Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 294

The Power of Speech

2009

The Power of Speech

2009
10
Hardy makes a living selling knickknacks on Chilean buses. But a government announcement worries him: Chile will soon be a world-class country with a modern and elegant public transportation system, so the bus system will tolerate his job no longer. He gathers two thousand colleagues, and together they struggle to survive modernization.
Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica

2008

Mawson: Life and Death in Antarctica

2008
4
The Douglas Mawson Antarctic Expedition of 1912 is considered one of the most amazing feats of endurance of all time. Although his two companions perished, Douglas Mawson survived, but how? In a bold historical experiment, scientist and adventurer Tim Jarvis is retracing the gruelling experience, with the same meagre rations, primitive clothing and equipment to uncover what happened to Mawson physically — and mentally — as a man hanging on the precipice of life and death.
Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus

2010

Bonsai People: The Vision of Muhammad Yunus

2010
10
Bonsai People is a feature length documentary film that explores the work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus and his vision from microcredit to social business
Lucky Life

2010

Lucky Life

2010
6
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time later, as Mark and Karen plan to have a child, the beach trip lingers as a haunting memory in their new phase of life... Inspired by the poetry of Gerald Stern.
Monash: The Forgotten Anzac

2008

Monash: The Forgotten Anzac

2008
6
The story of how Australia's 'ANZAC myth' was born and the role of General John Monash in this process as soldier and statesman both during and after WW1.
Waltzing Anna

2006

Waltzing Anna

2006
6
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative career turns out to be something very different, thanks to the wacky residents and a beautiful nurse.
Writing in Water

2023

Writing in Water

2023
The story of He Shi, who by sheer chance comes across a mysterious young girl when he’s about to inherit an old beach house from his late mother. Together with the child, He Shi ventures into a world that enables him to experience life on a far more meaningful level.
Pomegranate

2025

Pomegranate

2025
When an immigrant family is subjected to a daily horror from their past, what will it take to break this cycle and give them a future?
Digital Boy

2025

Digital Boy

2025
白兔

2024

白兔

2024
Palliative

2025

Palliative

2025
Low on money and time, free spirited Brian risks anything and anyone to get what he needs by the end of the day.
Looking For Home

2024

Looking For Home

2024
In modern-day Ireland, on Christmas Eve, a hardworking man, influenced by the anti-immigrant rhetoric around him and in the media, faces a life-altering event that forces him to confront his own prejudices and realise the humanity behind those he once feared.
INFLUENCE

2025

INFLUENCE

2025
Coyotes

2025

Coyotes

2025
A Palestinian surgeon drives home after a long night shift, but little does she know that a commute through a desolate West Bank road will change her forever.
Duties of My Heart

1997

Duties of My Heart

1997
A hybrid short film that merges American Sign Language, contemporary dance, and poetry to tell a deeply personal story about expression, resilience, and the emotional weight of language. Drawing visual inspiration from the experimental dance films of the 1940s, the piece centers a Deaf protagonist whose inner world is revealed not through words, but through movement.
En la Quietud de la Noche

2025

En la Quietud de la Noche

2025
On the Day of the Dead, a 10-year-old kid anxiously awaits a visit from his grandfather from the afterlife to finally meet him
Augustus: The First Emperor

2003

Augustus: The First Emperor

2003
Old and ill, Augustus, the man who changed the fortunes and destiny of an empire by completing Julius Caesar's project, recounts the two most important phases of his life: his rise to power and his fight against the pressure of his family.
The Birth

2025

The Birth

2025
Thirty-five-year-old Kateryna works in a catering shop for offices, but she doesn't like her job. She has a rude, violent temper. The protagonist has not been able to get pregnant by her husband for ten years. Kateryna wants to undergo IVF for the third time and has almost saved up the necessary amount of money for this procedure. But at this time, Katya's former lover, the priest, returns to the village and has his own secrets.
The Morning Comes

2024

The Morning Comes

2024
A portrait of a man confronting the dread of another day in grief and solitude by the seaside.
The Daughter

2025

The Daughter

2025
Unable to bear the financial pressure of raising a child, an Iranian couple decided to give up having children and instead use love and desire to give birth to an imaginary daughter. In this imaginary family, they are free from the constraints of reality and fully experience the joy and troubles of being parents. However, as time goes by, this carefully constructed dream of having a child begins to gradually devour the wife's sanity, pushing her to the brink of mental breakdown.