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Farewell My Queen - Les adieux à la reine 101 mins Marking the return of acclaimed director Benoit Jacquot (A Single Girl), FAREWELL, MY QUEEN brilliantly captures the passions, debauchery, occasional glimpses of nobility and ultimately…
Farewell My Queen - Les adieux à la reine Farewell My Queen - Les adieux à la reine
Wah Wah 100 mins Ralph Compton (Nicolas Hoult) witnesses the disintegration of his parents' marriage through adultery and alcohol set during the last gasp of the British Empire in…
Wah Wah Wah Wah
The Way He Looks - Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho 97 mins Set against the music of Belle and Sebastian, Daniel Ribeiro's coming of age tale, THE WAY HE LOOKS is a sweet and tender story about…
The Way He Looks - Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho The Way He Looks - Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho
Blancanieves - Snow White 105 mins Set in southern Spain in 1920s, BLANCANIEVES is a re-imaging of the classic tale of Snow White and tribute to silent films. Once upon a…
Blancanieves - Snow White Blancanieves - Snow White
Hermia & Helena 87 mins Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York for an artist residency to work on a new Spanish translation of…
Hermia & Helena Hermia & Helena
High Fantasy 75 mins A group of friends camping in the South African countryside wake up to discover they've all swapped bodies. Stranded in the wilderness, they'll have to…
High Fantasy High Fantasy
Gutland 108 mins A surrealist rural noir about a German thief who flees to a small Luxembourg village only to discover that the locals have secrets of their…
Gutland Gutland
The Double Hour - La doppia ora 97 mins Sonia and ex-cop Guido experience a whirlwind romance after a speed-dating event. While in the countryside, where Guido works at a villa, the couple are…
The Double Hour - La doppia ora The Double Hour - La doppia ora
Everything Else - Todo lo demás 98 mins Dona Flor is a bureaucrat. She has worked in the same government office in Mexico City for over 35 years, attending to people from all…
Everything Else - Todo lo demás Everything Else - Todo lo demás

Kanopy Staff Picks

My Friend Dahmer 108 mins Former Disney star Ross Lynch stars as the awkward, adolescent Jeffrey Dahmer - before he became one of America's most infamous serial killers. Based on…
My Friend Dahmer My Friend Dahmer
The Fits 73 mins While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up…
The Fits The Fits
What We Do In the Shadows 86 mins Housemates Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav (Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, & Jonathan Brugh) are three vampires who are trying to get by in modern society; from…
What We Do In the Shadows What We Do In the Shadows
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising 102 mins Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When…
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn 80 mins Shot over a three-year period with unparalleled intimacy and access, ALL THIS PANIC is a feature length documentary that takes an intimate look at the…
All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn All this Panic - Teenage Girls Coming of Age in Brooklyn
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 153 mins The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is the first film in the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy. Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering…
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
All Things Must Pass - The Rise and Fall of Tower Records 97 mins Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. ALL THINGS MUST PAST examines this iconic company's explosive trajectory,…
All Things Must Pass - The Rise and Fall of Tower Records All Things Must Pass - The Rise and Fall of Tower Records
Gook 96 mins Eli (Justin Chon) and Daniel (David So) are two Korean American brothers that run their late father's shoe store in a predominantly African American community…
Gook Gook
The Love Witch 121 mins In this cult favorite, modern-day witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her. A stylish tribute…
The Love Witch The Love Witch

Popular Movies

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
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
Monogamy 99 mins Increasingly anxious about his impending marriage to Nat (Rashida Jones) and bored with his day job as a wedding photographer, Theo (Chris Messina) begins a…
Monogamy Monogamy
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
Howl 85 mins James Franco delivers a career-defining performance as poet Allen Ginsberg. Through his search for personal and creative expression, Ginsberg writes Howl, and must contend with…
Howl Howl
Submergence 112 mins In this thrilling film from visionary director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire), James (James McAvoy) is a British agent and Danny (Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander) is…
Submergence Submergence
Cosmopolis 110 mins Directed by David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, Naked Lunch) and starring Robert Pattinson, COSMOPOLIS tells the story of a 28-year-old billionaire riding across Manhattan in a…
Cosmopolis Cosmopolis
Confession of a Child of the Century 121 mins Paris 1830. Betrayed by his mistress, Octave falls into despair and debauchery. The death of his father takes him to the country where he meets…
Confession of a Child of the Century Confession of a Child of the Century
Journey's End 108 mins The Great War - March, 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope.…
Journey's End Journey's End

Popular World Cinema

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
Mustang 98 mins This Oscar-nominated drama follows five free-spirited sisters in a Turkish village. While playing innocent games with their friends, a neighbor passes by and reports what…
Mustang Mustang
Nowhere in Africa - Nirgendwo in Afrika 136 mins An Oscar-winning love story spanning two continents, NOWHERE IN AFRICA is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in…
Nowhere in Africa - Nirgendwo in Afrika Nowhere in Africa - Nirgendwo in Afrika
The Young Karl Marx - Le jeune Karl Marx 119 mins This gripping biopic tells the story of how a 26-year-old Karl Marx met Friedrich Engels and created a movement that would change the course of…
The Young Karl Marx - Le jeune Karl Marx The Young Karl Marx - Le jeune Karl Marx
Closet Monster 90 mins A fresh take on the coming-of-age story, this surreal tale follows the artistically driven Oscar (American Crime's Connor Jessup) hovering on the brink of adulthood.…
Closet Monster Closet Monster
Chinese Puzzle - Casse-tête chinois 118 mins Xavier's (Romain Duris) life is a mess. His ex, Wendy (Kelly Reilly) has left him in Paris and taken their kids to New York. Always…
Chinese Puzzle - Casse-tête chinois Chinese Puzzle - Casse-tête chinois
Rams - Hrútar 93 mins In a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep-stock is considered one of the…
Rams - Hrútar Rams - Hrútar
3 Hearts - 3 coeurs 109 mins A touching and tense drama about destiny, connections, and passion, 3 HEARTS presents a headily romantic look at a classic love triangle. One night in…
3 Hearts - 3 coeurs 3 Hearts - 3 coeurs
Ixcanul 92 mins The brilliant debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante is a mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable, a dreamlike depiction of the daily lives of Kaqchikel…
Ixcanul Ixcanul

Popular Documentaries

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
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City 79 mins Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they've wandered in and out of people's lives, becoming an…
Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City Kedi - The Cats of an Ancient City
Faces Places - A Road Trip with Legendary Filmmaker Agnes Varda and Photographer J.R. 90 mins 89-year old Agnes Varda, one of the leading figures of the French New Wave, and acclaimed 33 year-old French photographer and muralist JR teamed up…
Faces Places - A Road Trip with Legendary Filmmaker Agnes Varda and Photographer J.R. Faces Places - A Road Trip with Legendary Filmmaker Agnes Varda and Photographer J.R.
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power 77 mins Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, Anita reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power. An entire country watched…
Anita - Speaking Truth to Power Anita - Speaking Truth to Power
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising 102 mins Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When…
Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising Whose Streets? - An Unflinching Look at the Ferguson Uprising
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail - 2018 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee 91 mins From acclaimed director Steve James (The Interrupters), Academy Award-nominated (Best Documentary Feature, 2018) ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant…
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail - 2018 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee Abacus: Small Enough to Jail - 2018 Best Documentary Oscar Nominee
White Boy - Appealing a Life Sentence for Non-Violent Drug Charges 83 mins Now the subject of 1980's crime folklore, then 17 year-old Richard Wershe, Jr. allegedly ran a vicious, sophisticated underground cocaine operation throughout inner-city Detroit. Arrested…
White Boy - Appealing a Life Sentence for Non-Violent Drug Charges White Boy - Appealing a Life Sentence for Non-Violent Drug Charges
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles 79 mins Can true happiness and success be measured by material possessions? What is the personal and global impact of our consumer culture? Is there an alternative?…
Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles Minimalism - The Many Levels of Minimalistic Lifestyles
The Vietnam War - A Series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick 10 videos An immersive documentary film series directed by acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the epic story of one of the most divisive, consequential…
The Vietnam War - A Series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick The Vietnam War - A Series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Paramount Pictures

The Burbs 102 mins With nothing to do and time on their hands, Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and his friends decide to investigate their mysterious new neighbors, the Klopeks.…
The Burbs The Burbs
An Officer and a Gentleman 125 mins In AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, loner Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) enters Officer Candidate School to become a Navy pilot and in thirteen tortuous weeks…
An Officer and a Gentleman An Officer and a Gentleman
Marathon Man 126 mins In this dark thriller, Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) an American secret agent, is killed at the request of an escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence…
Marathon Man Marathon Man
Bang the Drum Slowly 98 mins Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty star in this superbly crafted film about the unlikely friendship between two baseball players. Moriarty plays the team's ace…
Bang the Drum Slowly Bang the Drum Slowly
Harold and Maude 92 mins Deadpan rich boy Harold (Bud Cort) stages elaborate suicide tableaux to get the attention of his mother, but she keeps planning his brilliant future for…
Harold and Maude Harold and Maude
Ordinary People 125 mins Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star in this powerful drama as the upper-middle-class couple whose "ordinary" existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of…
Ordinary People Ordinary People
Hamlet 135 mins Mel Gibson plays the title role of a young Danish prince coming to terms with his adulthood in this film adaptation of Shakespeare's classic play.…
Hamlet Hamlet
Saturday Night Fever 120 mins Tony Manero (John Travolta's most iconic role) has an unsatisfying job at a paint store but on weekends he's the king of the dance floor…
Saturday Night Fever Saturday Night Fever
Love Story 101 mins This heartfelt 1970 tale of the love of a lifetime-the most successful Paramount movie up to that time-received seven Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture)…
Love Story Love Story

The Criterion Collection

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
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
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
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
Seven Samurai 2 videos One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, SEVEN SAMURAI (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants…
Seven Samurai Seven Samurai
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
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
Cleo From 5 to 7 90 mins Agnes Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer (Corinne Marchand) set adrift in the city as she awaits…
Cleo From 5 to 7 Cleo From 5 to 7

New to Kanopy - Documentaries

Obit. - The New York Times Obituary Writers 96 mins It's a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly funny bunch. Ten hours before newspapers hit…
Obit. - The New York Times Obituary Writers Obit. - The New York Times Obituary Writers
The Challenge - Wealthy Qatari Sheikhs with a Passsion for Falconry 68 mins Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani's exquisite documentary enters the surreal world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry. The opulence of this…
The Challenge - Wealthy Qatari Sheikhs with a Passsion for Falconry The Challenge - Wealthy Qatari Sheikhs with a Passsion for Falconry
Always At The Carlyle - New York's Most Glamorous (and Discreet) Hotel 92 mins While the walls at The Carlyle Hotel don't talk, they definitely whisper... ALWAYS AT THE CARLYLE brings to life the untold stories of the legendary…
Always At The Carlyle - New York's Most Glamorous (and Discreet) Hotel Always At The Carlyle - New York's Most Glamorous (and Discreet) Hotel
Forbidden Films - The Hidden History of Nazi Film 95 mins 1,200 feature films were made in Germany's Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the…
Forbidden Films - The Hidden History of Nazi Film Forbidden Films - The Hidden History of Nazi Film
Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine 98 mins This documentary looks at people transformed by a democratic revolution, who give up their normal lives to fight a Russian invasion, in a war which…
Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine Breaking Point - The War for Democracy in Ukraine
We Like it Like That - The Stoy of Latin Boogaloo Music 78 mins This is the story behind Latin boogaloo, a colorful expression of 1960's New York City Latino soul. From its origins to its recent resurgence, WE…
We Like it Like That - The Stoy of Latin Boogaloo Music We Like it Like That - The Stoy of Latin Boogaloo Music
New Chefs on the Block - Two Chefs Struggle to Open Their First Restaurants 97 mins An intimate, multi-year portrait of two chefs and their staffs in Washington, DC who struggle to open and maintain their first restaurants. The film begins…
New Chefs on the Block - Two Chefs Struggle to Open Their First Restaurants New Chefs on the Block - Two Chefs Struggle to Open Their First Restaurants
Mermaids - Mermaid Enthusiasts Share Their Passion 77 mins This feature documentary dives into the allure and transformative power of the universal myth of mermaids; from the sirens of ancient lore to a new…
Mermaids - Mermaid Enthusiasts Share Their Passion Mermaids - Mermaid Enthusiasts Share Their Passion
Beuys - The Life and Work of a Innovative Artist Joseph Beuys 108 mins Thirty years after his death, Joseph Beuys still feels like a visionary and is widely considered one of the most influential artists of his generation.…
Beuys - The Life and Work of a Innovative Artist Joseph Beuys Beuys - The Life and Work of a Innovative Artist Joseph Beuys
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