Top Rated Drama Movies on The Roku Channel - Page 274

Mom, Dad and Her

2008

Mom, Dad and Her

2008
4.5
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney misses her boyfriend, her city life and doesn't get on with her dad or stepmom. Slowly she starts to settle in as she makes friends with Jess, a local girl whose mother died of cancer. Sydney makes a couple of mistakes but after her grandfather's death the extended family start to heal.
The Empty Mirror

1996

The Empty Mirror

1996
5.5
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.
Murder on Spec

2006

Murder on Spec

2006
4.7
A murderous blackmailer threatens to frame a wealthy widow (Brooke Burns) for her estranged husband's death on a yacht.
Murder In Harlem

1935

Murder In Harlem

1935
4.5
A Black night watchman at a chemical factory finds the body of a murdered white woman. After reporting it, he finds himself accused of the murder.
Stalag Luft

1993

Stalag Luft

1993
6.8
Few wartime prisoners have attempted escape quite as many times as bumbling RAF Officer James Forrester. Though Officer Forrester has twenty-three escape attempts to his name, each successive attempt he makes to break free somehow seems to go worse than the last. But this time there's a difference, because Officer Forrester isn't just plotting his own escape, but the escape of all 327 of his fellow prisoners as well - and all at once. In fact even the Germans want to escape!
Determination of Death

2001

Determination of Death

2001
4.2
In order to free themselves from debt, a husband and wife plan to fake the husband's death but the scheme goes terribly awry.
The Perfect Gift

2009

The Perfect Gift

2009
6.5
A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
Someone Is Watching

2000

Someone Is Watching

2000
3.7
Cory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an imaginary friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the imaginary friend becomes all too real.
Kid Millions

1934

Kid Millions

1934
6.5
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
Calm at Sunset

1996

Calm at Sunset

1996
5.6
Drama about a young man who defies his parents by dropping out of college to pursue his dream of owning a fishing boat, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfather.
Shaolin Master and the Kid

1978

Shaolin Master and the Kid

1978
6
A government law officer is dispatched to bring his brother's killers to justice. On his bloody mission, untold assassins are thrown at him, but to no avail. One by one they are done away with in a most militant style.
La sorpresa

2008

La sorpresa

2008
3.7
A man returns from a trip looking forward to seeing his wife. He takes a cab home where he tells the driver about his loved one. At the same time the taxi driver tells him about the woman he is in love with, a girl who has a broken heart. Destiny will give these two men a Surprise when they realize that their pathways are somehow connected.
Ambulance Girl

2005

Ambulance Girl

2005
4.8
The story revolves around former food writer, Jane Stern, and how she conquered clinical depression after becoming a paramedic.
An American Story

1992

An American Story

1992
5.8
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
Lies Between Friends

2010

Lies Between Friends

2010
4.7
Fourteen years after graduation, a group of college friends convenes one weekend for a bridal shower for one of their own. Joss and her freshman year roommate and best friend in college, Cait, have been estranged for years, ever since Joss learned that her fiancé had been visiting Cait on the night he died in a motorcycle accident. As part of a recovery program, Cait wants to make up with Joss, but she dies before she can explain. Was her death an accident, a suicide, or something more sinister?
Rag Tale

2005

Rag Tale

2005
3
A romance that plays out in the splashy, sensational world of British tabloids.
Higher Education

1988

Higher Education

1988
2.7
A naive young man from the countryside moves to the big city to study art. Soon he has some strange experiences: His roommate turns out to be the bodyguard-protected son of a mafia boss, his fellow student is desperate to initiate him into love, and his attractive art professor also seems to have it in for him.
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

1996
4.8
The firebrand reporter, feminist and philanthropist Dorothy Day co-founds The Catholic Worker with Peter Maurin, an eccentric philosopher.
Charge Over You

2010

Charge Over You

2010
5
When Sarah meets Mike everything she thought she knew about the world is turned upside down.
The Wedding Dress

2001

The Wedding Dress

2001
5.3
When Hannah Pinkham's fiancé writes he's finally shipping home, her mother makes a fairy tale wedding dress, but while she's fitting it the knock on the door is not him, but the dreaded officer-messenger. Years later she sends it to her nephew, photographer Travis Cleveland, but his model-bride Cass only pretends to like it to get rid of his loyal assistant. After he walks off with it, his car gets stolen with the dress in it... And it keeps passing on from person to person, but will anybody actually get married in it or does it just keep bringing bad luck to couples?