Sundance 2019: Trending Movies
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1. Before You Know It (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera.
Director: Hannah Pearl Utt | Stars: Hannah Pearl Utt, Ayden Mayeri, Oona Yaffe, Jen Tullock
Votes: 223 | Gross: $0.09M
2. Big Time Adolescence (2019)
90 min | Comedy
A suburban teenager comes of age under the destructive guidance of his best friend, an aimless college dropout.
Director: Jason Orley | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Pete Davidson, Jon Cryer, Machine Gun Kelly
Votes: 100
3. Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
Director: Paul Downs Colaizzo | Stars: Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Patch Darragh, Alice Lee
Votes: 5,905 | Gross: $0.22M
4. Clemency (2019)
R | 113 min | Drama
Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to execute another inmate, Bernadine must confront the psychological and ... See full summary »
Director: Chinonye Chukwu | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Wendell Pierce, LaMonica Garrett, Richard Schiff
Votes: 299
5. The Farewell (I) (2019)
PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Director: Lulu Wang | Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo, Hong Lu
Votes: 15,155 | Gross: $16.88M
6. Hala (2019)
R | 94 min | Drama
Muslim teenager Hala copes with the unraveling of her family as she comes into her own.
Director: Minhal Baig | Stars: Geraldine Viswanathan, Jack Kilmer, Gabriel Luna, Purbi Joshi
Votes: 493
7. Honey Boy (2019)
R | 94 min | Drama
A young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father and deal with his mental health.
Director: Alma Har'el | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Byron Bowers
Votes: 3,151
8. Imaginary Order (2019)
101 min | Drama
The sexual, psychological, and moral unraveling of an obsessive-compulsive suburban mom.
Director: Debra Eisenstadt | Stars: Kate Alberts, Amy Anderson, Kristjan Aru, Jocelyn Ayanna
Votes: 73
9. The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
R | 121 min | Drama
A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind.
Director: Joe Talbot | Stars: Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold
Votes: 5,829 | Gross: $4.52M
10. Luce (2019)
R | 109 min | Drama
A married couple is forced to reckon with their idealized image of their son, adopted from war-torn Eritrea, after an alarming discovery by a devoted high school teacher threatens his status as an all-star student.
Director: Julius Onah | Stars: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Votes: 3,932 | Gross: $1.78M
11. Ms. Purple (2019)
87 min | Drama
A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father's life.
Director: Justin Chon | Stars: Jake Choi, Inka Kytö, Tania Verafield, Alfredo Tavares
Votes: 240 | Gross: $0.02M
12. Native Son (2019)
TV-MA | 104 min | Drama
A young African-American living in Chicago enters into a seductive new world of money and power after he is hired as a chauffeur for an affluent businessman.
Director: Rashid Johnson | Stars: Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson, KiKi Layne
Votes: 1,518
13. Share (I) (2019)
R | 87 min | Drama, Mystery
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn't remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
Director: Pippa Bianco | Stars: Rhianne Barreto, Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan, J.C. MacKenzie
Votes: 1,137
14. The Sound of Silence (I) (2019)
Unrated | 85 min | Drama
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Director: Michael Tyburski | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Rashida Jones, Tony Revolori, Austin Pendleton
Votes: 447
15. Them That Follow (2019)
R | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
Set deep in the wilds of Appalachia, where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God, a pastor's daughter holds a secret that threatens to tear her community apart.
Directors: Britt Poulton, Dan Madison Savage | Stars: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Walton Goggins, Thomas Mann
Votes: 1,230 | Gross: $0.16M
16. To the Stars (2019)
109 min | Drama
Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer's daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Director: Martha Stephens | Stars: Malin Akerman, Adelaide Clemens, Shea Whigham, Tony Hale
Votes: 141
17. Always in Season (2019)
89 min | Documentary
When 17-year-old Lennon Lacy is found hanging from a swing set in rural North Carolina in 2014, his mother's search for justice and reconciliation begins while the trauma of more than a ... See full summary »
Director: Jacqueline Olive | Stars: William J. Barber II, Danny Glover, Sherrilyn Ifill, Claudia Lacy
Votes: 54
18. American Factory (2019)
TV-14 | 115 min | Documentary
End 2008, GM closes a plant in Ohio. A Chinese billionaire/Fuyao Glass buys the plant 2014 and invests in auto glass production. There are 2000 jobs there by late 2016. USA meets PRChina.
Directors: Steven Bognar, Julia Reichert | Stars: Junming 'Jimmy' Wang, Robert Allen, Sherrod Brown, Dave Burrows
Votes: 4,124
19. Apollo 11 (2019)
G | 93 min | Documentary, History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Director: Todd Douglas Miller | Stars: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, Deke Slayton
Votes: 13,410 | Gross: $9.04M
20. Bedlam (2019)
Documentary
A psychiatrist makes rounds in ERs, jails, and homeless camps to tell the intimate stories behind one of the greatest social crises of our time. A personal and intense journey into the world of the seriously mentally ill.
Director: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg | Stars: Eddie Anderson, Patrisse Cullors
Votes: 15
21. David Crosby: Remember My Name (2019)
R | 95 min | Documentary, Music
Meet David Crosby in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind.
Director: A.J. Eaton | Stars: David Crosby, Jackson Browne, Jan Crosby, Cameron Crowe
Votes: 310 | Gross: $0.62M
22. Hail Satan? (2019)
R | 95 min | Documentary
A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple.
Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Jex Blackmore, Chalice Blythe, Nicholas Crowe, Sal De Ciccio
Votes: 2,568 | Gross: $0.42M
23. Jawline (2019)
99 min | Documentary
The film follows 16-year-old Austyn Tester, a rising star in the live-broadcast ecosystem who built his following on wide-eyed optimism and teen girl lust, as he tries to escape a dead-end life in rural Tennessee.
Director: Liza Mandelup | Stars: Nick Champa, JJ Hannon, Austyn Tester, Michael Weist
Votes: 255
24. Knock Down the House (2019)
PG | 86 min | Documentary
A look at the people involved with various political campaigns during the 2018 U.S. congressional election.
Director: Rachel Lears | Stars: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Joe Crowley, Paula Jean Swearengin
Votes: 8,658
25. Midnight Family (2019)
81 min | Documentary, Action, Crime
In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a private ambulance, competing with other for-profit EMTs for patients in need of urgent help.
Director: Luke Lorentzen | Star: Juan Ochoa
Votes: 320
26. Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
PG-13 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography
A look at the career of 60 Minutes (1968) newsman, Mike Wallace.
Director: Avi Belkin | Stars: Mike Wallace, Johnny Carson, Mickey Cohen, Salvador Dalí
Votes: 254 | Gross: $0.27M
27. Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Moonlight Sonata is a deeply personal memoir about a deaf boy growing up, his deaf grandfather growing old, and Beethoven the year he was blindsided by deafness and wrote his iconic sonata.... See full summary »
Director: Irene Taylor Brodsky
Votes: 25
28. One Child Nation (2019)
R | 88 min | Documentary, History
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
Directors: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang | Stars: Nanfu Wang, Zaodi Wang, Zhimei Wang, Tunde Wang
Votes: 1,305 | Gross: $0.18M
29. Pahokee (2019)
110 min | Documentary
In a small agricultural town in the Florida Everglades, hopes for the future are concentrated on the youth. Four teens face heartbreak and celebrate in the rituals of an extraordinary senior year.
Directors: Patrick Bresnan, Ivete Lucas
Votes: 42
30. Tigerland (2019)
91 min | Documentary
Conservationists and local populations of India and Bhutan hope to double the wild tiger population by 2022.
Director: Ross Kauffman | Star: Pavel Fomenko
Votes: 38
31. The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
91 min | Documentary
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
Director: Benjamin Berman | Stars: The Amazing Johnathan, Eric André, Benjamin Berman, Simon Chinn
Votes: 816
32. Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019)
PG-13 | 97 min | Documentary
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demagogues - from Joseph McCarthy to his final project, Donald J. Trump.
Director: Matt Tyrnauer | Stars: Ken Auletta, Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Sam Roberts
Votes: 231
33. Corporate Animals (2019)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Horror
CEO Lucy takes her staff on corporate team building in some underground desert caves in New Mexico. They get stuck there.
Director: Patrick Brice | Stars: Demi Moore, Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, Karan Soni
Votes: 1,054
34. Greener Grass (2019)
Unrated | 95 min | Comedy
Suburban soccer moms find themselves constantly competing against each other in their personal lives as their kids settle their differences on the field.
Directors: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe | Stars: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey
Votes: 954
35. Little Monsters (2019)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Horror
A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.
Director: Abe Forsythe | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Alexander England, Josh Gad, Kat Stewart
Votes: 5,437
36. Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019)
95 min | Documentary
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. ... See full summary »
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe | Stars: Bijan Aalam, Tim Boxell, Axelle Carolyn, Veronica Cartwright
Votes: 1,144
37. Mope (2019)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
The tragic true story of best friends Steve Driver and Tom Dong, two low end porn actors who sought fame but gained infamy.
Director: Lucas Heyne | Stars: Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Kelly Sry, Brian Huskey, Max Adler
Votes: 140
38. Sweetheart (I) (2019)
PG-13 | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Jenn has washed ashore a small tropical island and it doesn't take her long to realize she's completely alone. She must spend her days not only surviving the elements, but must also fend off the malevolent force that comes out each night.
Director: J.D. Dillard | Stars: Kiersey Clemons, Emory Cohen, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Andrew Crawford
Votes: 1,790
39. The Hole in the Ground (2019)
R | 90 min | Horror
A young mother living in the Irish countryside with her son suspects his increasingly disturbing behavior is linked to a mysterious sinkhole in the forest, and fears he may not be her son at all.
Director: Lee Cronin | Stars: Seána Kerslake, James Quinn Markey, Kati Outinen, David Crowley
Votes: 10,137 | Gross: $0.02M
40. The Lodge (2019)
R | 100 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.
Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Jaeden Martell, Riley Keough, Richard Armitage, Alicia Silverstone
Votes: 1,017
41. Wounds (2019)
R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christin Rankins
Votes: 9,346
42. Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
87 min | Documentary
Filmmakers travel to six continents and 20 countries to document the impact humans have made on the planet.
Directors: Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, Nicholas de Pencier | Star: Alicia Vikander
Votes: 664
43. Birds of Passage (2018)
Not Rated | 125 min | Crime, Drama
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.
Directors: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra | Stars: Carmiña Martínez, José Acosta, Natalia Reyes, Jhon Narváez
Votes: 6,948 | Gross: $0.51M
44. Maiden (2018)
PG | 97 min | Documentary, Sport
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
Director: Alex Holmes | Stars: Frank Bough, John Chittenden, Bruno Du Bois, Pat Edwards
Votes: 873 | Gross: $3.01M
45. The Biggest Little Farm (2018)
PG | 91 min | Documentary