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25 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Do the Right Thing. 1989 2h R. 8.0 (114K) 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.
- 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."
- 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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