Ivans Xtc (2000)
Drama, independent film
Independent movies
Explore films with recorded independent-cinema genres.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 800 films · Page 12.
Virtuous (2014)
independent film
Women of all ages and races are experiencing pressures from an increasingly unavoidable culture. If they attempt to stand up for themselves, they are criticized, marginalized, and demonized. As a film, Virtuous is a modern-day version of P…
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An Invisible Sign (2010)
Drama, drama film, independent film, romance film
Mona Gray systematically withdraws from life into a world of mathematics after a mysterious mental illness leaves her father incapacitated and a shell of his former self. Forced by her mother to move out on her own, Mona gets a job as a ma…
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Burning Bodhi (2015)
Drama, independent film
Dylan finds out via Facebook that his best friend from high school, "Bodhi" has died suddenly of an aneurysm. Reluctantly, he returns to his old neighborhood in New Mexico to grieve his popular friend's death. Yet, as past lovers and old f…
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A Brother's Kiss (1997)
drama film, independent film
Mick (Michael Raynor) and Lex (Nick Chinlund) are a pair of brothers who grew up in Harlem under circumstances that were difficult at best. Their mother Doreen (Cathy Moriarty) was a diabetic with a drinking problem and difficulty in sayin…
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TFW NO GF (2020)
art film, documentary film, independent film
TFW No GF follows five members of the incel and Frogtwitter subcultures. These five are: Viddy and Charels, two brothers. In the course of the film, they become the subject of national news attention due to a photo Charels posts of himself…
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Cowgirl's Story (2017)
independent film
Seventeen year old Dusty Rhodes (Bailee Madison) goes to live with her grandfather (Pat Boone) because both of her Army parents are fighting in the Afghanistan war. Dusty attends a new high school where she makes friends with a group that …
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4D Man (1959)
Action, Horror, Romance Film, Sci-Fi, Thriller, horror film, independent film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film
Brilliant but irresponsible electrodynamics scientist Dr. Tony Nelson develops an electronic amplifier, intending to use it to convert any object into a fourth-dimensional (4D) state, allowing it to pass freely through any other object. To…
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The Way It Is (1985)
independent film
A group of East Village off Broadway actors are rehearsing a local no wave production of Jean Cocteau’s Orpheus when the lead actress, Eurydice, is found dead in Tompkins Square Park. At the funeral, the history of Eurydice is revealed in …
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Mountain Rest (2018)
independent film
After years without contact, Ethel, an aging actress, asks her estranged daughter and granddaughter, Frankie and Clara, home for the weekend to attend an extravagant party. At 16, Clara has never met any extended family, and her grandmothe…
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The World's Greatest Sinner (1962)
Drama, drama film, independent film
The World's Greatest Sinner introduces a frustrated insurance salesman, Clarence, and his family: wife Edna, daughter Betty Hilliard and their son, as well as Clarence's friend, Alonzo. Clarence Hilliard is dismissed by the manager in an i…
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Operation Eichmann (1961)
drama film, independent film
After orchestrating the "Final Solution to the Jewish problem", when Germany is defeated at the end of WWII, Adolph Eichman utilizes underground networks and escapes to South America. Dissatisfied with his treatment, he attempts to assert …
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Monkey Grip (1982)
independent film
Nora, a single-mother in her thirties living in Melbourne is engaged in an on-again off-again relationship with the heroin addict Javo, who can never quite decide whether he wants his freedom, or romantic commitment. The further their rela…
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Uncle Kent (2011)
Drama, Komödie, independent film
Kent Osborne is a forty-year-old single animator who meets Kate, a New York journalist, through Chatroulette. Kate accepts Kent's invitation to visit L.A. for the weekend.
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Mega Piranha (2010)
Animalhorror, Sci-Fi, action film, adventure film, black comedy film, comedy film, comedy horror film, disaster film, fantasy film, horror film, independent film, mockbuster, romance film, science fiction film, science fiction horror film, thriller film
The film focuses on the Orinoco River in Venezuela, where a strain of genetically modified piranha have escaped into an isolated tributary of the river. Through human interference of the local environment, the megapiranha manage to escape …
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24 Hour Psycho (1993)
independent film
An art installation, 24 Hour Psycho consists entirely of an appropriation of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 psychological thriller film Psycho, slowed down to approximately two frames per second from its original 24. As a result, the film lasts f…
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Wilt (1989)
independent film
Henry Wilt is a demoralised and professionally under-rated assistant lecturer at a technical college in Mid Anglia who is dominated by his psychologically immature wife Eva and thus fantasises about murdering her. During a night walk to re…
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Cliffs of Freedom (2019)
drama film, historical film, independent film
The film is a story of an ill-fated romance between a young and beautiful Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Twenty-year-old Anna Christi…
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The Boat Builder (2015)
drama film, independent film
An embittered old mariner and an unwanted young orphan form an unlikely bond building a boat.
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The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory (1987)
Adventure, Drama, Historie, War Film, Western, Western film
Against orders and no hope of relief, Texas patriots led by William Travis (Alec Baldwin), Jim Bowie (James Arness) and Davy Crockett (Brian Keith) defend the Alamo against the overwhelming Mexican forces led by the merciless General Anton…
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Devil in the Flesh 2 (2000)
erotic thriller, horror film, independent film, psychological thriller, slasher film, thriller film
Debbie Strand is a beautiful psychopath who escapes from the mental institution she was sent off to in the first installment of the series when a female orderly tries to sexually assault her. After a teenage girl who took Debbie in her car…
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Elephant Parts (1981)
independent film, sketch comedy
A Matter of Faith (2014)
drama film, independent film
In 2013 Michigan, Rachel Whitaker, who was raised in an evangelical Christian household, prepares to leave for college. At school, her atheist biology professor, Dr. Kaman, teaches evolutionary theory.
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Compensation (1999)
independent film
In 1910, Malindy, an educated seamstress who mobilizes against segregation at her school for the deaf, meets and falls in love with Arthur, a hearing man and an illiterate migrant worker from Mississippi. Malindy teaches Arthur ASL and how…
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