Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 587 Films to Buy & Rent
- She Hate Me (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Ellen Barkin…
- Another well–packed 'joint' from Spike Lee, has a corporate whistle–blower (Mackie) fired from his job and recruited to impregnate…
- Sucker Free City (2004)
- Dir. Spike Lee
Feat. Ken Leung, Ben Crowley, Anthony Mackie
- Originally a pilot, Spike Lee’s little–known excursion into the realm of Cable TV is an ethnically diverse gang drama converging black,…
- We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004)
- Dir. John Curran
Feat. Naomi Watts, Mark Ruffalo, Laura Dern…
- Toughly gritty and unfairly–overlooked drama about two marriages knotted together in dual adultery, career–crises, and personal cynicism,…
- What the Bleep do we Know!? (What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?) (2004)
- Dir. William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente
Feat. Marlee Matlin
- A unique and certainly popular piece of 'New Age intellectualism", this follows the travails of a deaf photographer (Matlin) through life and…
- Whore (Yo Puta / The Life) (2004)
- Dir. Maria Lidon
Feat. Daryl Hannah, Denise Richards, Joaquim De Almeida
- A quasi–documentary about prostitution, which weaves together genuine interviews from Europe with a storyline in which a writer (Richards)…
- Wilby Wonderful (2004)
- Dir. Daniel MacIvor
Feat. Elliot Page, Sandra Oh
- Slice–of–life indie drama about the residents of the small island of Wilby and the ups and downs they experience during a typical day.…
- All the Real Girls (2003)
- Dir. David Gordon Green
Feat. Patricia Clarkson, Zooey Deschanel, Paul Schneider
- Wistful, nuanced tale set in a tiny North Carolina town, where the town stud must prove himself in a romance with his best friend's…
- American Splendor (2003)
- Dir. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Feat. Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis
- An ambitious celebration of the life of cult US comic–writer Harvey Pekar, told in a quilt–work of monologue, biopic, autobiography and…
- Battle of Shaker Heights, The (2003)
- Dir. Efram Potelle, Kyle Rankin
Feat. Shia LaBeouf, Elden Henson, Amy Smart…
- This product of the "Project Greenlight" film–making reality–TV is a a light but engaging story of a young war–reenactment…
- Brown Bunny, The (2003)
- Dir. Vincent Gallo
Feat. Vincent Gallo, Chloe Sevigny
- Notoriously egocentric gem from Vincent Gallo, who stars, directs, writes, shoots, edits and produces an intriguingly desultry road–trip across…