Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Independent: 590 Films to Buy & Rent
Someone to Love (1987)
- Dir. Henry Jaglom
Feat. Orson Welles
- Typically loose and naturalistic drama from independent stalwart Henry Jaglom, who pretty much plays himself – a jaded divorcee filmmaker in search…
Parting Glances (1986)
- Dir. Bill Sherwood
Feat. Steve Buscemi, Richard Ganoung
- A gay classic and pioneering film of the independent movement, this is widely enjoyed as a truthful picture of gay life and relationships and also as…
Mala Noche (1985)
- Dir. Gus Van Sant
- Low–budget granular drama and the first film made by the eclectic Mr Van Sant near the start of his influential career.It tells the tale of a…
Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart) (1984)
- Dir. Wayne Wang
Feat. Laureen Chew, Kim Chew, Victor Wong
- Endearing, warm–hearted tale of Chinese–Americans living in San Fransisco. Distinctly Chinese but the themes and the humour are universal.
Love Streams (1984)
- Dir. John Cassavetes
Feat. John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Seymour Cassel
- Rarely–seen film by indie iconoclast John Cassavetes, described by some as he at his self–indugent worst, but praised in other quarters…
Paris, Texas (1984)
- Dir. Wim Wenders
Feat. Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski
- The German director takes his enigmatic, dilatory style Stateside for this intoxicating work about a mysterious mute loner in search of his missing…
Stranger than Paradise (1984)
- Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. John Lurie
- Jarmusch's breakthrough and best film is the shaggy dog tale of three deadbeats, a slavic grandmother and one endless trip to Florida. The style is…
Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
- Dir. Werner Herzog
Feat. Bruce Spence, Ray Barrett
- Dir. Herzog’s usually compelling obsessions – myths, nature, primitive experience – come a cropper in this uneven depiction of a land rights…
Baby, It's You (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano
- High–school sweethearts Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano undergo the trials of the late 60s counter–culture America. Characters and…
Lianna (1983)
- Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Linda Griffiths, Jane Hallaren, Jon DeVries
- A mother–of–two breaks out of her cold marriage by way of an affair with a senior lecturer in this defining lesbian film of the 1980s,…