Top Rated Drama Movies on Vudu - Page 146

Heidi

2015

Heidi

2015
7.2
Heidi, is an eight-year-old Swiss orphan who is given by her aunt to her mountain-dwelling grandfather. She is then stolen back by her aunt from her grandfather to live in the wealthy Sesemann household in Frankfurt, Germany as a companion to Klara, a sheltered, disabled girl in a wheelchair. Heidi is unhappy but makes the best of the situation, always longing for her grandfather.
When the Bough Breaks

2016

When the Bough Breaks

2016
5.8
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.
Assassination Games

2011

Assassination Games

2011
6.3
Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

2010

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame

2010
6.5
When the future empress Wu Zetian's two courtiers die in a mysterious fire, she gets Di Renjie, a former detective and rebel, released from prison to solve the mystery of the fire.
The Great Silence

1968

The Great Silence

1968
7.4
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Mildred Pierce

1945

Mildred Pierce

1945
7.6
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
Red Dog

2011

Red Dog

2011
7.3
The legendary true story of the Red Dog who united a disparate local community while roaming the Australian outback in search of his long lost master.
Welcome to the Rileys

2010

Welcome to the Rileys

2010
6.6
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
Pushing Tin

1999

Pushing Tin

1999
5.9
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
Nurse Betty

2000

Nurse Betty

2000
6
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

2005

Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

2005
7
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.
Internal Affairs

1990

Internal Affairs

1990
6.3
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck is involved in any number of dubious or downright criminal activities. He is also devious, a womaniser, and a clever manipulator, and he starts to turn his attention on Avila.
Inside

2023

Inside

2023
5.6
An art thief trapped in a New York penthouse after his heist doesn't go as planned. Locked inside with nothing but priceless works of art, he must use all his cunning and invention to survive.
The Collini Case

2019

The Collini Case

2019
7.4
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Correspondence

2016

Correspondence

2016
6.4
The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.
Bobby

2006

Bobby

2006
6.4
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Airport

1970

Airport

1970
6.4
Melodrama about a bomber on board an airplane, an airport almost closed by snow, and various personal problems of the people involved.
Bugsy

1991

Bugsy

1991
6.4
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Death to Smoochy

2002

Death to Smoochy

2002
5.9
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuchsia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.
Petite Maman

2021

Petite Maman

2021
7.1
After the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical journey of discovery which helps her come to terms with this newfound loss.