Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 129

My Afternoons with Margueritte

2010

My Afternoons with Margueritte

2010
6.9
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
Goya's Ghosts

2006

Goya's Ghosts

2006
6.6
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Solo

2023

Solo

2023
5.7
Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Olivier and a cold relationship with his mother, who's just returned after fifteen years.
Kippur

2000

Kippur

2000
5.4
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told from the perspective of Israeli soldiers. We are led by Weinraub and his friend Ruso on a day that begins with quiet city streets, but ends with death, destruction and devastation of both body and mind. Various scenes are awash in the surreal, as Weinraub's head hangs out over a rescue helicopter's open door, watching with tranquil desperation as the earth passes beneath, the overpowering whir of the blades creating a hypnotic state. It is not a traditional blood, guts and glory film. There are no men in battle, only the rescue crew trying to pick up the broken pieces.
Drug War

2012

Drug War

2012
6.9
A drug cartel boss is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.
Better Days

2023

Better Days

2023
7
A widow finds a new lease on life through the joy of cosplay.
360

2012

360

2012
5.7
A disparate group of characters unknowingly bond by the sexual choices they make. Consumed by loneliness, a British businessman ponders a rendezvous with a prostitute. The businessman's wife prepares to call it quits with her younger lover. A Brazilian student breaks up with her boyfriend in London. A recovering alcoholic travels to Phoenix in search of his missing daughter. A paroled sex offender struggles to stay composed when propositioned in a Denver airport. A widower's religious devotion is put to a difficult test.
The Blue Kite

1994

The Blue Kite

1994
7.2
A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
Winner

2024

Winner

2024
7
Winner is a brilliant young misfit from Texas who finds her morals challenged while serving in the U.S. Air Force and working as an NSA contractor. A fresh take on the traditional whistleblower thriller, the coming-of-age story follows an idealistic young woman persecuted for standing by her principles.
1001 Grams

2014

1001 Grams

2014
5.5
When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a human life truly weighs and which measurements she intends to live by.
Maudie

2016

Maudie

2016
7.7
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
Girlhood

2014

Girlhood

2014
6.4
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to freedom.
Hungry Hearts

2015

Hungry Hearts

2015
6.5
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Miss Juneteenth

2020

Miss Juneteenth

2020
6.5
Turquoise, a former beauty queen turned hardworking single mother, prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she did.
Lilya 4-ever

2002

Lilya 4-ever

2002
7.6
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
Buddies

1985

Buddies

1985
8.2
David, a naive graduate student, has volunteered to work as a 'buddy' for people dying of AIDS. Assigned to the intensely political Robert, a lifelong activist whose friends and family have abandoned him following his diagnosis, the two men, each with notably different world views, soon discover common bonds, as David's inner activist awakens and Robert's need for emotional release is fulfilled.
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924
7.5
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
Mrs. Soffel

1984

Mrs. Soffel

1984
6
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.
Birdman of Alcatraz

1962

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962
7.5
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
Before We Vanish

2017

Before We Vanish

2017
6.5
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a couple of days later, but he seems like a totally different person, and he is now gentle and tender. He goes for a walk every day. Meanwhile, journalist Sakurai covers the story of a family that was brutally murdered, when an unexplained phenomenon takes place. Shinji Kase tells his wife that he came to Earth to invade.