Top Rated Movies on Kanopy - Page 489

After Winter Comes Spring

1989

After Winter Comes Spring

1989
7.6
A locomotive journey traversing the North to the South of the German Democratic Republic on the eve of its dissolution. Labourers, punks, mothers, intellectuals, young and old are implored to reflect on their life choices, the sacrifices they've made, and their place in the world. Despite everything, hope persists.
Tongpan

1977

Tongpan

1977
7.4
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before, and his struggles to make ends meet.
Doctor De Soto

1984

Doctor De Soto

1984
4.2
A kind-hearted mouse dentist and his wife find a clever way to treat a crafty fox who comes to them with a sore tooth in this Oscar nominated short, adapted from William Steig's children's book.
The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981

The Tender Tale of Cinderella Penguin

1981
6.6
Cinderella has to stay home while her evil stepsisters go to the ball. You know the rest except everyone here is a penguin (even the mice that become the "horses") and the lost slipper is more like a swimming flipper.
Solomon King

1974

Solomon King

1974
5.6
CIA trained detective Solomon King has to use all of his dirty tricks and experiences to get revenge on the person responsible for the murder of his girlfriend. A trail leads him to a desert in the Middle East.
The Activist

2014

The Activist

2014
4.8
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie star who is also an activist.
JFK: A President Betrayed

2013

JFK: A President Betrayed

2013
7.4
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, "JFK: A President Betrayed" uncovers new evidence that reveals how JFK embarked on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro and was determined to get out of Vietnam despite intense opposition inside his own government.
Philadelphia, Here I Come

1975

Philadelphia, Here I Come

1975
6.8
Friel contrasts Gar's cloistered emotional life with his gregarious social persona by portraying him as two distinct characters, a public self (Donal McCann) and a private self (Des Cave).
Lost in the Stars

1974

Lost in the Stars

1974
6.4
A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.
The Edge of Dreaming

2010

The Edge of Dreaming

2010
4.8
This is the story of a rational, skeptical woman, a mother and wife, who does not remember her dreams. Except once, when she dreamed her horse was dying. She woke so scared she went outside in the night. She found him dead. The next dream told her she would die herself, when she was 48.
Crafting a Nation

2013

Crafting a Nation

2013
6.6
Crafting A Nation is a feature length documentary and new media project about how the American craft brewers are rebuilding the economy one craft beer at a time.
Our Man in Tehran

2013

Our Man in Tehran

2013
6.5
Chronicles the true story behind Argo’s Hollywood embellishments by looking at the efforts of the venerable Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, who personally sheltered six American diplomats in the operation that became known as "the Canadian Caper."
Punk in Africa

2012

Punk in Africa

2012
7.2
Three chords, three countries, one revolution...PUNK IN AFRICA is the story of the multiracial punk movement within the recent political and social upheavals experienced in three Southern African countries: South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe.
Paul's Case

1980

Paul's Case

1980
3
Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his chance by stealing some money and subsequently running off to glamorous New York City.
Little Feet

2013

Little Feet

2013
6.1
Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey.
Tasuma: The Fighter

2004

Tasuma: The Fighter

2004
6.4
A village elder veteran expecting his pension buys a mill on credit for the community, but the repeated requests are ignored by the government bring back his fighting spirit.
Selkie

2000

Selkie

2000
4.8
Teenager Jamie moves with his mother, sister and grandfather to an island off the South Australian coast where mum has a job running a marine research station. To his discomfort, Jamie discovers he's a "selkie" - half human, half seal - that explains the webbing on his hands and also why he changes completely into a seal as soon as he hits water.
White Lies

2013

White Lies

2013
5.8
A medicine woman - a giver of life - is asked to hide a secret which may protect one life but which will destroy another.
SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació

2012

SAGRADA: El misteri de la creació

2012
5.6
Gaudi's Sagrada Familia has been continuously under construction since 1882.
Go Down Death

2014

Go Down Death

2014
5.7
A cross-episodic melange of macabre folktales supposedly penned by folklorist Jonathan Mallory Sinus.

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