Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 295

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.
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
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.
Love Me!

2024

Love Me!

2024
A guy loves a girl named Charos, but hides it and demands that the girl be more beautiful, like the women in the movies he watches. Suddenly, a woman appears, with whom the guy falls in love. But whether it happened in life or not - that is the question!
What Tomorrow Brings

2025

What Tomorrow Brings

2025
Clara is entering her senior year of high school - a time in life that should be carefree and filled with anticipation for the future - but her mom's mental health issues will alter Clara's plans and her sole priority will become protecting her younger sister, Ruby. Over the ensuing three months, Clara spirals to the breaking point.
Roberto

2024

Roberto

2024
LifeCycle

2025

LifeCycle

2025
Explores the haunting unraveling of Renato D'Auréli, a fictionalized auteur whose obsession with artistic perfection ultimately consumes his life and legacy. Set against the backdrop of 20th-century cinema's golden age, the film is a meditation on time, ambition, and the cost of genius.
Woman to Woman

1947

Woman to Woman

1947