The Best Dark Movies to Watch on Kanopy (Page 2)
If you’re ready to unleash your dark side, there are plenty of fantastic picks to enjoy, from pitch black comedy to crime thrillers and dystopian sci-fi. Here are the best and dark-themed movies and shows to stream right now.
A Ken Loach type of vibe drives The Selfish Giant to be an interesting mix between anger, desperation, and the beauty and humor often found in tough circumstances (think I, Daniel Blake but with kids as main characters). This sort of contemporary fable tells the story of two friends who skip school and hustle for work from a local scrap-dealer. […]
A unique romantic comedy that takes dark and unexpected turns.
A subversive, gothic character study anchored by Florence Pugh’s ferocious breakout performance .
The line between good and evil blurs in this dusty, gritty Outback Western.
A dark comedy about failed British terrorists that mixes accuracy with hilariousness .
A harrowing, in-depth depiction of one of the world’s worst wartime atrocities.
Two detectives hunt down a serial killer in one of Spain’s Deep South towns.
An apartment building slowly scrambles into chaos in this unsettling psychological thriller.
A grieving woman deals with the worst of fates in this challenging, disquieting riverside drama.
Identical twins spiral into a bloody identity crisis in Cronenberg’s body-horror cult film.
This is a star-packed movie about two brother assassins played by John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix, and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. You might have read the book of the same name, and it is always hard to make a great film out of a great book but the brilliant director of A Prophet Jacques Audiard […]
From the director of Drive comes Bronson, the true story of a man who was sentenced to seven years in prison but ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. Tom Hardy is phenomenal in this dark comedy. His character is so likable and you quickly feel sorry for what he is going through. No […]
The first—rather traumatic—part of Joe's epic journey from love to humiliation in search of sexual transcendence .
This is a touching saga based on the plight of the women labelled as “fallen” that the Magdalene Laundries housed in Ireland. The movie grips you by the throat right from the first minute and the sense of injustice to women that characterizes the entire length of the film only rarely eases up to give […]
A private detective finds the devil in this southern neo-noir occult horror.
The iconic but still underseen Japanese horror mystery that's smarter than you remember.
Ever wondered how much your life will change when faced with the reality that death is about to come? That’s normal, and not nearly as life-altering as being told you only have a few more moments to live. Because of a terminal illness, Uxbal (Javier Bardem) is driven to this situation and tries to right […]
A team of exorcists uncover long hidden terrors in this ambitious folk horror film.
A great cast and intriguing premise are wasted in this disappointing mystery.
A shallow procedural that attempts to grapple with systemic misogyny while being oblivious to its own.
Stellar filmmaking in support of a punishingly bleak series of storylines.
Summary: it’s a really unusual movie, especially for a star like Robin Williams. It’s almost an indie film actually. Robin Williams plays Lance Clayton, the father of a typical rude teenage boy Kyle Clayton (Daryl Sabara) wherein Sabara’s character meets an unusual demise, and out of embarrassment of the situation the father ghost-writes a suicide note from his […]
