Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 301

Our Brother James

2001

Our Brother James

2001
10
Australia has one of the highest youth suicide rates in the world. The suicide rate in men under 25 has tripled in the last 30 years, and young men in rural and remote communities are particularly vulnerable. This reality has disturbing implications for society. When it affects you directly, it's shattering. In this very personal film, director Jessica Douglas-Henry and her sister Alix explore the impact of their brother’s suicide. In 1996 James Dalmann killed himself. He was found dead in the bathroom of his housing commission unit in Geraldton, Western Australia. James was only twenty. Although this film is about James, it's really Alix's story. It's about the people left behind, whose lives have been changed forever by the suicide of someone they loved. Although Our Brother James focuses on a personal tragedy, it is ultimately a film about survival and growth, about love, strength and hope for the future.
Battle for Brooklyn

2011

Battle for Brooklyn

2011
5
An intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by residents and business owners of Brooklyn’s historic Prospect Heights neighborhood facing condemnation of their property to make way for the polarizing Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets.
Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

2018

Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel

2018
8
A team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world.
You Hurt My Feelings

2012

You Hurt My Feelings

2012
5
A melancholy ex-boyfriend becomes a nanny to prove to his girlfriend that he’s ready to have children.
LifeCycle

2025

LifeCycle

2025
Explores the haunting unraveling of Renato D'Auréli, a fictionalized auteur whose obsession with artistic perfection ultimately consumes his life and legacy. Set against the backdrop of 20th-century cinema's golden age, the film is a meditation on time, ambition, and the cost of genius.
Snow for Water

2018

Snow for Water

2018
6
Two children brave Serbian snipers to collect snow for water during the Siege of Sarajevo in 1994.
While We Live

2016

While We Live

2016
7.2
Kandia, an African women in her fifties who has lived in Sweden for 30 years, decides to move back to Gambia. Her son Ibbe, who dreams of a career in hip hop and is about to make a breakthrough, goes with her. Their encounter with their homeland, however, doesn't turn out the way they imagined. A warm, broad drama comedy about a universal theme: identity.
Britt-Marie Was Here

2019

Britt-Marie Was Here

2019
5.2
Britt-Marie, a woman in her sixties, decides to leave her husband and start anew. Having been a housewife for most of her life and living in the small backwater town of Borg with few jobs available, she soon finds herself fending a youth football team.
Tonight and Tomorrow Morning

1980

Tonight and Tomorrow Morning

1980
A woman in her mid thirties drifts through Berlin on a Friday night then lazes around her apartment with her husband the next morning.
The First Name

2023

The First Name

2023
5
At 31, Fanta, a lawyer, is pregnant and about to give birth. Following a phone call between her husband and her mother-in-law, she discovers that the latter has already chosen the baby's name. Stunned by this situation, she decides to fight for the right to name her child.
The Building of a Nation

1938

The Building of a Nation

1938
The epic (and very costly) retelling of the history of South Africa from 1652 to 1910, made to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Great Trek (1838)
Son of Man

2006

Son of Man

2006
8.8
One man's journey of love, deception and betrayal in contemporary South Africa. Based on the New Testament.
Where the Forest Meets the Sea

2025

Where the Forest Meets the Sea

2025
Two young men, one a warehouse cleaner and the other a drifting photographer, form an unlikely friendship. Although their time together is fleeting, what they share is infinite.
A Steam Train Passes

1974

A Steam Train Passes

1974
Generally regarded as Australia's finest railway film and winner of many awards the world over, A Steam Train Passes is a nostalgic, imaginative essay on one of the majestic C38 class steam locomotives, 3801. The locomotive has recently returned to service and is currently operating out of the NSW Rail Museum at Thirlmere, south of Sydney.
Everyone's Child

1996

Everyone's Child

1996
5.7
Two teens, Tamari and Itai, are impoverished following the death of their parents when their uncle takes their plow which they need to feed themselves. While their preoccupied neighbors in the village ignore them, Itai leaves for Harare and Tamari stays behind to care for their younger brother and sister. Finally, some of the neighbors notice and come together to support the children.
Winning a Continent

1916

Winning a Continent

1916
5
This epic film was one of the first South African dramatic film productions. It tells the story of the Boers’ Great Trek at the end of the 1830s, concluding with a hegemonic reconstruction of the 1838 Battle of Blood River, where a few hundred armed Afrikaners defeated several thousand Zulus.
Roads in February

2019

Roads in February

2019
6.1
Driven by childhood memories and the hope of a reencounter, Sarah visits her paternal grandmother in her village in Uruguay. She takes long to understand the prevailing unease… But she is soon faced with the gap between her fantasy regarding the place of origin and that village of old people forgotten by Modernity where the heat is overwhelming and the days seem to last forever. Cultural shock, humor, tenderness and sadness give shape to this bitter-sweet film.
Fences

2023

Fences

2023
An elderly recluse woman dreams of meeting again with her grandson who left for the USA, who was once her whole life, but her mental berries and fears don’t let her achieve this.
Omar

2013

Omar

2013
7.1
The drama, the story of three childhood friends and a young woman who are torn apart in their fight for freedom, is billed as the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry.
The Souvenir

2024

The Souvenir

2024
The story of a girl's life that has been destroyed due to the death of her mother. But her mother's death is not the main reason, and the external roots of the problem are slowly emerging...