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Because bigger isn’t always better, and smaller budgets allow creative types to work free from studio interference, here’s a selection of classic independent films made outside the mainstream that found an audience anyway, from Juno and Being John Malkovich to Drugstore Cowboy and Lost in Translation.
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Run Lola Run(1998)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Action/Adventure > General
Tom Tykwer
Franka Potente;  Moritz Bliebtreu;  Herbert Knaup;
Lola has just twenty minutes to find the money for Manni, the love of her life, who will be killed immediately should she fail. Unfortunately there ar...

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Good Will Hunting(1997)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Gus Van Sant
Robin Williams;  Matt Damon;  Ben Affleck;
Will Hunting has the most brilliant mind at America's top university but the problem is that he's one of the cleaners and also headstrong and penniles...

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Dark Star(1974)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
John Carpenter
Brian Narelle;  Dan O'Bannan;  Dre Pahich;
Dark Star, a spaceship manned by four jaded crew and their defunct wired-for-sound chief, has, for twenty years, fulfilled its mission to destroy unst...

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Lost In Translation(1973)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Sofia Coppola
Bill Murray;  Scarlett Johansson;  Giovanni Ribisi;
Sofia Coppola's second feature-length film focuses on two guests at a Tokyo hotel. Bob (played by Bill Murray), a middle-aged actor in town to film wh...

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Suburbia(1983)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Penelope Spheeris
Chris Pedersen;  Bill Coyne;  Jennifer Clay;
A fast-paced drama of warring generations. Young punks face up to the censure of irate local townspeople.

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Parting Glances   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Bill Sherwood
Steve Buscemi;  John Bolger;  Richard Ganoung;
Robert's promotion to an overseas position should leave him feeling ecstatic but the posting means the inevitable destruction of his relationship with...

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Living In Oblivion(1995)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Tom DiCillo
Steve Buscemi;  Catherine Keener;  Dermot Mulroney;
The comical story of an inept film crew in which the cameraman wears an eye-patch, obscuring vision, the sound-man never listens, and the script-girl ...

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Metropolitan   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
2 Stars
Comedy > General
Whit Stillman
Carolyn Farina;  Edward Clements;  Chris Eigeman;
Whit Stillman’s droll, razor sharp romantic comedy set amongst the Manhattan socialite scene is a timeless, energetic reminder of the emerging indepen...

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Lost Highway(1997)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
David Lynch
Bill Pullman;  Patricia Arquette;  Balthazar Getty;
Two separate intersecting stories revolving around relationships. One man, sure that his wife is having an affair, finds himself accused of her murder...

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Addiction, The   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
A philosophy student is turned into a vampire. While coming to terms with her new affliction she tries to make sense of it with the help of her philos...

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Swingers(1996)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Comedy > General
Doug Liman
Jon Favreau;  Vince Vaughn;  Heather Graham;
A night on the tiles with a group of friends looking for women and doing an awful lot of male bonding!

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Sling Blade(1996)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton;  Dwight Yoakam;  J T Walsh;
A twelve year old boy is sent away for twenty years for murdering his mother and her lover. Released back into his local community, he gets a job as a...

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Pecker   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
John Waters
Edward Furlong;  Christina Ricci;  Beth Armstrong;
Pecker takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and...

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One False Move(1991)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Carl Franklyn
Bill Paxton;  Cindy Williams;  Michael Beach;
Two murderers and a beautiful accomplice head for Arkansas and a showdown with law enforcement officers...

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Seance On A Wet Afternoon(1964)   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Bryan Forbes
Richard Attenborough;  Kim Stanley;  Nanette Newman;
A woman who masquerades as a medium, has her husband kidnap a girl so that she can help the police to 'find' her.

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Flirting With Disaster(1996)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
David O Russell
Ben Stiller;  Patricia Arquette;  Tea Leoni;
A wacky comedy about sex, love, family and other accidents waiting to happen.

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Palookaville   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Alan Taylor
William Forsythe;  Vincent Gallo;  Frances McDormand;
A group of desperate men break into a jewllery store but things don't go according to plan...

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She's So Lovely   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Nick Cassavetes
Sean Penn;  John Travolta;  Robin Wright Penn;
Maureen and Joey live happily together until first husband Eddie walks back into Maureen's life after ten years. Now she must choose between the two.....

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Henry - Portrait Of A Serial Killer   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
John McNaughton
Michael Rooker;  Tom Towles;  Tracey Arnold;
A chilling story loosely based on the murderer Henry Lee Lucas.

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Nowhere   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Gregg Araki
James Duval;  Rachel True;  Nathan Bexton;
A man looking for the love of his life is looking in all the wrong places. The woman he wants is not ready for a committed relationship with any gende...

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