Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 154

Viceroy's House

2017

Viceroy's House

2017
6.6
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
The Demons

2015

The Demons

2015
6
While Montreal is in the throes of a string of kidnappings targeting young boys, ten-year-old Felix is finishing his school year in the seemingly quiet suburb where he lives. A sensitive boy with a vivid imagination, Felix is afraid of everything. Little by little, his imaginary demons begin to mirror those of the truly disturbing world around him.
State and Main

2000

State and Main

2000
6.3
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
Monday

2021

Monday

2021
6.5
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
Mind the Gap

2004

Mind the Gap

2004
5.8
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
A Kid Like Jake

2018

A Kid Like Jake

2018
6
On the eve of the admissions cycle for New York City kindergartens, Alex and Greg Wheeler have high hopes for four-year-old Jake. The director of Jake's preschool encourages them to accentuate Jake's gender expansive behavior to help him stand out. As Alex and Greg navigate their roles as parents, a rift grows between them, one that forces them to confront their own concerns about what's best for Jake, and each other.
Viva Riva!

2010

Viva Riva!

2010
5.2
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.
Faust

2011

Faust

2011
6.6
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Purple Noon

1960

Purple Noon

1960
7.6
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Four Lions

2010

Four Lions

2010
6.9
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.
Stranger by the Lake

2013

Stranger by the Lake

2013
6.3
Frank spends his summer days hopelessly searching for companionship at a popular cruising spot on the shores of a lake in rural France. One day, he meets Michel, an attractive yet darkly mysterious man and falls blindly in love.
The Artist and the Model

2012

The Artist and the Model

2012
6.1
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.
Mansfield Park

1999

Mansfield Park

1999
6.7
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund. Her life is complicated by the arrival of the worldly Mary and Henry Crawford.
Bandslam

2009

Bandslam

2009
5.8
A new kid in town assembles a fledgling rock band — together, they achieve their dreams and compete against the best in the biggest event of the year, a battle of the bands.
Crown Vic

2019

Crown Vic

2019
6.2
One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.
La Sapienza

2014

La Sapienza

2014
5.7
The story is one of an architect that has lost his inspiration and goes looking for those motivations that pushed him as a youngster to take up the profession. Inspiring him was the baroque movement and all of its artifices: the Guarini in Turin and the Borromini in Rome. The film’s central story ends up being the love story that develops between architecture, artistic inspiration and feelings.
Into the West

1992

Into the West

1992
6.4
Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.
Foster Boy

2019

Foster Boy

2019
7
A lawyer finds himself at the center of a trial in which a for-profit foster care agency puts a known sex offender into the same foster home as his young client Jamal, which leads to catastrophic results.
Limelight

1952

Limelight

1952
7.9
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
Toto the Hero

1991

Toto the Hero

1991
7
80-year-old Thomas recounts his childhood and middle age through a series of flashbacks and dream sequences. Thomas believes he’s been taken away from a better life at birth; following a hospital fire, he vividly recalls being swapped with another new-born, and subsequently grows up in a poorer neighbouring household.