Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 199

Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven

1982

Sabine Kleist, Aged Seven

1982
5.1
Little Sabine has spent her childhood in an orphanage after her parents died in a car accident. When one of the women in charge at the orphanage, Edith, leaves to have a baby, Sabine runs away, because Edith was the only adult there she could trust. She then wanders through the city to find someone to take her in. She meets a lot of people on her journey, but she seems out of place everywhere she goes until, at last, she realizes that there is a special place where she belongs.
Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004

Masai and the Rain Warriors

2004
7.3
After a lion kills the village leader, the expected rains fail to arrive, so a group of warriors are sent to hunt the lion down and kill it in hopes that the rains will come at last.
Risen

2010

Risen

2010
4.3
As one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An industrial accident results in Winstone losing three fingers on his right hand. Through sheer determination, and despite only being able to make a fist with one hand, Winstone develops a dynamic new style and begins boxing his way back up the amateur ranks eventually turning pro. Supported by his family and guided by new trainer, Eddie Thomas, Winstone becomes the Champion of Britain and then Europe. Now, with the hopes of an entire nation on his shoulders, he is stood poised to challenge for the crown of Featherweight Champion of the World ...
Oliver Twist

1974

Oliver Twist

1974
5
In this animated version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, we see the story of young Oliver Twist, a boy orphaned at birth and left to grow up under the cruel tutelage of Mr. Bumble, the local parish beadle.
Training Rules

2009

Training Rules

2009
4.3
Examines how women's collegiate sports, caught in a web of homophobic practices, collude in the destruction of the lives and dreams of many of its most talented athletes.
Halat

2025

Halat

2025
8
Nila, a younger sister who now feels alienated from her own older sibling. She actually misses the times when their relationship was so close. However, now, every time she sees her older sister, she feels distant. Not understanding what to do, she finally tried to build some talk through cooking. Tracing every memory they have together, hoping that their relationship will return to being as warm as before. They connected conversation after conversation, exchanging news and childhood memories, until finally Nila revealed the anxiety that was hidden deep in her heart. About how the house really is, about her current situation, and about the wrong understanding that has grown within her.
Azure Dust - Inside Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone

2016

Azure Dust - Inside Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone

2016
7.8
The story about Chornobyl area, all around the world we know of the disaster in 1986. The film may be called a guide to the Exclusion Zone. Thanks to the unique footage from the place of the tragedy, that the crew succeeded to capture, the viewers will have a chance for a full immersion into the atmosphere of the events and, along with the heroes of the film, feel the dreadful and amazing air that reigns where one of the major anthropogenic disasters took place.
Animals

2014

Animals

2014
5
A trio of friends find themselves in a "what if" situation on the road to the movies.
Clemency

2023

Clemency

2023
4
Summer of 1942. A fierce battle begins near Stalingrad, the outcome of which will decide the fate of the whole world... Twenty-year-old sergeant Lubomir Zukh, who has not yet smelled gunpowder, left his unit in the frontline zone to say goodbye to his girlfriend. He was out of the unit for only three hours! But according to the laws of wartime, he is a deserter. And the punishment for this is one thing — execution. The sentence is too harsh, and everyone understands that. Will the flywheel of the military machine stop, will there be an order for pardon?
Apollyon - The Black Awakening

2021

Apollyon - The Black Awakening

2021
7
Throughout 10 cryptic and traumatic chapters, we indulge in to realm of serial killers via cults and demons. Chapter one begins with The Black Awakening. Outcast and loner Hayden Kroll awakens to a bloody corpse in a Miami motel room. Tormented by his actions, Hayden seeks to find answers behind his demonic bloodlust. Apollyon gives a new meaning to hell on earth in this supernatural horror film. While Hayden looks to put an end to his sadistic behavior, a series of isolated events occur that brings his demons full circle. As detectives uncover Hayden's bloody trial, they seek the help of paranormal investigator, Sara. Through trials tribulations, Hayden looks to find a way out of the seemingly endless rabbit hole of evil, anguish, and death.
Barbie Blues

2011

Barbie Blues

2011
7.5
Israeli teen girl by the backyard pool finds a curious symbol floating atop the water . With her new neighbor she grapples with its significance as a 2011 cautionary tale within a Lolitaesque power struggle in the sex pit.
Hunting Bigfoot

2022

Hunting Bigfoot

2022
4
Hunting Bigfoot (2021) A film that skillfully melds the worlds of narrative feature and documentary to capture this portrait of a broken man obsessively pursuing personal and professional redemption in a world where many of those close to him think he's crazy.
Dinner Party

2022

Dinner Party

2022
1
A dinner party with a group of diverse childhood friends turns into a moment for all attendees to look at their own histories, and determine whether the friendship that binds them can withstand their differences.
Dario

2018

Dario

2018
8.5
Dario, a young student prepares for an admission exam.
The Book of Job

2021

The Book of Job

2021
5
The Book of Job is about a high school student who has trouble separating reality from fiction. Young Job falls "madly in love" with a new girl who catches his eye one Sunday mass. In the midst of his conforming to what he believes to be her idealized standards, he realizes his life is about so much more than simply himself.
Ayar

2021

Ayar

2021
6
Ayar, a first-generation American Latina, returns home to reunite with her daughter. But when her mother, Renata, refuses to let her see her due to Covid, Ayar is confronted by the many roles she’s been forced to play, including the role in this film.
Firstness

2021

Firstness

2021
5
A maladjusted dad is trying to heal in an experimental therapy group called Infinite Beginnings. Meanwhile, his nonbinary kid is getting close with an older man. Their relationship feels both dreamy and concerning—depending on whose watching.
Fire in the Mountains

2022

Fire in the Mountains

2022
8
A mother toils to save money to build a road in a Himalayan village to take her wheelchair-bound son for physiotherapy, but her husband, who believes that an expensive religious ritual is the remedy, steals her savings.
Cynthia

2019

Cynthia

2019
9.5
A dinner party with old friends takes a shocking turn as wounds are exposed, revelations are made, and the past resurfaces. Over one tense evening, Cynthia learns that some things can never be unsaid.
Our Hearts Beat Like War

2020

Our Hearts Beat Like War

2020
6.5
A boy’s delightful fantasy world collides with the harsh, grown-up realities he discovers at the refugee-aid centre where his mother works.