The best Melissa Leo’s drama movies on Google Play Movies

Melissa Leo

Melissa Leo

14/09/1960 (63 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Melissa Leo’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Melissa Leo.
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Prisoners

Prisoners
8.2/10
Keller Dover faces a parent's worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that had been parked on their street. The head of the investigation, Detective Loki, arrests the driver, but a lack of evidence forces Loki to release his only suspect. Dover, knowing that his daughter's life is at stake, decides that he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.

Flight

Flight
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/2012
  • Character: Ellen Block
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

Snowden

Snowden
7.3/10
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

The Big Short

The Big Short
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 11/12/2015
  • Character: Georgia Hale
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

The Fighter

The Fighter
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/12/2010
  • Character: Alice Eklund-Ward
Boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a boxer-turned-trainer who rebounded in life after nearly being KO'd by drugs and crime.

Novitiate

Novitiate
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/2017
  • Character: Reverend Mother
In the early 1960s, during the Vatican II era, a young woman training to become a nun struggles with issues of faith, sexuality and the changing church.

21 Grams

21 Grams
7.6/10
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls; and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably—forever.

Charlie Countryman

Charlie Countryman
6.3/10
While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

Righteous Kill

Righteous Kill
6/10
Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

Ida Red

Ida Red
5.6/10
Ida Red may not survive her 20-year prison sentence for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn

The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/05/2014
  • Character: Bette Altmann
After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

Conviction

Conviction
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/09/2010
  • Character: Nancy Taylor
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice, Betty Anne pores through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor, meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny's arrest. Belief in her brother - and her quest for the truth - pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.

Frozen River

Frozen River
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/03/2008
  • Character: Ray Eddy
Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray's Dodge Spirit.

Unlovable

Unlovable
6.1/10
A sex and love addicted woman learns what real intimacy is when she starts making music with a reclusive man.

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
7.3/10
When brash Texas border officer Mike Norton wrongfully kills and buries the friend and ranch hand of Pete Perkins, the latter is reminded of a promise he made to bury his friend, Melquiades Estrada, in his Mexican home town. He kidnaps Norton and exhumes Estrada's corpse, and the odd caravan sets out on horseback for Mexico.

The Cake Eaters

The Cake Eaters
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/04/2007
  • Character: Ceci Kimbrough
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg. Eldest son and struggling musician Guy moves back to town, feeling guilty that he missed the funeral. His brother, Beagle, who was his mother's caretaker, falls for Marg's granddaughter, Georgia, a chronically ill girl who fears her time is growing short.

Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/12/2009
  • Character: Colleen
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.

Welcome to the Rileys

Welcome to the Rileys
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/2010
  • Character: Lois Riley
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.

The Parting Glass

The Parting Glass
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/2018
A family dealing with their sister's death travel across country to collect her belongings and piece together their memories of the woman they lost.

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/04/2013
  • Character: Robin
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

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