Independent
see all genres ›The whole notion of independence applies to films made outside major studios though, occasionally, the studios will distribute independently-produced films that they acquire at assorted film festivals. Independent films are often characterized as personal projects with low budgets and limited releases. Because of this, they usually feature a high degree of artistic investment and frequently explore unconventional subject material.
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Genres / Independent
SUB-GENRES · Documentary · Narrative
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Kids of Survival
KIDS OF SURVIVAL is an Emmy Award-winning feature-length documentary about three years of work and struggle inside the acclaimed South Bronx art/education group, Tim Rollins + K.O.S. For over a decade, artist-educator Tim Rollins, working with Puerto Rican and Dominican teenagers in the Bronx, has made...Start your free trial to watch -
Kimono
This half hour "ambient narrative" was made for the German TV series EROTIC TALES. Inspired by some of the more sensual readings in a collection of classical Japanese poetry, the film follows a young bride abandoned at a desolate roadside, and her dream-like descent into the depths of the forest. There, other aspects of...Start your free trial to watch -
King of Porn
The Washington-based porno collector and one-time Library of Congress official Ralph Whittington is filmed by Jeff Krulik showing off his vast homebound assembly of hoarded porno treasure before it is moved to the Museum of Modern Art. Whittington gives a guided tour of his collection and explains in detail how it is...Start your free trial to watch
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Kings of the Road
The fate of Portland's hockey team was in doubt in 1959. With only a handful of players returning, an uncompleted arena and the press denouncing the team as the worst team ever fielded in the league, all they could do was skate. KINGS OF THE ROAD tells the story of that team, the Portland Buckaroos and...Start your free trial to watch -
Kiri Wai: Inner Skin
KIRI WAI: INNER SKIN is the story of Bruce, a young European-American who undertakes a journey to the South Pacific. He is on an identity quest that began in his adolescence when Inia Taylor (Maori tattoo artist, sculptor and makeup artist for ONCE WERE WARRIORS) began a moko on Bruce's skin. Over the...Start your free trial to watch -
The Kitchen
Take an uncensored look into Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica, California, as you gain access to an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at one of the world's best eateries. You will meet all the players who together execute a delicate ballet of service, food preparation and wine over two very busy nights. If you can't...Start your free trial to watch
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Kites
KITES tells the inspiring story of Kabul’s budding young video producers. Through a clever combination of the students’ video and their mentor Jacek Szaranski’s artful camera work, we take a look at the use of video and high tech in a world more commonly associated with a backward and warmongering existence. A world where...Start your free trial to watch -
Knuckleface Jones
Hailed as being "wildly surrealist" by Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader and called "a work of demented brilliance" by Dave Nuttycombe of the DC City Paper. KNUCKLEFACE JONES won some big fans at the 2001 Slamdance Film Festival and made a lot of enemies elsewhere. It was partially funded by the...Start your free trial to watch
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Kumaré
Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing...Start your free trial to watch -
The Last Big Thing
From a bland tract house on the outskirts of Los Angeles, Simon Geist (with occasional help from his platonic girlfriend Darla) wages war against all of modern American popular culture. Geist starts up a magazine called “The Next Big Thing” which he uses to confront and insult upcoming actors, comics,...Start your free trial to watch
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The Last New Yorker
Lenny (Dominic Chianese) is a small-time investor who's always managed by rolling the dice on Wall Street but he just can't keep up with the times. When his luck finally runs out, his best friend Ruben (Dick Latessa) hatches a plan to get them both out of town. But Lenny's not going anywhere. He's got two...Start your free trial to watch -
Layover
Stranded at an airport due to bad weather, two people from the same small town cross paths as they change planes. Having not seen each other in the fifteen years since high school, Richard is headed back to his roots while Tiffany is finally getting out. Each literally and figuratively at the crossroads of a major decision to...Start your free trial to watch -
The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the Happy Bottom Riding Club
A charismatic figure immortalized in Tom Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," Florence Pancho Barnes was one of the most important women in 20th Century aviation. A tough and fearless pilot, Pancho raced Amelia Earhart, performed as a barnstormer and made a name for herself as Hollywood's first female stunt pilot in...Start your free trial to watch
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Let Me Die a Woman
From Doris Wishman, the “Queen of Exploitation,” comes LET ME DIE A WOMAN, one of the most jaw-dropping and unclassifiable films ever to ooze forth from the 1970s grindhouse. A stunningly sordid shockumentary on the medical condition known as gender dysphoria, this doco-style sleaze-fest includes...Start your free trial to watch -
Let's All Hate Toronto
A billboard shouting the confrontational message “Toronto Sucks” sends documentary filmmaker Albert Nerenberg and self-professed “Mr. Toronto” Rob Spence out on a quixotic cross-country trip to find out why Canadians hate Toronto. A parody of boosterism and fact-finding missions in the mode of Michael...Start your free trial to watch -
Life After Tomorrow
LIFE AFTER TOMORROW reunites more than forty women who played orphans in the Broadway production of ANNIE and reveals the highs and lows of their experiences as child actresses in a cultural phenomenon. Once the curtain came down, many found it could be a hard-knock-life, fraught with out-of-control stage...Start your free trial to watch



