Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 277

The Road Not Taken

2018

The Road Not Taken

2018
5.5
A Gobi Desert ostrich farmer indebted to the local mob agrees to take care of a kidnapped boy until the father provides the ransom.
The White Man

2021

The White Man

2021
1
A peasant woman marries a mysterious white man to "improve her race", but finds herself unable to get pregnant.
These Birds Walk

2012

These Birds Walk

2012
8
The Edhi children’s shelter is a rare safe haven for Karachi’s runaways. Over three years, its cranky founder, a spirited child, and a gold-hearted ambulance driver are filmed, creating a tender portrait of where a city’s most vulnerable and dedicated souls meet.
The Oath

2022

The Oath

2022
The story of the first anniversary of the founding of the new China, the central delegation went to Yunnan ethnic areas to research, at the same time, in the name of Chairman Mao Zedong, invited representatives of the 26 ethnic minorities in the southwest to Beijing to participate in the National Day ceremonies, the representatives returned to Yunnan and swore to set up a monument. Built on New Year's Day in 1951, the "Pu'er Monument of National Unity Pledge" is unique in the country and is a monument of revolution, history and ethnicity, a vivid manifestation of national unity and the "First Monument of National Unity in New China" and the "First Monument of National Unity in New China". It is a vivid embodiment of great national unity, the "first monument of national unity in new China" and "the first monument of national work in new China", and has been hailed as "the only monument in the history of human nationalities".
The Moth of Moonbi

1926

The Moth of Moonbi

1926
5.5
Charles Chauvel's first feature tells the story of a country girl, Dell Ferris (the Moth of Moonbi), drawn to the bright lights of the big city where her inheritance is soon frittered away with high society revelling. A wiser Dell returns to Moonbi Station where she is beset by the cattle rustler Jack Bronson, but finally finds peace and happiness with the faithful head stockman, Tom. Only part of the film survives to this day.
Lost Inside

2022

Lost Inside

2022
5.4
An agoraphobic and washed up rock star is confronted by a nosy new neighbor and an imaginary nuisance pressuring him to leave his house and rejoin a life he both fears and has forsaken.
The One I Wrote for You

2014

The One I Wrote for You

2014
4.8
A songwriter who deferred his dreams to support his family gets a second chance when his 10-year-old daughter, Gracie, secretly enters his name into a song writing contest/reality show.
Tormenting the Hen

2017

Tormenting the Hen

2017
5.8
A lesbian couple experiences microaggressions at a workshop upstate. Claire and her fiancée Monica embark from the boisterous streets of New York City to the Berkshires, where Claire has been invited to stage her latest work at a rural theater company. While Claire's actors question her ability to write heterosexual dialogue, Monica encounters her own source of micro-aggression in the form of Mutty, the groundskeeper.
A Walk on the Moon

1987

A Walk on the Moon

1987
4.5
A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor
Take Me Somewhere Nice

2019

Take Me Somewhere Nice

2019
5.7
A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.
The Wandering Soap Opera

2018

The Wandering Soap Opera

2018
6.4
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
What Stays After

2025

What Stays After

2025
The story follows the extreme coming-of-age of a boy during tragic events that tear his family apart.
Dream Life

1972

Dream Life

1972
3
Two twenty-something women dream of the ideal man and slowly realize that reality is very different from their fantasies.
Casual Relations

1973

Casual Relations

1973
5.3
In Rappaport’s dazzling and bizarre feature-length debut, he focuses on states of imaginative possession and dispossession, demonstrating how impossible it is to separate fantasies, dreams, and realities.
The Unwanted

2014

The Unwanted

2014
3.4
Carmilla comes to a rural town where her mother mysteriously disappeared years earlier. She is aided in her quest by an emotionally troubled local girl, with whom she becomes romantically involved. Their relationship ignites the wrath of the girl's father, who holds the key to the dreadful truth Carmilla is seeking. Inspired by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's famed Gothic novella.
The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

1938

The Childhood of Maxim Gorky

1938
5.8
Young Maxim grows up under the czarist regime with his grandparents as guardians. Continually demeaned by his martinet grandfather, Maxim is drawn to his warm-hearted grandmother, who instills in him the willingness to pursue his writing muse.
Dog Eat Dog

2018

Dog Eat Dog

2018
7.6
Silje wants to leave her boyfriend, but when she finds him in a half-hearted attempt to hang himself she has to reconsider, in fear of acting reckless.
Old Stone

2016

Old Stone

2016
6.9
When a drunken passenger causes taxi driver Lao Shi to swerve and hit a motorcyclist, he stops to help the victim. As no ambulance arrives he drives him to the hospital, but soon has to face the rules of today's Kafkaesque China. With his family and life endangered, he desperately seeks a way out.
West of Sunshine

2018

West of Sunshine

2018
6.1
A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Nakom

2016

Nakom

2016
6.2
Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student returns to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.