Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore films with recorded independent-cinema genres.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 800 films · Page 20.
Crime, independent film
Jon Chance, an L.A. vice cop who is a man who dreamed of being a cowboy hero. He saw himself as an exemplary hero who always felt that the use of guns was not a necessity.
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independent film
A detective searches her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who wants government defense contracts through real life corporate wars and manipulation of politicians.
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drama film, independent film
A draft dodger lands on an Indian reservation where a Vietnam veteran lives with his ex-wife.
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drama film, independent film
independent film
A man is tortured by his girlfriend and then locked inside a black box.
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independent film
Anthony (Papazian) is a former Marine who has just returned to his home in Arizona after a tour abroad. He suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, frequently waking up in the middle of the night with nightmares. His ex-wife Jenny (Ande…
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independent film
A stock car racer blows a rod and his car catches fire. To raise money to get back into the game he works as a fish hatchery worker, toxic waste cleaner, drug peddler and thief.
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black comedy film, independent film
Dance Film, Romance Film, dance film, drama film, independent film, musical film, romance film
Turn the Beat Around focuses around a 21-year-old woman named Zoe (played by Romina D'Ugo) who dreams of becoming a famous dancer similar to her idol Malika (played by Brooklyn Sudano) and she persuades a local dance club owner Michael Kra…
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independent film
When a landfill is overfull, and pollution reaches its maximum, a monster is born. Made from garbage and bearing a resemblance to a giant humanoid fly in a gas mask, the Milpitas Monster has an uncontrollable desire to consume large quanti…
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drama film, independent film
Seyi Ogunde is the American son of Nigerian immigrants who live outside New York City. With single-minded focus, he’s attended a prestigious college and landed a competitive finance job. He’s both confident in his abilities and deeply inse…
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Family Drama, independent film
The movie opens with former chess champion Hershell (Gonzales) returning home to Toronto from a trip to Europe. While visiting his mother, he finds out that his brother, Thaddeus who likes to be called Thad (Tiga), is engaged to his ex-gir…
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independent film
Michael Diggs (Chris Staples), a former college basketball player, serves a six-year prison sentence for armed robbery. After his release, he enters and wins a national slam dunk competition.
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independent film
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective Victor Borgo (Gaetano Guarino) to find the source of a mysterious bottle of wine, the "Oroboros". As Borgo follows the twisted, perilous trail, he descends dee…
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independent film
The film is about a team, known as "Our Friends", searching for the "Old Man", who is dying. Their trip across the U.S. takes many twists and turns along the way, as is depicted through the eyes of the main character, Rex/Harrold, who ulti…
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independent film
Set in 1984 in the heart of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, The Doe Boy tells the coming of age story of Hunter (James Duval), a young man of mixed heritage who is also a haemophiliac.
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independent film
Crime, Drama, independent film
After his father dies, Esper Harte learns that he may collect on his father's insurance. However, his mother and a crooked cop want to get rid of him so that they can take the money. Desperate to escape their problems, Esper and his girlfr…
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independent film
drama film, independent film
Sci-Fi, action film, science fiction film
independent film, romance film
After Leah, a scientist, saves the life of Samuel, an actor, their lives change dramatically. Samuel comes to believe that they have always been destined to fall in love and eventually convinces Leah of his metaphysical ideas.
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Drama, Road Movie, drama film, independent film
The film follows an unemployed cowboy drifter (Tom Blair), estranged from his wife and kids, who drives across Montana in his pickup in a half-hearted attempt to find a job. As the film progresses, it seems that he has little interest in s…
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drama film, independent film
Simon is a downwardly mobile urban white male who hustles a living selling audio cassette bootleg music on the streets of New York City's Lower East Side. Simon lives in a tenement walk-up where everyone calls him 'Whitey'. Cyd, who has a …
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