Top Rated Drama Movies on Vudu - Page 484

Yelling To The Sky

2011

Yelling To The Sky

2011
5.7
As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Pretty Smart

1987

Pretty Smart

1987
4.9
In this adolescent-oriented drama, a young woman is forced to attend a posh finishing school in the Mediterranean. She vents her anger by rebelling against the cruel and sicko headmaster. When she discovers that he has been secretly photographing them naked and profiting from the pictures, she rallies the other girls and gets revenge.
MoniKa

2012

MoniKa

2012
6.3
The film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together of what happened, how she is still present, and help Monika with her revenge on the killers of her younger sister.
Home Before Dark

1958

Home Before Dark

1958
7.2
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
No One Writes to the Colonel

1999

No One Writes to the Colonel

1999
5
Every Friday, the Colonel puts on his only suit and goes to the dock to await a letter announcing the arrival of his pension. But the townsfolk all know that this pension will never come. His wife also knows it, and even he knows it. But he is still waiting, living with the pain of the death of his son.
The Shining Hour

1938

The Shining Hour

1938
6.6
A nightclub dancer shakes the foundations of a wealthy farming family after she marries into it.
Blume in Love

1973

Blume in Love

1973
5.9
Lawyer Stephen Blume, who specializes in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
Byleth: The Demon of Incest

1972

Byleth: The Demon of Incest

1972
5
A young man becomes obsessed with Byleth, the demon of incest, and it leads to an unhealthy infatuation with his sister.
The Temptress

1926

The Temptress

1926
6.5
A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
The Far Horizons

1955

The Far Horizons

1955
6.2
Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Black Fury

1935

Black Fury

1935
6.4
A simple Pennsylvania coal miner is drawn into the violent conflict between union workers and management.
The Hireling

1973

The Hireling

1973
5.7
Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.
Juarez

1939

Juarez

1939
6.5
The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juárez and democracy.
This Woman Is Dangerous

1952

This Woman Is Dangerous

1952
5.7
A crime gang leader is losing her sight, so while her lover goes into hiding, she checks in to the hospital for extensive surgery to recover her eyesight. There she is treated by a handsome young doctor. As expected not only does the doctor successfully open her eyes, he also opens her heart for him.
The Christmas Bunny

2010

The Christmas Bunny

2010
6.2
The story of a lonely foster child who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady, who runs a rabbit rescue in an old barn behind her Michigan farmhouse.
The Fall of Ako Castle

1978

The Fall of Ako Castle

1978
6.6
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Islands in the Stream

1977

Islands in the Stream

1977
6.4
An isolated sculptor is visited by his three sons just before the start of WWII.
Final Descent

1997

Final Descent

1997
5.1
An airliner collides with a light plane just after takeoff, causing its elevators to jam in the full climb position. It will crash as soon as the fuel runs out, unless some desperate measure succeeds in bringing the nose down.
The Scouting Book for Boys

2010

The Scouting Book for Boys

2010
6.3
Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a remote cave on the beach. But as David watches the police close in on his missing friend, their innocent secret takes on a life of its own. When the real reason Emily wants to escape comes to light, David's world is shattered. Swept up in a situation out of his control, and with his feelings for his best friend growing stranger by the day, David is forced to take action.
Viva Riva!

2010

Viva Riva!

2010
5.4
Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster.