Top Rated Drama Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 226

Storm Trooper

1998

Storm Trooper

1998
3.9
Shortly after murdering her abusive husband, a woman (Carol Alt) takes an injured stranger into her home. She soon discovers the stranger is a cyborg. He then persuades her to help him flee from a mysterious gang of armed men who soon …
Mambo Café

2000

Mambo Café

2000
5
A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
The Penguin King

2012

The Penguin King

2012
7
South Georgia - alone in a vast ocean. 900 miles from Antarctica, and a mere 100 miles long. A wild rugged landscape with mountain ranges, vast glaciers, windblown plains half buried beneath snow and ice. Three years ago, the Penguin King left home. Now he is returning to the place where he was born and raised: Penguin City. One of the most densely-packed, sought-after pieces of real estate in the entire southern hemisphere and somehow he must establish his own place in it. He must find a mate.
Mary Christmas

2002

Mary Christmas

2002
5.7
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
The Death of Richie

1977

The Death of Richie

1977
6.7
A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

1991
4.5
An elderly, bedridden former movie star is "cared for" by her sister, who hates her and keeps her a virtual prisoner in the family mansion.
Snow in August

2001

Snow in August

2001
7
When a young boy witnesses a crime, he turns to a rabbi, and the ancient mysteries of the Kaballah, for help.
At the Midnight Hour

1995

At the Midnight Hour

1995
5.8
Wealthy widower Richard Keaton engages young widow Elizabeth 'Liz' Guinness as the 4th consecutive nanny for his pre-teen, equally science-devoted son Andrew, with instructions to disturb neither. She learns of mother Alycia's fatal fall, an official suicide but was probably murder. Dad keeps Andy at a distance, so he draws towards Liz. Real danger starts when Richard's brother, novelist Blain, arrives with his friend Jillian, to sell the ancestral estate against Richard's will.
Leave It on the Floor

2011

Leave It on the Floor

2011
5
Kicked out of his home for being gay, a young man (Ephraim Sykes) finds a new family with Los Angeles drag queens.
The Baby Dance

1998

The Baby Dance

1998
6.1
Six months pregnant and living in a beat-up tiny mobile home, Wanda LeFauve thinks she has found the solution to her problems when she agrees to meet well-to-do Rachel Luckman and her husband. The childless Luckmans are desperate to raise a baby and Wanda is anxious to find a home for her latest. They strike a deal, but as the birth parents and the potential adoptive parents get to know each other, fundamental differences emerge.
In Retirement

1984

In Retirement

1984
5.4
A former Triple A (Argentine anti-communist alliance) is abandoned by his former colleagues after the Argentine dictatorship falls, in the course of his solitude he slowly becomes more insane and falls further into dementia, at the same time as one of the parents of the many children that he murdered and tortured during the dictatorship persecute him for revenge.
I'll Remember April

1999

I'll Remember April

1999
6.3
Four young boys find a shipwrecked Japanese sailor during World War II and struggle with the decision to save him.
Before I Say Goodbye

2003

Before I Say Goodbye

2003
5.8
Nelly McDermott, the granddaughter of a prominent politician, loses her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, in a fiery boat explosion. When she's informed that he was murdered, Nell is compelled to find the killer by searching for the truth, with the help of a psychic, which could solve the mystery — or end her life.
Coward of the County

1981

Coward of the County

1981
6.2
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.
All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

2000

All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

2000
4.4
A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.
Reborn

1981

Reborn

1981
3.9
A man discovers that his girlfriend is a "stigmata" (someone whose hands and feet mysteriously bleed in the same places where Jesus Christ was crucified) and tries to keep her out of the hands of a greedy TV preacher who plans to exploit her to make money for himself.
The Long Way Home

1998

The Long Way Home

1998
6.3
A retired widower wanders away from his daughter's home, hooks up with a free-spirited young woman, and goes on a cross-country odyssey to look up an old flame he's recently heard from after 55 years.
Bury Me an Angel

1971

Bury Me an Angel

1971
4.8
After learning that her brother has been murdered, biker Dag sets out on the road with two close friends to find the killer. As they travel, they encounter various people and conflicts, and Dag’s emotional struggle becomes increasingly apparent, leading to a final violent confrontation with her brother’s murderer.
Jesús, María y José

1972

Jesús, María y José

1972
6.9
The founder of Christianity and his sacred family.
Ma Barker's Killer Brood

1960

Ma Barker's Killer Brood

1960
5.9
Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson.