Subgenre Sampler
Independent: 834 Films to Buy & Rent
Under the Skin (1997)
- Dir. Carine Adler
Feat. Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham
- After her mother's untimely death, a young woman bereaves through a series of casual sexual, and increasingly masochistic, encounters.
Samantha…
Basquiat (1996)
- Dir. Julian Schnabel
Feat. Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Gary Oldman…
- The director sends a post–mortem loveletter to his friend and contemporary, Jean–Michel Basquiat, a celebrated but fragile New York black…
Bottle Rocket (1996)
- Dir. Wes Anderson
Feat. Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd…
- Merciless slacker/heist movie about three no–hopers who struggle at being even small–time hoods. Quirky, charismatic and blessed with a…
Box of Moonlight (1996)
- Dir. Tom DiCillo
Feat. John Turturro, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney
- The ungainly John Turturro contorts through another whacked–out odyssey of crisis, mid–life in this instance, as an anally retentive…
Breaking the Waves (1996)
- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgard, Katrin Cartlidge…
- Significant art–house hit about obsessive faith and self–sacrifice, set in a puritanical village on the Scottish coast. A naive young…
Denise Calls Up (1996)
- Dir. Hal Selwen
Feat. Alannah Ubach, Tim Daly
- Twee New York low–budget indie in which six people, most of whom have never met, conduct the gamut of human relations using only the telephone.…
Dogs (Dogs: The Rise and Fall of an All-Girl Bookie Joint) (1996)
- Dir. Eve Annenburg
Feat. Pam Columbus, Pam Gray, Melody Beal…
- Four Brooklyn women opt for a life of running an illegal bookie joint, over the dead–end, unemployed lifestyle of the local area. In her debut,…
Driftwood (1996)
- Dir. Ronan O'Leary
Feat. James Spader
- A washed–up, amnesiac James Spader is beachcombed in remote Ireland by borderline obsessive Anne Brochet, who gets rather possessive when he…
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
- Dir. Steve Baigelman
Feat. Keanu Reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D'Onofrio…
- Another in a line of sorry tales of violence, aimlessness and broken dreams, this represents everything that was bad about independent (American)…
Freeway (1996)
- Dir. Matthew Bright
Feat. Reese Witherspoon, Kiefer Sutherland
- Grim white trash road–movie black comedy made of The Brothers' Grimm's "Little Red Riding Hood" sends young Reese Witherspoon on a lost highway…