Independent Movies on Netflix
Last updated August 04, 2025
Aaah! Zombies!!
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFinally, zombies are able to tell their story their way. A group of undead freaks -- who think they're living -- are just beginning to grasp the implications of their horrific new existence.
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Grown Up Movie Star
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsTeenage Ruby's life turns upside down when her mother runs off and her hard-luck ex-hockey star father, Ray, comes home. While her dad struggles with failed expectations, Ruby strikes up an ill-advised friendship with an older man.
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Cyrus
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIndie favorites Jay and Mark Duplass co-direct this wry look at modern love and family dysfunction. John C. Reilly plays a divorced man who thinks he's found just the right woman (Marisa Tomei) to help him recover and move on. Unfortunately, the woman's son, played by Jonah Hill, has no interest in allowing another man into their lives -- a stance he proceeds to demonstrate in a variety of obnoxious ways.
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The Orgasm Diaries
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsPhotographer Manchester (Liam Browne) and taxidermist Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry) spend a rapturous summer together reveling in their intense romance, as documented by Manchester's erotic pictures. The couple's faith in each other is tested, however, by Manchester's sudden fame. When gallery owner and pornographer Franny (Michael Hodgson) introduces Manchester to the art world, the young couple's self-imposed isolation and happiness are threatened.
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Henry's Crime
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsKeanu Reeves stars in this dark comedy as Henry, an affable tollbooth worker in Buffalo, N.Y., who finds himself on the wrong end of justice when he's accused and convicted of a bank robbery that he didn't commit.
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The Beaver
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSuffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. Jodie Foster directs and co-stars as Walter's wife in this dark comedy.
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The New Year
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter deferring college to tend to her ailing dad, Sunny gets stuck working at the local bowling alley, until a high school acquaintance turns up and disrupts her routine. Soon Sunny realizes that the future extends well beyond the shoe counter.
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The Journey
1997 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsCultural tensions simmer to the surface in this drama from director Harish Saluja, when retired schoolteacher Kishan (Roshan Seth) leaves India and moves to Pittsburgh, Penn. to live with his physican son (Antony Zaki), his wife (Carrie Preston) and their young daughter, Jenny (Nora Bates). Barely tolerated by the rest of the family, Kishan forms a tight bond with Jenny -- until the girl goes missing on Kishan's watch.
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Down to the Dirt
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDrug addict Keith Kavanagh (Joel Thomas Hynes) longs to clean up his act and get a new start on life, but lacks the motivation to do so. Determined to escape both his small Newfoundland town and his addictions, Keith seeks solace in his girlfriend Natasha (Mylene Savoie) but eventually descends further into depravity. Hynes also penned the semiautobiographical novel that inspired this dark drama.
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Higher Ground
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsVera Farmiga stars in and directs this sensitive and searching chronicle describing one woman's lifetime journey of faith -- one that initially leads her to join a fundamentalist sect and then leave it again years later.
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Perfect Sense
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter sparks fly between a newly single epidemiologist and a charming chef, a puzzling patient -- a truck driver who's lost his ability to smell -- drastically alters the couple's budding relationship in this sci-fi thriller.
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Sound of My Voice
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this psychological thriller, journalists Peter and Lorna undergo an elaborate preparation process in order to infiltrate a cult, leading from a desolate road to an unmarked location, but the mystery only deepens when their blindfolds are removed.
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Terri
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis poignant coming-of-age tale follows Terri, an overweight orphan who, while struggling to find acceptance with his peers, forms an unlikely friendship with his vice principal, who also knows all too well what it's like to be alone.
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Young Adult
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsTaken aback when she receives a letter from an old boyfriend announcing that he's just had a baby with his wife, divorced fiction writer Mavis Gary decides to return to her small hometown and reconnect with her former lover.
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Being Flynn
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA young man employed at a Boston homeless shelter comes upon his long-lost, destitute and alcoholic father while at work one evening in this subtle, emotionally charged drama based on the acclaimed memoir by poet and playwright Nick Flynn.
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Carnage
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this comic drama from director Roman Polanski, two sets of parents meet in the aftermath of an incident in which one of their children bullied the other. As the evening progresses, the adults confront each other in increasingly hostile ways.
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Devil's Racecourse
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDuring an annual hiking trip with friends, college student Wendy is abducted by an ex-FBI agent turned fugitive, and when his relentless pursuers appear, the man entrusts Wendy with vital data that could expose a shocking governmental conspiracy.
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Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAll-star cameos spice up the comedy chaos in the movie debut of "Adult Swim" favorites Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim, who portray two numbskulls revamping a decrepit mall to repay the billion dollars they wasted while preparing their first film.
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Price Check
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFor Pete, settling down with a wife and son meant giving up his unstable musical career to work for a third-rate supermarket chain. A reform-minded new boss plans to make an executive out of Pete, who realizes he still harbors dreams of music fame.
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Supporting Characters
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsCrack film editors Nick and Darryl are hired to save a movie in desperate need of their skills, a gig that turns out to be filled with bad luck. Both men's relationships are upended and their partnership is tested by the film's delusional director.
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Sexual Chronicles of a French Family
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter her son is caught filming himself masturbating at school, his mother rounds up the whole family to discuss their sexual issues. The revelations that follow involve all three generations of the clan.
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Not Fade Away
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsInspired by the music of Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, three 1960s high-schoolers form a rock band in the New Jersey suburbs. James Gandolfini co-stars in this debut feature from "Sopranos" creator David Chase.
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Pieta
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsKang-do, an enforcer for a loan shark in a destitute area of Seoul, is unrelentingly brutal in his collection of debts. But when a mysterious woman appears and claims that she is his mother, Kang-do finds himself developing a hunger for human warmth.
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True Nature
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThe Pascal family has it all-- wealth, power, privilege-- but their lives change forever when their daughter disappears one night while running. She mysteriously returns a year later with no memory of what happened but haunted by strange visions.
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Slightly Single in L.A.
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDale was excited to move to L.A., but everything in her life -- work, friends, romance -- is going wrong. Now she's caught in a love triangle with her best friend and a guy from her past, and turning her luck around will take a huge leap of faith.
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