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Narrative
see all genres ›Independence from mainstream production avenues is sometimes more necessity than choice for filmmakers. But it's long permitted them greater freedom in investigating characters, stories and environs well outside the confines of commercial formula.
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Genres / Independent / Narrative
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The Indestructible Jimmy Brown
Jimmy Brown is thirty and single. He has just come home from a failed life in New York City and thinks his life is over. After returning to Pasadena from a stalled career in the New York art scene, and a disastrous break-up, Jimmy finds himself right back where he started. Now he is living in his parent's...Start your free trial to watch
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Interkosmos
In the 1970s, the East Germans had a secret plan to establish Communist colonies on the moons of Saturn and Jupiter. These fabricated details are the grist for writer/director Jim Finn's first feature, an exceptional mockumentary that chronicles the cosmonaut era from an alternate universe replete with musical numbers and...Start your free trial to watch
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Intruder
It’s 10:00pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good, and the night crew has a long shift ahead of them. Longer than they think! The lovely check-out girl has a deranged ex-boyfriend, the store’s phone lines are cut and the employees start...Start your free trial to watch
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Invisible
On the verge of divorce, thirty-something’s Joseph and Jane take one last trip to their lakeside cabin to settle their affairs. The closer they get to the lake, the more sweet memories of the past surface in their conversations. Arriving at the cabin, after only a brief moment of tranquility by the picturesque lake, the...Start your free trial to watch
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It's Not About the Shawerma
IT'S NOT ABOUT THE SHAWERMA is a story about obsessions, centered on a young hippie-style writer, Mikey (played by Yahn Soon), who lets his imagination run wild after his chicken shawerma order is stolen from a falafel cafe in Santa Cruz, California. Caught in his fiction/non-fiction fancies is a couple in...Start your free trial to watch
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Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter
The "Second Coming" is upon us and Jesus has returned to Earth. But before he can get down to the serious business of judging the living and the dead, he has to contend with an army of vampires that can walk in the daylight. Combining Kung Fu action with Biblical prophecy and a liberal dose of humor, the...Start your free trial to watch
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John's Gone
JOHN'S GONE is a fever dream comedy. John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. He is punch drunk, not with love but something far more strange and lost. One can only say John's gone. With JOHN'S GONE, the Safdie brothers fully embrace the aesthetic of...Start your free trial to watch
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Jones
Jones (Trey Albright), a genial, young father-to-be, arrives for the first time in New York City for business. His work schedule allows for enjoyable strolls through the city and taking in the enormity he's unaccustomed to back home in South Carolina. He might even go see a lecture given by his favorite author, Haruki...Start your free trial to watch
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Julius Caesar
An innovative approach to a classic. One of the two "unofficial" films (the other being PEER GYNT) Charlton Heston appeared in before his 1950 "debut" film, DARK CITY. Independently produced in and around the Chicago area, it tells the familiar tale of the Roman leader. Heston is cast as Marc Antony, a role he would again...Start your free trial to watch
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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
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Kitchen Party
Scott wants to throw a party to celebrate going off to college, and to impress (and hence, score with) his girlfriend Tammy. But he’s not going anywhere if his overly retentive parents find out, or if one footstep is seen on the perfectly-vacuumed carpet. Scott’s solution: have the party anyway, but restrict everyone to the...Start your free trial to watch
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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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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
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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