Drama Movies

A young Midwesterner transforms from a shy kid into a sex symbol with rugged good looks, but he is forced to keep secret his homosexuality. Henry Willson, an agent, discovers Hudson and beyond changing the actor's name, Willson becomes adept at keeping secrets. When the showbiz tabloid "Confidential" threatens to publish rumors that Hudson is leading a secret life in 1955, Willson arranges for Hudson to marry his secretary, Phyllis Gates. They do a good job of keeping Hudson’s private life private right up until he dies in 1985, when he becomes the first major movie star to pass away from complications relating to AIDS.

Follows Christian Gerhartsreiter, a German-born imposter who posed as a member of the Rockefeller family and married a business consultant who eventually realized her husband had lied to her and sought a divorce. After their estrangement, Gerhartsreiter kidnapped their daughter in 2008 and was arrested; he was also charged in 2011 with a 1985 murder in Los Angeles.

An alien comes to Earth disguised as a businessman to procure water for his parched planet. Along the way, he becomes the head of a powerful international conglomerate and discovers just how greedy mankind is, falling into a metaphysical crisis.

Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system.

An environmentalist, Tim Treadwell, is fatally mauled by the bears he wanted to protect.

Max Mermelstein, a Jewish hotel engineer, transforms Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel from a small mom-and-pop drug organization into a billion-dollar enterprise.

Set in New York City in 1991, a young college-educated black policeman volunteers to be stationed in Harlem to make things safer. He’s teamed with a veteran Irish-American cop who has the best of intentions and not the best of methods.

A Syrian refugee in Lebanon allows his back to become a canvas for a famous tattoo artist. Soon, collectors become interested in this work of art.

Mathew Knowles helps his daughters become global superstars and manages both Destiny's Child and the solo careers of Beyoncé and Solange as well as Michelle Williams and Kelly Rowland.

Chronically-ill Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt, a "nice Jewish girl" with a secret, loves Christmas. As the best-selling author of over twenty Christmas romance novels, and four made-for-TV movie spin-offs, she's kept her stellar career secret from her observant Jewish family for over a decade. But when Rachel's publishing house tells her they won't renew her contract unless she writes them a Hanukkah romance, she's desperate for inspiration. She finds it in the form of the Matzah Ball, a high-end Jewish music celebration scheduled for the last night of Hanukkah. There is only one problem: tickets are sold out and the only way to get one is direct from the ball's creator, who just happens to be Jacob Greenberg, her summer camp arch enemy.

The story centers on the life and assassination of San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. Milk, the first openly gay man elected to any substantial political office in the U.S., was assassinated along with Mayor George Moscone by supervisor Daniel White.

A brother and sister invent a new family in order to escape the clutches of their overbearing mother. The web of lies they spin becomes so complex that this invented family starts to take on a life of its own.

A teen develops a bond with a Wall Street executive while learning to stand up to bullies during one life-changing summer.

A young couple breaks up, unable to get over their four-year-old son's death. A sudden snowstorm in Santiago de Chile -- which their son would have loved -- prompts them to call each other and travel to southern Chile lake district to give their relationship a second chance.

A woman leaves the magical Irish island where she was born and emigrates to Boston. Her daughter, in turn, goes back to her mother's birthplace but finds it equally inhospitable.

A failed crook from Chicago fools top Hollywood book agents and publisher Simon & Schuster into believing that he was the illegitimate grandson of Carlo Gambino.

In 2005 in a downtrodden Jersey City neighborhood, coach Bob Hurley Sr. tries to transform the toughest, least-engaged players at St. Anthony High School.

Set in San Francisco and Las Vegas, a group of criminals bond as bodyguards for an aging crime boss. Their brotherhood is tested when one of them breaks ranks.

A wealthy British aristocrat falls in love with his Albanian housekeeper, unaware that she is on the run from human traffickers.