Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 308

Absence

2013

Absence

2013
Luis died prematurely. Since then, Enrique's life has been sleeping beside his father's tomb. He tries to play with other kids, he tries hard to play the game of his life. Yet, he ends up curled up in his solitude, curled up next to his dad's tomb. This absence gets interrupted by Mary and Gold - a girl and her doll - who bloom in his life one casual day. The girl is both truth and lie. Mary is hope and she manages to make communication possible between father and son again, once again. But, unlike death, the opened door can't last forever.
Play Time

2015

Play Time

2015
An enthusiastic three year old child is playing in the grocery store and doesn't wanna leave. Then his young and tired mom just leaves the store without him.
Compulsion

2011

Compulsion

2011
Awakening to the experience of his first romantic connection, Ian’s trust in girlfriend Kelly is thrown into doubt by rumour. As his emotions swing between aggression and tenderness, he feels compelled to react. A study in the vicissitudes and intensity of love in adolescence.
Under

2011

Under

2011
A love story about city girl Sydney, a relapsed drug addict, who is convinced to journey to a country cabin by her fiance Tom, in order to clean up.
Fighting Back

1986

Fighting Back

1986
A single mother returns to her home town after fifteen years of unhappy marriage and fights to make a better life for herself and her children.
Sound Asleep

2014

Sound Asleep

2014
On Declan's sixth birthday, his baby brother Michael dies in his crib from sudden infant death syndrome. His birthday forgotten, and not understanding what "dead" is, Declan experience's the death of his brother only through his parents' grief, frozen in their pain. Declan seeks refuge in his baby brother's room. His birthday now intrinsically linked with Michael's death, he tries to understand what has happened to his family, and if he too will stop breathing in the night. Based on a true story, SOUND ASLEEP is an intimate drama about death from the perspective of six-year-old boy.
Youth

2016

Youth

2016
Wasted on the young? A sci-fi film about growing old in a world of perpetual youth.
Monika

2011

Monika

2011
Monika, 20, nearsighted and dependent on her family, fails a risky eye laser operation and loses her sight. Her mother, Birgit, overwhelmed, places her in a municipal home for the blind, where Monika receives proper care and overcomes depression. With newfound strength, she seeks independence, which displeases Birgit. Monika enrols in a physical therapy apprenticeship, finding a new connection to the world and balancing disability with autonomy.
Blond Tango

1986

Blond Tango

1986
For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a theater. Though his colleagues try to make him feel welcome, he feels lonely and isolated.
Jerusalem

2017

Jerusalem

2017
Two brothers, James and William Jenkins, volunteer to fight for Britain in the trenches of WW1. James wants adventure, William wants to keep his younger brother safe. The reality of war will test their bond to breaking point.
Hamlet

2016

Hamlet

2016
A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel – and the most famous question in all of drama. Just some of the reasons why Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound.
Do You Know Urban?

1971

Do You Know Urban?

1971
Hoffi is starting fresh after his release from prison. He travels with his brother to different construction sites in search of Urban, an acquaintance and role model he met during a brief hospital stay. Along the way, Hoffi meets Gila, who sees beyond his past in prison. Despite disapproval from her family, Gila decides to build a relationship and future with Hoffi, but Hoffi initially hesitates at this responsibility. It takes the encouragement of his workers’ brigade for Hoffi to realize his mistake and give his relationship with Gila a chance.
Career

1971

Career

1971
Günter Walcher, 40-years-old, is a hardworking, apolitical West German businessman caught in a moral conflict. He is offered a promotion to become the head of a division—on the condition that he find a reason to fire Zacharias, a communist and the work council chairman.
Fluffy

2016

Fluffy

2016
Boris and his family are preparing to leave his hypochondriac parents and their impossibly tiny Belgrade flat for a long-awaited new life in Canada. However, his 10-year-old daughter Ljubica has entered a contest that is about to subvert everyone’s plans.
Silent Shakespeare

2000

Silent Shakespeare

2000
A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and String Quartet.
The Other Kids

2016

The Other Kids

2016
Director Chris Brown creates a hybrid of fiction and non-fiction in which he collaborates with real high school seniors to tell their personal stories. The result is a portrait of six teens on the threshold of adulthood and how each is dealing with his or her impending future.
Crocodile Dreaming

2006

Crocodile Dreaming

2006
Crocodile Dreaming is a modern day supernatural myth about two estranged brothers, played by iconic Indigenous actors David Gulpill and Tom E. Lewis. Separated at birth, they have different fathers. One is readily accepted as a full-fledged member of the tribe and is looked on to fulfill the duties of jungaiy, an important ceremonial role which obliges him to be caretaker for his mother's dreaming, the crocodile totem. The other, whose father was white, is younger and has had to struggle to fit into the tribe who see him only as a yella fella.
Aeroplane Dance

1994

Aeroplane Dance

1994
On 1 December 1942, a US bomber called Little Eva was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. The plane hit a tropical storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in the southeast corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria, in Australia's far north. The events that followed were recorded both in the journal of an American survivor and in a spectacular corroboree created by the Yanyuwa people who searched for Little Eva and her crew.
World to Come

2015

World to Come

2015
A nightmarish premonition prompts the sudden return of a man named Doveed to his hometown where he confronts the neglect of its past and his own spiritual crisis. In the wake of a childhood friend’s suicide, he re-enters a religious community that is locked in a lingering standstill, ruined by the brutality of repression, and lost in the shadows of collective guilt. Ten years in the making, this film is loosely based on the tragic events that rocked Winnipeg’s Jewish community in the late ‘80s and ‘90s when the principal of prominent Jewish academy denied allegations of sexual abuse. This film is dedicated to Daniel Levin, one of the alleged victims who came forward with accusations, and who later committed suicide at the age of 17.
The Hardest Thing

2018

The Hardest Thing

2018
The heart-wrenching path of two young couples in their transition from adolescence to adulthood and the trials and tribulations that come with it.