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Sundance 2016: 19 Movies We Can't Wait to See

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Jan 24, 2016 12:18 AM
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The Fundamentals of Caring, Selena Gomez
1/19
Netflix

The Fundamentals of Caring

A teenager (Craig Roberts) with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver (Paul Rudd) become friends with a woman (Selena Gomez) they meet while on a road trip.


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2/19
Invincible Pictures

Yoga Hosers

A spin-off of the horror comedy Tusk, the Kevin Smith-directed film stars his daughter Harley Quinn Smith (left) and Johnny Depp's daughter Lily-Rose Depp as yoga enthusiasts who work at a convenience store. The Black Mass actor also co-stars in the flick!


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3/19
Great Point Media

Goat

Nick Jonas stars as a 19-year-old who endures brutal hazing while pledging the same college fraternity as his brother.


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4/19
Autumn Productions

Lovesong

A romance blossoms when two best friends (Jena Malone and Mad Max: Fury Road's Riley Keough) take an impromptu road trip.


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5/19
Spike Lee

Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall

Spike Lee takes a look at the making of the King of Pop's 1979 album Off the Wall. The doc includes interviews with John Legend, The Weeknd and David Byrne, among others.


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6/19
Ross McDonnell, Courtesy of Amazon Studios and Roadside Attractions

Love & Friendship

Kate Beckinsale is a young widow in the 1790s who is looking for a new husband for herself and one for her daughter.


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7/19
Bron Studios

The Birth of a Nation

Nate Parker stars as Nat Turner, a slave who led a violent rebellion through numerous Virginia plantations in 1830. Parker also directed the biopic, which co-stars Gabrielle Union and Armie Hammer.


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8/19
Netflix

Tallulah

Juno and Touchy Feely co-stars Ellen Page and Allison Janney reunite for this dramedy about a drifter (Page) who kidnaps a baby from her boozy pill-popping mom (Tammy Blanchard).


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9/19
Josh Salzman

Under the Gun

The documentary, narrated and co-produced by Katie Couric, takes a look at the national gun debate through interviews with victims of gun violence as wells as pro-gun advocates.


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10/19
HBO

Nothing Left Unsaid

The documentary takes a look the lives of Anderson Cooper and his heiress (and blue jeans designer) mom Gloria Vanderbilt.


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11/19
IM Global

Southside With You

Tika Sumpter is Michelle Obama and Parker Sawyer is Barack Obama in this film about the couple's first date in Chicago.


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12/19
Sycamore Pictures

The Hollars

John Krasinski stars as an artist who takes his girlfriend (Anna Kendrick) to his childhood home the night before his mother (Margo Martindale) undergoes brain surgery. Krasinski also directed the drama.


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13/19
Wayne Miller

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

The first feature documentary about the late Maya Angelou includes interviews with Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Cicely Tyson, Common and Diahann Carroll.


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14/19
Blackbird Films

Swiss Army Man

Launched at the Sundance Lab, the dramedy stars Daniel Radcliffe as a dead guy befriended by a man (Paul Dano) lost in the wilderness.


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15/19
Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, this is the first feature documentary about Robert Mapplethorpe, the late photographer whose work often depicted homoerotic imagery inspired by New York's underground S&M scene of the 1960s.


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16/19

Miles Ahead

Don Cheadle directs and stars in this biopic about jazz legend Miles Davis.


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17/19
Sony Pictures Worldwide

Certain Women

Based on Maile Meloy's short story collection Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It and Half in Love, the film stars Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern as three women whose lives intersect in small town America.


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18/19

Other People

Black Mass and Fargo actor Jesse Plemons stars as a comedian who comes home to care for his dying mother.


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19/19
Pearl Street Films

Manchester by the Sea

A man (Casey Affleck) returns to his hometown to help raise care for his teenage nephew after his father (Kyle Chandler) passes away.


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