Most Anticipated Sundance 2019 Feature Film?
by urbanemovies | created - 25 Mar 2016 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicWhich of these select movies* from the 2019 Sundance Film Festival are you most excited to see for yourself? *excludes documentaries
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1. 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, Vernee Watson, Aldis Hodge
Votes: 280
Winner: U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize
2. The Souvenir (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Tilda Swinton
Votes: 4,104 | Gross: $1.04M
Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize
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: 5,354 | Gross: $0.22M
Winner: U.S. Dramatic, Audience Award
4. Queen of Hearts (2019)
127 min | Drama
A woman jeopardizes both her career and her family when she seduces her teenage stepson and is forced to make an irreversible decision with fatal consequences.
Director: May el-Toukhy | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Gustav Lindh, Magnus Krepper, Liv Esmår Dannemann
Votes: 3,081
Winner: World Cinema Dramatic, Audience Award
5. The Sharks (2019)
80 min | Drama
Two young lovers embark on a relationship while a rumor of sharks at the beach has everyone talking.
Director: Lucía Garibaldi | Stars: Romina Bentancur, Federico Morosini, Fabián Arenillas, Antonella Aquistapache
Votes: 179
Winner: World Cinema Dramatic, Directing Award
6. 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: 5,652 | Gross: $4.52M
Winner: U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Collaboration
7. The Infiltrators (2019)
95 min | Drama
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth - Dreamers - deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention center.
Directors: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera | Stars: Mohammad Abdollahi, Maynor Alvarado, Roman Arabia, Scott Broderick
Votes: 52
Winner: NEXT Innovator Prize Award
8. Monos (2019)
R | 102 min | Drama, Thriller
On a remote mountaintop, eight kids with guns watch over a hostage and a conscripted milk cow.
Director: Alejandro Landes | Stars: Sofia Buenaventura, Julian Giraldo, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón
Votes: 3,532
Winner: World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Prize Award
9. 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: 2,398
Winner: A U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft
10. 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: 1,129
Winner: U.S. Dramatic Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Winner: U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Achievement in Acting
11. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
TV-PG | 113 min | Drama
Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo
Votes: 15,122
Winner: Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize
Sundance Film Festival prize is given to a feature film that focuses on science or technology as a theme, or depicts a scientist, engineer, or mathematician as a major character.
12. Late Night (2019)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A late night talk show host suspects that she may soon lose her long-running show.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling, John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy
Votes: 14,050 | Gross: $15.50M
13. 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
14. 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: 5,215
15. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
R | 110 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy from the perspective of Liz, his longtime girlfriend, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Lily Collins, Zac Efron, Angela Sarafyan, Sydney Vollmer
Votes: 58,384
16. The Report (I) (2019)
R | 119 min | Biography, Drama, History
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
Director: Scott Z. Burns | Stars: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm, Ted Levine
Votes: 5,384
17. The Mustang (2019)
R | 96 min | Drama
The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs.
Director: Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Jason Mitchell, Bruce Dern, Gideon Adlon
Votes: 6,386 | Gross: $5.04M
18. I Am Mother (2019)
TV-14 | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the wake of humanity's extinction, a teenage girl is raised by a robot designed to repopulate the earth. But their unique bond is threatened when an inexplicable stranger arrives with alarming news.
Director: Grant Sputore | Stars: Rose Byrne, Maddie Lenton, Luke Hawker, Summer Lenton
Votes: 53,995
19. 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: 9,125
20. Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
R | 113 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A satire set in the contemporary art world scene of Los Angeles, where big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce.
Director: Dan Gilroy | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 45,644
21. Paradise Hills (2019)
TV-14 | 95 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Uma wakes up in an apparently idyllic school for young ladies called Paradise, meant to reform her and her new friends. But there's a darker secret behind its walls.
Director: Alice Waddington | Stars: Emma Roberts, Danielle Macdonald, Awkwafina, Eiza González
Votes: 4,387
22. 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: 3,770 | Gross: $1.78M
23. Them That Follow (2019)
R | 98 min | 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: 1,167 | Gross: $0.16M
24. The Death of Dick Long (2019)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don't want anybody finding out how. That's too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
Director: Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Michael Abbott Jr., Virginia Newcomb, Andre Hyland, Sarah Baker
Votes: 1,785
25. 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: 14,484 | Gross: $16.88M
26. 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, Alicia Silverstone, Richard Armitage
Votes: 966
27. 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: 6,895 | Gross: $0.51M
28. The Tomorrow Man (2019)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Romance
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. These two people will try to find love.
Director: Noble Jones | Stars: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil, Katie Aselton
Votes: 786 | Gross: $0.35M
29. 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: 1,755
30. Official Secrets (2019)
R | 112 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Director: Gavin Hood | Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Matt Smith, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 8,074 | Gross: $0.40M
31. 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: 1,510
32. After the Wedding (2019)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama
A manager of an orphanage in Kolkata travels to New York to meet a benefactor.
Director: Bart Freundlich | Stars: Billy Crudup, Michelle Williams, Julianne Moore, Abby Quinn
Votes: 1,890 | Gross: $1.45M
33. Troop Zero (2019)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a competition offers her a chance to be recorded on NASA's Golden Record, she recruits a makeshift troop of Birdie Scouts, forging friendships that last a lifetime.
Director: Bert & Bertie | Stars: Mckenna Grace, Allison Janney, Edi Patterson, Viola Davis
Votes: 69
34. Judy & Punch (2019)
105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Seaside (nowhere near the sea), puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show in an an anarchic town on the brink of mob rule.
Director: Mirrah Foulkes | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Benedict Hardie, Jacek Koman
Votes: 457
35. 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: 1,039
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