Top Rated Movies on Kanopy - Page 307

Mrs. Santa Claus

1996

Mrs. Santa Claus

1996
5.8
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the neighborhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side.
Wunderkinder

2011

Wunderkinder

2011
6.6
Three musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.
Chameleon Street

1991

Chameleon Street

1991
6.7
William Douglas Street is bored with his life. Working for his father is getting to him, his wife wants more money, and he's had enough. His solution is to re-invent himself. He becomes a chameleon, taking on whatever role suits the situation. From reporter to doctor to lawyer, he impersonates anyone he feels a need to be and he can earn money being.
Perfect Friday

1970

Perfect Friday

1970
6.1
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Last Days Here

2011

Last Days Here

2011
7.3
Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life back.
Saving Face

2012

Saving Face

2012
7
Every year hundreds of people - mostly women - are attacked with acid in Pakistan. Follow several of these survivors, their fight for justice, and a Pakistani plastic surgeon who has returned to his homeland to help them restore their faces and their lives.
Dancing in the Dust

2004

Dancing in the Dust

2004
7
When forced to divorce his wife by family and social pressure because her mother is a prostitute, Nazar works double shifts to pay back the loan he took out for his impulsive wedding and to pay some ongoing restitution to his sweet jilted bride, Reyhaneh. When he falls behind in the payments he flees the police and ends up in the desert with an uncommunicative old man who catches poisonous snakes for their venom. These two are forced to coexist in the desert, because Nazar is unwilling to return to the city and wants to catch snakes to make enough money to settle his debts. His verbose, chattering annoys the reticent old man until Nazar's life is endangered.
Arrowsmith

1931

Arrowsmith

1931
6.6
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
Crazy Horse

2011

Crazy Horse

2011
6.5
A cinéma vérité look inside Paris' Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.
What's Cooking?

2000

What's Cooking?

2000
5.5
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
Vegucated

2011

Vegucated

2011
6.7
Explores the challenges of converting to a vegan diet. It "follows three meat-and-cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks.
The Shrink Is In

2001

The Shrink Is In

2001
4.8
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
Love Serenade

1996

Love Serenade

1996
5.9
Two sisters in an Australian country town develop a fierce and competitive crush on their new neighbour, a brooding and self-centred radio personality.
The Perfume of Yvonne

1994

The Perfume of Yvonne

1994
5.5
It is the summer of 1958 in wealthy Lake Geneva, where an enigmatic young Frenchman begins an affair with a beautiful starlet under the watchful eye of her flamboyant elderly mentor. But in a season full of secrets, is truth the most elusive passion of all?
In the Year of the Pig

1969

In the Year of the Pig

1969
6.9
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
Something Ventured

2011

Something Ventured

2011
6.4
Apple. Intel. Genentech. Atari. Google. Cisco. Stratospheric successes with high stakes all around. Behind some of the world's most revolutionary companies are a handful of men who (through timing, foresight, a keen ability to size up other people, and a lot of luck) saw opportunity where others did not: these are the original venture capitalists. All were backing and building companies before the term 'venture capital' had been coined: companies that led to the birth of biotechnology and the spectacular growth in microprocessors, personal computers and the web. SOMETHING VENTURED uncovers the ups and downs of the building of some of the greatest companies of the twentieth century, and the hidden dramas behind some of the most famous names in business.
Love Unto Death

1984

Love Unto Death

1984
6.6
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
Storm in a Teacup

1937

Storm in a Teacup

1937
7.5
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Careful

1992

Careful

1992
5.9
The mountain-village passions of a German widow and her sons unfold in the style of a 1920s expressionist movie.
The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2002

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

2002
6.9
This riveting documentary depicts former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as a warmonger responsible for military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia and East Timor, as well as the assassination of a Chilean leader in 1970. Based on a book by journalist Christopher Hitchens, the film includes interviews with historians, political analysts and such journalists as New York Times writer William Safire, a former Nixon speechwriter.

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