The Sundance Institute and Film Festival is a marker in film quality. It gets attached to names as much as having an Academy Award, with the annual Utah festival being the largest in the United States — it is held in January and so a good screening ground for Oscar nods. Though it caters only for "independent films" with the broadening of that term and the simultaneous broadening of award contention to not be unofficially restricted to Hollywood, a screening at Sundance is becoming one check of must-watch movies. Its correlation with success is often mapped as starting around 2008, which may be reflected with the number of Sundance films that have TV Tropes pages drastically increasing around this time.
Not related to Rain Dance.
Official Sundance Selections
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A-C
- 11/22/63
- 20 Feet from Stardom
- 28 Days Later
- (500) Days of Summer
- 9 Songs
- Adventureland
- Aint Them Bodies Saints
- Alpha Dog
- All the Real Girls
- An American Crime
- American Factory
- American Psycho
- The American Society of Magical Negroes
- Anvil! The Story of Anvil
- The Aristocrats
- Art School Confidential
- Assassination Nation
- The Assistant
- Austenland
- The Babadook
- Baghead (2008)
- Be Kind Rewind
- Before I Fall
- Before Sunrise
- Bend It Like Beckham
- Berlin Syndrome
- The Big Sick
- Big Time Adolescence
- Black Dynamite
- Black Snake Moan
- Blackfish
- The Blair Witch Project
- Blinded by the Light
- Blindspotting
- Blue Valentine
- Boiler Room
- Bottle Rocket (1993 short)
- Bound (1996)
- Boxing Helena
- Boy (2010)
- Boyhood
- Brigsby Bear
- The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy
- Brooklyn
- Buried
- Bushwick
- But I'm a Cheerleader
- The Butterfly Effect
- Call Me by Your Name
- Camp X-Ray
- Captain Fantastic
- The Catcher Was a Spy
- Cedar Rapids
- Censor
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Chasing Amy
- Christine (2016)
- Cigarettes & Coffee
- Cobain: Montage of Heck
- Colette
- Collective
- Columbus
- Come Away
- Come Sunday
- The Comedy
- The Company Men
- Cooties
- The Crush
- C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
- Cyrus
D-G
- Daddy Longlegs (2009)
- Dear Wendy
- The Death of Dick Long
- The Death of Stalin
- Decasia
- Diary of the Dead
- Dirty Love
- Donnie Darko
- The Doom Generation
- Downhill (the American remake of Force Majeure)
- Eagle Vs Shark
- The East
- Edge of America
- Eighth Grade
- Enter the Void
- Ernest et Célestine
- An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
- Excision (2012)
- Exit Through the Gift Shop
- The Extra Man
- Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile
- The Farewell
- The Father
- Fighting with My Family
- Fill the Void
- Filly Brown
- Four Lions
- Frank
- Fresh (2022)
- Friends with Money
- Frozen (2010)
- The Full Monty
- The Fundamentals of Caring
- Funny Games (2007)
- A Futile and Stupid Gesture
- The Future 2011
- Garden State
- Gerry
- Get Out (2017)
- A Ghost Story
- Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
- The Good Girl
- Grabbers
- Green Room
- The Guard
H-L
- Hail Satan?
- Hairspray (1988)
- Hamlet 2
- Hard Candy
- Hard Eight
- Henry Poole Is Here
- Hereditary
- His House
- Hobo with a Shotgun
- The Hole in the Ground
- Horse Girl
- Hounddog
- The House of Yes
- Human Nature
- I Am Mother
- I Love You Phillip Morris
- I Saw the Devil
- I Shot Andy Warhol
- Ida
- The Illusionist (2006)
- I'm Here (2010)
- In a Better World
- In A Violent Nature
- In America
- In Bruges
- In Fear
- Incendies
- An Inconvenient Truth
- The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
- Infinitely Polar Bear
- Infinity Pool
- I Saw the TV Glow
- It Follows
- Jawbreaker
- Jobs
- John and the Hole
- Judas and the Black Messiah
- Jupiter Ascending
- Kaboom!
- Kafka
- Kajillionaire
- A Kid Like Jake
- The Kids Are All Right
- Kill Your Darlings
- Killing Ground
- The Killing Room
- The Kings of Summer
- Kinky Boots
- Knock Knock (2015)
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Laggies
- Landscape With Invisible Hand
- The Laramie Project
- The Last Mimzy
- Last Train Home
- Lawn Dogs
- Layer Cake
- Leave No Trace
- Liberal Arts
- Life After Beth
- Life In A Day
- The Little Hours
- Little Miss Sunshine
- Little Monsters (2019)
- Lizzie
- La Llorona
- The Lobster
- The Lodge
- Lords of Chaos
- Lost Highway
- Love & Basketball
- Lovelace
- Loverboy (2005)
M-R
- Manchester by the Sea
- Mandy (2018)
- Margin Call
- Mary and Max
- Mass
- Master
- Mean Creek
- Meek's Cutoff
- Mirrormask
- Monster
- Moon
- Moonstruck
- The Motorcycle Diaries
- Mud
- Mudbound
- My Life as a Zucchini
- My Old School
- Mysterious Skin
- Mystery Team
- Napoleon Dynamite
- Native Son (2019)
- The Night House
- The Nightingale (2019)
- No
- Novitiate
- Nowhere Boy
- Obvious Child
- Official Secrets
- O.J.: Made in America
- Oldboy (2003)
- One Hour Photo
- The One I Love
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Ophelia
- Orlando
- Our Idiot Brother
- Palm Springs
- Paris, Texas
- Past Lives
- Piggy (2022)
- Poison Ivy
- The Polka King
- Possessor
- Promising Young Woman
- The Raid
- A Raisin in the Sun (2008 version)
- Raising Victor Vargas
- Raw
- RBG
- Reality Bites
- Red State
- Reefer Madness: The Musical
- The Report
- Reservoir Dogs
- Resurrection (2022)
- Revenge (2017)
- The Rider
- Rory O'Shea Was Here
- The Runaways
- Run Sweetheart Run
S-V
- Safe (1995)
- Save Yourselves!
- Saving Face
- The Science of Sleep
- Scrapper
- Senna
- Shaun the Sheep Movie
- Shine
- Shotgun Stories
- Sightseers
- Sing Street
- Skate Kitchen
- Skins
- Sleeping Dogs Lie
- Sleeping With Other People
- Smiley Face
- Speak No Evil
- The Social Dilemma
- Sorry to Bother You
- Sound City
- Sound of My Voice
- Southside With You
- Splice
- Spree
- Stoker
- Stranger by the Lake
- Strangers with Candy: The Movie
- Strong Island
- Submarine
- Summer of '84
- Sunshine Cleaning
- Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
- Take Shelter
- Talk to Me
- Tangerine
- Taylor Swift: Miss Americana
- Terri
- Thank You for Smoking
- Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
- This Film is Not Yet Rated
- Three... Extremes
- Thoroughbreds
- Tig
- Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
- To the Bone
- Troop Zero
- Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
- Tully
- Turbo Kid
- Two Cars, One Night
- Uncle Frank
- Velvet Buzzsaw
- VHS
- The Virgin Suicides
W-Z
- Waitress
- Waking Life
- A Walk on the Moon
- Watcher
- We Are the Strange
- We Are What We Are
- Welcome to the Rileys
- The Wave (2008)
- Wet Hot American Summer
- What Just Happened
- What We Do in the Shadows
- When We Were Kings
- Wiener-Dog
- Win Win
- Wind River
- Wolf Creek
- The Woman
- The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
- The Woodsman
- World's Greatest Dad
- The Worst Person in the World
- Wristcutters: A Love Story
- Wuthering Heights (2011)
- Y tu mamá también
- Year Of The Dog
- You Were Never Really Here
- Young@Heart
- Your Monster
- Your Sister's Sister
- Zola
Films that have won a Sundance Prize
A-C
- 13 (2010)
- Adam (2009)
- Advantageous
- Afternoon Delight
- American Movie
- American Splendor
- Animal Kingdom
- Another Earth
- Beasts of the Southern Wild
- Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey
- The Believer
- Big Night
- The Birth of a Nation (2016)
- Blood Simple
- Bloody Sunday
- Boys State
- The Brave Little Toaster
- Brick
- Brittany Runs a Marathon
- Broken Saints
- The Brothers Mc Mullen
- Capturing the Friedmans
- The Celluloid Closet
- Charm City Kings
- Choke
- Clerks
- CODA (2021)
- Computer Chess
- The Cove
- Cryptozoo
- Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus
- Cuties
D-G
- Daughters of the Dust
- Dear White People
- Desert Hearts
- The Devil and Daniel Johnston
- The Diary Of A Teenage Girl
- Dope
- An Education
- El Mariachi
- Embrace of the Serpent
- Emergency (2022)
- everything will be ok
- Fauve
- First Girl I Loved
- Flee
- The Flying Sailor
- For All Mankind
- Forty Shades Of Blue
- Freedom on My Mind
- Fresh
- Frozen River
- Fruitvale Station
- Genghis Blues
- Girls Town 1996
- God Help the Girl
- God's Own Country
- Good Luck To You, Leo Grande
- Grizzly Man
- A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
H-L
- Hale County This Morning This Evening
- happythankyoumoreplease
- Harvie Krumpet
- Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- Honey Boy
- Honeyland
- High Art
- Hoop Dreams
- House Party
- Humpday
- Hustle & Flow
- I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
- I Origins
- Icarus
- In a World…
- In the Bedroom
- In the Company of Men
- Indie Game: The Movie
- Ingrid Goes West
- The Intervention
- Joshua
- Junebug
- Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
- Life, Animated
- Like Crazy
- Lilting
- Living in Oblivion
- The Lure
M-R
- Man on Wire
- Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
- Me And You And Everyone We Know
- Memento
- Minari
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Monos
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Once
- On the Count of Three
- Paper Heart
- Pariah
- Paris Is Burning
- π
- Pieces of April
- Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
- Primer
- Project Nim
- Real Women Have Curves
- Restrepo
- Right at Your Door
- River's Edge
- Robot and Frank
- Run Lola Run
- Ryan
S-V
- Safety Not Guaranteed
- Saving Grace
- Searching
- Searching for Sugar Man
- Secretary
- The Sessions
- sex, lies, and videotape
- Sherman's March
- Shirley
- Sin Nombre
- The Skeleton Twins
- Sleepwalk With Me
- Slow West
- Smashed
- SMILF
- Smoke Signals
- Smooth Talk (1985)
- Spanking the Monkey
- The Spectacular Now
- The Squid and the Whale
- The Station Agent
- Super Size Me
- Swiss Army Man
- Teeth
- Three Identical Strangers
- Three Seasons
- Thumbsucker
- Thunder Road
- The Times of Harvey Milk
- Treasure Island (1999)
- Trouble the Water
- Tyrannosaur
- Upstream Color
W-Z
