Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 181

Supa Modo

2018

Supa Modo

2018
7.5
Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sister Mwix, overprotective mother Kathryn and the entire village of Maweni think they can fulfill.
A Horrible Woman

2017

A Horrible Woman

2017
6.2
When Rasmus meets Marie, he is certain that she is the love of his life. However, it doesn't take long before it turns out she is a possessive and manipulative being, that cunningly dissects Rasmus to pieces.
Without Name

2017

Without Name

2017
5.1
A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
Mad to Be Normal

2017

Mad to Be Normal

2017
5.9
The story of Scottish psychiatrist RD Laing and his unique community at Kingsley Hall, East London in the 1960s.
Jane Wants a Boyfriend

2015

Jane Wants a Boyfriend

2015
6
A young woman with Asperger's tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.
Metamorphoses

2014

Metamorphoses

2014
5.1
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
Christmas, Again

2015

Christmas, Again

2015
6.2
Noel travels from upstate New York every year to sell Christmas trees in New York City. Returning without the help of his long-time girlfriend, this year Noel finds it impossible to do the one thing he knows so well: sell Christmas trees. As Noel begins to spiral downwards, alienating co-workers and customers in the process, it turns out this same community of people may be the only ones capable of saving Noel from self-destruction.
52 Tuesdays

2014

52 Tuesdays

2014
5.1
Sixteen-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition, and their time together becomes limited to Tuesdays. This emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility, and transformation was filmed over the course of a year—once a week, every week, only on Tuesdays.
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

2013

Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

2013
5.5
Two recently released prisoners learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.
Pit Stop

2013

Pit Stop

2013
5.9
Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town
Francisca

1981

Francisca

1981
7
The life of a young man, son of an English officer who lets himself become a prisoner of love resulting in fatalism and disgrace.
Liverpool

2008

Liverpool

2008
6.8
A sailor takes a short leave to visit his hometown and see if his mother is still alive.
Keyhole

2011

Keyhole

2011
5.2
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

1976

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

1976
6.5
When a widowed mother falls in love with an American sailor, her troubled young son is pressured by the bullying leader of his clique to seek revenge.
Perfumed Nightmare

1979

Perfumed Nightmare

1979
7.1
Kidlat, a Filipino jeepney driver, is fascinated by the idea of the American space programme and by Western society as a whole. When he moves to Paris, disillusionment sets in as his dreams are gradually shattered.
Disco Godfather

1979

Disco Godfather

1979
5.4
Retired cop and celebrity DJ Tucker Williams (aka The Disco Godfather) takes to the streets as a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Angel Dust begins to take hold of the neighborhood.
Nana

1926

Nana

1926
6.5
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
Carol's Journey

2002

Carol's Journey

2002
6.1
Spain, 1938, during the Spanish Civil War. Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl, arrives in her mother's hometown and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once foreign and completely new.
Stateside

2004

Stateside

2004
5
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
Newcastle

2008

Newcastle

2008
4.8
17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even when he's in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal barges that constantly line his horizon. Jesse has the natural skills to surf his way out of this reality and onto the international circuit but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? A momentous weekend away with his mates that includes first love and tragedy leads him to discover what's really important, and also to the performance of a lifetime.