Top rated unabated movies on Sundance Now

Check out today’s highest ranked unabated movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best unabated 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 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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3 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

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4 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

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #43 for
    low-key approach
  2. Ranked #64 for
    good story
  3. Ranked #76 for
    consoling

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5 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

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6 My Darling Vivian (2020)

The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.

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2020-04-27 | Documentary

Cast

Johnny Cash, Reese Witherspoon

Rating

rating icon 7.3
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    indignant
  2. Ranked #1 for
    publically conscious
  3. Ranked #2 for
    turning world upside down

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7 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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8 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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9 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

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #344 for
    daunting challenge
  2. Ranked #351 for
    strictly religious
  3. Ranked #418 for
    conservative

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10 Charlie's Country (2013)

Blackfella Charlie is getting older, and he's out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don't generally make much sense, and Charlie's kin and ken seeming more interested in going along with things than doing anything about it. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in doing so sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

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2013-10-12 | Drama

Cast

David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #58 for
    cautionary tale
  2. Ranked #249 for
    obstinate
  3. Ranked #282 for
    barbed dialogue

Trailer

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