Top rated attention grabbing movies on Sundance Now

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

1 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

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2 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 7.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    like The Da Vinci Code
  2. Ranked #85 for
    like Knives Out
  3. Ranked #96 for
    emo character

Trailer

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trailer
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3 Tower (2016)

Combining archival footage with rotoscopic animation, Tower reveals the action-packed untold stories of the witnesses, heroes and survivors of America’s first mass school shooting, when the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others.

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2016-03-13 | Animation / Crime

Cast

Violett Beane, Chris Doubek

Rating

rating icon 7.607
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #132 for
    rotoscoping
  2. Ranked #152 for
    random killing
  3. Ranked #165 for
    archival footage

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4 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 7.24
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #84 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #109 for
    masterpiece

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5 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 7.298
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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

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6 Long Day's Journey into Night (2018)

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

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2018-12-31 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Tang Wei, Huang Jue

Rating

rating icon 6.96
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #121 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #123 for
    arthouse
  3. Ranked #167 for
    Multiple POV

Trailer

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7 Liyana (2017)

A talented group of orphaned children in Swaziland create a fictional heroine and send her on a dangerous quest.

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2017-07-15 | Animation / Documentary

Cast

Gcina Mhlophe

Rating

rating icon 9.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #256 for
    less talented directing
  2. Ranked #287 for
    like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  3. Ranked #300 for
    illusory

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Liyana trailer
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8 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 #54 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #81 for
    wayward
  3. Ranked #91 for
    with daddy issue

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 5.83
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #153 for
    hand-held camera work
  3. Ranked #175 for
    hand-held shot

Trailer

Little Fish trailer
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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

The Rocket trailer
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