Top rated unplanned movies on Sundance Now

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

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

Trailer

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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

Trailer

Ida trailer
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3 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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4 Ixcanul (2015)

María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a place she cannot even imagine. And so she seduces a coffee-harvester who wants to escape to the USA. When this man leaves her behind, María discovers her own world and culture anew.

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2015-01-20 | Drama

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, María Telón

Rating

rating icon 6.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #200 for
    misty
  2. Ranked #319 for
    antiquated
  3. Ranked #343 for
    like Nomadland

Trailer

Ixcanul trailer
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5 I Am Not a Witch (2017)

Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.

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2017-10-20 | Drama

Cast

Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri

Rating

rating icon 6.68
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #78 for
    naturalist
  2. Ranked #182 for
    tragicomic
  3. Ranked #200 for
    Occult

Trailer

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6 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

Trailer

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7 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

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #80 for
    high-running emotions
  2. Ranked #85 for
    hodgepodge
  3. Ranked #103 for
    juxtaposition

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Fire at Sea trailer
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8 Genesis (2019)

Three teenagers are shaken up by their first loves in the turmoil of their youth. At a time when others are conforming, they stand their ground and assert their right to love and be free.

Info

2019-03-16 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Noée Abita, Théodore Pellerin

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #145 for
    haywire
  2. Ranked #196 for
    scrawny
  3. Ranked #448 for
    left unexplained

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9 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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10 A Touch of Sin (2013)

Four independent stories set in modern China about random acts of violence.

Info

2013-10-04 | Drama / Crime

Cast

Jiang Wu, Baoqiang Wang

Rating

rating icon 7.206
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #103 for
    violent
  2. Ranked #137 for
    orwellian
  3. Ranked #145 for
    barely intelligible

Trailer

A Touch of Sin trailer
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