Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 73

The Dead

1987

The Dead

1987
6.8
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
I'll Be There

2003

I'll Be There

2003
5.3
A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
Destroyer

2018

Destroyer

2018
5.9
When Erin Bell was a young cop, she was given an undercover assignment that ended badly and destroyed her life. Years later, she must face her demons in order to make peace with her past.
Hair

1979

Hair

1979
7.3
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Smoking Tigers

2024

Smoking Tigers

2024
5.4
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
Hours

2013

Hours

2013
6.6
A father struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Denial

2016

Denial

2016
6.8
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.
Lord of the Flies

1963

Lord of the Flies

1963
6.7
Following a plane crash a group of schoolboys find themselves on a deserted island. They appoint a leader and attempt to create an organized society for the sake of their survival. Democracy and order soon begin to crumble when a breakaway faction regresses to savagery with horrifying consequences.
Two Women

1960

Two Women

1960
7.8
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Hideous Kinky

1999

Hideous Kinky

1999
6
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990

Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces

1990
6.3
Twelve-year-old Noura dangles uncertainly in that difficult netherworld between childhood and adulthood. His growing libido has gotten him banned from the women's baths, where his mother took him when he was younger, but he's not yet old enough to participate in grown-up discussions with the men of his Tunisian village. Noura's only real friend is a troublemaker named Salih -- the village political outcast.
Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Rocco and His Brothers

1960
8
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Song Lang

2018

Song Lang

2018
6.7
Set against a gloriously filmed backdrop of the distinctly jaded charm of mid-90s Saigon, the lives of two men intertwine as they are both bound by traditions and honor. One to his mafia family, the other to the traveling troupe that performs elaborate classic operas. Yet they have much more in common than either wants to admit.
Otomo

1999

Otomo

1999
5.3
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble and his final destiny.
The Color of Pomegranates

1969

The Color of Pomegranates

1969
7.3
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova's dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1939
7.3
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells in the heights of the immense cathedral until he is involved by the twisted magistrate in his malicious plans to free himself from Esmeralda's alleged spell, which he believes to be the devil's work.
Zatoichi

2003

Zatoichi

2003
7.2
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
Eye in the Sky

2015

Eye in the Sky

2015
7
A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
Romeo and Juliet

1976

Romeo and Juliet

1976
5
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Voyage of the Damned

1976

Voyage of the Damned

1976
6
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.