Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 182

Grace and Grit

2021

Grace and Grit

2021
4.7
The true love story of iconic philosopher Ken Wilber and his wife Treya in 1980s California as they fall madly in love and are faced with illness and challenges that threaten to tear them apart.
Desert Dancer

2014

Desert Dancer

2014
6.9
Inspirational true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a dancer despite a nationwide dancing ban.
The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926
6.3
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
The Garden of Earthly Delights

2004

The Garden of Earthly Delights

2004
6.2
When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where the artist's work becomes the background for their physical passion and emotional discovery.
Alone Together

2022

Alone Together

2022
5.1
Strangers June and Charlie wind up double-booked in the same upstate New York Airbnb during the start of COVID-19. Exasperating the situation, the lockdown forces them both to stay and confront the unexpected feelings that develop between them.
Colonia

2015

Colonia

2015
7.2
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Time Regained

1999

Time Regained

1999
6.2
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
The Hero

2017

The Hero

2017
6.1
Lee, a former Western film icon, is living a comfortable existence lending his golden voice to advertisements and smoking weed. After receiving a lifetime achievement award and unexpected news, Lee reexamines his past, while a chance meeting with a sardonic comic has him looking to the future.
Mon oncle Antoine

1971

Mon oncle Antoine

1971
6.8
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
Aniara

2019

Aniara

2019
6.1
A ship carrying settlers to a new home on Mars after Earth is rendered uninhabitable is knocked off-course, causing the passengers to consider their place in the universe.
You Hurt My Feelings

2023

You Hurt My Feelings

2023
6.4
A novelist's longstanding marriage is suddenly upended when she overhears her husband giving his honest reaction to her latest book.
Film About a Woman Who…

1974

Film About a Woman Who…

1974
4.6
Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger.
On My Way

2013

On My Way

2013
6.5
Deneuve plays sassy grandmother Bettie who takes to the road after being betrayed by her lover and learning her business is on the verge of bankruptcy on the same day. During a weeklong odyssey across France, she spends time with a grandson she hardly knows and reconnects with her past as former Miss Brittany through a reunion for former beauty queens.
Farewell, My Queen

2012

Farewell, My Queen

2012
5.9
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Piaffe

2023

Piaffe

2023
4.8
When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. She struggles to create sounds for a commercial featuring a horse, and then a horsetail starts growing out of her body. Empowered by her tail, she lures a botanist into an affair, through a game of submission. Piaffe is a visceral journey into control, gender, and artifice.
The Insult

2017

The Insult

2017
7.5
After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.
Unidentified Objects

2023

Unidentified Objects

2023
7.5
A curmudgeonly gay dwarf and his unstable, alien-obsessed neighbor are thrown together on an impossible road trip that will alter their strange friendship (and their sense of reality) forever.
Snakehead

2021

Snakehead

2021
6
Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon Tse must reconcile her success with her real reason for coming to America—to find the child that was taken from her. In the end, Sister Tse must draw on the strength she found in transforming her victimhood into power.
Pawn Sacrifice

2015

Pawn Sacrifice

2015
6.8
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Consent

2023

Consent

2023
3.3
Bold and authentic drama set at an elite school where the lines of sexual consent are dangerously blurred. When a serious accusation is made against 'one of their own', how will the school react?