Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 303

Saint-Tite

2019

Saint-Tite

2019
The Auction

2010

The Auction

2010
It's Christmas in Toronto, 1978. Eight-year-old Meehee Park longs for two things: to make her mother happy and to get a Cindy doll from Santa. But she soon realizes that Santa isn't real and her parents are struggling to make ends meet. This distresses Meehee to no end, that is until one fateful day when she comes across a neighbourhood auction that will pit her two greatest desires, leaving Meehee to choose between dreams of the past and fitting in with the present.
X500

2016

X500

2016
6.4
X Quinientos tells the story of Alex, David and Aurora, three people who live in opposite ends of the American continent, but who are connected due to their incapacity to accept mourning and to their need of changing in order to move on with their lives.
Remember?

2024

Remember?

2024
Two twin sisters live inside an abandoned soap factory. The sterile, repetitive everyday life is more and more integrated under their human skin. The memories and the expression of emotions fade but are rekindled only when exposed to light. Where they remember themselves again
The Dive

2019

The Dive

2019
6.6
It is Thursday and another war is hitting the northern part of Israel hard. Three brothers reunite in their childhood kibbutz to bury their father. Two days later the youngest has to go to war, and while he seeks guidance from his older siblings who have both experienced the battlefield, the homecoming soon spins out of control.
Enjaulada

2023

Enjaulada

2023
Athena, a girl caught in the routine, leads a life of denial of her father’s illness and fights herself for his love.
The Future Perfect

2017

The Future Perfect

2017
6.2
A smart and innovative look at the possible futures of a young Chinese immigrant to Buenos Aires, told in the stilted language of an elementary Spanish textbook.
Actor Martinez

2016

Actor Martinez

2016
4.4
Dreaming of fame and fortune, a local Denver performer hires two indie filmmakers to come to town and make a film with him as the star.
Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004

Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004
7.3
After a lion kills the village leader, the expected rains fail to arrive, so a group of warriors are sent to hunt the lion down and kill it in hopes that the rains will come at last.
Kindling

2024

Kindling

2024
Two estranged childhood friends, Henry and Carter, reconnect in their early twenties for a final, turbulent canoe trip.
Guida

2014

Guida

2014
7.3
Guida, a sweet lady who has been working as an archivist at a Courthouse for 30 years, has her routine changed when she sees a newspaper ad about life drawing classes in a cultural center of the city.
The Daughter

2025

The Daughter

2025
Unable to bear the financial pressure of raising a child, an Iranian couple decided to give up having children and instead use love and desire to give birth to an imaginary daughter. In this imaginary family, they are free from the constraints of reality and fully experience the joy and troubles of being parents. However, as time goes by, this carefully constructed dream of having a child begins to gradually devour the wife's sanity, pushing her to the brink of mental breakdown.
Location Hunting

1990

Location Hunting

1990
5
Rüdiger Stein starts filming Klaus and Manuela, young expectant parents, for a documentary on the topic "Starting a Family." As the project threatens to fall apart, Rüdiger becomes personally involved in this family-to-be, an experience which enables him to open his eyes to his life and work.
Nowhere

2023

Nowhere

2023
Two estranged childhood friends unexpectedly reunite and decide to journey home together
The Animal

1976

The Animal

1976
5.8
A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who never speak, appear at the window; an old woman calls them away.
Battalion to my beat

2016

Battalion to my beat

2016
5.6
Eager to escape a life of confinement in the refugee camps of Western Sahara in Algeria, Mariam flees into the desert to join the army, naively believing herself to be the Joan of Arc who will save her country from occupation.
Clando

1996

Clando

1996
6
Proud and determined, the hunter set out, leaving behind his village ravaged by a terrible drought. All the villagers came out to wish him well, and everyone gave what he could: an egg, a handful of peanuts or a few kola nuts... As in the folktale, Sobgui, a former computer programmer who now drives a "clando" cab in Douala, flees to Europe to escape a life in Cameroon which has become unbearable. In Cologne (Germany), Sobgui joins a community of African emigrants. Most are hard-working and ambitious people. Sobgui begins a love affair with Madeleine, a German political activist who encourages Sobgui and his friends to return home and fight for change.
We Are Mari Pepa

2013

We Are Mari Pepa

2013
7
The story of Alex, a 16 year old teenager living with his grandma.He has various plans for the summer: writing a new song with his rock band, finding a job and having his first sexual experience. He also becomes aware that his grandma is increasingly dependent on him. As summer draws on, Alex realizes that things are going to change forever and that he will have to grow up and learn to say goodbye.
Εμένα Ο Γιος Μου

2020

Εμένα Ο Γιος Μου

2020
Shadow Panic

1989

Shadow Panic

1989
Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.