Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 234

Kamikaze Hearts

1986

Kamikaze Hearts

1986
5.4
Porn stars Sharon Mitchell and Tigr navigate the ups and downs of being in love while working in the sex industry.
Siddharth

2013

Siddharth

2013
7
A chain-wallah from Delhi travels across India in search of his missing son, in the hopes that whoever took him, returns him unharmed.
Social Butterfly

2013

Social Butterfly

2013
5.5
A 30-year-old American woman enters a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.
Diablo

2012

Diablo

2012
7.1
A depressed former boxing champion gets involved in a big problem with his cousin the same day that he was about to make up with his ex-girlfriend.
Manslaughter

1922

Manslaughter

1922
5.2
Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman.
Betty and Coretta

2013

Betty and Coretta

2013
7.2
The widows of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and how they carry on as single mothers after the assassination of their husbands.
Illusions

1982

Illusions

1982
5.5
A woman in a Hollywood dubbing studio struggles with race and preconceptions. The short film depicts the life of an African American woman passing as a white woman working in the film industry during the 1940s. It calls attention to the lack of African Americans in the film industry during that era.
La Yuma

2009

La Yuma

2009
5.8
This is the story of Yuma a strong-willed and rebellious girl from the poor neighborhoods of Managua who dreams of being a boxer.
All Screwed Up

1974

All Screwed Up

1974
6.4
A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
Hostage

1983

Hostage

1983
4.1
Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

1991
5.5
A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
The Deflowering of Eva van End

2012

The Deflowering of Eva van End

2012
5.6
The ugly duckling of a fraught middle-class household has her life turned upside-down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student, in this caustic, absurdist satire of petit-bourgeois family life from Dutch director Michiel ten Horn. (TIFF)
Luminous Motion

2000

Luminous Motion

2000
4.3
A single mother and her 10-year-old son motor around the country as she makes ends meet and enters various relationships that her son has yet to understand.
Thousand Pieces of Gold

1991

Thousand Pieces of Gold

1991
6.8
In 1880s China, young Lalu is sold into marriage by her impoverished father. Rather than becoming a bride, Lalu ends up in an Idaho gold-mining town, the property of a saloon owner who renames her, China Polly, and plans to sell her as entertainment for the locals. Refusing to become a whore, Lalu ultimately finds her own way in this strange country filled with white demons.
The Wide Blue Road

1957

The Wide Blue Road

1957
6
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
Silent Waters

2003

Silent Waters

2003
6.5
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.
Identikit

1974

Identikit

1974
6.2
A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.
Femme Fatale

1991

Femme Fatale

1991
3.5
A worried artist tries to locate his wife who suddenly abandoned him only to discover that she led a secret life - or two. He proceeds to investigate her past and stirs up a hornet's nest.
Newsfront

1978

Newsfront

1978
5.3
Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly changing times in which they live.
Littlerock

2010

Littlerock

2010
5.4
A pair of Japanese siblings get stranded in small-town California and become friends with other twentysomethings they meet, despite the complete lack of a common verbal language.