Top rated most intense movies on Sundance Now
Check out today’s highest ranked most intense movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best most intense 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
7.5
2 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
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7.298
3 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
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7.5
4 Styx (2018)
Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.
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- 2018-09-13 | Drama
Cast
- Susanne Wolff, Alexander Beyer
Rating
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6.4
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5 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
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6.6
6 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
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5.83
7 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
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7.768
8 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
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7.607
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
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5.5
10 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
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7.24
