Top rated recreating movies on Sundance Now

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

1 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

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

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2 The Rocket (2013)

Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his father and grandmother through the Laotian outback in search of a new home. Along the way, they come across a rocket festival that offers Ahlo a lucrative but dangerous chance to prove his worth.

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2013-02-10 | Drama

Cast

Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #60 for
    non-professional cast
  2. Ranked #94 for
    wonderful
  3. Ranked #243 for
    cantankerous

Trailer

The Rocket trailer
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3 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
    most realistic portrayal

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4 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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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

Trailer

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6 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

Trailer

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7 The Witness (2015)

A brother's journey to unravel the truth about the mythic death and little known life of Kitty Genovese, who was reportedly murdered in front of 38 witnesses and has become the face of urban apathy.

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2015-10-06 | Documentary

Cast

William Genovese, Shannon Beeby

Rating

rating icon 6.724
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #31 for
    bludgeoned to death
  2. Ranked #144 for
    monomaniacal
  3. Ranked #144 for
    cruel twist

Trailer

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8 Big Sonia (2017)

In the last store in a defunct shopping mall, 91-year-old Sonia Warshawski – great-grandmother, businesswoman, and Holocaust survivor – runs the tailor shop she’s owned for more than 30 years. But when she’s served an eviction notice, the specter of retirement prompts Sonia to resist her harrowing past as a refugee and witness to genocide.

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2017-11-17 | Documentary

Cast

Sonia Warshawski

Rating

rating icon 8.5
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #103 for
    timely reminder
  2. Ranked #117 for
    proof positive
  3. Ranked #287 for
    highly stylized

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9 Chicago 10 (2008)

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

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2008-02-29 | Documentary / Animation

Cast

Dylan Baker, Hank Azaria

Rating

rating icon 6.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #38 for
    locking horns
  2. Ranked #89 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #126 for
    archival footage

Trailer

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10 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

rating icon 7.768
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #53 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #80 for
    wayward
  3. Ranked #91 for
    with daddy issue

Trailer

Short Term 12 trailer
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