Top rated raw and gritty movies on Sundance Now
Check out today’s highest ranked raw and gritty movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best raw and gritty 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
5.5
2 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
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6.608
3 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
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7.527
4 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
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5 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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5.825
6 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
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7.206
7 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
8 Meek's Cutoff (2011)
Set in 1845, this drama follows a group of settlers as they embark on a punishing journey along the Oregon Trail. When their guide leads them astray, the expedition is forced to contend with the unforgiving conditions of the high plain desert.
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- 2011-04-08 | Western
Cast
- Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood
Rating
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6.5
9 Glassland (2015)
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
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- 2015-04-17 | Drama
Cast
- Jack Reynor, Toni Collette
Rating
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5.0
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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7.242
