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The MVIs are Most Valuable Indies, as listed by GreenCine, another site that no longer exists. Here's an archive at the Wayback Machine.
This is a list of the Top 100 American Indie Films, which become more and more important as time goes by. The more mainstream Hollywood sinks into mediocrity, the more it seems that underground American filmmakers take up the slack.
It's especially interesting to see older films in the list, because we often think that indie films are new concepts that came along in the nineties. This list ably highlights how untrue that is.
# | Title | Year | Director | IMDb |
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The Apostle | 1997 | Robert Duvall | IMDb | |
Badlands | 1973 | Terrence Malick | IMDb | |
Before Night Falls | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | IMDb | |
Being John Malkovich | 1999 | Spike Jonze | IMDb | |
Blood Simple | 1984 | Joel Coen | IMDb | |
Blue Velvet | 1986 | David Lynch | IMDb | |
Bottle Rocket | 1996 | Wes Anderson | IMDb | |
Boys Don't Cry | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce | IMDb | |
Boyz n the Hood | 1991 | John Singleton | IMDb | |
The Brother from Another Planet | 1984 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Choose Me | 1984 | Alan Rudolph | IMDb | |
City of Hope | 1991 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Clerks | 1994 | Kevin Smith | IMDb | |
Croupier | 1998 | Mike Hodges | IMDb | |
Dark Star | 1974 | John Carpenter | IMDb | |
Daughters of the Dust | 1991 | Julie Dash | IMDb | |
Days of Heaven | 1978 | Terrence Malick | IMDb | |
The Daytrippers | 1996 | Greg Mottola | IMDb | |
Dazed and Confused | 1993 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | |
Dead Man | 1995 | Jim Jarmusch | IMDb | |
The Deep End | 2001 | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
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Do the Right Thing | 1989 | Spike Lee | IMDb | |
Donnie Darko | 2001 | Richard Kelly | IMDb | |
Down by Law | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch | IMDb | |
Drugstore Cowboy | 1989 | Gus Van Sant | IMDb | |
Eraserhead | 1977 | David Lynch | IMDb | |
The Evil Dead | 1981 | Sam Raimi | IMDb | |
Faces | 1968 | John Cassavetes | IMDb | |
Fresh | 1994 | Boaz Yakin | IMDb | |
George Washington | 2000 | David Gordon Green | IMDb | |
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | 1999 | Jim Jarmusch | IMDb | |
Gray's Anatomy | 1996 | Steven Soderbergh | IMDb | |
The Grifters | 1990 | Stephen Frears | IMDb | |
Happiness | 1998 | Todd Solondz | IMDb | |
Sydney | 1996 | Paul Thomas Anderson | IMDb | |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | IMDb | |
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | 1986 | John McNaughton | IMDb | |
The Hitch-Hiker | 1953 | Ida Lupino | IMDb | |
I Shot Andy Warhol | 1996 | Mary Harron | IMDb | |
Jesus' Son | 1999 | Alison Maclean | IMDb | |
Kids | 1995 | Larry Clark | IMDb | |
The Last Seduction | 1994 | John Dahl | IMDb | |
Leaving Las Vegas | 1995 | Mike Figgis | IMDb | |
Light Sleeper | 1992 | Paul Schrader | IMDb | |
Little Fugitive | 1953 | Ray Ashley Morris Engel Ruth Orkin |
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Lone Star | 1996 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Longtime Companion | 1990 | Norman Rene | IMDb | |
Lovely & Amazing | 2001 | Nicole Holofcener | IMDb | |
El Mariachi | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez | IMDb | |
Matewan | 1987 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Mean Streets | 1973 | Martin Scorsese | IMDb | |
Medium Cool | 1969 | Haskell Wexler | IMDb | |
Memento | 2000 | Christopher Nolan | IMDb | |
Menace II Society | 1993 | Albert Hughes Allen Hughes |
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Midnight Cowboy | 1969 | John Schlesinger | IMDb | |
Mulholland Dr | 2001 | David Lynch | IMDb | |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Joel Zwick | IMDb | |
My Dinner with Andre | 1981 | Louis Malle | IMDb | |
Mystery Train | 1989 | Jim Jarmusch | IMDb | |
The Naked Kiss | 1964 | Samuel Fuller | IMDb | |
Nashville | 1975 | Robert Altman | IMDb | |
Near Dark | 1987 | Kathryn Bigelow | IMDb | |
Night of the Living Dead | 1968 | George A Romero | IMDb | |
One False Move | 1992 | Carl Franklin | IMDb | |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 1975 | Milos Forman | IMDb | |
Our Song | 2000 | Jim McKay | IMDb | |
Passion Fish | 1992 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Pi | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky | IMDb | |
Pink Flamingos | 1972 | John Waters | IMDb | |
The Player | 1992 | Robert Altman | IMDb | |
Poison | 1991 | Todd Haynes | IMDb | |
Pollock | 2000 | Ed Harris | IMDb | |
Rambling Rose | 1991 | Martha Coolidge | IMDb | |
Red Rock West | 1992 | John Dahl | IMDb | |
Repo Man | 1984 | Alex Cox | IMDb | |
Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino | IMDb | |
River's Edge | 1986 | Tim Hunter | IMDb | |
Safe | 1995 | Todd Haynes | IMDb | |
Salt of the Earth | 1954 | Herbert J Biberman | IMDb | |
The Secret of Roan Inish | 1994 | John Sayles | IMDb | |
Sex, Lies and Videotape | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh | IMDb | |
Shadows | 1959 | John Cassavetes | IMDb | |
Sid and Nancy | 1986 | Alex Cox | IMDb | |
A Simple Plan | 1998 | Sam Raimi | IMDb | |
Slacker | 1991 | Richard Linklater | IMDb | |
Slam | 1998 | Marc Levin | IMDb | |
Smoke Signals | 1998 | Chris Eyre | IMDb | |
Stand and Deliver | 1988 | Ramon Menendez | IMDb | |
Stranger Than Paradise | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch | IMDb | |
Suture | 1993 | Scott McGehee David Siegel |
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Swingers | 1996 | Doug Liman | IMDb | |
Tender Mercies | 1983 | Bruce Beresford | IMDb | |
This is Spinal Tap | 1984 | Rob Reiner | IMDb | |
True Stories | 1986 | David Byrne | IMDb | |
Ulee's Gold | 1997 | Victor Nunez | IMDb | |
The Unbelievable Truth | 1989 | Hal Hartley | IMDb | |
The Waterdance | 1992 | Neal Jiminez Michael Steinberg |
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Welcome to the Dollhouse | 1995 | Todd Solondz | IMDb | |
A Woman Under the Influence | 1974 | John Cassavetes | IMDb | |
You Can Count on Me | 2000 | Kenneth Lonergan | IMDb |
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