Topic: Independent Film (USA)

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot Titicut Follies is a black and white 1967 documentary film by Frederick Wiseman about the treatment of patients at Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The title is taken from...

Direction Wayne Wang

Cast Harvey Keitel · William Hurt · Stockard Channing · Forest Whitaker

Plot In 1990, novelist Paul Auster was asked to contribute a Christmas story to the New York Times. The resulting piece, "Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story," forms the basis for his screenplay...

Direction John-Luke Montias

Cast John-Luke Montias · Susan Mitchell · Vincent Vega · Norman Middleton

Plot Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives...

Direction Pat O'Neill

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "Public Housing" documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. The film illustrates some of the experiences of people living in conditions of extreme poverty....

Direction Lionel Rogosin

Plot The film chronicles three desperate days in a then impoverished lower Manhattan neighborhood, New York's skid row: the Bowery. It is the story of Ray, a railroad worker, who drifts...

Direction Bennett Miller

Cast Timothy Speed Levitch

Plot Affectionate portrait of Tim "Speed" Levitch, a tour guide for Manhattan's Gray Line double-decker buses. He talks fast, is in love with the city, and dispenses historical facts, architectural analysis,...

Direction Richard Schenkman

Cast David Lee Smith · John Billingsley · Ellen Crawford · William Katt

Plot An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he is an immortal who has walked the earth for...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast John Marley · Gena Rowlands · Lynn Carlin · Fred Draper

Plot Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet,...

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Plot "Primate" presents the daily activities of Yerkes Primate Research Center. Scientists in the film are concerned with studying the physical and mental development of primates. Some of the experimental work...

Direction Matt Ross

Cast Viggo Mortensen · George MacKay · Samantha Isler · Annalise Basso

Plot Ben (Viggo Mortensen) is a devoted father of six children. They live a secluded life in the isolated forests of the Pacific Northwest. The children, who never come into contact...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Winona Ryder · Giancarlo Esposito · Gena Rowlands · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Plot An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Direction Jean-Marc Vallée

Cast Matthew McConaughey · Jennifer Garner · Jared Leto · Steve Zahn

Plot Based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug taking, women loving, homophobic man who, in 1986 was diagnosed with full blown HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live....

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Ethan Hawke · Julie Delpy · Wiley Wiggins · Trevor Jack Brooks

Plot Transcending the boundaries of technology and imagination, WAKING LIFE is a revolutionary breakthrough in film animation. Originally shot and edited as live action, the footage was then graphically “painted” frame...

Direction Peter Joseph

Plot Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which presents a case for a transition out of the current socio-economic monetary paradigm which governs the...

Direction Jenny Stein

Direction Peter Joseph

Plot What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve all have in common?

Direction Kevin Smith

Cast Brian O'Halloran · Jeff Anderson · Marilyn Ghigliotti · Lisa Spoonauer

Plot Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must...

Direction Jonas Mekas

Plot Mekas leads an archival avant-garde, a fast-paced parade of 160 underground film people he captured on film over four decades, described as, "160 portraits or rather appearances, sketches and glimpses...

Direction Ellen Hovde · Albert Maysles · David Maysles · Muffie Meyer

Plot Grey Gardens is a 1975 documentary film by the direction/cinematography/editing team of Albert and David Maysles, Susan Froemke, Ellen Hovde, and Muffie Meyer. The film depicts the everyday lives of...