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- Before Sunrise (1995) "Before Sunrise" feels like the ultimate indie movie, because it's the perfect example of what indie movies do best — the entire film is literally just Ethan Hawke's Jesse and Judy Delpy's Céline talking.
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) It seems wild to think that the Monty Python troupe had trouble getting funding to make a movie, but a lot of the love for "Monty Python's Flying Circus" came much later.
- Moonlight (2016) Cited by both The New York Times and The Guardian as one of the best films of this century so far, "Moonlight" was well deserving of its Best Picture win at the 2017 Academy Awards — even if the kerfuffle surrounding the way it was announced stole some of its thunder and is what people remember most about the big moment.
- Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) Other than horror films, indie movies of the 1980s were largely the realm of film nerds and fans of the avant-garde. While there are several movies that served as a sea change and paved the way for the mainstreaming of indie movies in the next decade, one of the first and most important was Steven Soderbergh's debut film, "Sex, Lies, and Videotape."
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Juno
- Good Will Hunting
- The Blair Witch Project
- Get Out
- The Full Monty
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding
- Slumdog Millionaire
- The King’s Speech
- The Passion of The Christ
Fahrenheit 9/11is the highest grossing documentary of all time and it was all made off the back of Michael Moore, and any production costs came from his own pocket. Thanks to being politically relevant at the time, with the 9/11 attacks, the war in Iraq, and the upcoming election, it was a perfect storm and the movie grossed $222 million overall. A...
Juno unexpectedly grossed $231 million globally despite its low budget of $6.5 million and it was Ellen Page’s breakout role. There were no foreseeable outliers as to why the movie, produced by the indie company Mandate Pictures, performed so well other than that it’s a genuinely well told story about a pregnant teenager, acted terrifically by two ...
With Good Will Hunting arguably being a classic, the movie had a budget of just $10 million, half of which was the pay check of the late, great Robin Williams, who was the primary reason for the movie’s success. RELATED: 10 Most Underrated Indie Movies From The Past 5 Years The movie’s box office performance was further aided by cleaning up at the ...
The Blair Witch Project changed the way horror movies were made and it was the first horror movie to instigate what Blumhouse Productions has made their business model. Though Blair Witchis only the seventh highest grossing indie movie of all time, as it made $258 million worldwide, it may be much higher if net profit is only taken in to considerat...
Blumhouse Productions, a studio that predominantly produces horror movies, have the same approach to all of their movies, which is to make them with a tiny budget, market the hell out of them, and get back a modest return. RELATED: 10 Hilarious Indie Horror-Comedies You Probably Missed It works almost every time, but every once in a while it goes a...
Though The Full Montyis one of the highest grossing indie movies of all time, it rarely gets talked about as much as the others. It may be because it was very of its time as it followed several working class men and the issues that they would have in the north of England in the mid-'90s, but it still did amazingly well and it was a phenomenon at th...
Interestingly enough, My Big Fat Greek Wedding never reached number one at the box office, but it remains the highest grossing independent romantic comedy of all time. Though it is written by a Greek screenwriter, it is a largely American production, with the bulk of its budget coming from HBO Films as well as producer Tom Hanks. With a budget of $...
In one of his best roles, Dev Patel led Slumdog Millionaire to a $378 million box office intake. The movie is completely independent, as the largest chunk of its $15 million budget came from the independent UK company Film4 and it doesn’t feature any big names in its cast. The film was directed by Danny Boyle, who has had a track record of making m...
Though The King’s Speechfeatures an array of seasoned and award winning actors, such as Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, and more, and it has spectacular costume and set design, it’d be easy to believe that the movie is a high budget studio movie. But in reality, the film had a budget of just $15 million, and that backing is shared between f...
Despite receiving mostly negative reviews on release and being heavily criticized for its historical/biblical accuracy, The Passion of the Christ is the highest grossing independent movie of all time. Mel Gibson funded it entirely by himself, but it paid off as his $30 million turned in to $622 million. The movie has since become a hot topic of con...
25 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Do the Right Thing. 1989 2h R. 8.0 (113K) Rate. 93 Metascore. On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. Director Spike Lee Stars Danny Aiello Ossie Davis Ruby Dee. 2. Mean Streets.
- Short Term 12 (2013) 9.9. United States of America. Destin Cretton, Destin Daniel Cretton. Alex Calloway, Angelina Assereto, Brie Larson, Diana Maria Riva.
- Incendies (2011) 9.9. Canada, France. Denis Villeneuve. Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Ahmad Massad, Allen Altman, Baraka Rahmani. Moods. Discussion-sparking, Dramatic, Slow.
- The Hunt (2013) 9.8. Belgium, Denmark, France. Thomas Vinterberg. Alexandra Rapaport, Allan Wibor Christensen, Anne Louise Hassing, Annika Wedderkopp.
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) 9.6. New-Zealand. Taika Waititi. Cohen Holloway, Hamish Parkinson, Julian Dennison, Mabelle Dennison. Moods.
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- God's Own Country (2017) Esquire pal Josh O'Connor and Alec Secăreanu star in Francis Lee's quiet, bruising, hopeful, gorgeous, ugly story about two West Yorkshire farm workers who grudgingly realise that they really, really fancy each other.
- Sightseers (2012) View full post on Youtube. If you're after a bit more of northern England but aren't quite feeling having your emotions wrung in quite the same way, try Ben Wheatley's dry serial killer travelogue.
- Local Hero (1983) Bill Forsyth is one of the architects of what we now think of as British indie cinema. Between Local Hero and Gregory's Girl, there's a rich seam of the kind of offbeat warmth and regional pride which has prevailed since in the likes of Brassed Off, Made in Dagenham and The Full Monty.
- Bait (2019) View full post on Youtube. A black-and-white movie, shot on grainy 16mm, about the troubles of a Cornish fisherman told through stilted dialogue?
Jun 26, 2022 · Is a true Indie one that's made without money from the studios? If that's the case, then Terminator 2 and Fellowship of the Ring are "indies" and Rushmore and Mean Streets are not. In this list,...
Oct 8, 2023 · From Dirty Dancing to Passion of the Christ, these are the highest-grossing indie movies of all time.
