Top Rated Drama Movies on Vudu - Page 150

Stand and Deliver

1988

Stand and Deliver

1988
7.6
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.
The Boys from Brazil

1978

The Boys from Brazil

1978
6.7
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot, masterminded by Dr. Josef Mengele, to rekindle the Third Reich.
Marty

1955

Marty

1955
7.4
Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. Marty meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher, realising their emotional connection, he promises to call but family and friends try to convince him not to.
Choke

2008

Choke

2008
6.1
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
Flesh + Blood

1985

Flesh + Blood

1985
6.6
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
Hustle & Flow

2005

Hustle & Flow

2005
7.1
With help from his friends, a Memphis pimp in a mid-life crisis attempts to become a successful hip-hop emcee.
The Collini Case

2019

The Collini Case

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

2017

Happy End

2017
6.2
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
The Unknown Girl

2016

The Unknown Girl

2016
6.2
Jenny, a young doctor who feels guilty after a young woman she refused to see winds up dead a few days later, decides to find out who the girl was, after the police can't identify the young woman.
Careful What You Wish For

2015

Careful What You Wish For

2015
6.1
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
Another Year

2010

Another Year

2010
7
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
You Don't Know Jack

2010

You Don't Know Jack

2010
7
Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.
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.
Bugsy

1991

Bugsy

1991
6.3
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.
Breakfast on Pluto

2005

Breakfast on Pluto

2005
7.2
In the 1970s, a young transgender woman called “Kitten” leaves her small Irish town for London in search of love, acceptance, and her long-lost mother.
Small Things Like These

2024

Small Things Like These

2024
6.7
In 1985, while working as a coal merchant to support his family, Bill Furlong discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers truths of his own; forcing him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
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.
School Ties

1992

School Ties

1992
6.5
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.
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.
Clean

2022

Clean

2022
6.2
Tormented by a past life, garbage man Clean attempts a life of quiet redemption. But when his good intentions mark him a target of a local crime boss, Clean is forced to reconcile with the violence of his past.