Top Rated Drama Movies on Vudu - Page 244

I Wish

2011

I Wish

2011
7.3
Twelve-year-old Koichi, who has been separated from his brother Ryunosuke due to his parents' divorce, hears a rumor that the new bullet trains will precipitate a wish-granting miracle when they pass each other at top speed.
Daydream Nation

2011

Daydream Nation

2011
5.8
Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
The Perfect Game

2009

The Perfect Game

2009
7.1
Based on a true story, a group of boys from Monterrey, Mexico who become the first non-U.S. team to win the Little League World Series.
La Terra Trema

1949

La Terra Trema

1949
7.7
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
Life Is Sweet

1990

Life Is Sweet

1990
7
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects, Natalie is a plumber and Nicola is jobless. This film is about how they interact and play out family, conflict and love.
Stanley & Iris

1990

Stanley & Iris

1990
6.5
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Prince of the City

1981

Prince of the City

1981
7
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
The Women

1939

The Women

1939
7.1
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
The Heroes of Telemark

1965

The Heroes of Telemark

1965
6.9
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Married Life

2008

Married Life

2008
5.8
A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to divorce his wife would humiliate her too much – so instead he decides to kill her.
Together Together

2021

Together Together

2021
6.4
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
Ricordi?

2019

Ricordi?

2019
7.3
A long love story, seen through the memories of one young couple. The journey through the years of two individuals, united, divided, happy, unhappy, deeply in love, or in love with others, in a single stream of emotions and shades of feeling. Over the course of the film, he learns that love can indeed last, while she learns to live with nostalgia.
The Wild Boys

2017

The Wild Boys

2017
6.5
Island of La Réunion, in the beginning of the 20th century. Five teenagers commit a savage crime. As punishment, a Dutch captain takes them to a supernatural island with luxuriant vegetation and bewitching powers.
Being Charlie

2016

Being Charlie

2016
6.2
Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but troubled girl, Eva, and is forced to battle with drugs, elusive love and divided parents.
Vendetta

2015

Vendetta

2015
5.3
A hard-nosed detective deliberately commits a crime to get thrown in prison, allowing him the chance to seek vengeance on a criminal serving a life sentence for brutally murdering his wife.
Sea Fog

2014

Sea Fog

2014
6.8
A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Special ID

2013

Special ID

2013
5.9
A career-long undercover Hong Kong cop is sent to Mainland China when his former protégé becomes the primary suspect in a murder.
Submarino

2010

Submarino

2010
7.1
As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. He drinks, lives in a shelter and tries to help an old friend. When their mother dies, Nick meets his brother at the funeral. The brother, who remains nameless, is a single father to a young boy, but also supports a drug habit that is spiraling out of control. When an opportunity presents itself, he becomes a drug dealer to secure his son's future. Eventually, the two brothers meet again.
Monsieur Hire

1989

Monsieur Hire

1989
7.2
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
The Offence

1973

The Offence

1973
6.8
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.