Independent films (a.k.a. indie films or just independent movies) are typically produced with little or no financial support from a major Hollywood studio. In recent years, independent films have grown in popularity, especially among movie fans looking for something different from the mass marketed movies made of mainstream consumption. The movies showcased in this collection were selected by our staff from the iArtHouse catalog, which is almost all independent films. Read more about independent films and movies.
"Left home at the age of seven/one year later I'm carryin' an AK-47." For hip hop artist Emmanuel Jal, a former child soldier in Sudan's brutal civil war, these lyrics are hardly empty posturing. They are the bitter reality of a young man who wa more...
Jean-Pierre Léaud stars as Jacques Laurent, a former pornographic filmmaker who returns to the industry in this controversial and explicit drama from director Bertrand Bonello. more...
This audacious contemporary classic dramatizes a fascinating experiment with the question "What would Jesus do?" The film put a welcoming spotlight on boyish Quebec actor Lothaire Bluteau and firmly cemented Denys Arcand (Decline of the America more...
Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
Brilliantly acted and sung by the internationally acclaimed South African theater company Dimpho Di Kopane (DDK), U-Carmen is a stunning adaptation of perhaps the world's best-loved opera, Carmen. Re-imagined in the modern world of South African pool hall more...
Based on the true story and a bestselling novel, this powerful epic captures the incredible journey of German soldier Clemens Forell in his dramatic escape from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. Through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, more...
In the harsh, unforgiving landscape of the Outback, Charlie Burns is presented with an impossible proposition by local law enforcer Captain Stanley: the only way to save younger brother Mikey from the gallows is to track down and kill Arthur, his more...
Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychopathia Sexualis is a dreamlike depiction of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance. more...
The Tiger and the Snow is about a Roman poet and lecturer named Attilio (Benigni) who feels compelled to head to Baghdad when he discovers that the woman he loves, Vittoria (Nicoletta Braschi) has been seriously injured during a bomb explosion. more...
Shot over an entire year in 2004, THE BRIDGE is a startling documentary about San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and the people who go there to end their lives. Director Eric Steel and his crew managed to dissuade some of the tortured souls who peered more...
A Cannes Film Festival award winner from the filmmakers who brought us CITY OF GOD and THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, comes this sexy Brazilian drama chronicling a love triangle between two best friends, Deco and Naldinho (CARANDIRU's Lazaro Ramos and Wagner Mou more...
A suicidal, obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian is forced to hide out with a pot-smoking Thai woman at her shabby beachside home. more...
Nandini (Aishwarya Rai) the daughter of a classical singer Pandit Darbar (Vikram Gokhale) loves his student, Sameer (Salman Khan). However, Vanraj (Ajay Devgan) sends his proposal to her father. Sameer and Nandini are caught romancing with each other and more...
This is a story, told in flashback, of a virtuous young law student whose eyes are opened to real life when he is seduced by a ravishingly beautiful girl. Her behavior is governed by primitive urges and she tries to possess men using sex as her weapon, more...
More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's Romántico evolves from a verite view of undocumented alien subculture. more...
When the plane carrying Charlie Halliday, a maverick bush pilot and a sick, young, Inuit woman, Kanaalaq, crashes hundreds of miles from civilization, they are at the mercy of nature's worst. While search parties try to find the downed plane Charlie more...
Based on a true story, Asoka is the spectacular epic adventure of one man's transformation through the power of love. As the Emperor of one of India's great dynasties in the third century B.C., Asoka is a brutal and unmerciful warrior monarch whose life more...
An illegal immigrant working in a Chinese restaurant hopes to marry an American to obtain a green card, but is surprised by his growing feelings for his new wife. A gritty and warm glimpse of American life through Chinese eyes. more...
Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kidnapping, and plastic surgery. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) artfully more...
