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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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U-Carmen (U-Carmen e-Khayelitsha)
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Comedy of Power (Ivresse du pouvoir, L')
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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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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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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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Third World Cop
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The Motel
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The Tiger and The Snow
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Third World Cop is already the highest-grossing theatrical release in Jamaican movie history. While it remains to be seen how the follow-up to Dancehall Queen and the spiritual descendant of the classic The Harder They Come will fare elsewhere, it won't more...
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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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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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Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
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Fiela's Child
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Catalina Trust
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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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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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Marshall has done well despite the hard hand fate dealt him as a boy. He's getting a raise at his marketing job and will soon marry Kitty Lehuesen, the most sought-after girl in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Though he's never forgotten the betrayal of his more...
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Manda Bala (Send A Bullet)
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Mayor of the Sunset Strip
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Last Life in the Universe
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Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) artfully 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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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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Heat and Sunlight
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Witness in the War Zone
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Tolerance - Director's Cut
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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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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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The story of a monk (played by Rupert Everett) who was expelled by the church. He finds sanctuary on a small estate owned by a man named Marmant (Ugo Tognazzi), who dreams of starting an academy of gastronomy. Marmant's young wife Tolerance (Anne Brochet) more...
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Tropix
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Psychopathia Sexualis
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The mysterious disappearance of an apartment dweller provokes a police investigation of her neighbor, setting in motion a chain of flashbacks that illustrate the comically conflicted relationship between the two women. 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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Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
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Romantico
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Autopsy: A Love Story
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Kill, Baby...Kill!
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More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's Romántico evolves from a verite view of undocumented alien subculture. 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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Considered by horror encyclopedia author Phil Hardy to be one of the greatest horror films ever made. The ghost of a young girl takes revenge on the villagers who caused her death. Swirling mists, cobwebbed rooms, black cats, shadowy figures. . . it's a more...
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Amour Infinity
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Bloodletting
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Brooklyn Rules
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The odds are stacked up against a young East Flatbush, Brooklyn man (Jerry LaMothe). He's lost his job, his girlfriend of five years, and the mother of his child just left him as well. Seeing no end to his streak of bad luck, he almost gives up until he more...
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A young woman, fascinated with mass murderers, tracks down the world's most famous and elusive serial killer and becomes his apprentice - together they go on a killing spree. more...
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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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Jesus of Montreal
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The Champagne Club
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As Far As My Feet Will Carry Me
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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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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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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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