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
- 7.527
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
- 6.6
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
- 5.6
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
- 7.297
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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
- 7.206
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
- 6.608
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
- 6.8
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
- 5.6
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
- 5.5
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.
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- 2016-03-13 | Animation / Crime
Cast
- Violett Beane, Chris Doubek
Rating
- 7.6