Top Rated Drama Movies on Kanopy - Page 64

Stroszek

1977

Stroszek

1977
7.3
Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.
Mass

2021

Mass

2021
7.4
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Hannah Arendt

2012

Hannah Arendt

2012
6.9
A portrait of the genius that shook the world with her discovery of “the banality of evil.” After she attends the Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial in Jerusalem, Arendt dares to write about the Holocaust in terms no one has ever heard before. Her work instantly provokes a furious scandal, and Arendt stands strong as she is attacked by friends and foes alike. But as the German-Jewish émigré also struggles to suppress her own painful associations with the past, the film exposes her beguiling blend of arrogance and vulnerability — revealing a soul defined and derailed by exile.
Notre-Dame on Fire

2022

Notre-Dame on Fire

2022
6.6
A film relating from the inside the Notre-Dame de Paris fire of April 2019.
Delicious

2021

Delicious

2021
6.9
France, 1789 - just before the Revolution. When talented chef Manceron is dismissed from his prestigious position by the Duke of Chamfort, he loses the taste for cooking. But when he meets the mysterious Louise, together they decide to create the very first restaurant in France.
The Burning Sea

2021

The Burning Sea

2021
6.6
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Giant Little Ones

2019

Giant Little Ones

2019
7.1
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
The Plague Dogs

1982

The Plague Dogs

1982
7.9
Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors spread that they could be carrying the bubonic plague.
La Belle Noiseuse

1991

La Belle Noiseuse

1991
7.3
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he long ago stopped: La Belle Noiseuse. And he wants Marianne as model.
My Old Lady

2014

My Old Lady

2014
6.2
Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Boulevard

2014

Boulevard

2014
5.7
Nolan Mack, a soft-spoken bank employee, undoubtedly loves his wife Joy, though their cavernous empty house only underscores how disconnected they’ve always been from each other. Nolan finds himself drifting from his familiar present-day life in pursuit of lost time after meeting a troubled young man named Leo on his drive home. What begins as an aimless drive down an unfamiliar street turns into a life-altering series of events.
Persuasion

2007

Persuasion

2007
7.2
Living with her snobby family on the brink of bankruptcy, Anne Elliot is an unconforming woman with modern sensibilities. When Frederick Wentworth – the dashing one she once sent away – crashes back into her life, Anne must choose between putting the past behind her or listening to her heart when it comes to second chances.
Demonic

2021

Demonic

2021
4.8
A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
Mama Weed

2020

Mama Weed

2020
5.8
A translator working for the police gets involved in the other side of drug dealing.
Ideal Home

2018

Ideal Home

2018
6.4
A couple is going through marital troubles made worse when a previously unknown grandson shows up.
Una

2017

Una

2017
6.1
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Election

2005

Election

2005
7.2
After losing an election to become chairman of the Wo Lin Shing triad, a gang leader lashes out and tries to seize the dragon-head baton, the official symbol of a chairman's authority.
Four Good Days

2021

Four Good Days

2021
6.8
A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Neruda

2016

Neruda

2016
6.3
It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
Death Defying Acts

2007

Death Defying Acts

2007
6
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.