Tag: independent film

  • Mahavatar Narsimha

    Hiranyakashyap, the tyrannical demon, challenges Vishnu, proclaiming himself a god. However, his son Prahlad remains devoted to Vishnu, who appears as Narsimha to defeat the demon.

  • The Gods Must Be Crazy

    A Coca-Cola bottle dropped from an airplane raises havoc among a normally peaceful tribe of African bushmen who believe it to be a utensil of the gods.

  • Born in Flames

    In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a feminist uprising as equality remains unfulfilled.

  • Maurice

    After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.

  • A Killing Affair

    Peter Weller stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she begins to fall for him, but continues to question whether or not she…

  • Love Hotel

    A tale of two broken souls. A call-girl named Yumi, “night-blooming flower,” and Tetsuro, a married man with a debt to the yakuza, have a violent rendezvous in a cheap love hotel. Years later, haunted by the memory of that night, they reconnect and begin a strange love affair. Determined to finish what they started,…

  • The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood

    Faustus is a clerk in St. John’s at the Newfoundland Department of Education. He dreams of becoming ruler of Newfoundland and seceding from Canada. In the real world, Faustus’ boss Eddie Peddle plans to indoctrinate the citizenry of Newfoundland with a cult-like geometric theory known as Total Education, but Peddle may be foiled by the…

  • The Brave Little Toaster

    A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old ‘master’.

  • The Cursed House

    Madiha moves to a new house with her family but soon begins experiencing strange things and seeing ghosts at the house. Her aunt informs her that her mother was murdered at that house and her father was accused of the crime, hence his placement into an asylum. Madiha’s husband Sharif does what he can, ultimately…

  • Tiyanak

    A childless woman adopts an abandoned infant but when disturbing events begin occurring around her, she gets a feeling that the baby is a demon in disguise.

  • High Fidelity: The Adventures of the Guarneri String Quartet

    Relationships, rehearsals, performances, hobbies, and family life of the members of the Guarneri String Quartet.

  • South Central

    During a 10-year sentence for murdering the leader of a rival South Central Los Angeles gang, Bobby Johnson finds religion and rehabilitation with the help of Muslim inmate Ali. Upon his release, Bobby returns home to find that his young son, Jimmie, has joined the Deuces, his old crew. Tensions rise as Bobby struggles to…

  • Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders

    Space-faring hero and galactically-renowned stud Flesh Gordon is kidnapped by a group of space cheerleaders hoping to use him to save their planet. A being simply known as Evil Presence has been rendering the men of their world impotent, and the women are desperate for some form of relief. Flesh’s girlfriend Ardor, meanwhile, is following…

  • The Rapture

    A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.

  • Public Enemy #2

    Second City Television alumnus Dave Thomas stars in this hilarious spoof of “America’s Most Wanted.” Thomas portrays Wynn Dalton, a talentless acting hopeful who bears an uncanny resemblance to Dwayne Gary Steckler (also played by Thomas), a psycho killer currently terrorizing the nation. When Dalton’s mug lands him a role playing Steckler on a “true…

  • FernGully: The Last Rainforest

    When a sprite named Crysta shrinks a human boy, Zak, down to her size, he vows to help the magical fairy folk stop a greedy logging company from destroying their home: the pristine rainforest known as FernGully. Zak and his new friends fight to defend FernGully from lumberjacks — and the vengeful spirit they accidentally…

  • Party Girl

    Although Mary has little income, she still finds ways to spend her nights at clubs. After being arrested for throwing an illegal rave, she asks her aunt Judy for bail money. Judy then finds Mary a job at her library so that Mary can repay her. Initially, Mary finds the job as a clerk boring…

  • Empire Records

    The employees of an independent music store learn about each other as they try to stop the store from being absorbed by a large chain.

  • Kids

    A day in the life of a group of teens as they travel around New York City skating, drinking, smoking and deflowering virgins.

  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

    Dr. Clayton Forrester figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects’ brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T. Robot and Tom Servo, Forrester makes them watch “This Island Earth”, a cheesy 1950s spaceship film. But when Mike and…

  • Wild Side

    A bank accountant who moonlights as a high-priced call girl becomes embroiled in the lives of a money launderer, his seductive wife, and his bodyguard.