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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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Bob Roberts(1992)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins;  Giancarlo Esposito;  Alan Rickman;
Tim Robbins stars in his directorial debut as right-wing folksinger Bob Roberts in this satirical mock documentary. Roberts is joined on the Pennsylva...

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In The Soup(1992)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Alexandre Rockwell
Seymour Cassel;  Steve Buscemi;  Jennifer Beals;
A young would-be film director is looking for a buyer for his screenplay. He finds a saviour in the form of a small-time crook who, in the process of ...

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John Cassavetes Collection - A Woman Under The Influence   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
John Cassavetes
John Cassavetes; 
A tough-minded, moving film about a working-class housewife's mental breakdown caused by imposed social rules. This insightful study of sexual politic...

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Trust(1990)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Comedy > General
Hal Hartley
Adrienne Shelly;  Martin Donovan;  Merrit Nelson;
A confused and alienated, pregnant, suburban girl meets up with an enigmatic, potentially violent stranger.

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Crumb   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb; 
Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix...

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Big Night(1996)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci;  Minnie Driver;  Isabella Rossellini;
In the 1950s two Italian brothers have come to New Jersey in search of the American dream. Primo is an artist in the kitchen while Seconda is working ...

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Happiness(1998)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Todd Solondz
Jane Adams;  Lara Flynn Boyle;  Cynthia Stevenson;
This black comedy explores the lives of three middle-class sisters living in New Jersey. They are trying to find 'Happiness' but problems with their f...

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Smoke(1995)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Wayne Wang
William Hurt;  Harvey Keitel;  Stockard Channing;
A collection of unrelated characters somehow come together and change each others lives... A cigar store manager takes a daily photograph of his store...

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Heathers(1989)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Michael Lehmann
Winona Ryder;  Christian Slater;  Shannen Doherty;
The Westerburg High School has an elite quartet called the 'Heathers' which consists of three girls called Heather and one called Veronica who pick on...

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Magnolia(1999)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Paul Thomas Anderson
Jeremy Blackman;  Tom Cruise;  Melinda Dillon;

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Night On Earth   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Comedy > General
Jim Jarmusch
Winona Ryder;  Gena Rowlands;  Rosie Perez;
Five stories featuring five taxis in different cities picking up a variety of people. Soundtrack features Tom Waits. Part subtitled. Dialogues includ...

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Basquiat   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Julian Schnabel
Jeffrey Wright;  David Bowie;  Dennis Hopper;
In 1981, Jean-Michel Basquiat became the darling of New York's art critics. This film gives a dramatised account of his life of sex, drugs and rock 'n...

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Your Friends And Neighbours(1998)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Neil Labute
Amy Brenneman;  Aaron Eckhart;  Catherine Keener;
An actor desires a woman who is married to his best friend. What follows is a circle of lies and deceit...

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Bad Lieutenant(1992)   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Abel Ferrara
Harvey Keitel;  Victor Argo;  Paul Calderone;
The story of a angry police lieutenant who exists only to feed his addiction to heroin, crack and alcohol. But when a nun is raped in a local church h...

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Hard Eight(1997)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Paul Thomas Anderson
Philip Baker Hall;  John C Reilly;  Gwyneth Paltrow;
Professional gambler Sydney befriends a man who's down on his luck and teaches him how to work the casinos of Reno. Complications arise when his young...

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Safe(1995)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
3 Stars
Drama > General
Todd Haynes
Julianne Moore;  Peter Friedman;  Susan Norman;
Carol White is a typical bored, affluent housewife who develops a mystery illness which is affected by every aspect of the world around her. Eventuall...

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Killing, The   DVD PG
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Thriller > General
Stanley Kubrick
Coleen Gray;  Sterling Hayden;  Marie Windsor;
When Johnny Clay is released from prison he plans a scheme to steal $2 million from a racetrack in which no one will get hurt. However he does not pla...

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Man For All Seasons, A   DVD U
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Fred Zinnemann
Robert Shaw;  Paul Scofield;  Orson Welles;
The story of Sir Thomas Moore who was beheaded because he would not recognize King Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn.

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Amores Perros   DVD 18
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
World Cinema > Drama
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Emilio Echeverria;  Goya Toledo;  Alvaro Guerrero;
Featuring three very different stories. Spanish dialogue.

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Pi(1999)   DVD 15
   Avg Rating: 
4 Stars
Drama > General
Darren Aronofsky
Sean Gullette;  Mark Margolis;  Ben Shenkman;
A man is on the verge of breaking the numerical pattern which forms the basis of the stockmarket fluctuations. As he nears a solution he becomes head-...

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