Highest ranked overacting movies on Sundance Now

Check out today’s highest ranked overacting movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best overacting movies on Sundance Now, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Short Term 12 (2013)

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

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2013-08-23 | Drama

Cast

Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr.

Rating

rating icon 7.768
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #80 for
    wayward
  3. Ranked #91 for
    with daddy issue

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2 José (2020)

José lives with his mother in Guatemala: a tough life in one of the world's most dangerous, religious, and impoverished countries. José is her youngest and favorite child, and her life is going to church and selling sandwiches. He spends his days on crowded buses and in the streets delivering food. Resigned and aloof, in free moments he plays with his phone and looks for random sex. When he meets Luis, José is thrust into a dimension of passion and pain and self-reflection that was previously unimaginable.

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2020-01-31 | Drama

Cast

Enrique Salanic, Manolo Herrera

Rating

rating icon 5.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unapologetic
  2. Ranked #2 for
    utterly captivating
  3. Ranked #3 for
    raw and gritty

Trailer

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3 Beats (2019)

Summer 1994, Scotland. Johnno and Spanner are best mates, but Johnno’s family are moving him to a new town and a better life, leaving Spanner behind to face a precarious future. In pursuit of adventure and escape they head out on one last night to an illegal rave before parting ways indefinitely.

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2019-05-17 | Drama / Comedy

Cast

Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald

Rating

rating icon 6.608
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    liberating
  2. Ranked #1 for
    funnier
  3. Ranked #2 for
    giddy

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4 Benjamin (2019)

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.

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2019-03-15 | Romance / Comedy

Cast

Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard

Rating

rating icon 6.254
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    pretty thin
  2. Ranked #1 for
    blowing socks off
  3. Ranked #1 for
    vulnerable

Trailer

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5 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece

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2009-02-27 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace

Rating

rating icon 7.527
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #96 for
    emo character
  3. Ranked #119 for
    with daddy issue

Trailer

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer
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6 Ida (2013)

Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.

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2013-10-25 | Drama

Cast

Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska

Rating

rating icon 7.242
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #85 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #109 for
    masterpiece

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7 The Illusionist (2006)

With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

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2006-08-18 | Fantasy / Drama

Cast

Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti

Rating

rating icon 7.297
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    with sleight of hand
  2. Ranked #59 for
    sepia tone
  3. Ranked #67 for
    disappearing acting

Trailer

The Illusionist trailer
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8 I Killed My Mother (2009)

Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, where he grew up, and where a murder will be committed: the murder of childhood.

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2009-06-05 | Drama

Cast

Anne Dorval, Xavier Dolan

Rating

rating icon 7.505
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    tour de force
  2. Ranked #106 for
    smug
  3. Ranked #175 for
    spoiled brat

Trailer

I Killed My Mother trailer
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9 Little Fish (2005)

Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.

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2005-07-19 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Cate Blanchett, Sam Neill

Rating

rating icon 5.825
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #151 for
    hand-held camera work
  3. Ranked #176 for
    hand-held shot

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10 The Rocket (2013)

Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his father and grandmother through the Laotian outback in search of a new home. Along the way, they come across a rocket festival that offers Ahlo a lucrative but dangerous chance to prove his worth.

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2013-02-10 | Drama

Cast

Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #60 for
    non-professional cast
  2. Ranked #94 for
    wonderful
  3. Ranked #243 for
    cantankerous

Trailer

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