Top rated socially relevant movies on Sundance Now
Check out today’s highest ranked socially relevant movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best socially relevant movies on Sundance Now, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
6.6
2 Fire at Sea (2016)
Capturing life on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a frontline in the European migrant crisis.
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- 2016-02-18 | Documentary
Cast
- Samuele Pucillo, Mattias Cucina
Rating
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6.7
3 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
4 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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7.6
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5 In Between (2016)
The film captures the daily duality of three young Palestinian women in Tel Aviv, caught between hometown tradition and big city abandon, and the price they must pay for a lifestyle that seems obvious to many: the freedom to work, party, fuck, and choose.
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- 2016-11-25 | Drama
Cast
- Mouna Hawa, Shaden Kanboura
Rating
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7.1
6 The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy center run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling “same sex attraction.” Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.
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- 2018-07-18 | Drama
Cast
- Chloë Grace Moretz, John Gallagher Jr.
Rating
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6.944
7 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
8 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
9 Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
During a harsh Montréal winter, an elementary-school class is left reeling after its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in as the substitute teacher for the classroom of traumatized children. All the while, he must keep his personal life tucked away: the fact that he is seeking political refuge in Québec – and that he, like the children, has suffered an appalling loss.
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- 2011-09-10 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Mohamed Fellag, Émilien Néron
Rating
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7.1
10 Wendy and Lucy (2009)
A near-penniless drifter's journey to Alaska in search of work is interrupted when she loses her dog while attempting to shoplift food for it.
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- 2009-04-08 | Drama
Cast
- Michelle Williams, Lucy
Rating
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6.8
