Independent Movies on Netflix
Last updated May 01, 2025
Chasing Amy
1997 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsComic book artist Holden meets the perfect woman, only to learn that she's a lesbian. Their friendship develops into something more when Holden confesses his love for her, but secrets from her past threaten their relationship.
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Wild Bill
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsOut on parole after 8 years inside, Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15-year-old sons, Jimmy and Dean, abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
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Welcome Aboard
2012 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen a legendary painter meets a feisty teenage runaway, their lives seem destined to connect. Striking up a strong friendship and eventually living together as father and daughter, the two misfits help each other make sense of their lives.
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Friends with Kids
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsBest friends Jason and Julie decide that the way to have kids without sacrificing their social lives or careers is to raise a child together platonically. But romance and other complications interfere with their perfect plan.
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSiblings Jay and Mark Duplass direct this comedy focusing on two brothers -- one a moderate success, the other still living with Mom. A trip to the store for glue, however, turns into an encounter with destiny for the stay-at-home slacker.
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Bernie
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this black comedy inspired by a true story, affable Texas mortician Bernie befriends the small town's wealthiest widow and then kills her. But despite the suspicious nature of her death, no one wants to think anything but the best of Bernie.
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Weekend
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsThis frank drama centers on the cautious relationship between two gay men -- one a genial lifeguard, the other a lusty art-gallery worker -- who contemplate turning a passionate one-night stand into something more meaningful.
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Our Idiot Brother
2011 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsNed is a seemingly clueless but earnest idealist who must rely upon his three exasperated sisters for shelter and support after he's dumped by his fed-up girlfriend and loses custody of his beloved dog, Willie Nelson.
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White Irish Drinkers
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn a blue-collar Irish section of 1970s Brooklyn, brothers Danny (Geoff Wigdor) and Brian Leary (Nick Thurston) come of age in a family dominated by their longshoreman father, Patrick (Stephen Lang), whose hard-drinking leaves them scrambling for a way out. As delinquent Danny and dejected mom Margaret (Karen Allen) take the brunt of Patrick's assaults, aspiring artist Brian hides his dreams. But desperate acts will threaten them all.
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The Winning Season
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsSearching for a coach for his hapless girls' basketball team, school principal Terry turns to his friend, Bill, a divorced, drunken dishwasher who isn't even involved in his own daughter's life. But Bill's life changes as he bonds with the team.
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Brotherhood
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA college student's final night of pledging a fraternity takes an ominous turn when he's ordered to hold up a convenience store as part of his initiation. He complies, but everything goes wrong.
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Biutiful
2010 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDiagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, Uxbal -- a divorced father raising two children -- is determined to atone for his life as a black marketeer in this engrossing character study that unfolds in the slums of Barcelona, Spain.
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Get Low
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsOscar winners Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek team up to tell the true story of irascible Felix Bush, a backwoods Tennessee loner who planned his funeral in 1938 while he was still around to attend -- and enjoy -- the proceedings.
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Broken Embraces
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsAging filmmaker Mateo Blanco -- aka screenwriter Harry Caine -- tells his assistant about life before the accident that left him blind, when he became embroiled in a torrid and complicated affair with aspiring actress Lena.
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Away We Go
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsBuoyed by the news that they are expecting their first baby, Burt and Verona embark on a journey to locate the perfect place on the planet to raise their child. But their quest inevitably yields many unexpected surprises.
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(500) Days of Summer
2009 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsWhen his girlfriend, Summer (Zooey Deschanel), unceremoniously dumps him, greeting-card copywriter and hopeless romantic Tom (Golden Globe nominee Joseph Gordon-Levitt) begins sifting through the year-plus worth of days they spent together, looking for clues to what went awry. As he recalls the good and bad times he spent with the commitment-phobic girl, his heart reawakens to what it cherishes most. Marc Webb directs this uncommon love story.
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One Week
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsJoshua Jackson stars in this bittersweet odyssey as Ben, a young man who's just received news of his terminal illness. Leaving his perplexed fiancée, Samantha (Liane Balaban), Ben buys a 1973 Norton motorcycle and heads for the Pacific. His journey takes him through nature, introduces him to interesting fellow travelers, brings him unexpected romance and begins to put his impending fate in perspective.
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Street Thief
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn this fascinating A&E IndieFilm, professional thief Kaspar Carr divulges his trade secrets when it comes to cracking safes, holding up stores, tapping phones and walking away with thousands of dollars in priceless merchandise. An inventive blend of fact and fiction, Street Thief is hardly a documentary, as its protagonist and story line are made up -- but the information it reveals about the criminal mind is shockingly true.
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Fanboys
2008 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA group of friends has waited years for the release of Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace. But when one of them discovers he's terminally ill, they embark on a road trip to Skywalker Ranch to steal the long-anticipated film.
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Sabah: A Love Story
2005 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsDutiful 40-something daughter Sabah (Arsinée Khanjian) shocks her conservative Arab family by falling for Stephen (Shawn Doyle), a non-Muslim, in this romantic comedy set in Toronto. The relationship sparks a culture clash, ensnaring Sabah between Stephen and her tight-knit family. Like My Big Fat Greek Wedding, director Ruba Nabba's film reveals what happens when Old World tradition collides with modern love. Setta Keshishian co-stars.
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Layer Cake
2004 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsA seasoned British drug dealer (Daniel Craig) longs to ditch his illegal trade. But he can't do that without wrapping up just one more job involving the drug-addicted daughter of an influential criminal and a gargantuan stash of purloined ecstasy. The cache's original owners are after him as well, leaving him with no other choice but to run for his life. Matthew Vaughn directs this intricate drama, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.
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Four Rooms
1995 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsOne mad New Year's Eve, an overwhelmed bellboy copes with witches and diabolical children, gets caught in the middle of a sour relationship and settles a bloody bet for members of a superstar's entourage.
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Detroit Rock City
1999 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1978 Detroit, a Kiss concert was an epoch-making event. In director Adam Rifkin's riotous comedy, four teens (Giuseppe Andrews, James DeBello, Edward Furlong and Natasha Lyonne) find that getting tickets to the sold-out show becomes the focal point of their existence. They'll do anything for tickets -- compete in a strip club's amateur-night contest, take on religious protesters and even rob a convenience store!
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Wet Hot American Summer
2001 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsIt's the end of summer, and everyone at Camp Firewood wants a final shot at some action. Lovelorn Coop tries to get the attention of a fellow counselor, while camp director Beth has a crush of her own in this spoof on 1980s summer-camp camp.
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Clerks 2
2006 | NR | 3.6 out of 5 StarsPicking up 10 years after their original misfit misadventures, director Kevin Smith revisits the doldrums and daily routines of New Jersey's minimum-wage employees in this sequel to his career-defining first film, Clerks. This time, seasoned slackers Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson) find themselves working behind the fast-food counter at Mooby's after a catastrophe drives them away from their previous dead-end jobs.
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