Topic: Independent Film (USA)

Direction David Lynch

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Isabella Rossellini · Dennis Hopper · Laura Dern

Plot Returning home to visit his father who is in intensive care at the hospital, Jeffrey Beaumont stumbles upon a human ear he finds in a field. With local police detective...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Bill Pullman · Balthazar Getty · Patricia Arquette · Robert Loggia

Plot Saxophonist Fred Madison and his wife Renee are troubled by a series of videotapes left at their door that show someone entering their house and filming them while they sleep....

Direction Richard Kelly

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal · Maggie Gyllenhaal · Patrick Swayze · Jena Malone

Plot Writer-director Richard Kelly's bold debut film is a social satire, a dark comedy, a science fiction time-traveling fantasy, and a suburban nightmare about an extremely intelligent, depressive, self-destructive, narcoleptic, gun-toting,...

Direction Todd Solondz

Cast Jane Adams · Lara Flynn Boyle · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Cynthia Stevenson

Plot When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a...

Direction Marc Singer

Plot Near Penn Station, next to the Amtrak tracks, squatters have been living for years. Marc Singer goes underground to live with them, and films this "family." A dozen or so...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · John Cassavetes · Diahnne Abbott · Seymour Cassel

Plot A quirky character drama about a writer and his sister who struggle to find love despite their personal problems.

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Ethan Hawke · Julie Delpy · Andrea Eckert · Hanno Pöschl

Plot When a young American (Ethan Hawke) traveling through Europe by train meets a beautiful French student (Julie Delpy), he convinces her to spend the day with him in Vienna so...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Masatoshi Nagase · Youki Kudoh · Nicoletta Braschi · Cinqué Lee

Plot Three different tales play out in a single 24-hour period, a loose trilogy spinning around a fleabag hotel manned by a sleepy Screamin' Jay Hawkins and his eager bellboy Cinqué...

Direction Robert Gardner

Direction Stan Brakhage

Direction Terrence Malick

Cast Martin Sheen · Sissy Spacek · Warren Oates · Ramon Bieri

Plot 1959. Kit Carruthers, a young garbage collector and his 15 years-old girlfriend Holly Sargis from Fort Dupree, South Dakota, are on the run after killing Holly's father who disagreed with...

Direction Peter Joseph

Plot Zeitgeist: Addendum, a 2008 documentary film produced by Peter Joseph, is a continuation of the film Zeitgeist, the Movie. The film discusses the Federal Reserve System in the United States,...

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Ethan Hawke · Julie Delpy · Vernon Dobtcheff · Rodolphe Pauly

Plot Jesse and Celine - the main characters in Richard Linklater's film, "Before Sunrise" - once met in Vienna and spent a night together roaming the empty streets of this city....

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Julie Delpy · Ethan Hawke · Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick · Jennifer Prior

Plot The third in the Richard Linklater series of romantic dramas, Before Midnight takes place in Greece nine years after the end of Before Sunset. Celine (Julie Delpy) y Jesse (Ethan...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast John Getz · Frances McDormand · Dan Hedaya · Samm-Art Williams

Plot Abby is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them. But Visser...

Direction Frederick Wiseman

Cast Eugene Friedman · Stanley Friedman · Robert Schwartz

Plot Daily activities of the Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with emphasis on the emergency ward and outpatient clinics. The cases depicted illustrate how medical expertise, availability of resources, organizational...

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast John Lurie · Eszter Balint · Richard Edson · Cecillia Stark

Plot A young man, his Hungarian female cousin, and his best friend journey across the United States, which leads to a number of events when they encounter a variety of people...

Direction Richard Linklater

Cast Ellar Coltrane · Patricia Arquette · Ethan Hawke · Lorelei Linklater

Plot Filmed over 12 years (in 39 shooting days from 2002 to 2013) with the same cast, Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Danny Aiello · Ossie Davis · Ruby Dee · Giancarlo Esposito

Plot It's the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, and tensions are growing there, with the only local businesses being a Korean grocery and Sal's Pizzeria....

Direction Wes Anderson

Cast Jared Gilman · Kara Hayward · Bruce Willis · Edward Norton

Plot Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various...