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The Miseducation of Cameron Post 92 mins Based on the celebrated novel by Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post follows the titular character (Chloe Grace Moretz) as she is sent…
The Miseducation of Cameron Post The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Custody 94 mins A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the center in this thrilling domestic drama. Miriam and Antoine Besson…
Custody Custody
What Will People Say - Hva vil folk si 107 mins Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life. When out with her friends, she's a regular Norwegian teenager. At home with her family, she is the perfect…
What Will People Say - Hva vil folk si What Will People Say - Hva vil folk si
Let The Corpses Tan 93 mins After stealing a truckload of gold bars, a gang of thieves absconds to the ruins of a remote village perched on the cliffs of the…
Let The Corpses Tan Let The Corpses Tan
A Paris Education - Mes Provinciales 137 mins Etienne, a serious and impressionable shaggy-haired young cinephile, leaves behind his steady girlfriend in Lyon to study film in Paris. Settling into a dingy flat…
A Paris Education - Mes Provinciales A Paris Education - Mes Provinciales
The Carer 89 mins Diagnosed with a rare form of Parkinson's Disease, ailing theatrical legend Sir Michael Gifford (Brian Cox) is terminally ill. He's also foul-mouthed, irascible, and highly…
The Carer The Carer
Jasper Jones 103 mins In the dead of night during the scorching summer of 1969, Charlie is startled when he is woken by local mixed-race outcast Jasper Jones outside…
Jasper Jones Jasper Jones
Bad Lucky Goat 76 mins After accidentally killing a bearded goat with their father's truck, two incompatible siblings in their teenage years, embark on a journey of reconciliation. Official Selection…
Bad Lucky Goat Bad Lucky Goat
Hotel Salvation 100 mins Faced with his father's untimely and bizarre demand to die in the holy city of Varanasi and attain Salvation, a son is left with no…
Hotel Salvation Hotel Salvation

Popular Movies

Hearts Beat Loud 98 mins In the hip Brooklyn neighborhood of Red Hook, single dad and record store owner Frank (Nick Offerman) is preparing to send his hard-working daughter Sam…
Hearts Beat Loud Hearts Beat Loud
Boy 88 mins Acclaimed director Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople) presents a creative coming-of-age comedy set in 1984, following an eleven-year-old Michael Jackson fanatic nicknamed "Boy" (James…
Boy Boy
The Tree 101 mins A mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. Blindsided with anguish after her husband's sudden death, Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg)--along with her four…
The Tree The Tree
Sollers Point 102 mins Keith, a small-time drug dealer under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore, re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply…
Sollers Point Sollers Point
Robot & Frank 89 mins Set in the near future, an ex-jewel thief (Frank Langella) receives a gift from his son: a robot butler (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard) programmed to…
Robot & Frank Robot & Frank
Summer of 84 106 mins It's the summer of 1984, the perfect time to be 15 years old and free. But when neighborhood conspiracy theorist Davey Armstrong begins to suspect…
Summer of 84 Summer of 84
Wendy and Lucy 81 mins Wendy Carroll (Michelle Williams) is driving to Alaska in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at the Northwestern Fish cannery, and the start of…
Wendy and Lucy Wendy and Lucy
Loving Vincent 95 mins In the first fully painted feature film, 2018 Oscar-nominated LOVING VINCENT tells the story of the mysterious and tragic death of the world's most famous…
Loving Vincent Loving Vincent
Saturday Church 83 mins In this New York Times Critics' Pick, A 14 year old boy, struggling with gender identity and religion, begins to use fantasy to escape his…
Saturday Church Saturday Church

Popular World Cinema

Summer 1993 - Estiu 1993 100 mins In the summer 1993, following the death of her parents, young Frida moves from Barcelona to the Catalan province to live with her aunt and…
Summer 1993 - Estiu 1993 Summer 1993 - Estiu 1993
Truman 109 mins Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julian (Ricardo Darin) has decided to forgo treatment and spend his final days tying up loose ends. When childhood friend Tomas…
Truman Truman
BPM (Beats Per Minute) - 120 battements par minute 144 mins In Paris in the early 1990s, members of the activist group ACT UP battle for those stricken with HIV/AIDS, taking on sluggish government agencies and…
BPM (Beats Per Minute) - 120 battements par minute BPM (Beats Per Minute) - 120 battements par minute
Beauty And The Dogs - Aala Kaf Ifrit 101 mins When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she…
Beauty And The Dogs - Aala Kaf Ifrit Beauty And The Dogs - Aala Kaf Ifrit
My Afternoons with Margueritte - La tête en friche 83 mins In a small French town, a man considered to be the village idiot by his friends at the local bistro, takes a walk to the…
My Afternoons with Margueritte - La tête en friche My Afternoons with Margueritte - La tête en friche
Arianna 85 mins At the age of nineteen, Arianna still hasn't had her first period. The hormones that her gynecologist has prescribed don't seem to have any effect…
Arianna Arianna
The Kindergarten Teacher - Haganenet 121 mins The story of a teacher who becomes at first enchanted, and then ultimately consumed by the poetic genius of her five-year-old student. As the titular…
The Kindergarten Teacher - Haganenet The Kindergarten Teacher - Haganenet
Mountains May Depart - Shan He Gu Ren 127 mins At once an intimate drama and a decades-spanning epic that leaps from the recent past to the present to the speculative near-future, Jia Zhangke's new…
Mountains May Depart - Shan He Gu Ren Mountains May Depart - Shan He Gu Ren
Victoria 139 mins Shot in a single uninterrupted take, Victoria, a young woman from Madrid meets four local guys outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends are real…
Victoria Victoria

Popular Documentaries

The Bystander Moment - Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots 50 mins The #MeToo movement has shined much-needed light on the pervasiveness of sexual harassment and abuse and created unprecedented demand for gender violence prevention models that…
The Bystander Moment - Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots The Bystander Moment - Transforming Rape Culture at Its Roots
Bill Cunningham New York - A Portrait of the Beloved Fashion Photographer 85 mins "We all get dressed for Bill," says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour. The "Bill" in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades,…
Bill Cunningham New York - A Portrait of the Beloved Fashion Photographer Bill Cunningham New York - A Portrait of the Beloved Fashion Photographer
To Be and To Have - The Successes of a Small School in Rural France 105 mins The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded a quaint thing of the past and a symbol of obsolete…
To Be and To Have - The Successes of a Small School in Rural France To Be and To Have - The Successes of a Small School in Rural France
Half The Picture - Female Directors Speak Out 96 mins This celebrated film follows female directors working in Hollywood. HALF THE PICTURE uses the current EEOC investigation into discriminatory hiring practices as a framework to…
Half The Picture - Female Directors Speak Out Half The Picture - Female Directors Speak Out
Last Men in Aleppo - The White Helmet Heroes Saving Lives in Syria 105 mins 2018 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, Syrian filmmaker Feras Fayyad's breathtaking work - a searing example of boots-on-the-ground reportage - follows the efforts…
Last Men in Aleppo - The White Helmet Heroes Saving Lives in Syria Last Men in Aleppo - The White Helmet Heroes Saving Lives in Syria
Trouble The Water - Surviving Hurricane Katrina 96 mins This astonishingly powerful, Oscar-nominated documentary is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Directed and produced by Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine producers Tia Lessin and…
Trouble The Water - Surviving Hurricane Katrina Trouble The Water - Surviving Hurricane Katrina
A Campaign of Their Own - The 2016 Presidential Campaign of Bernie Sanders 74 mins After campaigning door to door for the democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders in New York City, two ardent Bernie supporters go to Philadelphia to protest…
A Campaign of Their Own - The 2016 Presidential Campaign of Bernie Sanders A Campaign of Their Own - The 2016 Presidential Campaign of Bernie Sanders
Real Boy - A Son’s Transition. A Mom's Transformation 2 videos An intimate story of a family in transition. As 19-year-old Bennett Wallace navigates sobriety, adolescence, and the evolution of his gender identity, his mother makes…
Real Boy - A Son’s Transition. A Mom's Transformation Real Boy - A Son’s Transition. A Mom's Transformation
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media 168 mins Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist. In a dynamic…
Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky and the Media

The Criterion Collection

L'avventura 144 mins Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960's cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms,…
L'avventura L'avventura
Breathless 91 mins There was before Breathless, and there was after Breathless. Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage…
Breathless Breathless
8 1/2 141 mins Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film…
8 1/2 8 1/2
Rashomon 90 mins This riveting psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made.…
Rashomon Rashomon
Modern Times 88 mins Charlie Chaplin's last outing as the Little Tramp puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a…
Modern Times Modern Times
Pather Panchali 126 mins With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray's debut film, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A…
Pather Panchali Pather Panchali
Playtime 126 mins Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with PLAYTIME. For this monumental achievement, a…
Playtime Playtime
Le Samouraï 107 mins In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop…
Le Samouraï Le Samouraï
The Great Dictator 126 mins In his controversial masterpiece, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in…
The Great Dictator The Great Dictator

New York Times Critics' Picks

It Felt Like Love 83 mins In this unflinchingly honest and refreshingly unsentimental coming-of-age story, 14-year-old Lila spends a languid South Brooklyn summer playing third wheel to her promiscuous friend Chiara…
It Felt Like Love It Felt Like Love
Angels Wear White 108 mins In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that…
Angels Wear White Angels Wear White
Up the Yangtze - Cultural and Economic Changes in China 94 mins In China, it is simply known as "The River." But the Yangtze--and all of the life that surrounds it--is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought…
Up the Yangtze - Cultural and Economic Changes in China Up the Yangtze - Cultural and Economic Changes in China
Paul Goodman Changed My Life - The Life and Work of an Influential Philosopher 90 mins Author of legendary bestseller *Growing Up Absurd *(1960), Paul Goodman was also a poet, an "out" homosexual (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt…
Paul Goodman Changed My Life - The Life and Work of an Influential Philosopher Paul Goodman Changed My Life - The Life and Work of an Influential Philosopher
Afghan Star - Following the Contestants of a Pop Music Competition in Afghanistan 93 mins After thirty years of war and five devastating years of Taliban rule, pop culture is beginning to return to Afghanistan. Since 2005, millions have been…
Afghan Star - Following the Contestants of a Pop Music Competition in Afghanistan Afghan Star - Following the Contestants of a Pop Music Competition in Afghanistan
Let The Fire Burn - Tragedy in Philadelphia 96 mins Astonishingly gripping, LET THE FIRE BURN is a found-footage film that unfurls with the tension of a thriller. On May 13, 1985, a longtime feud…
Let The Fire Burn - Tragedy in Philadelphia Let The Fire Burn - Tragedy in Philadelphia
Last Train Home - Migration in China 91 mins Every spring, China's cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year's holiday. This mass…
Last Train Home - Migration in China Last Train Home - Migration in China
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator 188 mins A monumental achievement, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCU tracks the rise and fall of the infamous Romanian dictator through his own propaganda footage. Director Andrei…
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu - A Portrait of the Romanian Dictator
Unrelated 97 mins A woman in an unhappy relationship takes refuge with a friend's family on holiday in Tuscany. Written and directed by British Indie Darling Joanna Hogg…
Unrelated Unrelated

Paramount Pictures

Clue 97 mins Tim Curry, Madeline Kahn, and Christopher Lloyd lead an all star cast in this murderously funny cult classic based on the world-famous Clue board game.…
Clue Clue
Indiscreet 100 mins In this classic romantic comedy Cary Grant plays Philip Adams, a suave American diplomat who pretends to be married in order to preserve his bachelor…
Indiscreet Indiscreet
Three Days of the Condor 118 mins In Sydney Pollack's critically acclaimed suspense-thriller, Robert Redford stars as CIA Agent Joe Turner. Code name: Condor. When his entire office is massacred, Turner goes…
Three Days of the Condor Three Days of the Condor
The Elephant Man 124 mins All the human spirit needs to thrive...is a chance. In one of his most legendary films, director David Lynch chronicles the intense emotional journey of…
The Elephant Man The Elephant Man
Don't Look Now 111 mins Working with elements of the traditional horror genre - second sight, ESP, warnings from the dead, a mad killer - and a cinematography of disquieting…
Don't Look Now Don't Look Now
Breakfast at Tiffany's 115 mins The names Audrey Hepburn and Holly Golightly have become synonymous since this dazzling romantic comedy was translated to the screen from Truman Capote's best-selling novella.…
Breakfast at Tiffany's Breakfast at Tiffany's
The African Queen 106 mins Starring screen legends Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, THE AFRICAN QUEEN tells the timeless tale of two mismatched strangers joining forces in a common cause…
The African Queen The African Queen
To Catch a Thief 107 mins In this suspenseful and glamorous classic from Alfred Hitchcock, the always debonair Cary Grant plays John Robie, a reformed jewel thief. Robie is suspected of…
To Catch a Thief To Catch a Thief
High Noon 85 mins Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for the Best Actor in this classic tale of a lawman who stands alone to defend a town of…
High Noon High Noon

New to Kanopy - Documentaries

Grace Jones - Bloodlight And Bami 116 mins This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of pop culture mega-icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while…
Grace Jones - Bloodlight And Bami Grace Jones - Bloodlight And Bami
Love, Cecil - The Life Of a Legendary Photographer and Designer 99 mins Cecil Beaton was a dazzling chronicler of his time. A photographer, writer, painter, and Oscar-winning set and costume designer who captured both the front lines…
Love, Cecil - The Life Of a Legendary Photographer and Designer Love, Cecil - The Life Of a Legendary Photographer and Designer
Of Fathers And Sons - A Day In The Life Of A Radical Islamist Family 99 mins After making his Sundance award-winning documentary, Return to Homs, Talal Derki returned to Syria where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing…
Of Fathers And Sons - A Day In The Life Of A Radical Islamist Family Of Fathers And Sons - A Day In The Life Of A Radical Islamist Family
Hockney - The Life and Work of an Art Icon 113 mins A portrait of the multifaceted artist weaved together from frank interviews with close friends and never before seen footage from his own personal archive. One…
Hockney - The Life and Work of an Art Icon Hockney - The Life and Work of an Art Icon
Birth Of A Movement - The Fight to Ban a Controversial Film 55 mins In 1915, Boston-based African American newspaper editor and activist William M. Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's technically groundbreaking but notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly…
Birth Of A Movement - The Fight to Ban a Controversial Film Birth Of A Movement - The Fight to Ban a Controversial Film
Architects of Denial - Genocide Denied...Is Genocide Continued 103 mins A first person account of genocide through the eyes of survivors. Included are new exclusive interviews with experts who graphically illustrate the real connection between…
Architects of Denial - Genocide Denied...Is Genocide Continued Architects of Denial - Genocide Denied...Is Genocide Continued
American Masters: Julia Child - America's Favorite Chef 55 mins Scooping up a potato pancake, patting chickens, coaxing a reluctant souffle, or rescuing a curdled sauce, Julia Child was never afraid of making mistakes. Catapulted…
American Masters: Julia Child - America's Favorite Chef American Masters: Julia Child - America's Favorite Chef
Something Ventured - The Story of Silicon Valley's First Venture Capitalists 86 mins This is the story of the creation of an industry that went on to become the single greatest engine of innovation and economic growth in…
Something Ventured - The Story of Silicon Valley's First Venture Capitalists Something Ventured - The Story of Silicon Valley's First Venture Capitalists
Into Great Silence - A Glimpse Into Monastic Life 162 mins The Grande Chartreuse is considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Groning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission…
Into Great Silence - A Glimpse Into Monastic Life Into Great Silence - A Glimpse Into Monastic Life
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