Popular Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 91

To the Stars

2019

To the Stars

2019
5.8
Under small-town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Body and Soul

1925

Body and Soul

1925
6.2
A convict escapes to a Southern town and passes himself off as a reverend, giving him the perfect cover to swindle the townspeople and corrupt an innocent young woman.
Seven Veils

2025

Seven Veils

2025
5.6
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she re-enters the opera world after so many years away.
King Lear

2018

King Lear

2018
Lear, the aging king of Britain, decides to step down from the throne and divide his kingdom evenly among his three daughters.
Roaming

2013

Roaming

2013
6.5
A socially introverted game designer named William Borchert has barely left his house in years. Once reunited with Olivia, the girl he had loved since high school, he fights to live with his condition of undiagnosed Autism and to form a hopeful future.
Dare

2009

Dare

2009
5.7
When a pompous actor tells good girl Alexa that she hasn't lived, she embarks on a bold journey that takes her to mysterious bad boy Johnny. Envious, her shy best friend Ben also dares to pursue Johnny.
Aberdeen

2000

Aberdeen

2000
6.4
Kaisa is a Scot, a successful London lawyer, who snorts coke and has one-night stands with strangers. Her mother calls from Aberdeen with some story begging her to fly to Norway and collect her alcoholic dad whom she hasn't seen in years.
Barefoot Gen

1983

Barefoot Gen

1983
7.6
A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.
Bordertown

2007

Bordertown

2007
6.3
American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products. Lauren Adrian, an impassioned American news reporter for the Chicago Sentinel wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Monday

2021

Monday

2021
6.5
A spark on a Friday can lead to a sizzling weekend fling, but what happens when you get to the inevitable Monday?
The English Teacher

2013

The English Teacher

2013
5.5
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Threads

1985

Threads

1985
7.6
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
The Kindergarten Teacher

2014

The Kindergarten Teacher

2014
6.1
A teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone.
Bernie

2012

Bernie

2012
6.6
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
The Air I Breathe

2007

The Air I Breathe

2007
6.3
A gambler’s bet spiraling into chaos, a gangster's prophetic visions, a pop star’s dark entanglement, a doctor’s desperate race against time to rescue his beloved... Four interconnected stories reveal life unfolding through four emotional pillars — joy, passion, grief, and love.
Afire

2023

Afire

2023
6.8
Self-important author Leon joins his best friend on a summer holiday near the Baltic Sea to complete his novel. When they arrive, they find their house is already occupied by a carefree woman who challenges Leon to open up. Meanwhile, forest wildfires rage around them and impending disaster looms.
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

2013

The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

2013
6.8
After living a long and colorful life, Allan Karlsson finds himself stuck in a nursing home. On his 100th birthday, he leaps out a window and begins an unexpected journey.
Peter von Kant

2022

Peter von Kant

2022
5.7
Peter von Kant, a successful, famous director, lives with his assistant Karl, whom he likes to mistreat and humiliate. Through the great actress Sidonie, he meets and falls in love with Amir, a handsome young man of modest means. He offers to share his apartment and help Amir break into the world of cinema. Several months later, Amir becomes a star. But as soon as he acquires fame, he breaks up with Peter, leaving him alone to face himself.
A Star Is Born

1937

A Star Is Born

1937
7.2
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
The Soloist

2009

The Soloist

2009
6.7
A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.