Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 306

Steal a Pencil for Me

2007

Steal a Pencil for Me

2007
5.1
1943, The Netherlands is under total Nazi occupation. In Amsterdam, Jack, an unassuming accountant, first meets Ina at a birthday party - a 20-year-old beauty from a wealthy diamond manufacturing family who instantly steals his heart. But Jack's pursuit of love will be complicated; he is poor and married to Manja, a flirtatious and mercurial spouse. When the Jews are being deported, the husband, the wife and the lover find themselves at the same concentration camp; actually living in the same barracks. When Jack's wife objects to the "girlfriend" in spite of their unhappy marriage, Jack and Ina resort to writing secret love letters, which sustain them throughout the horrible circumstances of the war.
Swim Team

2016

Swim Team

2016
7.5
SWIM TEAM chronicles the overwhelming struggles and extraordinary triumphs of 3 young athletes with autism and shows how a swim team can bring hope to a community.
ÉCHO

2024

ÉCHO

2024
Mientras seamos jóvenes

2015

Mientras seamos jóvenes

2015
Two Balloons

2023

Two Balloons

2023
Two balloons fight restlessly to break free.
The Split Horn: Life of A Hmong Shaman in America

2001

The Split Horn: Life of A Hmong Shaman in America

2001
America has become the testing ground for the enduring strength of Hmong culture. THE SPLIT HORN documents the journey of Hmong shaman Paja Thao and his family from the mountains of Laos to the heartland of America: Appleton, Wisconsin. This poignant film shows a shaman's struggle to maintain his ancient traditions as his children embrace American culture. The evocative narrative captures the daily struggle of Paja Thao's family between two worlds.
Fig Tree

2018

Fig Tree

2018
7
14 year old Jewish Mina, is trying to navigate between a surreal routine dictated by the civil war in Ethiopia and her last days of youth with her Christian boyfriend Eli. When she discovers that her family is planning to immigrate to Israel and escape the war, she weaves an alternate plan in order to save Eli. But in times of war, plans tend to go wrong. Marsha's coming of age film debut film is based on her childhood memories of a civil-war-torn Ethiopia.
What 80 Million Women Want

1913

What 80 Million Women Want

1913
3.5
The women's suffrage movement inspired this silent film classic that includes appearances by equal rights crusaders Emmeline Pankhurst and Harriet Stanton Blatch. As politicos work to deny women the right to vote, a young lawyer tells his activist girlfriend of the corruption within the government that actively seeks to ensure that her voice is never heard.
白兔

2024

白兔

2024
The Girl Without Hands

0000

The Girl Without Hands

0000
10
On the film set of an adaptation of the Grimm’s tale -The Girl Without Hands-, the main actress sees her relationship deteriorate itself gradually as the shooting progress. The curse of the character she embodies emerge and pushes her to the frontiers of her reality.
2024: A Space Odyssey

2024

2024: A Space Odyssey

2024
When 3 lads are offered a trip on an Alien's Spaceship, the journey that takes place is an outlandish escapade throughout the cosmos.
Bichos Raros

2023

Bichos Raros

2023
10
A young film director decides to invite his weird friends to the millionaire villa in Venice. Vittorio directs a cinema with a surreal and abstract look, conditioned by his mental disorder. He and his friends ask themselves: Where is the limit between the real and the imaginary? Is God dead? Do we live in a real freedom? They all receive a long-awaited invitation to reveal their secrets and find the right answers to their questions.
Mrs. Dalloway

2023

Mrs. Dalloway

2023
About death.
The way home

1997

The way home

1997
If you ask for directions in Paris, passers-by will take a map out of your bag and give you directions. From there, I board the train back to Seoul. Trains pass through Europe and through Asia, and time speeds up by an hour a day. Seonjae gradually falls into the chaos of time. Finally, the train arrives in Seoul, and Seon-jae tries to find a house with the address, but it is impossible to find a house with only the address in the narrow and winding alleys of Seoul. Suddenly, Seon-jae realizes that his method of finding a house is not suitable for Seoul. Seon-jae stands on the road to find a house again.
The Monopoly of Stupidity

2017

The Monopoly of Stupidity

2017
A 27-year-old young man wakes up one morning with the heavy task of having to register his father's death in public records. To his surprise, he discovers that the process is much more cumbersome than he had anticipated.
Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

2022

Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free

2022
The first Muslim woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize, Shirin Ebadi has inspired millions around the globe through her work as a human rights lawyer defending women and children against a brutal regime in Iran. Now the film, Until We Are Free, tells her story of courage and defiance in the face of a government out to destroy her, her family, and her mission: to bring justice to the people and the country she loves. The Iranian government would end up taking everything from Shirin Ebadi – her marriage, her home, even her Nobel Prize medallion – but the one thing it could never steal was her spirit to fight for justice and a better future for the women of Iran.
Vaillante

2021

Vaillante

2021
9
24-year-old child marriage activist, Sali, is on a mission to end the harmful practice of child marriage. She seems to be the only person able to help the 14-year-old, soon-to-be child bride, Adi, living in a rural West African village. The tale of Adi's uncertain future and Sali's painful past shows the devastating impact child marriage can have over multiple generations as well as the bravery it takes to speak out against it.
Niech żyje miłość

1991

Niech żyje miłość

1991
A car mechanic falls in love with a married woman and does everything to be close to her.
Harvest Season

2018

Harvest Season

2018
Harvest Season follows Ed and Elsie Mason on the day the long-married couple receives the worst possible news: Elsie isn't going to win her fight against cancer.
Represent

2020

Represent

2020
1
Represent follows a teenage boy through Phoenix Art Museum during a school field trip, an experience that yields an unexpected effect.