Top rated philosophical movies on Sundance Now

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

1 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 6.969
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #120 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #123 for
    arthouse
  3. Ranked #167 for
    Multiple POV

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2 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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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

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

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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 7.242
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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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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

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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6 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)

A semi-fictionalized documentary about a day in the life of Australian musician Nick Cave's persona.

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2014-07-05 | Documentary / Drama

Cast

Nick Cave, Warren Ellis

Rating

rating icon 7.069
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #10 for
    Rockumentary
  2. Ranked #83 for
    hubristic
  3. Ranked #107 for
    obtuse

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7 I Dream in Another Language (2017)

An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.

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2017-07-28 | Fantasy / Drama

Cast

Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Eligio Meléndez

Rating

rating icon 7.885
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #296 for
    magical
  2. Ranked #500 for
    like Alice in Wonderland
  3. Ranked #519 for
    jarring sound

Trailer

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8 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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9 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
    funnier
  2. Ranked #1 for
    liberating
  3. Ranked #2 for
    average

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10 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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