Top Rated Drama Movies on Vudu - Page 443

Street Scene

1931

Street Scene

1931
6.7
The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery, and suddenly but not unexpectedly, a murder.
Angie

1994

Angie

1994
5.7
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have the baby; but not Vinnie as a husband. This turns the entire close-knit neighborhood upside-down and starts Angie on a journey of self-discovery.
Teknolust

2002

Teknolust

2002
4.3
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
Tokyo Joe

1949

Tokyo Joe

1949
6.1
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals and the authorities.
Muay Thai Warrior

2010

Muay Thai Warrior

2010
6.3
Based on a true historic figure, Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who went to Ayothaya in the 16th century and became a soldier in King Naresuan's army. After the war in Burma it's restless in Ayothaya, because of a mysterious group of men that terrorizes and plunders the city. Yamada goes after them and discovers that the men are rebelious Japanese samurai. Now he has to fight his own countrymen.
Roseanna's Grave

1997

Roseanna's Grave

1997
6.4
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
Guinevere

1999

Guinevere

1999
5.7
A young girl from an affluent family rebels and becomes involved with a much older photographer.
Night Crossing

1982

Night Crossing

1982
6.1
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
Some Mother's Son

1996

Some Mother's Son

1996
6.7
Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
The Man with Rain in His Shoes

1998

The Man with Rain in His Shoes

1998
4.9
Victor Bukowski is an out-of-work actor with problems. He's got a lousy agent, he has a habit of falling out with directors and he's still in love with his ex-girlfriend. However, Victor is about to embark on an unexpected emotional journey which will make him confront his future and his past mistakes.
Bartleby

2001

Bartleby

2001
5.8
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Chained Heat 2

1993

Chained Heat 2

1993
3.9
An American tourist lands in a Slavic prison run by a twisted woman and the U.S. ambassador.
An American Christmas Carol

1979

An American Christmas Carol

1979
6.1
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
Grimm

2003

Grimm

2003
5.7
One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004
6.8
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner.
Five

1951

Five

1951
6.6
The film's storyline involves five survivors, one woman and four men, of an atomic bomb disaster. The five come together at a remote, isolated hillside house, where they try to figure out how to survive.
Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

1973
6.1
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Darfur

2009

Darfur

2009
6
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
Dangerous Moves

1984

Dangerous Moves

1984
5.8
During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
The Carpetbaggers

1964

The Carpetbaggers

1964
5.8
Jonas Cord is a disagreeable young tycoon who's building planes, directing films, and catting around on the corporate make in 1930s Hollywood.