Netflix Movies and Categories Finder: Independent Films
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Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino's stylized crime caper weaves together stories featuring a burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner and a washed-up boxer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:34:29
Netflix ID: 880640
Fiction.
When a sheltered young woman becomes enamored with a struggling writer, she goes to great lengths to become involved in his creative process.
Released: 2020-12-01
Runtime: 01:47:35
Netflix ID: 81342987
Merku Thodarchi Malai
In southern India, a laborer's dreams of owning a piece of land to farm is complicated by political corruption.
Released: 2019-01-01
Runtime: 01:54:30
Netflix ID: 81045060
Sillu Karuppatti
From first crushes to post-marriage relationships, love and connection are at the heart of the four interwoven stories in this anthology film.
Released: 2020-01-26
Runtime: 02:13:29
Netflix ID: 81218363
Manusangada
When caste discrimination prevents a villager from giving his deceased father a rightful burial, he takes his fight for equality to court.
Released: 2019-02-01
Runtime: 01:33:21
Netflix ID: 81063743
Boi
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.
Released: 2019-07-26
Runtime: 01:50:52
Netflix ID: 80173485
Line of Duty
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.
Released: 2020-06-24
Runtime: 01:39:11
Netflix ID: 80225243
Mallesham
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.
Released: 2019-11-20
Runtime: 02:11:04
Netflix ID: 81217739
KD (A) Karuppudurai
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.
Released: 2020-01-21
Runtime: 01:56:16
Netflix ID: 81177366
Parasite
One by one, the crafty members of a destitute family insinuate themselves into the household staff of a wealthy couple living in oblivious privilege.
Released: 2020-09-03
Runtime: 02:11:53
Netflix ID: 81221938
5 Minute
When a violent homophobic attack breaks out during a film screening, a bold journalist pursues justice for the LGBTQ community. Based on true events.
Released: 2021-03-01
Runtime: 01:46:11
Netflix ID: 81351808
The Usual Suspects
When five unacquainted crooks are hauled into a police station to appear in a criminal lineup, they decide to pull off a heist together.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:46:08
Netflix ID: 1084379
The Pianist
Famed Polish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman struggles to survive the onslaught of Nazi tyranny during World War II in this drama based on his memoirs.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:28:58
Netflix ID: 60025061
Whiplash
Driven by his demanding music teacher, drummer Andrew is determined to succeed as a jazz musician -- even if it destroys his personality.
Released: 2015-06-09
Runtime: 01:46:55
Netflix ID: 70299275
Little Feather
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.
Released: 2020-05-24
Runtime: 01:32:39
Netflix ID: 81253957
Memento
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:48:54
Netflix ID: 60020435
Family
A week with her oddball tween niece spins a self-absorbed workaholic's life into chaos — and changes both of them in unexpected ways.
Released: 2021-04-22
Runtime: 01:25:14
Netflix ID: 81032351
Reservoir Dogs
In Quentin Tarantino's raw directorial debut, a botched robbery indicates a police informant, and pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:06
Netflix ID: 902003
Good Will Hunting
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:06:35
Netflix ID: 17405997
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:43:22
Netflix ID: 60034545
Joy
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.
Released: 2019-05-24
Runtime: 01:40:59
Netflix ID: 81046255
Project Papa
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.
Released: 2020-06-07
Runtime: 01:32:14
Netflix ID: 81289657
Forever
Creating romantic marriage fantasies on camera, a consultant falls for a music teacher who appears as her groom in a promotional wedding video.
Released: 2020-08-02
Runtime: 01:29:56
Netflix ID: 81295046
There Will Be Blood
An ambitious prospector strikes it rich and turns a simple village into a boomtown, stoking the ire of a charismatic young preacher.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:38:25
Netflix ID: 70075473
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:47:12
Netflix ID: 16944044
Pinky Memsaab
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.
Released: 2019-04-01
Runtime: 02:04:25
Netflix ID: 81052280
Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya
Defeated and humiliated in a fight while trying to defuse a conflict among his fellow villagers, a photographer vows revenge on his attacker.
Released: 2020-08-01
Runtime: 02:16:55
Netflix ID: 81256436
Doua Lozuri
After winning the lottery, three hard-luck pals must recover their golden ticket when they realize that it was stolen by petty thieves.
Released: 2021-01-24
Runtime: 01:24:50
Netflix ID: 81149229
The Oak
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.
Released: 2021-01-24
Runtime: 01:44:55
Netflix ID: 81215987
Trainspotting
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:40
Netflix ID: 60037022
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Between the world wars, Gustave H, the concierge at a prestigious European hotel, takes a bellboy named Zero as a trusted protégé.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:44
Netflix ID: 70295915
Before Sunrise
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.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:40:51
Netflix ID: 293391
Spotlight
A team of reporters and editors at the Boston Globe relentlessly investigate a shocking child molestation cover-up by the Catholic Church.
Released: 2016-06-22
Runtime: 02:08:38
Netflix ID: 80061341
Room
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.
Released: 2016-12-14
Runtime: 01:57:21
Netflix ID: 80073823
Udaan
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.
Released: 2018-09-30
Runtime: 02:17:24
Netflix ID: 70139542
Shonar Pahar
An older woman's unique friendship with a young boy inspires her to examine the strained relationship she shares with her married son.
Released: 2019-02-22
Runtime: 02:10:47
Netflix ID: 81071868
More
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.
Released: 2020-10-17
Runtime: 01:51:30
Netflix ID: 81293243
The Elephant Man
With a disfigured face and barely perceptible speech, John Merrick endures ostracizing behavior as a sideshow attraction in mid-19th century England.
Released: 2021-01-01
Runtime: 02:03:42
Netflix ID: 60011111
Into the Wind
Two siblings set sail as a crew on a yacht on the Aegean Sea. Circumstances soon change when a young documentary filmmaker comes aboard.
Released: 2021-06-26
Runtime: 01:16:08
Netflix ID: 81457542
Really Love
A rising Black painter tries to break into a competitive art world while balancing an unexpected romance with an ambitious law student.
Released: 2021-08-25
Runtime: 01:35:18
Netflix ID: 81397545
Slumdog Millionaire
After coming within one question of winning a fortune on a game show, an uneducated young 'slumdog' is accused of cheating and arrested.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:55:13
Netflix ID: 70095140
Dancer in the Dark
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:20:15
Netflix ID: 60002276
Dallas Buyers Club
Refusing to accept a death sentence from his doctor after being diagnosed with AIDS in 1986, Ron Woodroof smuggles medications from abroad.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:56:54
Netflix ID: 70275751
Ankhon Dekhi
After a dramatic incident, Raje Bauji, a man in his late fifties, decides that he will only believe what he sees with his eyes.
Released: 2016-01-06
Runtime: 01:48:13
Netflix ID: 70307997
Dhanak
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.
Released: 2016-08-19
Runtime: 01:54:10
Netflix ID: 80115686
Magnolia
Through chance, human action, past history and divine intervention, an eclectic cast of characters weaves and warps through each other's lives.
Released: 2019-02-15
Runtime: 03:08:33
Netflix ID: 60000440
Pihu
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.
Released: 2019-06-14
Runtime: 01:29:48
Netflix ID: 81113927
Tottaa Pataaka Item Maal
Exasperated with living in perpetual fear for their safety, four women kidnap a man to show him the realities of being female in Delhi.
Released: 2019-06-25
Runtime: 01:47:08
Netflix ID: 81095399
Manu
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.
Released: 2019-08-01
Runtime: 02:57:20
Netflix ID: 81050688
Nightcrawler
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:35
Netflix ID: 70295182
The Wrestler
A retired professional wrestler returns to the ring to work his way up the circuit for one last shot at defeating his longtime rival.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:24
Netflix ID: 70095145
The Artist
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:34
Netflix ID: 70189319
Boyhood
After divorcing, a mother and father continue to share the task of guiding their young son through youth and adolescence, and finally to adulthood.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:45:23
Netflix ID: 70301281
Before Midnight
Years after being reunited, multinational lovers Jesse and Celine struggle with their faded romance in this second sequel to the drama Before Sunrise.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:49:04
Netflix ID: 70267236
Boogie Nights
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.
Released: 2015-10-01
Runtime: 02:35:29
Netflix ID: 1180077
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
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.
Released: 2015-10-22
Runtime: 01:48:37
Netflix ID: 70071602
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
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.
Released: 2016-12-25
Runtime: 01:41:17
Netflix ID: 80096995
Do the Right Thing
Director Spike Lee chronicles trivial events that bring festering racial tensions to the surface on a sweltering day in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
Released: 2017-02-01
Runtime: 01:59:47
Netflix ID: 448860
Captain Fantastic
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.
Released: 2018-04-18
Runtime: 01:59:25
Netflix ID: 80097499
For Here or to Go?
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.
Released: 2018-08-15
Runtime: 01:45:10
Netflix ID: 80176707
Call Me by Your Name
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.
Released: 2018-10-01
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 80169498
III Smoking Barrels
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.
Released: 2019-05-31
Runtime: 02:07:35
Netflix ID: 81062606
Arest
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.
Released: 2020-03-18
Runtime: 02:06:14
Netflix ID: 81248445
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:57:40
Netflix ID: 60011552
Once
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:26:17
Netflix ID: 70059661
Moonrise Kingdom
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:33:38
Netflix ID: 70228041
Drive
A Hollywood stuntman and getaway driver is lured from his isolated life by a lovely neighbor -- until her violent husband is released from prison.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:40:16
Netflix ID: 70189289
The Motorcycle Diaries
A 23-year-old Che Guevara motorcycles across South America with friend Alberto, a trek that crystallizes the future revolutionary's political beliefs.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:40
Netflix ID: 60034802
Mr. Nobody
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:36:06
Netflix ID: 70117580
Budhia Singh: Born to Run
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.
Released: 2017-05-01
Runtime: 01:35:22
Netflix ID: 80165849
Tu Hai Mera Sunday
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.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 02:04:33
Netflix ID: 80238295
Hamid
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.
Released: 2019-05-15
Runtime: 01:48:07
Netflix ID: 81123050
Jules and Jim
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.
Released: 2019-06-22
Runtime: 01:46:16
Netflix ID: 660602
System Crasher
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.
Released: 2020-02-20
Runtime: 02:00:08
Netflix ID: 81071573
Classmates Minus
Four school buddies — a director, a temp worker, an insurance salesman and a paper craftsman — grapple with unfulfilled dreams amid middle age ennui.
Released: 2021-02-21
Runtime: 02:02:39
Netflix ID: 81351501
1987
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.
Released: 2021-07-08
Runtime: 01:45:29
Netflix ID: 81370434
Office Space
In an off-the-wall comedy that jabs at corporate life, Peter conspires with his cubicle cohorts to embezzle money from their soulless employer.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:29:16
Netflix ID: 20358351
Silver Linings Playbook
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:02:05
Netflix ID: 70244164
Lost in Translation
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star -- find solace in each other's company.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:41:39
Netflix ID: 60031214
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:43:08
Netflix ID: 60002991
Blue Is the Warmest Color
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:59:59
Netflix ID: 70275600
Beasts of No Nation
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.
Released: 2015-10-16
Runtime: 02:17:22
Netflix ID: 80044545
Ex Machina
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.
Released: 2015-10-19
Runtime: 01:48:10
Netflix ID: 80023689
Being John Malkovich
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.
Released: 2016-10-01
Runtime: 01:52:47
Netflix ID: 28363298
Adaptation.
A Hollywood screenwriter battles insecurity as he struggles to adapt The Orchid Thief -- a book about a mercurial orchid poacher named John Laroche.
Released: 2016-11-01
Runtime: 01:50:25
Netflix ID: 60025026
Billy Elliot
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.
Released: 2017-11-17
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 60003378
Wind River
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.
Released: 2018-03-01
Runtime: 01:46:43
Netflix ID: 80173524
Vaya
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.
Released: 2018-11-01
Runtime: 01:46:09
Netflix ID: 80155792
ROMA
Director Alfonso Cuarón delivers a vivid, emotional portrait of domestic life and social hierarchy set against Mexico's political turmoil of the 1970s.
Released: 2018-12-14
Runtime: 02:15:16
Netflix ID: 80240715
One Cut of the Dead
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.
Released: 2019-10-05
Runtime: 01:35:59
Netflix ID: 81191988
A Sun
A family reckons with the aftermath of their younger son's incarceration and a greater misfortune that follows.
Released: 2020-01-24
Runtime: 02:36:05
Netflix ID: 81168282
Six Windows in the Desert
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.
Released: 2020-02-27
Netflix ID: 81235969
Ordinary People
Barely making a living as pickpockets, a teenage couple in Manila resort to desperate measures when their one-month-old child is kidnapped.
Released: 2020-06-26
Runtime: 01:47:17
Netflix ID: 80141777
Corpus Christi
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.
Released: 2021-02-17
Runtime: 01:55:16
Netflix ID: 81172208
The Serpent's Way
As payment of a debt, a merchant and his son sexually abuse generations of women from a poor family.
Released: 2021-03-26
Runtime: 01:47:09
Netflix ID: 81382174
All at Sea
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.
Released: 2021-09-01
Runtime: 01:28:19
Netflix ID: 81490214
TRY
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.
Released: 2021-09-10
Runtime: 01:30:03
Netflix ID: 81409020
The Skin I Live In
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 02:00:16
Netflix ID: 70189304
Sin Nombre
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:35:43
Netflix ID: 70112457
50/50
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.
Released: 2015-04-14
Runtime: 01:39:54
Netflix ID: 70202141