as a janitor at the local medic station. He spends his days dreaming of curing the VXII. When Shawn discovers the discarded body of a fellow internment camp friend, he is forced out of hiding and pulled into a rabbit hole of conspiracy and violence.
Cut Sleeve Boys

2006

Cut Sleeve Boys

2006
4.7
Two British Chinese gay men decides to re-examine their lives following a death of their friend. Mel sleeps around whilst rejecting the love of Todd and Ash decides to cross dress to find his knight in shining armour.
Natalee Holloway

2009

Natalee Holloway

2009
5.2
On May 30, 2005, on a high school graduation trip to Aruba, she disappeared without a trace.
Emotional Arithmetic

2008

Emotional Arithmetic

2008
5.4
An emotionally scarred fifty-something female, a high-profile but haunted British novelist, and a heroic dissident-cum-Soviet psychiatric hospital veteran, all reunite decades after bonding and surviving together in a detention camp during World War II.
Brian's Song

2001

Brian's Song

2001
6.3
The story of professional football players Gale Sayes and Brian Piccolo, and how their friendship on and off the field was affected when Piccolo contracted a fatal disease