Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 281

Bye Bye Birdie

1995

Bye Bye Birdie

1995
6.1
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.
Hungry Ghost Diner

2023

Hungry Ghost Diner

2023
6
Bonnie, recovered from youth trauma during Hungry Ghost Festival, begins experiencing her uncle’s mysterious appearance, unannounced after closing business. Returning to her hometown, she realized her uncle has died and missed the last chance to be with him. After arguing with her father, attempt to leave the town has failed by Covid-19 lock down. Stranded in her family’s old coffee shop, she found out it’s haunted by her relatives returning for the Hungry Ghost Festival.
Interior. Leather Bar.

2013

Interior. Leather Bar.

2013
5.2
Filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews re-imagine the lost 40 minutes from "Cruising" as a starting point to a broader exploration of sexual and creative freedom.
Some Days Are Better Than Others

2011

Some Days Are Better Than Others

2011
4.4
Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. The film explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment.
Those Who Remained

2019

Those Who Remained

2019
7.2
A man who lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust and a girl who lost her parents meet. Knowing each other′s emptiness, they become like father and daughter. It is the beginning of a sad love that the world cannot accept.
Lancaster Skies

2019

Lancaster Skies

2019
5.7
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
The Venerable W.

2017

The Venerable W.

2017
6.6
A view of the religious tensions between Muslims and Buddhist through the portrait of the Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu, leader of anti-Muslim movement in Myanmar.
Filibus

1915

Filibus

1915
6.8
The mysterious air pirate Filibus steals from the rich and then retreats to the safety of her airship, which is manned by a staff of mask-wearing lackeys who instantly obey her every command. When an esteemed detective sets out to investigate the thefts, Filibus attempts to frame him as the burglar, while also slipping between male and female disguises to romance the detective's sister.
The Klezmer Project

2024

The Klezmer Project

2024
8.3
A Jewish wedding cameraman falls in love with a klezmer clarinetist and pretends to be making a documentary in order to spend time with her. His fake project leads to a real journey through Eastern Europe in search of lost klezmer melodies and the remnants of Yiddish culture. A documentary-fiction hybrid. Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
The Click Trap

2024

The Click Trap

2024
9
Digital advertising algorithms curate content precisely for users. Major tech firms claim to restrict disinformation yet still profit from harmful content, raising ethical concerns about democracy and online capitalism.
Horns and Halos

2002

Horns and Halos

2002
6.2
"What if someone wrote your biography? Would there be horns and halos involved?"
The Crucible

1967

The Crucible

1967
2.7
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
Misty

1961

Misty

1961
5.9
Every year the Chincoteague fire department rounds up the wild ponies of Assateague Island and holds an auction to thin out the herd. The young children set out to raise enough money in hopes that the Phantom will be caught in this years round up. They soon realize they will get more than they bargained for when the Phantom has a surprise for everyone: a foal named Misty.
The Vessel

2016

The Vessel

2016
5.3
Ten years after a tsunami destroyed a small-town elementary school with all the children inside, a young man builds a mysterious structure out of the school's remains, setting the town aflame with passions long forgotten.
The Green Years

1963

The Green Years

1963
7
Nineteen-year-old Julio heads to Lisbon from the provinces and gets a job as a shoemaker for his uncle Raul. But when he meets Ilda, a confident young housemaid who becomes a regular shop visitor, his working-class values collide with the bourgeois trappings of modern life.
Unrest

2022

Unrest

2022
6.5
In 1877, in a watch factory in a valley in north-western Switzerland, Josephine produces balance spindles, tiny parts that ensure the agitation movement (“unrueh") of the mechanical watches. She soon grows uneasy with the organisation of work and possession in the village and its factory and joins the anarchist worker movement of the local watchmakers. There she meets Piotr Kropotkin, a moony Russian traveller. The two of them meet at a time when new technologies such as time measurement, photography, and the telegraph are transforming the social order, and anarchist discourse is addressing emerging nationalism. During a walk in the woods, Josephine and Piotr ask themselves whether time, money, and the government are not all but fictions.
Regina

2013

Regina

2013
6.2
A blind woman and her husband live in a rural home. Regina, their daughter dissapeared, but in reality, Regina is been used as her father's pet. Her father Antonio keeps her in the yard while her mother hopes Regina will call home and wonders why the dog her husband cares so much never barks.
Abundant Acreage Available

2017

Abundant Acreage Available

2017
5.4
After their father dies, a middle-aged brother and sister wrestle with legacy and ownership when three brothers, whose family farmed the land for generations, return after 50 years.
The Black Book

2018

The Black Book

2018
5.4
The story of the adventures, in the twilight of the eighteenth century, of a singular couple formed by a little orphan with mysterious origins and his young Italian nurse of a similarly uncertain birth. They lead us in their wake, from Rome to Paris, from Lisbon to London, from Parma to Venice. Always followed in the shadows, for obscure reasons, by a suspicious-looking Calabrian and a troubling cardinal, they make us explore the dark intrigues of the Vatican, the pangs of a fatal passion, a gruesome duel, banter at the court of Versailles and the convulsions of the French Revolution.
It's All So Quiet

2013

It's All So Quiet

2013
6.2
The story of a farmer who realizes that his life has been influenced to an unhealthy extent by his aging father.