Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 281

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 ...
A Girl Like Him

2025

A Girl Like Him

2025
4
In a small, close-knit town, lifelong best friends Lena Grey and Justin Beckett have always been each other's world. But both have been holding a deep secret from the other. As another summer comes to an end, the burden of those secrets starts to unravel.
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.
Pygmalion

2024

Pygmalion

2024
7.2
A friendship between two high-school girls gets progressively more emotionally abusive and co-dependent, until one of them is forced to face the way we let other people cast us in unwanted roles.
Don't Look Deeper

2020

Don't Look Deeper

2020
6.5
In near-future California, high school senior Aisha learns a dark secret about herself. She goes from dreams of graduation and college...to suddenly running for her life.
Monsters Within

2025

Monsters Within

2025
2.5
Life brings Luke Wolf back to his hometown where his sister, who has Down Syndrome, is. Things are different, or maybe it's just that now he's different. After years of running from his problems, Luke must face his monsters.
The Great Phuket

2024

The Great Phuket

2024
7
Fourteen-year-old Li Xing lives in a district full of ruins and reconstruction. School brings him nothing but problems and his family is no help at all. One day, he finds an underground shelter where strange things happen...
Between the Lights

2023

Between the Lights

2023
8
When skeptical scientist Alice falls for reluctant medium Jay, she's taken on an odyssey of love, loss and discovery that will turn her world upside down.
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.
The Talent

2023

The Talent

2023
7.5
On the set of a luxury car commercial, an overlooked assistant seizes his chance to get noticed by the star.
How I Learned to Fly

2023

How I Learned to Fly

2023
3.5
Two African-American teenage boys are suddenly and mysteriously abandoned by their parents. The two have to learn how to survive on their own. From this desertion, comes an experience of beauty, meaning and enduring love.
Lovebugs

2023

Lovebugs

2023
7.5
From his cozy library inside the walls of a suburban home, an intellectual snail tells of his life’s love, loss and change.
Daughter of the Sun

2023

Daughter of the Sun

2023
5
A 12-year-old girl lives life on the run alongside her father who has Tourette Syndrome. Desperately seeking a normal family life, she befriends a group of outcasts who want to harness a volatile supernatural power her father is hiding.
Strong Enough

2022

Strong Enough

2022
5.5
A cross-training athlete on the path to become a pro tests her limits one afternoon by pursuing several world-records just as conflict from her dissolving marriage collides, threatening to derail her.
Hungry Ghost Diner

2023

Hungry Ghost Diner

2023
6
Bonnie, recovered from youth trauma during Hungry Ghost Festival, begins experiencing her uncle’s mysterious appearance, unannounced after closing business. Returning to her hometown, she realized her uncle has died and missed the last chance to be with him. After arguing with her father, attempt to leave the town has failed by Covid-19 lock down. Stranded in her family’s old coffee shop, she found out it’s haunted by her relatives returning for the Hungry Ghost Festival.
Starring Jerry as Himself

2024

Starring Jerry as Himself

2024
6
Jerry, an ordinary immigrant dad, retired in Orlando, is recruited to be an undercover agent for the Chinese police. Jerry’s family recreates the events on film and his three sons discover a darker truth. True crime meets spy thriller in this genre-bending docufiction hybrid about an immigrant’s search for the American dream. A Slamdance Film Festival Grand Jury and Audience Award winner.
The Other Widow

2022

The Other Widow

2022
6.5
A dark comedic drama about Ella, a 34-year-old theater costume designer who experiences the sudden death of her married lover. As she begins to frequent his Shiva and observe the life that was forbidden to her until now, Ella will get too close to his mourning family.
The Manhattan Project

2022

The Manhattan Project

2022
4.5
When a small-town cocktail-enthusiast decides to kill himself after being diagnosed with a terminal illness he must deal with the repercussion his choice has on his son and his community.