Top rated extremely violent movies on Sundance Now

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

1 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

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2 Sweet Country (2018)

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.

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2018-01-25 | Western / Crime

Cast

Hamilton Morris, Bryan Brown

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    potty-mouthed
  2. Ranked #143 for
    westernized
  3. Ranked #158 for
    miscarriage of justice

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3 Dark River (2018)

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

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2018-02-23 | Thriller / Drama

Cast

Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #205 for
    with anger issues
  2. Ranked #271 for
    ramshackle house
  3. Ranked #306 for
    high-running emotions

Trailer

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4 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

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5 A Touch of Sin (2013)

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

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2013-10-04 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jiang Wu, Baoqiang Wang

Rating

rating icon 7.206
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #103 for
    violent
  2. Ranked #137 for
    orwellian
  3. Ranked #145 for
    barely intelligible

Trailer

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6 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
    accurate representation

Trailer

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7 Ixcanul (2015)

María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.

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2015-01-20 | Drama

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #200 for
    misty
  2. Ranked #319 for
    antiquated
  3. Ranked #343 for
    like Nomadland

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8 Keeping Rosy (2014)

A woman becomes enraged after being passed over for a promotion at her job.

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2014-06-08 | Thriller

Cast

Maxine Peake, Christine Bottomley

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #93 for
    most thrilling
  2. Ranked #174 for
    haywire
  3. Ranked #251 for
    soulless

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9 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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10 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.

Info

2016-03-13 | Animation / Crime

Cast

Violett Beane, Chris Doubek

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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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

Trailer

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