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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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American Mullet
What is a mullet? Simply a haircut, short in front and long in the back. People love to talk about the mullet but who is talking to the people with the mullet cut? We are. In asking people to talk about their mullets, we are asking them to talk about themselves and the people in this film are nothing short of amazing. If you...Start your free trial to watch
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American Orpheus
"Intended as a tribute to Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHÉE, Schmidt gives the Orpheus legend a very contemporary twist. Here the central bond, the love that reaches beyond death, is not between a young man and woman, but between a mother and her small daughter. Shot in a lean, composed style, what is...Start your free trial to watch
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American Values, American Wilderness
A diverse group of Americans, including a teenage daughter of Cambodian refugees, a children's book author, a cancer survivor, a Native American tribal chairman, inner city kids, and the late Christopher Reeve, among others, share their values for wilderness. Their experiences and hopes are interspersed...Start your free trial to watch
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Among the Missing
Vietnam is often called “the war that won’t go away”, largely because of the continuing controversy of the POW/MIA (Prisoners of War/Missing in Action) issue. Families of those who were POW/MIA in Vietnam organized an activist movement which went on to pursue a question which still haunts America nearly...Start your free trial to watch
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Angora Ranch
ANGORA RANCH is a sweet, heartfelt movie about love that transcends age, stereotypes and meddlesome families. While driving to a business meeting, young and handsome Justin runs off the road to avoid a rabbit. Lucky for him he has ditched at Angora Ranch, a farm owned by hunk Jack, a man almost twice Justin’s age. Justin and...Start your free trial to watch
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The Animal
A man meets a woman at a deserted railroad station somewhere in northern New England. It is the middle of winter; snow is falling. The two drive to a remote farmhouse. Two strange children, who never speak, appear at the window; an old woman calls them away. First isolation, then alienation, overcome the couple. The woman has...Start your free trial to watch
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Animal Room
Set in the future, the film focuses on Arnold Mosk (Neil Patrick Harris), a high school student caught abusing drugs. When he's put in a controversial isolation program nicknamed the "Animal Room," his life is threatened. It's a classroom where no rules apply. Arnold is terrorized by a gang leader, Doug Van Housen (Matthew...Start your free trial to watch
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Anywhere USA
In a trailer deposited in an unkempt pastoral glade, a woman who used to be an alternate on her high school tennis team beats her boyfriend senseless once a week. She beats him, 'cause, well he deserves it. It’s his act of redneck contrition. Meanwhile, an eight-year-old girl finds accidental elucidation; the sort of...Start your free trial to watch
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The Apologies
A commercially realistic but artistically conflicted playwright lends his Berlin apartment to a young actress friend so she can rehearse her drama school audition while he goes off to save his doomed production in New York. Featuring Nikolai Kinski, Bettina Zimmermann and Ireen Kirsc.Start your free trial to watch
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Armless
ARMLESS tells the story of a man who suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (B.I.I.D.), a real-life psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel “whole” unless he loses one or more major limbs. When he leaves his wife and goes to find a doctor willing to amputate his arms, it triggers a...Start your free trial to watch
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Art House
A communal house left in trust many years ago to provide art students support in the way of free housing, ART HOUSE has accumulated its share of legends, lore, art, art junk and a reputation for hard partying. When a university dean and an influential descendant of the original benefactor decide to turn the place into housing...Start your free trial to watch
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The Art of Travel
Conner Layne (Christopher Masterson) is about to embark on an adventure, just not the one he had planned. After discovering his fiance is having an affair with his best friend, he leaves her at the altar and heads off on his honeymoon alone. While experiencing the wonders that South America offers, he...Start your free trial to watch
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The Artists
Director Susanne Ullerich had often asked herself, “How will I earn money [as an artist]?” Because she couldn’t easily answer this and many other questions, she decided to interview other like-minded people. The interviews all take place in a studio, where the goal was to place the interviewees in a sort of job interview...Start your free trial to watch
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Asian Stories
Jim is a young close-fisted Chinese American living in LA who finds himself with a stack of white flower themed disposable cameras, fleur-de-lis invitations, a number of champagne bottles and a ten-thousand dollar engagement ring bill. The only thing missing is a bride. In financial debt and miserable for having his fiancée...Start your free trial to watch
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Athens, GA: Inside Out
Led by the success of the B-52's and R.E.M., Athens, Georgia was the most happening music scene in the country by the mid 80's. Following several different bands from different genres, this film paints Athens as a magical artistic environment where bands are not in competition, but co-exist in harmony and...Start your free trial to watch
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Atomic Wounds
At 89, Doctor Hida, a survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb at Hiroshima, continues to care for some of the other quarter of a million survivors. Atomic Wounds retraces his dedicated journey and highlights how the terrible danger of radiation was concealed by successive American administrations in the 50's-70's so that nuclear...Start your free trial to watch
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Azole Dkmuntch
At an open microphone performance, a man in a blue tuxedo claiming to be named Azole Dkmuntch heaps transgression on transgression in his bargain-basement retelling of his clearly ludicrous but deceptively poignant personal history. He rips and roars though a bevy of outre afflictions from AIDS to spousal abuse to heart...Start your free trial to watch