Topic: Independent Film (USA)

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Peter Beard · Ed Emshwiller · Ken Jacobs · Jonas Mekas

Direction Quentin Tarantino

Cast Tim Roth · Harvey Keitel · Chris Penn · Steve Buscemi

Plot They were six strangers, assembled to pull off the perfect crime. Hired by mob boss Joe Cabot and given fake names so no one could identify the others, they thought...

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Direction Christopher Nolan

Cast Guy Pearce · Carrie-Anne Moss · Joe Pantoliano · Mark Boone Junior

Plot Leonard (Guy Pearce) is an insurance investigator whose memory has been damaged following a head injury he sustained after intervening on his wife's murder. His quality of life has been...

Direction Shaun Monson

Cast Joaquin Phoenix

Plot EARTHLINGS is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human...

Direction Darren Aronofsky

Cast Jared Leto · Jennifer Connelly · Ellen Burstyn · Marlon Wayans

Plot Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto) and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly) are lovers in Brooklyn with dreams of setting up a small business and spending the rest of their lives in love--their...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Richard Farnsworth · Sissy Spacek · Harry Dean Stanton · Everett McGill

Plot A portrait of one man's real journey across America's Heartland. Filmed along the 260-mile route that the actual Alvin Straight traversed in 1994 from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wisconsin,...

Direction Godfrey Reggio

Plot An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. Without a story, dialogue, or characters, Koyaanisqatsi (1983) (the film's title is a...

Direction Damien Chazelle

Cast Miles Teller · J.K. Simmons · Melissa Benoist · Paul Reiser

Plot An ambitious, talented young drummer (Miles Teller) enters a prestigious music academy to fulfill his dream of becoming one of the greatest known drummers of all time. He's initially ecstatic...

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Compilation movie who includes Everything Will be OK (2006), I Am So Proud of You (2008) y It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011). The newly unified trilogy is titled IT'S...

Direction Dalton Trumbo

Cast Timothy Bottoms · Jason Robards · Donald Sutherland · Marsha Hunt

Plot A young American soldier, hit by a shell on the last day of the First World War, lies in a hospital bed, a quadruple amputee who has lost his eyes,...

Direction Alan Berliner

Cast Alan Berliner · Oscar Berliner

Plot With this documentary, Berliner's camera focuses on the life of his curmudgeonly father Oscar who resists his son's efforts nearly every step of the way because he feels his life...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Tom Waits · Roberto Benigni · John Lurie · Nicoletta Braschi

Plot DJ Zack and pimp Jack end up in prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn't commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Ben Gazzara · John Cassavetes · Joan Blondell

Plot A young woman gets killed in an accident trying to meet her favorite actress Myrtle Gordon after a play. Then Myrtle Gordon felt responsible for the killing leading her down...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Peter Falk · Katherine Cassavetes · Fred Draper

Plot John Cassavetes's A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife. Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative...

Direction Michel Gondry

Cast Jim Carrey · Kate Winslet · Kirsten Dunst · Mark Ruffalo

Plot Joel (Jim Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contacts the inventor of...

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Emile Hirsch · Marcia Gay Harden · William Hurt · Jena Malone

Plot Freshly graduated from college and with a promising future ahead, 22-year-old Christopher McCandless chose instead to walk out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure....

Direction John Cameron Mitchell

Cast John Cameron Mitchell · Michael Pitt · Miriam Shor · Alberta Watson

Plot Hedwig (played by John Cameron Mitchell) was born as Hansel in East Berlin. In his twenties, Hansel agrees to undergo a sex change in order to marry a U.S. soldier...

Direction Jonathan Dayton · Valerie Faris

Cast Abigail Breslin · Steve Carell · Toni Collette · Greg Kinnear

Plot Meet the conflictive Hoover family: a grandfather who snorts coke and swears, the father, a struggling motivational speaker, a mother who can't cope, an uncle recovering from a failed suicide...