Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 235

The Memory Thief

2007

The Memory Thief

2007
4.1
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Four Women

1975

Four Women

1975
5
An imaginatively choreographed dance interpretation of the ballad by Nina Simone explores four common stereotypes of Black women.
After Love

2016

After Love

2016
6.1
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend

2015

Jane Wants a Boyfriend

2015
6
A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.
I’m Going Home

2001

I’m Going Home

2001
6.7
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash. Having to take care of his now-orphaned grandson, he struggles to go on with his lifelong acting career like he's used to. But the roles he is offered -- a flashy TV show and a hectic last-minute replacement in an English-language film of Joyce's Ulysses -- finally convince him that it's time to retire.
Cold

2023

Cold

2023
6.2
An investigation by Óðinn on decades old deaths at a juvenile treatment center, as he proceeds he suspects that the sinister secrets are connected to his ex-wife's mysterious suicide.
Seducing Doctor Lewis

2003

Seducing Doctor Lewis

2003
6.9
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
Red Island

2023

Red Island

2023
5.5
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
Journeys from Berlin/1971

1980

Journeys from Berlin/1971

1980
9
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
Blank Generation

1980

Blank Generation

1980
5.4
Nada, a beautiful French journalist on assignment in New York, records the life and work of an up and coming punk rock star, Billy. Soon she enters into a volatile relationship with him and must decide whether to continue with it, or return to her lover, a fellow journalist trying to track down the elusive Andy Warhol.
Sal

2013

Sal

2013
3.5
James Franco's Sal chronicles the final hours of the life of actor Sal Mineo, one-time teen idol and star of the blockbuster films Rebel Without a Cause and Exodus.
The French Italian

2024

The French Italian

2024
10
Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.
Mary White

1977

Mary White

1977
5
The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughter Mary, who died in a horseback-riding accident at age 16, and the powerful effect the tragedy had on the life of her father.
The Door

2008

The Door

2008
6.5
Shortly after the nuclear Chornobyl disaster in 1986, a father risks his life and returns to his deserted apartment to retrieve his front door.
Blood on the Crown

2021

Blood on the Crown

2021
5.9
How the citizens of Malta fought for independence from Britain in 1919. When the Army was sent to quell the riots and the British government covered up the bloody encounter, more than 100 Maltese were accused of instigating the violence and jailed.
Play Time

2015

Play Time

2015
An enthusiastic three year old child is playing in the grocery store and doesn't wanna leave. Then his young and tired mom just leaves the store without him.
Layla

2024

Layla

2024
6.6
When Layla, a struggling Arab drag queen, falls in love for the first time, they lose and find themself in a transformative relationship that tests who they really are.
Fragments of Love

2016

Fragments of Love

2016
5.5
Rodrigo, a piano-tuner and former composer fallen on hard times, begins a love affair with the soon-to-be-married Susana. When a bomb in the city of Medellín nearly kills them, Rodrigo and Susana surrender to their attraction and fall into each other’s arms. Cocooned in her apartment above the vibrant city, Susana opens up to him every night and tells him a story of each of the different men from her past. Her stories inspire him to compose again, but his obsession makes him jealous and paranoid. When Susana finally leaves her fiancée to be with Rodrigo, he becomes obsessed with her fidelity.
Without Name

2017

Without Name

2017
5.1
A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
The Dream Children

2015

The Dream Children

2015
5.9
Alex wants to become a father. Steven, his partner, has to confront his insecurities and fear of change after a lifetime smothered by superficiality. Unable to adopt legally, but still eager to become parents, they decide to turn to the black market, adopting a child from a desperate young woman, who's return with a dangerous new boyfriend, threatens to destroy everything they love.