independent-film movies

Arrival, The (1996)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: Mexico | USA
Actors: Sheen, Charlie | Crouse, Lindsay | Schiff, Richard | Shane | Silver, Ron | Polo, Teri | Applegate, Phyllis | Coates, Alan | Rippy, Leon | Hooker, Buddy Joe | Morga, Javier | Johnson, Tony T. | Botello, Catalina | Lillitsch, Georg
Directors: Twohy, David
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Zane Ziminski is fired from NASA after picking up unidentified signals from a distant location in space. His curiosity soon turn to sheer terror as he travels to Mexico, where a series of unexplained events lead him to believe that there are aliens all over the world. He gathers evidence to support this theory but will he ever have the chance to broadcast the ‘facts’ alive?

Knockaround Guys (2001)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Pepper, Barry | Davoli, Andy | Green, Seth | Diesel, Vin | Malkovich, John | Nascarella, Arthur J. | Noonan, Tom | Pasco, Nicholas | Doyle, Shawn | Gage, Kevin | Hopper, Dennis | Francis, Andrew | Liddle, John | Lemche, Kris | Tiefenbach, Dov
Directors: Koppelman, Brian
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The four sons (Diesel, Green, Pepper, Davoli) of major Brooklyn mobsters have to team up to retrieve a bag of cash in a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff. Specifically, the story gets started when Matt Demaret (Pepper) goes on a job to deliver the money for his mob father (Hopper) on the advice of his uncle (Malkovich). Things don’t go as planned though…

Dog Soldiers (2002)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Action | Horror
Countries: Luxembourg | UK
Actors: Pertwee, Sean | McKidd, Kevin | Cleasby, Emma | Cunningham, Liam | Lockyer, Thomas | Morfitt, Darren | Robson, Chris | Simpson, Leslie | Landini, Tina | Conway, Craig | Vilrikke's Acer | Walters, Bryn | Claxton Payne, Brian | Wright, Ben
Directors: Marshall, Neil
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Imagine you’re leading a six man squad on a routine army exercise. You’re behind enemy lines. Your radio doesn’t work. You’re cut off and on foot in a vast, hostile wilderness. You hear somthing howling in the distance. Something’s out there.. and it’s hungry. Very hungry. And hairy.. very hairy. The sun is going down. And there’s a full moon. You’re missing the most important football match of the decade. And there’s every chance that you’re about to be eaten alive by a pack of vicious, snarling, blood-lusting, seven-foot tall werewolves. What do you do?

Field of Dreams (1989)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Costner, Kevin | Madigan, Amy | Hoffmann, Gaby | Liotta, Ray | Busfield, Timothy | Jones, James Earl | Lancaster, Burt | Whaley, Frank | Brown, Dwier | Andelin, James | Kean, Mary Anne | Persons, Fern | Coffield, Kelly | Milhoan, Michael | Eastin, Steve
Directors: Phil Alden Robinson
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Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field.

Desert Saints (2000)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Action | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Roam, Brent | Woods, Shawn | Bersh, Christopher | Sutherland, Kiefer | Ticotin, Rachel | Grant, Beth | Chapman, Zach | Sheridan, Jamey | Stefanson, Leslie | Walters, Melora | Quaid, Buddy | Diamond, Keith | Sage, Bill | Waksal, Aliza | Gelfant, Alan
Directors: Greenberg, Richard
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The nature of temptation. Banks is a hit man, the best, usually working for Latin American drug cartels. He picks up solitary women, uses them briefly for a job, then kills them. He’s in the Southwest, headed toward Mexico, when he picks up Bennie, a woman leaving an abusive marriage, going to Paradise, Arizona. The film follows three tracks: Banks’s slow recruitment of Bennie, the set-up for the hit at a swank resort in Mexico, and the FBI’s close pursuit of Banks, whom they want alive in hopes he’ll rat out his bosses. Bennie may not be who she seems, and there may be a chink in Banks’s tough-guy armor. Guns, money, and a chance at Paradise…

Iris (2001)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Winslet, Kate | Bonneville, Hugh | Dench, Judi | Broadbent, Jim | Bron, Eleanor | Morant, Angela | Wilton, Penelope | Hayes, Siobhan | Aubrey, Juliet | Bakewell, Joan | Carroll, Nancy | Marshall, Kris | Mannion, Tom | Hutchinson, Derek | West, Samuel
Directors: Eyre, Richard
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A moving and tender depiction of the novelist Iris Murdoch’s descent into Alzheimer’s Disease, covering the period from just before her marriage to intellectual John Bayley until her death. The film is based on the two books by John Bayley (Iris, Iris & The Friends).

Knight Moves (1992)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Lambert, Christopher | Lane, Diane | Skerritt, Tom | Baldwin, Daniel | Wilbee, Codie Lucas | Murray, Joshua | Turner, Frank C. | Thompson, Don | Leitch, Megan | Diakun, Alex | Mayne, Ferdy | Isabelle, Katharine | Wilson, Mark | O'Byrne, Kehli | Mankuma, Blu
Directors: Schenkel, Carl
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A chess grandmaster is in a big tournament, and when his lover is found painted up and the blood drained out of her body he becomes a chief suspect. After he gets a call from the killer urging him to try and figure out the game, he cooperates with police and a psychologist to try and catch the killer, but doubts linger about the grandmaster’s innocence as the string of grisly murders continues.

Sideways (2004)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Giamatti, Paul | Church, Thomas Haden | Madsen, Virginia | Oh, Sandra | Burke, Marylouise | Hecht, Jessica | Doty, Missy | Gainey, M.C. | Reiner, Alysia | Tukhmanyan, Shake | Duke, Shaun | Covarrubias, Robert | Gallagher, Patrick | Faracy, Stephanie | Marinelli, Joe
Directors: Payne, Alexander
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Miles Raymond, a failed writer and divorcĂ© who teaches junior high school English takes his best friend, former hot actor Jack, on a weeklong drive up to California’s wine country. There they explore the nature of their failures and question their relationships. Jack, about to get married, has an affair with a woman and wonders whether he should call off his wedding. Miles questions whether or not he made the right choice while trying to form a relationship with the woman’s best friend, a fellow oenophile who is a waitress at a restaurant that he frequents often when visiting that part of the country.

Roger & Me (1989)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Documentary
Countries: USA
Actors: Blanchard, James | Bond, James | Boone, Pat | Eubanks, Bob | Hamper, Ben | Jackson, Timothy | Kay, Tom | Koppel, Ted | Lennox, Correy | MacDonald, Brian | Rather, Dan | Reagan, Ronald | Ross, Fred | Sawdon, Richard Earl
Directors: Moore, Michael
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A documentary about the closure of General Motors’ plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the loss of 30,000 jobs. Details the attempts of filmmaker Michael Moore to get an interview with GM CEO Roger Smith.

Halloween (2007)

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Genres: Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Pleasence, Donald | Curtis, Jamie Lee | Soles, P.J. | Cyphers, Charles | Richards, Kyle | Andrews, Brian | Graham, John Michael | Kyes, Nancy | Malet, Arthur | Yablans, Mickey | Le Page, Brent | Hollander, Adam | Phalen, Robert | Moran, Tony
Directors: Carpenter, John
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After being committed for 15 years, Michael Myers, now a 21-year-old man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 6 year old) and immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger.