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Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is a 2009 American drama film, adapted from the 1996 Sapphire novel Push. The film premiered in January 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize for...
Frozen River
Frozen River is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Courtney Hunt. The screenplay focuses on two working class women who smuggle illegal immigrants in the trunk of a car from Canada to the United States in order to make ends meet.
The...
Padre Nuestro
Padre Nuestro (also known as Sangre de Mi Sangre) is a U.S. film written and directed by Christopher Zalla and starring Jesús Ochoa, Armando Hernández, Jorge Adrián Espíndola, and Paola Mendoza. It tells the story of a young Mexican boy who smuggles...
Quinceañera
Quinceañera is a 2006 American independent film written and directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. It was released as Echo Park, LA in the UK. Set in Echo Park, Los Angeles, the film follows the lives of two young Mexican American...
Forty Shades of Blue
Forty Shades of Blue is a 2005 independent film directed by Ira Sachs. It tells the story of Alan James (Rip Torn), an aging music producer who lives in Memphis, Tennessee with his much younger Russian girlfriend, Laura (Dina Korzun). Their life...
Primer
Primer is a 2004 American science fiction film about the accidental discovery of time travel. The film was written, directed and produced by Shane Carruth, a former mathematician and engineer, and was completed on a budget of $7,000.
Primer is of...
American Splendor
American Splendor is a 2003 biopic about Harvey Pekar, the author of the American Splendor comic book series. The film is also in part an adaptation of the comics, which dramatize Pekar's life. The film was written and directed by documentarians...
Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves is a 2002 American movie starring America Ferrera. Directed by Patricia Cardoso and produced by George LaVoo from a screenplay by LaVoo and Josefina Lopez (based on Lopez' play), it debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where...
The Believer
The Believer is a 2001 film written by Henry Bean and Mark Jacobson, and directed by Bean. It stars Ryan Gosling as Daniel Balint, an Orthodox Jew who becomes a Neo-Nazi, and was inspired by the true story of Dan Burros. It won the Grand Jury Prize...
You Can Count on Me
You Can Count on Me is a 2000 movie, starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Rory Culkin, and Matthew Broderick. Written and directed by Kenneth Lonergan, it tells the story of Sammy, a single mother living in a small town and her complicated...
Girlfight
Girlfight is a 2000 drama film starring Michelle Rodriguez. It focuses on Diana Guzman, a troubled teen who decides to channel her aggression by training to become a boxer, despite the skepticism of both her abusive father and the prospective...
Three Seasons
Three Seasons (Vietnamese title: Ba Mùa) is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City in the early days of New Vietnam. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the...
Slam
Slam is a 1998 independent film starring Saul Williams and Sonja Sohn. It tells the story of a young African-American man whose talent for poetry is hampered by his social background. It won the Grand Jury Prize for a Dramatic Film at the 1998...
Sunday
Sunday is a 1997 independent film. Set in Queens, a borough of New York City, it is a dark comedy about an unemployed, homeless IBM functionary mistaken by an ageing actress for a famous film director. The film was directed by Jonathan Nossiter. The...
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Welcome to the Dollhouse is a 1995 coming of age black comedy. An independent film, it launched the careers of Todd Solondz and Heather Matarazzo.
Dawn Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an unattractive and unpopular 7th grader with only one friend, lives...
The Brothers McMullen
The Brothers McMullen is a 1995 US comedy drama film directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns. It deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with...
What Happened Was
What Happened Was... is a 1994 independent film written, directed by and starring Tom Noonan. It is an adaptation of Noonan's original play of the same name. It depicts two people on a first date; their conversation gradually reveals their hidden...
Public Access
Public Access is a 1993 film directed by Bryan Singer, who also wrote the screenplay with Christopher McQuarrie and Michael Feit Dougan. It was a joint winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival.
A clean cut drifter ends up in...
Ruby in Paradise
Ruby in Paradise is a 1993 film written, directed, and edited by Victor Nuñez, and starring Ashley Judd, Todd Field, Bentley Mitchum, Allison Dean, and Dorothy Lyman.
Judd plays Ruby, the title character and narrator of the film. As the film begins,...
In the Soup
In the Soup is a 1992 independent film comedy directed by Alexandre Rockwell. It stars Steve Buscemi as a self-conscious screenwriter who has written an unfilmable 500-page screenplay and is looking for a producer.
Tortured by self-doubt, financial...
Poison
Poison is a 1991 independent film written and directed by Todd Haynes. It is composed of three intercut stories that are partially inspired by the novels of Jean Genet. With its gay themes, Poison is considered an early entry in the New Queer Cinema...
Chameleon Street
Chameleon Street is a 1989 independent film written, directed by and starring Wendell B. Harris, Jr.. It tells the story of a social chameleon who impersonates reporters, doctors and lawyers in order to make money.
The film is a satire based on the...
True Love
True Love is a 1989 comedy film directed by Nancy Savoca. An unflinching look at the realities of love and marriage which offers no "happily ever after" ending, it won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1989 Sundance Film Festival.
Blood Simple
Blood Simple. is a 1985 neo-noir crime film. It was the directorial debut of Joel and Ethan Coen, and the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director. The film's title derives from Dashiell Hammett's novel...
Waiting for the Moon
Waiting for the Moon is a 1987 Twentieth Century Fox film about Gertrude Stein and her lover and assistant Alice B. Toklas, played by Linda Bassett and Linda Hunt. Set in the 1930s, it depicts the two women meeting Picasso and his lover Fernande...
Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk is a 1985 motion picture, loosely based on Joyce Carol Oates' 1966 short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", which was in turn inspired by the Tucson murders committed by Charles Schmid. The protagonist and main character,...
Circle of Power
Circle of Power, a 1983 film, co-produced by Gary Mehlman, Anthony Quinn and Jeffrey White , was based on the book The Pit: A Group Encounter Defiled. The film is also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend.
Yvette Mimieux plays the...
Heat and Sunlight
Heat and Sunlight is a 1987 independent film written, directed by and starring Rob Nilsson. It tells the story of a photojournalist who had worked in Biafra trying to patch up his relationship with his lover.
