Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 116

Saajan

1991

Saajan

1991
6.4
A poet and his best friend fall in love with the same woman.
Come Back, Little Sheba

1952

Come Back, Little Sheba

1952
7.4
A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.
The Turning Wind

1962

The Turning Wind

1962
6.9
In Bahia, an educated black man returns to his home fishing village to try and free people from mysticism, in particular the Candomblé religion, which he considers a factor of political and social oppression, with tragic outcome.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

1977
6.2
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Graduate First

1978

Graduate First

1978
6.2
A slice of life of a group of young working class friends in a Northern French village coming to the end of their school years and embarking upon adult life. The film follows the choices and decisions made for their futures.
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

1989

Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

1989
7.2
About three monks in a remote monastery; an aging master, a small orphan and a young man who left his city life to seek Enlightenment.
Mozart's Sister

2010

Mozart's Sister

2010
6.4
A re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart, five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right.
Grimm

2003

Grimm

2003
5.8
One cold winter's day, Jacob and his sister Marie are abandoned in a wood by their out of work father. In his jacket Jacob finds a letter from their mother urging them to go to her brother in Spain. Once in Spain, it turns out that their uncle is dead. Marie meets Diego, a wealthy charming Spanish surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his sick, domineering sister, Teresa. To Jacob's astonishment, Marie wants to marry Diego. Even after the wedding has taken place, jealous Jacob tries to get his sister away from Diego. When this doesn't succeed, Jacob starts to provoke his brother-in-law. It soon transpires that no one will go unpunished for this.
Boy and Bicycle

1965

Boy and Bicycle

1965
5.7
A teenage boy plays truant from school, and spends the day riding around the town and the deserted beach on his bicycle, letting his mind wander as he imagines he is the only person in the world...
Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004

Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog

2004
7
A Labrador retriever named Quill begins specialized training as a guide dog from an early age, then the canine is paired with a blind man who is initially reluctant to rely on his new partner.
The Romantic Englishwoman

1975

The Romantic Englishwoman

1975
5.5
A marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually return with another man, through whom the writer is going to overcome his writer's block.
Transylvania

2006

Transylvania

2006
5.5
Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left her without a word of explanation. When she finds him back, he brutally rejects her and Zingarina is terribly upset. She leaves her two companions and having become a wreck she hardly survives by following a wandering little girl. Her destiny changes for the best when she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader...
Repeat Performance

1947

Repeat Performance

1947
6.1
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Aberdeen

2000

Aberdeen

2000
6.5
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.
The Merry Gentleman

2008

The Merry Gentleman

2008
6.2
A woman who leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, where she forms an unlikely and ironic relationship with a suicidal hit man (unbeknownst to her). Enter a worn, alcoholic detective to form the third party in a very unusual triangle as this story begins to unfold.
Wah-Wah

2005

Wah-Wah

2005
6
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
The Secrets

2007

The Secrets

2007
6.5
Noemi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safe.
Cloud 9

2008

Cloud 9

2008
5.7
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Song Without a Name

2020

Song Without a Name

2020
6.7
Peru, at the height of the political crisis of the 1980s. Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.
The County

2019

The County

2019
6.3
A widowed farmer begins a new life on her own terms by fighting against corruption and injustice in her community.