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1/3 (One Third)

Based upon Dante's Inferno, 1/3 is a timeless fable of redemption, a gritty, streetwise contemporary...

A Small Good Thing

This feature-length documentary is set in western Massachusetts in the Berkshires, long a destinatio...

American Mystic

Set against the rich, color-soaked backdrop of America's rural landscapes, Alex Mar's lyrical first ...

Ballast

A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films ...

Barking Water

A uniquely delicate and moving road movie, Barking Water uses the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rur...

Bear Nation

While the LGBT community has long had to struggle with stereotyping by outsiders, gay men also have ...

Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity

Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Pr...

David Holzman's Diary

David Holzman's Diary is one of the most influential films of the 1960s, an "ingenious puzzle movie"...

Ganja & Hess

Flirting with the conventions of blaxploitation and horror, Bill Gunn’s revolutionary independ...

How to be a Man

VOLUME 1 HOW TO BE A MAN Instructions for Proper Male Behavior from Classroom Films of the 1940s...

How to be a Woman

VOLUME 2 HOW TO BE A WOMAN Instructions for Proper Female Behavior from Classroom Films of th...

I Can See You

When the three-man staff of a boutique ad firm trades their Brooklyn home base for a rural backwa...

Invitation to Dance

Invitation to Dance is an eye-opening insider's account of disability in 21st century America. Simi ...

The Keeper

A deft, often chilling look at the unexploded dynamite of guard/prisoner relations, The Keeper is a ...

Liberty Kid

Ilya Chaiken's "tender, wise, and deceptively low key" (New York Times) film Liberty Kid captures wi...

The Little Death & Psychopathia Sexualis

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into t...

The Little Death (Unrated Director's Cut)

An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia Sexualis, THE LITTLE DEATH offers a peek into t...

The Little Fugitive

Widely regarded as one of the most influential and enjoyable films of the American independent cinem...

Littlerock

LITTLEROCK is a powerfully intimate drama that captures the fears and desires of a young Japanese wo...

Loren Cass

A "starkly radical film debut of uncommon power and artistic principle," Chris Fuller's Loren Ca...

Love the Hard Way

On the heels of his Academy Award triumph, 2002 Best Actor Oscar winner Adrien Brody (The Pianist, T...

Modus Operandi

A wild throwback to '70s grindhouse movies, Modus Operandi is shockingly violent and even more enter...

Momma's Man

Bumped from a flight back to Los Angeles and the life, wife, and infant daughter that await him ther...

Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude

Playful. Profound. Meditative. Deeply healing. Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude...

Mr. Hush

How does a man react when he loses everything he loves? MR. HUSH has an answer: with brutal, terrify...

Not Wanted

In 1948, screen actress Ida Lupino left Warner Bros. to co-found The Filmakers, an independent produ...

Old Joy

Original soundtrack by Yo La Tengo "A true American independent film" (Boston Globe), Kelly Reichar...

On Meditation

On Meditation is a compilation of portraits that explore the deeply personal practice of meditation ...

Pioneers of African-American Cinema

This collection of the works of America's legendary first African-American filmmakers is the only on...

Psychopathia Sexualis (R-Rated)

Also available as an Unrated Director's Cut Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victo...

Psychopathia Sexualis (Unrated Director's Cut)

Described as "kinky material trapped in a cage of Victorian propriety" (The New York Times), Psychop...

Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border

Reyes' provocative essay film re-imagines the Mexico/U.S. border as a mythical place comparable to D...

Raw Faith

RAW FAITH is an intimate and revealing documentary that follows two years in the private life of Mar...

Romantico

More than just a documentary dispatch from the illegal immigration frontlines, Mark Becker's Rom&aac...

The Search for One-Eye Jimmy

A lost gem from the 1990's independent film boom, THE SEARCH FOR ONE-EYE JIMMY is a lovably offbeat ...

Seeds Of Time

10,000 years ago the biggest revolution in human history occurred: we became agrarians. We ceased me...

Songs My Brothers Taught Me

The setting is the often starkly beautiful Badlands of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation;...

Sunset Edge

On a lazy afternoon, two tales intertwine in this meditative portrayal of disaffected youth set in a...

The Toe Tactic

Available soon, street date September 1 Writer-director-animator Emily Hubley’s feature lengt...

Trigger Man

The Horrific Story inspired by true Events... Ti West's Trigger Man leads the charge in a new wave ...

Winter in the Blood

Winter in the Blood is a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spiri...

The Wobblies

“Solidarity! All for One and One for All!” Founded in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial ...