Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 260

I Am Yours

2013

I Am Yours

2013
5.1
An unhappy single mother in Norway's Pakistani expatriate community begins to ignore her young son in favor of placating a Swedish filmmaker she thinks could change her life for the better.
Believe

2016

Believe

2016
6.5
A small-town business owner tries to save the local Christmas pageant against all odds.
Blackout

2024

Blackout

2024
A young woman suffers from blackouts, begins to document her everyday life in the form of a video diary and comes across discoveries that she would never have expected.
The Silent Enemy

1930

The Silent Enemy

1930
6.7
In the Canadian Northwest, the Chippewa tribe struggles to find food before the onset of winter.
The Angelic Conversation

1987

The Angelic Conversation

1987
5
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
Team Marco

2020

Team Marco

2020
6.5
Marco, 12, is obsessed with his iPad and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco's life is turned upside-down and he's forced...to go play outside. "Nonno" (Grandpa) introduces him to bocce ball and to the neighborhood crew of old Italian men who play daily at the local court. With sport, laughter and love, Marco finds connection to other people and rounds up a team of neighborhood kids to take on Marco's grandfather and his pals.
Eva Doesn't Sleep

2015

Eva Doesn't Sleep

2015
5.2
In 1952, Argentina's beloved First Lady, Eva Perón, died of cancer at the age of thirty-three. A renowned embalmer was commissioned by the grieving Juan Perón to preserve her body for display, and Argentines flocked to be near "Evita". Three years later, when his government was overthrown by a military coup, Perón fled the country before he could make arrangements for the transportation of his wife's body. The military junta now in control kidnapped the corpse; so afraid were they of Eva's symbolic power that they even made it illegal to utter her name.
The Saver

2015

The Saver

2015
6
When teenaged Fern is orphaned in the middle of a harsh Montreal winter, she is determined to avoid her mother’s tragic fate, and take care of herself. With Youth Protection nipping at her heels, she lies about her name and age, to get a job as a janitor another as a cook. Juggling life and work and the discovery of the book, ‘50 Ways to become a Millionaire: All you need to do is save,’ Fern decides to do just that, replacing her grief with the quest to become a millionaire. Written, directed and edited by award-winning filmmaker Wiebke von Carolsfeld (Marion Bridge, Stay), The Saver stars the newly discovered Imajyn Cardinal and is based on the young adult novel by Edeet Ravel.
Four Quartets

2022

Four Quartets

2022
6
Four interwoven meditations on the nature of time, memory, experience and the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
Big Muddy

2014

Big Muddy

2014
4.9
Martha Barlow, a modern day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.
Steps of Faith

2014

Steps of Faith

2014
7.7
What would you do if you told the world you heard God's voice and no one believed you? Steps of Faith, is a light-heart dramedy about Faith Houston an accountant, who is directed by God to move to a small town to work on a Hippotherapy farm helping children. Faith is mocked by her family since she doesn't have a rapport with children or animals and is not a devout Christian.
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

1975

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris

1975
4
Three attendees at a puppet theater don various roles in order to sing a variety of songs by Jacques Brel, all while hippies and other eccentrics cavort about them.
Costa Brava, Lebanon

2022

Costa Brava, Lebanon

2022
6.6
Members of a family quit the polluted, rubbish-strewn city of Beirut for an idyllic mountain home. However, their dreams of a utopian existence are shattered by the construction of a landfill on the boundary of their land.
A Man of Integrity

2017

A Man of Integrity

2017
6.8
Reza, residing in the wilderness with his wife and son, lives a retired life and devotes himself to freshwater fish farming. A private company that has targets on his land is ready to do anything to force him to sell.
Youth

2016

Youth

2016
Wasted on the young? A sci-fi film about growing old in a world of perpetual youth.
Singing in My Sleep

2025

Singing in My Sleep

2025
6
A brilliant teenage songwriter is stuck living in the shadow of her deceased Dad's music legacy when the 20-year anniversary of his debut album forces her to face his abandonment.
Turn It Around

2017

Turn It Around

2017
6.3
When the fifteen year old Bram meets Florian at a house party, he immediately falls for him. There's only one problem: nobody knows Bram is gay.
King of Peking

2017

King of Peking

2017
6.3
When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.
Lolo

2019

Lolo

2019
5.6
Lolo is an openly gay 11-year-old boy trying to finally convince Max, his first love, to go public with their relationship at the school party. Max also wants a relationship but Lolo might not be the one. Lolo’s best friends, Elena and Toby, help him to overcome this situation and give him the support that he needs.
The Tragedy of Coriolanus

1984

The Tragedy of Coriolanus

1984
8
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.