Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 49

Stray Dolls

2019

Stray Dolls

2019
4.2
Riz is a recent South Asian immigrant who takes a job at a seedy motel in a bid to start over in America. But the motel’s other employees and guests pull her back into a life she preferred to leave behind.
A Vigilante

2019

A Vigilante

2019
5.4
A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.
Mississippi Burning

1988

Mississippi Burning

1988
7.7
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Rimini

2022

Rimini

2022
6.3
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.
Sway

2014

Sway

2014
4.7
Three parallel love stories set in three different cities are set against some of the major international events of the last five years, in this ambitious.
Butter

2020

Butter

2020
6
A lonely obese boy everyone calls "Butter" is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death-live on the Internet - and everyone is invited to watch.
Outsourced

2007

Outsourced

2007
6.4
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
The Penalty

1920

The Penalty

1920
6.9
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
High Ground

2021

High Ground

2021
6.3
In a remote corner of the wild country, a bloody war rages. Travis is a bounty hunter with one last hope of redemption. Gutjuk is a young Indigenous man trying to save the last of his family. Together they embark on a manhunt, which unravels a secret that ultimately pits them against each other.
Boiler Room

2000

Boiler Room

2000
6.7
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm and is on the fast track to success—but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
The Homecoming

1973

The Homecoming

1973
6
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence and introduces the four men - father, uncle and two brothers - to his wife.
Happy Christmas

2014

Happy Christmas

2014
5.1
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Side Effects

2005

Side Effects

2005
5.6
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat expense account. But there's a growing pit in Karly's stomach. Something isn't right behind the scenes at big pharma. Based on the director's decade working directly for the industry.
Barbara

2012

Barbara

2012
7.2
In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre.
Long December

2023

Long December

2023
4.3
At the end of another bleak year, a struggling musician continues to chase his dreams of stardom.
Revoir Paris

2022

Revoir Paris

2022
7.1
Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
Ma

2015

Ma

2015
5.2
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary's pilgrimage, a woman crosses the American Southwest playfully deconstructing the woman’s role in a world of roles.
Stay as You Are

1978

Stay as You Are

1978
5.6
A May-December romance. Roué Giulio Marengo, a Roman landscape architect unhappy in his marriage, meets Francesca, a young and beautiful Florentine, and then learns she might be his daughter. He resolves to keep his hands off but can't seem to stay away, and she's eager for a lover who's a father figure.
Luzzu

2021

Luzzu

2021
6.8
Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby.
Aferim!

2015

Aferim!

2015
7.3
Set in early 19th century Wallachia, Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.