American independent films

1994 film by Quentin Tarantino

1984 film by James Cameron

2010 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

Rocky is a 1976 American independent sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen, written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky franchise and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).

1995 film by David Fincher

1992 film by Quentin Tarantino

1997 film by Gus Van Sant

2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola

2004 film directed by James Wan

1986 film directed by Oliver Stone

2004 film directed by Michel Gondry

Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.

2001 film directed by Richard Kelly

1998 film directed by Tony Kaye

2014 film directed by Morten Tyldum

2001 film by David Lynch

1996 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1998 film by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

1982 film directed by Ted Kotcheff

2004 film by Paul Haggis

2000 US film by Darren Aronofsky

Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. Set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, the plot follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Campbell) and her friends who, on the anniversary of her mother's murder, become the targets of a costumed serial killer.

Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis pursues him.

2007 film directed by Sean Penn

2022 film by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert

The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

RoboCop is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner. The film stars Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit in the near future, RoboCop centers on police officer Alex Murphy (Weller) who is murdered by a gang of criminals and revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the cyborg law enforcer RoboCop. Unaware of his former life, RoboCop executes a campaign against crime while coming to terms with the lingering fragments of

1967 film by Mike Nichols

1986 film by David Lynch

2000 film directed by Mary Harron

2017 film directed by Martin McDonagh

2017 film directed by Jordan Peele

2013 film by Jean-Marc Vallée

2007 film by Jason Reitman

1968 American independent zombie horror film by George A. Romero

2015 film by Lenny Abrahamson

1997 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

1985 film directed by John Hughes

2006 film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

1969 film by Dennis Hopper

1998 film by Guy Ritchie

1999 film by Spike Jonze

1986 film by Woody Allen

1995 film directed by Richard Linklater

2004 film directed by Mike Nichols

2009 film directed by Marc Webb

1997 film directed by Wes Craven

2004 film directed by Michael Moore

2012 film directed by Stephen Chbosky

1987 film directed by Emile Ardolino

1980 film directed by Sean S. Cunningham

1978 film directed by Alan Parker

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins

2008 film directed by Darren Aronofsky

2007 film directed by Quentin Tarantino

2002 film by Joel Zwick

Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959. Stand by Me stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

1986 film directed by Peter Faiman