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The Independent Films category on Netflix is identified by the secret code 7077 . Below are 100 Independent Films titles currently traceable on Netflix, sorted by rating. Top picks include Pulp Fiction (1994), Fiction. (2008), Merku Thodarchi Malai (2018).
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Last updated: 28 Sep 2021. Independent reference, not affiliated with Netflix.
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.
Year: 1994880640 · IMDb
Fiction. (2008) When a sheltered young woman becomes enamored with a struggling writer, she goes to great lengths to become involved in his creative process.
Year: 200881342987 · IMDb
Merku Thodarchi Malai (2018) In southern India, a laborer's dreams of owning a piece of land to farm is complicated by political corruption.
Year: 201881045060 · IMDb
Sillu Karuppatti (2019) From first crushes to post-marriage relationships, love and connection are at the heart of the four interwoven stories in this anthology film.
Year: 201981218363 · IMDb
Manusangada (2017) When caste discrimination prevents a villager from giving his deceased father a rightful burial, he takes his fight for equality to court.
Year: 201781063743 · IMDb
Boi (2018) A young chauffeur who's at a crossroads in his life escorts a pair of clients around Barcelona and becomes embroiled in their mysterious quest.
Year: 201880173485 · IMDb
Line of Duty (2019) A disgraced cop must race against time to save the police chief's daughter from an unhinged suspect as a citizen journalist livestreams his pursuit.
Year: 201980225243 · IMDb
Mallesham (2019) A self-trained engineer risks debt, love and reputation in his quest to improve the grueling work conditions of his mother and her weaving community.
Year: 201981217739 · IMDb
KD (A) Karuppudurai (2019) As his children plot his death to claim their inheritance, an aging patriarch leaves home, befriending a spunky boy who adds direction to his life.
Year: 201981177366 · IMDb
Parasite (2019) One by one, the crafty members of a destitute family insinuate themselves into the household staff of a wealthy couple living in oblivious privilege.
Year: 201981221938 · IMDb
5 Minute (2020) When a violent homophobic attack breaks out during a film screening, a bold journalist pursues justice for the LGBTQ community. Based on true events.
Year: 202081351808 · IMDb
The Usual Suspects (1995) When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together.
Year: 19951084379 · IMDb
The Pianist (2002) Famed Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this drama based on his memoirs.
Year: 200260025061 · IMDb
Whiplash (2014) Driven by his demanding music teacher, drummer Andrew is determined to succeed as a jazz musician -- even if it destroys his personality.
Year: 201470299275 · IMDb
Little Feather (2016) Upon turning 18 years old, a young woman leaves her orphanage, eager to join her boyfriend in Prague – but life in the real world is far from kind.
Year: 201681253957 · IMDb
Memento (2000) Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife.
Year: 200060020435 · IMDb
Family (2018) A week with her oddball tween niece spins a self-absorbed workaholic's life into chaos — and changes both of them in unexpected ways.
Year: 201881032351 · IMDb
Reservoir Dogs (1992) In Quentin Tarantino's raw directorial debut, a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.
Year: 1992902003 · IMDb
Good Will Hunting (1997) When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
Year: 199717405997 · IMDb
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) After learning that his ex-girlfriend had an experimental medical procedure to purge all memories of him, a man decides to do the same with her.
Year: 200460034545 · IMDb
Joy (2019) Close to paying off her debts, a Nigerian sex worker in Austria coaches a reluctant novice, and assesses the risks of taking a faster path to freedom.
Year: 201981046255 · IMDb
Project Papa (2018) When a busy entrepreneur pauses her career to spend time with her aging father, both learn valuable lessons on happiness, love and living in the moment.
Year: 201881289657 · IMDb
Forever (2010) Creating romantic marriage fantasies on camera, a consultant falls for a music teacher who appears as her groom in a promotional wedding video.
Year: 201081295046 · IMDb
There Will Be Blood (2007) An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
Year: 200770075473 · IMDb
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) Hoping to make a bundle in a high-stakes poker game, four shiftless lads from London's East End instead find themselves swimming in debt.
Year: 199816944044 · IMDb
Pinky Memsaab (2018) When a guileless young woman becomes the domestic worker in a wealthy Dubai household, her bond with her posh employer changes both of their lives.
Year: 201881052280 · IMDb
Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya (2020) Defeated and humiliated in a fight while trying to defuse a conflict among his fellow villagers, a photographer vows revenge on his attacker.
Year: 202081256436 · IMDb
Doua Lozuri (2016) After winning the lottery, three hard-luck pals must recover their golden ticket when they realize that it was stolen by petty thieves.
Year: 201681149229 · IMDb
The Oak (1991) In the final days of Romania's Ceausescu regime, Nela sets off with her father's ashes in a coffee jar while the country descends into chaos.
Year: 199181215987 · IMDb
Trainspotting (1996) Renton and his mates cope with the gritty realities of heroin addiction. But when Renton gets clean, he can't get away from his friends' nasty habits.
Year: 199660037022 · IMDb
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Between the world wars, Gustave H, the concierge at a prestigious European hotel, takes a bellboy named Zero as a trusted protégé.
Year: 201470295915 · IMDb
Before Sunrise (1995) An American backpacker strikes up a conversation with a woman on the train to Vienna and persuades her to spend his last day in Europe with him.
Year: 1995293391 · IMDb
Spotlight (2015) A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church.
Year: 201580061341 · IMDb
Room (2015) Kidnapped, confined to a tiny room and raped, a young woman gives birth to a son. When he reaches his fifth birthday, she begins plotting an escape.
Year: 201580073823 · IMDb
Udaan (2010) Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.
Year: 201070139542 · IMDb
Shonar Pahar (2018) An older woman's unique friendship with a young boy inspires her to examine the strained relationship she shares with her married son.
Year: 201881071868 · IMDb
More (2018) In a coastal town, a teen is forced to confront hard truths and conflicting emotions amid a refugee crisis. Adapted from Hakan Günday’s novel.
Year: 201881293243 · IMDb
The Elephant Man (1980) With a disfigured face and barely perceptible speech, John Merrick endures ostracizing behavior as a sideshow attraction in mid-19th century England.
Year: 198060011111 · IMDb
Into the Wind (2018) Two siblings set sail as a crew on a yacht on the Aegean Sea. Circumstances soon change when a young documentary filmmaker comes aboard.
Year: 201881457542 · IMDb
Really Love (2020) A rising Black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
Year: 202081397545 · IMDb
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) After coming within one question of winning a fortune on a game show, an uneducated young 'slumdog' is accused of cheating and arrested.
Year: 200870095140 · IMDb
Dancer in the Dark (2000) A Czech immigrant who dwells in a mental world of song and dance performs a haunting act of deliverance when a neighbor steals cash she'd been saving.
Year: 200060002276 · IMDb
Dallas Buyers Club (2013) Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad.
Year: 201370275751 · IMDb
Ankhon Dekhi (2014) After a dramatic incident, Raje Bauji, a man in his late fifties, decides that he will only believe what he sees with his eyes.
Year: 201470307997 · IMDb
Dhanak (2015) A movie-loving 10-year-old and her blind little brother trek to meet Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan for help in getting the boy an eye operation.
Year: 201580115686 · IMDb
Magnolia (1999) Through chance, human action, past history and divine intervention, an eclectic cast of characters weaves and warps through each other's lives.
Year: 199960000440 · IMDb
Pihu (2018) A two-year-old must fend for herself when her mother suddenly passes away while her father is gone for a conference, leaving her prone to danger.
Year: 201881113927 · IMDb
Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal (2018) Exasperated with living in perpetual fear for their safety, four women kidnap a man to show him the realities of being female in Delhi.
Year: 201881095399 · IMDb
Manu (2018) The relationship between a painter and his admirer unfolds as an abstract, twist-filled hide-and-seek game against the backdrop of murder and revenge.
Year: 201881050688 · IMDb
Nightcrawler (2014) A young hustler gets sucked into the sordid but lucrative business of trolling the streets of Los Angeles to film fires, car crashes -- and murder.
Year: 201470295182 · IMDb
The Wrestler (2008) A retired professional wrestler returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for one last shot at defeating his longtime rival.
Year: 200870095145 · IMDb
The Artist (2011) Winner of five Oscars, this black-and-white silent film follows the romance between a silent-era legend on a downward spiral and a rising starlet.
Year: 201170189319 · IMDb
Boyhood (2014) After divorcing, a mother and father continue to share the task of guiding their young son through youth and adolescence, and finally to adulthood.
Year: 201470301281 · IMDb
Before Midnight (2013) Years after being reunited, multinational lovers Jesse and Celine struggle with their faded romance in this second sequel to the drama Before Sunrise.
Year: 201370267236 · IMDb
Boogie Nights (1997) A well-endowed busboy is taken in by a tight-knit group of 1970s porn actors and transforms himself into skin flick celebrity Dirk Diggler.
Year: 19971180077 · IMDb
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007) In the last days of communism in Romania, a college student wants to end her unplanned pregnancy, but abortion is illegal under the Ceausescu regime.
Year: 200770071602 · IMDb
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) A wild teenage boy and his late foster mother's cantankerous husband get lost in the wilderness after social services threatens to take the boy away.
Year: 201680096995 · IMDb
Do the Right Thing (1989) Director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Year: 1989448860 · IMDb
Captain Fantastic (2016) A father raising his children off the grid begins to question his anti-establishment, utopian views when a tragic loss pulls them back into society.
Year: 201680097499 · IMDb
For Here or to Go? (2015) A software engineer must decide if he'd rather navigate America's frustrating visa renewal process or simply return to his home country of India.
Year: 201580176707 · IMDb
Call Me by Your Name (2017) In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio forms a life-changing bond with his father's charismatic research assistant Oliver in the Italian countryside.
Year: 201780169498 · IMDb
III Smoking Barrels (2017) In three stories set in Northeast India, a child goes on the run, a young adult falls in with the wrong crowd and a desperate man turns to crime.
Year: 201781062606 · IMDb
Arest (2019) After a family man is taken into custody for unknown reasons, he meets an intrusive cellmate intent on finding out the cause of his capture.
Year: 201981248445 · IMDb
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) In a backwater Iowa town, young Gilbert is torn between taking care of his troubled family and a girl who shows him new possibilities for his life.
Year: 199360011552 · IMDb
Once (2006) A street musician in Dublin strikes up a friendship with a migrant street hawker, and the duo ends up composing and recording a series of songs.
Year: 200670059661 · IMDb
Moonrise Kingdom (2012) This quirky drama follows the frantic search that ensues in a small New England town when two 12-year-olds fall in love and run away together.
Year: 201270228041 · IMDb
Drive (2011) A Hollywood stuntman and getaway driver is lured from his isolated life by a lovely neighbor -- until her violent husband is released from prison.
Year: 201170189289 · IMDb
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) A 23-year-old Che Guevara motorcycles across South America with friend Alberto, a trek that crystallizes the future revolutionary's political beliefs.
Year: 200460034802 · IMDb
Mr. Nobody (2009) The last mortal in a world of immortals, Nemo Nobody begins reviewing his life at the age of 120, trying to determine if he made the right decisions.
Year: 200970117580 · IMDb
Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016) Born into poverty and sold by his mother to a street vendor, a 5-year-old boy becomes India's first marathon-running champion despite his youth.
Year: 201680165849 · IMDb
Tu Hai Mera Sunday (2016) When their Sunday soccer game on the beach is canceled, five friends set out to find another place to play in the noisy, crowded city of Mumbai.
Year: 201680238295 · IMDb
Hamid (2018) Wanting his missing father to come home, a Kashmiri boy repeatedly attempts to call God for help -- until one day, a hardened army officer picks up.
Year: 201881123050 · IMDb
Jules and Jim (1962) Jules and Jim are friends who fall for the same woman, sparking a decades-long love triangle that tests and strengthens the bond between the two men.
Year: 1962660602 · IMDb
System Crasher (2020) Traumatized, violent and yearning for love, 9-year-old Benni bonds with a gruff mentor as child-services workers struggle to find her a home.
Year: 202081071573 · IMDb
Classmates Minus (2020) Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.
Year: 202081351501 · IMDb
1987 (2014) Craving the high life but short on cash, a recent high school grad turns to petty crime to fund his partying. Based on the life of director Ricardo Trogi.
Year: 201481370434 · IMDb
Office Space (1999) In an off-the-wall comedy that jabs at corporate life, Peter conspires with his cubicle cohorts to embezzle money from their soulless employer.
Year: 199920358351 · IMDb
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) After a stint in a mental hospital, Pat moves in with his parents and tries to win back his wife, until he meets a woman who's as unstable as he is.
Year: 201270244164 · IMDb
Lost in Translation (2003) Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star -- find solace in each other's company.
Year: 200360031214 · IMDb
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) In the vein of Homer's Odyssey, three convicts break out of a Depression-era Mississippi jail, embarking on an epic quest for a hidden cache of loot.
Year: 200060002991 · IMDb
Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) Determined to fall in love, 15-year-old Adele is focused on boys. But it's a blue-haired girl she meets on the street who really piques her interest.
Year: 201370275600 · IMDb
Beasts of No Nation (2015) When civil war tears his family apart, a young West African boy is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters and transform into a child soldier.
Year: 201580044545 · IMDb
Ex Machina (2015) A coder at a tech company wins a week-long retreat at the compound of his company's CEO, where he's tasked with testing a new artificial intelligence.
Year: 201580023689 · IMDb
Being John Malkovich (1999) When puppeteer Craig Schwartz discovers a portal into John Malkovich's brain, he decides to sell 15-minute excursions into the esteemed actor's mind.
Year: 199928363298 · IMDb
Adaptation. (2002) A Hollywood screenwriter battles insecurity as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief -- a book about a mercurial orchid poacher named John Laroche.
Year: 200260025026 · IMDb
Billy Elliot (2000) When a boy trades boxing school for ballet lessons, he may take his newfound talent all the way to the top - and win over his disapproving father.
Year: 200060003378 · IMDb
Wind River (2017) A tracker with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assists a rookie FBI agent who's investigating a teen girl's murder on a remote Wyoming reservation.
Year: 201780173524 · IMDb
Vaya (2016) Three youths from rural South Africa set out for Johannesburg, where they're thrust into the seedy underbelly of the city and must fight to survive.
Year: 201680155792 · IMDb
ROMA (2018) Director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic life and social hierarchy set against Mexico's political turmoil of the 1970s.
Year: 201880240715 · IMDb
One Cut of the Dead (2017) The cast and crew of a hack filmmaker's low-budget movie try to escape with their lives when the real undead appear outside their abandoned building.
Year: 201781191988 · IMDb
A Sun (2019) A family reckons with the aftermath of their younger son's incarceration and a greater misfortune that follows.
Year: 201981168282 · IMDb
Six Windows in the Desert (2020) From a theatre play to the aftermath of a plane crash, this collection of shorts from Saudi filmmakers depicts the nuances of Saudi Arabian culture.
Year: 202081235969 · IMDb
Ordinary People (2016) Barely making a living as pickpockets, a teenage couple in Manila resort to desperate measures when their one-month-old child is kidnapped.
Year: 201680141777 · IMDb
Corpus Christi (2020) After finding faith in a juvenile detention center, a young man poses as a priest in a small town recovering from tragedy. Inspired by true events.
Year: 202081172208 · IMDb
The Serpent's Way (1986) As payment of a debt, a merchant and his son sexually abuse generations of women from a poor family.
Year: 198681382174 · IMDb
All at Sea (2010) When his lifelong best mate dies, Wally decides it's his sacred duty to bury his pal at sea — a quest that quickly becomes a comic odyssey.
Year: 201081490214 · IMDb
TRY (2018) Reunited in New York after years apart, two best friends must face what they’ve left behind in Spain and how time has shifted their friendship.
Year: 201881409020 · IMDb
The Skin I Live In (2011) A plastic surgeon seeks to overcome the grief of his late wife's disfigurement in a fiery car crash by inventing skin that's impervious to injury.
Year: 201170189304 · IMDb
Sin Nombre (2009) Fleeing a violent Central American street gang, a young hood takes refuge atop a moving train and hopes for a fresh start in a new country.
Year: 200970112457 · IMDb
50/50 (2011) An otherwise healthy twentysomething has a comically early midlife crisis when he gets slapped with a cancer diagnosis and a 50-50 chance of survival.
Year: 201170202141 · IMDb
