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Independent Films Showcase |
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Independent films (a.k.a. indie films or just independent movies) are typically produced with little or no financial support from a major Hollywood studio. In recent years, Independent films have grown in popularity, especially among movie fans looking for something different from the mass marketed movies made of mainstream consumption. The movies showcased in this collection were selected by our staff from the EZTakes catalog, which is almost all independent films. Read more about independent films and movies.
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The Pornographer
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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
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Tropix
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Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Jacques Laurent, a former pornographic filmmaker who returns to the industry in this controversial and explicit drama from director Bertrand Bonello. more...
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Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) the daughter of a classical singer Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) loves his student, Sameer (Salman Khan). However, Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) sends his proposal to her father. Sameer and Nandini are caught romancing with each other and more...
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"Getting away from it all" takes on a new spin as Corinne finds herself isolated in the wilds of Costa Rica in a prolonged, deadly struggle. Betrayal turns this search for paradise into a quest for survival, climaxing with a chilling end-game in the more...
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The Bridge
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The Tiger and The Snow
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The Navigators
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Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives. Director Eric Steel and his crew managed to dissuade some of the tortured souls who peered more...
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The Tiger and the Snow is about a Roman poet and lecturer named Attilio (Benigni) who feels compelled to head to Baghdad when he discovers that the woman he loves, Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi) has been seriously injured during a bomb explosion. more...
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As big business takes hold of the rail industry, the gang at the local depot is forced to adapt to new rules and wrestle with middle management's double-talk. As the new Managing Director wipes the slate clean, reliable workers are sent to pasture, and more...
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The Proposition
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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
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Combination Platter
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In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of the Outback, Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcer Captain Stanley: the only way to save younger brother Mikey from the gallows is to track down and kill Arthur, his more...
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Based on the true story and a bestselling novel, this powerful epic captures the incredible journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, more...
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An illegal immigrant working in a Chinese restaurant hopes to marry an American to obtain a green card, but is surprised by his growing feelings for his new wife. A gritty and warm glimpse of American life through Chinese eyes. more...
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Winter Oranges
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Heat and Sunlight
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Purple Butterfly
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Directed by Rob Nilsson, winner of the Camera d'Or at Cannes and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, "Winter Oranges" is about a man who is about to become a father ponders the notion of leaving his wife behind in this drama. more...
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Jealousy and obsession overwhelm a photographer during the final 16 hours of his love affair with a dancer. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. more...
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Starring Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero), this film by Director Lou Ye allies a swooning, lyrical romanticism with tones of Western film noir mixing into a monumental, Leone-esque narrative sweep into an epic tale of more...
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U-Carmen (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha)
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Last Life in the Universe
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
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Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
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A suicidal, obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to hide out with a pot-smoking Thai woman at her shabby beachside home. more...
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Rodney Bingenheimer, The Mayor of the Sunset Strip, is perhaps the least-known celebrity in Hollywood, though somehow every celebrity seems to know him. From DAVY JONES' stunt double to KROQ DJ with a talent scout's vision, "Rodney on the ROQ" more...
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Asoka
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Comedy of Power (Ivresse du pouvoir, L')
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Suckers
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Based on a true story, Asoka is the spectacular epic adventure of one man's transformation through the power of love. As the Emperor of one of India's great dynasties in the third century B.C., Asoka is a brutal and unmerciful warrior monarch whose life more...
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Isabelle Huppert gives a stellar performance in Claude Chabrol's thriller inspired by the Elf Affair, a true story of high-level corporate corruption. Jeanne Charmant Killman (Huppert), a tenacious magistrate known as "the piranha," pursues more...
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A nice guy, who reluctantly becomes a car salesman, finds himself in the middle of an illegal operation to smuggle contraband. more...
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Jesus of Montreal
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The Champagne Club
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I Love You Too
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This audacious contemporary classic dramatizes a fascinating experiment with the question "What would Jesus do?" The film put a welcoming spotlight on boyish Quebec actor Lothaire Bluteau and firmly cemented Denys Arcand (Decline of the America more...
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Four thrill seeking, intellectual aristocrats of the Los Angeles art scene set out remote and exotic tropical villa. There, the two couples, Tim (Brian Donovan), his girlfriend May (Sara Rinde), Tim's boss, Bruce (Robert Ripley) and his wife, Connie ( more...
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This is a story, told in flashback, of a virtuous young law student whose eyes are opened to real life when he is seduced by a ravishingly beautiful girl. Her behavior is governed by primitive urges and she tries to possess men using sex as her weapon, more...
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Brooklyn Rules
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Witness in the War Zone
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Autopsy: A Love Story
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From the witer of The Sopranos and starring Alec Baldwin, a gripping tale of three life-long friends struggling with relationships, responsibility, and loyalty on the mean streets of 1980's-era Brooklyn, NY. When the violent influence of the mafia become more...
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American reporter Don Stevens (CHRISTOPHER WALKEN) has been sent out to cover fighting in Lebanon. Unexpectedly, he is promised an interview with a top PLO leader. However, this proves to be set-up and more...
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Charlie and his partner Dale harvest corpses for their organs, and selling whatever they may have of value. Dale is on the verge of a the biggest deal of his career, selling corpses all over the world, when Charlie meets the Jane Doe of his dreams - a more...
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The Motel
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Lower City
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Fiela's Child
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Puberty sucks, and nobody knows it better than 13-year-old Ernest Chin (Jeffrey Chyau). As he watches guests come and go, Ernest finds himself forever stuck at his family's hourly-rate motel, where he divides his time between taking orders from his more...
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A Cannes Film Festival award winner from the filmmakers who brought us CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho (CARANDIRU's Lazaro Ramos and Wagner Mou more...
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In Africa a child wanders too far into the Knysna Forest and never returns. Nine years later, two government officials, working on a census, find a white child living with a colored family in the mountains and take him away from the stricken Fiela who more...
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About Independent FilmsAccording to data from the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), January through March 2005 showed approximately 15% of US domestic box office revenue was from independent, or indie, studios. Creative, business, and technological reasons have all contributed to the growth of the indie film scene in the late 20th and early 21st century. The roots of independent movies can be traced back to when the early pioneer filmmakers at the turn of the century resisted the control of the Motion Pictures Patents Company, when filmmakers built their own cameras to escape the Edison trusts in order to relocate to Southern California where they laid the foundations of the American film industry as well as the Hollywood studio system. The studio system took on a life of its own, and became extremely powerful. Filmmakers once again sought independence as a result. Throughout the decades, independent filmmakers around the world have created a diverse range of filmmaking styles that symbolize their own unique cultures such as experimental film and underground film. Some independent filmmakers have even broken through technological barriers with the use of digital cinema. While most of the American film industry is located in Los Angeles, about one-third of all independent films in the United States are produced in New York.
Until the advent of digital alternatives, the cost of professional film equipment and stock was also a hurdle to being able to produce, direct, or star in a traditional studio film. The cost of 35mm film is even outpacing inflation. Film also requires expensive lighting and post-production facilities. But the advent of consumer camcorders in 1985, and more importantly, the arrival of high-resolution digital video in the early 1990s, significantly lowered the technology barriers to movie production. In fact, both production and post-production costs have been significantly lowered; today, the hardware and software for post-production can be installed in a commodity-based personal computer. Technologies such as DVDs, USB connections and non-linear editing system pro-level software like the open source Cinelerra, the commercial Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, as well as consumer-level software like the open source Kino, have made movie-making relatively inexpensive.- The preceding paragraphs were derived from a full article available from Wikipedia and its use is governed by the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. |
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