Sundance 2018
by trevchan | created - 22 Jan 2018 | updated - 30 Jan 2018 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1993, a teenage girl is forced into a gay conversion therapy center by her conservative guardians.
Director: Desiree Akhavan | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Steven Hauck, Quinn Shephard, Kerry Butler
Votes: 25,610 | Gross: $0.90M
grand jury prize
2. Burden (I) (2018)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, History
When a museum celebrating the Ku Klux Klan opens in a South Carolina town, the idealistic Reverend Kennedy strives to keep the peace even as he urges the group's Grand Dragon to disavow his racist past.
Director: Andrew Heckler | Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Andrea Riseborough, Forest Whitaker, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 4,136
Dramatic Audience Award
3. I Think We're Alone Now (2018)
R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
The apocalypse proves a blessing in disguise for one lucky recluse--until a second survivor arrives with the threat of companionship.
Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Peter Dinklage, Elle Fanning, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paul Giamatti
Votes: 12,608
Special Jury Award for Excellence in Filmmaking
4. The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
A kindergarten teacher in New York becomes obsessed with one of her students who she believes is a child prodigy.
Director: Sara Colangelo | Stars: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gael García Bernal, Ato Blankson-Wood, Libya Pugh
Votes: 17,808
best director
5. Monsters and Men (2018)
R | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The aftermath of a police killing of a black man, told through the eyes of the bystander who filmed the act, an African-American police officer and a high-school baseball phenom inspired to take a stand.
Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green | Stars: John David Washington, Anthony Ramos, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Chanté Adams
Votes: 2,709 | Gross: $0.50M
Special Jury Award for Outstanding First Feature
6. Blaze (2018)
R | 129 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A reimagining of the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting legend of the Texas Outlaw Music movement.
Director: Ethan Hawke | Stars: Ben Dickey, Alia Shawkat, Josh Hamilton, Charlie Sexton
Votes: 3,639 | Gross: $0.07M
Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting
7. Searching (III) (2018)
PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Director: Aneesh Chaganty | Stars: John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee, Michelle La
Votes: 179,947 | Gross: $26.02M
NEXT Audience Award + Dramatic Special Jury Prize
8. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.
Director: Boots Riley | Stars: LaKeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson, Jermaine Fowler, Omari Hardwick
Votes: 88,199 | Gross: $17.49M
dir: Boots Riley (the coup)
9. We the Animals (2018)
R | 94 min | Drama
Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
Director: Jeremiah Zagar | Stars: Evan Rosado, Raúl Castillo, Sheila Vand, Isaiah Kristian
Votes: 4,622 | Gross: $0.40M
NEXT Innovator Award
10. Wildlife (2018)
PG-13 | 105 min | Drama
A teenage boy must deal with his mother's complicated response after his father temporarily abandons them to take a menial and dangerous job.
Director: Paul Dano | Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Travis W Bruyer
Votes: 31,383 | Gross: $1.03M
11. Eighth Grade (2018)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
An introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.
Director: Bo Burnham | Stars: Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan
Votes: 82,474 | Gross: $13.54M
A24
12. The Tale (2018)
TV-MA | 114 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Director: Jennifer Fox | Stars: Laura Dern, Jason Ritter, Common, Elizabeth Debicki
Votes: 19,705
13. Mandy (I) (2018)
Not Rated | 121 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.
Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, Ned Dennehy
Votes: 89,493 | Gross: $1.21M
14. Minding the Gap (2018)
Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Sport
Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.
Director: Bing Liu | Stars: Kent Abernathy, Mengyue Bolen, Nina Bowgren, Keire Johnson
Votes: 10,464 | Gross: $0.01M
Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Filmmaking
15. Madeline's Madeline (2018)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama
A theatre director's latest project takes on a life of its own when her young star takes her performance too seriously.
Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Helena Howard, Molly Parker, Miranda July, Okwui Okpokwasili
Votes: 4,140 | Gross: $0.18M
16. Private Life (2018)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama
An author is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband on edge.
Director: Tamara Jenkins | Stars: Kathryn Hahn, Paul Giamatti, Gabrielle Reid, Amy Russ
Votes: 22,153
Netflix
17. Hereditary (2018)
R | 127 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.
Director: Ari Aster | Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff
Votes: 377,938 | Gross: $44.07M
18. Damsel (I) (2018)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
It's the Wild West, circa 1870. Samuel Alabaster, an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope. As his group traverses the west, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain and damsel.
Directors: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Mia Wasikowska, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Votes: 5,893 | Gross: $0.31M
19. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018)
PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Biography, History
An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host Fred Rogers.
Director: Morgan Neville | Stars: Fred Rogers, Margaret Whitmer, Tom Junod, Joanne Rogers
Votes: 27,116 | Gross: $22.84M
20. Holiday (I) (2018)
93 min | Crime, Drama
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Director: Isabella Eklöf | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Lai Yde, Thijs Römer, Yuval Segal
Votes: 4,556
21. Leave No Trace (2018)
PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama
A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard, Derek John Drescher
Votes: 65,280 | Gross: $6.05M
22. American Animals (2018)
R | 116 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.
Director: Bart Layton | Stars: Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Eric Borsuk, Chas Allen
Votes: 49,348 | Gross: $2.86M
23. Assassination Nation (2018)
R | 108 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
After a malicious data hack exposes the secrets of the perpetually American town of Salem, chaos descends and four girls must fight to survive, while coping with the hack themselves.
Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: Odessa Young, Abra, Suki Waterhouse, Hari Nef
Votes: 21,753 | Gross: $1.96M
24. Blindspotting (2018)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While on probation, a man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
Director: Carlos López Estrada | Stars: Daveed Diggs, Rafael Casal, Janina Gavankar, Jasmine Cephas Jones
Votes: 32,882 | Gross: $4.33M
25. Lizzie (2018)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of Lizzie Andrew Borden's family.
Director: Craig William Macneill | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Jeff Perry, Fiona Shaw
Votes: 9,378 | Gross: $0.64M
26. Puzzle (II) (2018)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world - where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
Director: Marc Turtletaub | Stars: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler
Votes: 8,529 | Gross: $2.03M
27. Tyrel (2018)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
Tyler, a sole black man, attends an otherwise all-white weekend of drunken bro debauchery on a birthday trip to a cabin in the Catskills.
Director: Sebastián Silva | Stars: Jason Mitchell, Christopher Abbott, Ann Dowd, Caleb Landry Jones
Votes: 1,549 | Gross: $0.02M
28. Shirkers (2018)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary
A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
Director: Sandi Tan | Stars: Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah, Sophia Siddique Harvey, Sharon Siddique
Votes: 5,672
World Cinema Documentary Directing Award
29. The Guilty (2018)
R | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Director: Gustav Möller | Stars: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Omar Shargawi, Johan Gotthardt Olsen
Votes: 64,431 | Gross: $0.21M
World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
30. Skate Kitchen (2018)
R | 106 min | Drama
A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City.
Director: Crystal Moselle | Stars: Rachelle Vinberg, Dede Lovelace, Nina Moran, Kabrina Adams
Votes: 4,867 | Gross: $0.24M
31. Never Goin' Back (2018)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jessie and Angela, high school dropouts, are taking a week off to chill at the beach. Too bad their house got robbed, rent's due, they're about to get fired, and they're broke.
Director: Augustine Frizzell | Stars: Maia Mitchell, Camila Morrone, Liz Cardenas, Michelle Sherrill
Votes: 4,072 | Gross: $0.06M
32. Piercing (2018)
R | 81 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A man kisses his wife and baby goodbye and seemingly heads away on business, with a plan to check into a hotel, call an escort service, and kill an unsuspecting prostitute.
Director: Nicolas Pesce | Stars: Christopher Abbott, Laia Costa, Mia Wasikowska, Will Brill
Votes: 8,623 | Gross: $0.02M
33. Juliet, Naked (2018)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Annie (the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan) has an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
Director: Jesse Peretz | Stars: Chris O'Dowd, Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke, Kitty O'Beirne
Votes: 24,697 | Gross: $3.44M
writer: nick hornby
34. America to Me (2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary
Follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago's Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of a year.
Stars: Ke'Shawn Kumsa, Charles Donalson Jr., Kendale McCoy, Grant Lee
Votes: 415
35. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worst when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only."
Director: Jim Hosking | Stars: Matt Berry, Zach Cherry, Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement
Votes: 6,650 | Gross: $0.01M
36. Tully (2018)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A struggling mother of three forms an unexpected bond with the night nanny hired to help with her newborn baby.
Director: Jason Reitman | Stars: Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis, Ron Livingston, Asher Miles Fallica
Votes: 63,075 | Gross: $9.23M
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