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GreenCine MVIs: The Top 100 American Indie Films

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.

The List

# Title Year Director IMDb
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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