Independant Classics

[Invader Zim]

This is my tribute to films which don't have a $50,000,000 + budget: -

10 - Shallow Grave

9 - Run Lola Run

8 - Clerks

7 - Reservoir Dogs

6 - Pi

5 - Chopper

4 - Withnail And I

3 - City of God

2 - Donnie Darko

1 - Train Spotting

A nice list of great films created with low budgets and without the aid of major studios: -

http://www.empireonline.com/features/50gre...ent/default.asp (http://www.empireonline.com/features/50greatestindependent/default.asp)

If anyone can suggest some other fims that I should atch, then i would be obliged.

[which doctor]

Hmm... out of your list I agree with Run Lola Run, Reservoir Dogs, City of God, and Trainspotting.

The Edukators is a good movie, political as well.

Primer is a super good sci-fi drama, really low-budget too. Made on less than $10000

[Zero]

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Napoleon Dynamite!

[Hit The North]

The Idiots

Orson Wells' The Trial

Funny Games

Swingers

Cache

Rushmore

24 Hour Party People

Festen

[celtopunk]

I'm not sure of the budgets on some of these but I don't think they were too big.
None of them were "big hits" except maybe "Sling Blade" and even then it wasn't really a big hit

The site that Enigma posted had some other movies worth checking out which I was going to include too.

Drugstore Cowboy

Barfly

Millers Crossing

Blood Simple

Most of the Monty Python movies

Mean Streets

A Simple Plan

Sling Blade

Snatch

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

After Hours

Matewan

[Comrade J]

Saw. Not a bad movie to say it was made with just $1.2 million.

[YKTMX]

Matewan
Dawn of the Dead
Rushmore
Reservoir Dogs
Do The Right Thing
Trainspotting
Leon
The Usual Suspects
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre