Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 34

Tevye

1939

Tevye

1939
6
Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed daughter Tseytl, her two children, and his younger daughter, the unmarried Khave. Khave is being courted by Fedya, a Christian, the son of a local government official. Tevye warns Khave against romance and marriage outside her faith, but Fedya is persuasive too. What will Khave decide, how will Tevye react, and when the Tsar initiates a pogrom, will Tevye's friends come to his defense? Can the stubborn Tevye reconcile his heart and tradition?
Slogan

1969

Slogan

1969
5.6
Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
The Summer Book

2025

The Summer Book

2025
7.1
The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.
Love Story

1970

Love Story

1970
6.8
Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
Solo

2023

Solo

2023
5.6
Emerging Montreal drag queen Simon must deal with two impossible loves: a passionate, yet destructive affair with Olivier and a cold relationship with his mother, who's just returned after fifteen years.
Sheriff Teddy

1957

Sheriff Teddy

1957
6.3
A story about thirteen years old Kalle who is moving with the family from West Berlin to East.
Animalia

2023

Animalia

2023
6
Itto, a young woman from a modest rural background, is slowly adapting to the Moroccan privileged codes of her husband’s family. But when supernatural events put the country in a state of emergency, Itto finds herself separated from her husband and new family. Alone, pregnant and looking for her way back, she finds emancipation.
Ageless Love

2022

Ageless Love

2022
4.5
This extraordinary story begins in the late 1960’s during turbulent times when Yale, 23, idealistic and fresh out of college meets Nina, 37 and widowed with 5 children. Yale’s parents aren’t thrilled about the budding relationship, yet despite the obstacles Nina and Yale fall in love. This is a true love story of a couple who went against the social norms of their times to prove love conquers all.
If Beale Street Could Talk

2018

If Beale Street Could Talk

2018
6.9
After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence.
Russian Red

2016

Russian Red

2016
6
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
Passion Fish

1992

Passion Fish

1992
6.9
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own.
Back Home

2020

Back Home

2020
5.8
The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions.
Dogs

2016

Dogs

2016
6.2
Roman returns to the land near the Ukrainian border he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land - and their smuggling business - without a fight.
Carajita

2023

Carajita

2023
6
Sara and her nanny Yarisa have a relationship that seems to transcend their class conditions: they are the closest thing to a daughter-mother, but an accident will test their intimate loyalty and the innocent illusion of never separating.
Ms. Purple

2019

Ms. Purple

2019
6.2
Kasie, stuck in LA’s Koreatown, works as a karaoke hostess getting paid for her companionship by drunken men. When her dad’s hospice nurse quits she reconnects with her estranged brother, Carey, forcing them to enter a period of intense self-reflection as their single father who raised them nears death.
Parting Glances

1986

Parting Glances

1986
6.8
Michael and Robert, two gay men living in Brooklyn, spend their last day together before Robert leaves for Africa on work assignment. Michael still has feelings for his friend Nick, who has AIDS.
New World

2013

New World

2013
7.4
An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Big Fan

2009

Big Fan

2009
6.1
Paul Aufiero, a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan". One night, Paul and his best friend Sal spot Giants star linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station and decide to follow him. At a strip club Paul cautiously decides to approach him but the chance encounter brings Paul's world crashing down around him.
The Gift

2000

The Gift

2000
6.5
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of a missing local woman, Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.
Mr. Kaplan

2014

Mr. Kaplan

2014
6.3
Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now turning 76, he is grumpy and in need of adventure. An unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness comes in the form of a quiet, elderly German, who Mr Kaplan believes to be a runaway Nazi. Determined to capture this Nazi, as Eichmann was captured before him, Mr Kaplan surprises everyone when he takes up this challenge.