Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 186

Manganinnie

1980

Manganinnie

1980
6.4
Through lyrical images, Manganinnie journeys across mountains towards the coast with Joanna, a white girl, in search of Manganinnie's vanished tribe. The poignancy of this film derives from the Aboriginal woman's gradual realization that her people and the tribal way of life are forever gone. It is the story of the Black Drive of 1830, the near-genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
Journeys from Berlin/1971

1980

Journeys from Berlin/1971

1980
9
An epic meditation on psychoanalysis, the Baader-Meinhof, feminism, and pre-revolutionary Russia.
Mandela

1987

Mandela

1987
4.3
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country.
Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

1975

Queen of the Stardust Ballroom

1975
6.6
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.
Rocking Poponguine

1994

Rocking Poponguine

1994
5.4
A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.
The Disobedient

2014

The Disobedient

2014
6.4
As children, Leni and Lazar were best friends. When Lazar returns from extensive travels abroad for his father's funeral, Leni yearns to reconnect with her childhood soulmate but still feels the sting of their years of estrangement.
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.
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.
Those Whom Death Refused

1988

Those Whom Death Refused

1988
7.2
The story of a woman who searches through the country for her husband, a resistant, while the war for independence is raging. She finds him at last and saves his life. When peace finally arrives, they have to learn how to be together again and start living in a destroyed land.
I Want You

1951

I Want You

1951
5.2
The scene is a small town in the Eastern United States, where the outbreak of hostilities in Korea has a profound effect on several people. WWII veteran Martin Greer wants to re-enlist, much to the dismay of his wife Nancy.
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.
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.
Go Down Death

2014

Go Down Death

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

2005

What Iva Recorded

2005
8.4
Iva is a girl who receives a small digital video camera for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted by her new toy, the girl immediately starts taping everything around her, recording a series of events surrounding her birthday celebration on her first tape. These ninety minutes form the film What Iva Recorded on October 21st, 2003.
Midnight Dancers

1994

Midnight Dancers

1994
5.4
Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.
The Belle of Amherst

1976

The Belle of Amherst

1976
7.6
Portrait of 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson based on her poems, letters and notes. This is a taped broadcast of a live one-woman performance.
That's the Way of the World

1975

That's the Way of the World

1975
6.3
Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become.
Roseanna McCoy

1949

Roseanna McCoy

1949
6.1
It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys in this 1949 film, with Farley Granger and Joan Evans as the hillbilly Romeo and Juliet whose forbidden romance rekindles a long-standing feud between their respective families.