Top rated visually captivating movies on Sundance Now

Check out today’s highest ranked visually captivating movies on Sundance Now! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best visually captivating 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 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 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    liberating
  2. Ranked #1 for
    funnier
  3. Ranked #2 for
    average

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3 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 7.24
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #27 for
    symmetry plots
  2. Ranked #84 for
    reverse shot
  3. Ranked #109 for
    masterpiece

Trailer

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4 Styx (2018)

Rike is forty, a successful doctor whose job demands everything of her. She intends to use her much-needed annual holiday to fulfill her long-cherished dream of sailing alone from Gibraltar to Ascension, a small tropical island in the middle of the Atlantic. Her desire for a carefree holiday seems to be coming to pass but then, after a storm, her beautiful adventure suddenly turns into an unprecedented challenge when she spots a badly damaged, hopelessly overloaded refugee boat nearby.

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2018-09-13 | Drama

Cast

Susanne Wolff, Alexander Beyer

Rating

rating icon 6.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #155 for
    confusing
  2. Ranked #165 for
    jam-packed
  3. Ranked #182 for
    heavy-handed

Trailer

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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 #141 for
    westernized
  3. Ranked #157 for
    miscarriage of justice

Trailer

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6 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

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7 Tuscaloosa (2020)

Twenty-two and on the verge of entering high society, college graduate Billy Mitchell finds his plans changing when he falls in love with an inmate with multiple personalities at his father's mental institution.

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2020-03-13 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Ella Rae Peck, Bruce Bohne

Rating

rating icon 6.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #396 for
    textured
  2. Ranked #507 for
    erotically charging
  3. Ranked #576 for
    visually astounding

Trailer

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8 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 6.96
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #121 for
    opaque
  2. Ranked #123 for
    arthouse
  3. Ranked #167 for
    Multiple POV

Trailer

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9 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

rating icon 5.83
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #95 for
    immensely talented
  2. Ranked #153 for
    hand-held camera work
  3. Ranked #175 for
    hand-held shot

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10 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 #345 for
    daunting challenge
  2. Ranked #350 for
    strictly religious
  3. Ranked #419 for
    conservative

Trailer

In Between trailer
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