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Top Independent Films (#101-200)

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
101 Lone Star 1996 John Sayles 667
102 Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 679
103 Fitzcarraldo 1982 Werner Herzog 684
104 Heavenly Creatures 1994 Peter Jackson 691
105 Lolita 1962 Stanley Kubrick 695
106 Glengarry Glen Ross 1992 James Foley 700
107 Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 706
108 Natural Born Killers 1994 Oliver Stone 709
109 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001 Wes Anderson 714
110 The Lion in Winter 1968 Anthony Harvey 720
111 Videodrome 1983 David Cronenberg 723
112 Drugstore Cowboy 1989 Gus Van Sant 725
113 Walkabout 1971 Nicolas Roeg 729
114 Whale Rider 2002 Niki Caro 737
115 The Straight Story 1999 David Lynch 740
116 Shadows 1959 John Cassavetes 742
117 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1960 Karel Reisz 743
118 Happiness 1998 Todd Solondz 747
119 When We Were Kings 1996 Leon Gast 752
120 The Servant 1963 Joseph Losey 753
121 Hoosiers 1986 David Anspaugh 754
122 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 1998 Guy Ritchie 761
123 The Grifters 1990 Stephen Frears 771
124 Safe 1995 Todd Haynes 772
125 Amores perros 2000 Alejandro González Iñárritu 776
126 Dead Man 1995 Jim Jarmusch 782
127 Topsy-Turvy 1999 Mike Leigh 785
128 Crash 1996 David Cronenberg 793
129 The Purple Rose of Cairo 1985 Woody Allen 804
130 Sling Blade 1996 Billy Bob Thornton 805
131 She's Gotta Have It 1986 Spike Lee 808
132 The Conqueror Worm 1968 Michael Reeves 812
133 Shallow Grave 1994 Danny Boyle 821
134 Henry V 1989 Kenneth Branagh 822
135 Billy Elliot 2000 Stephen Daldry 826
136 Swingers 1996 Doug Liman 831
137 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner 1962 Tony Richardson 832
138 Heathers 1989 Michael Lehmann 833
139 Howards End 1992 James Ivory 835
140 Strictly Ballroom 1992 Baz Luhrmann 836
141 Long Day's Journey into Night 1962 Sidney Lumet 837
142 Chimes at Midnight 1965 Orson Welles 841
143 The Unbearable Lightness of Being 1988 Philip Kaufman 845
144 Near Dark 1987 Kathryn Bigelow 848
145 Eight Men Out 1988 John Sayles 852
146 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension 1984 W.D. Richter 855
147 The Dead 1987 John Huston 856
148 My Brilliant Career 1979 Gillian Armstrong 860
149 Muriel's Wedding 1994 P.J. Hogan 862
150 Monsoon Wedding 2001 Mira Nair 864
151 American History X 1998 Tony Kaye 868
152 The Ipcress File 1965 Sidney J. Furie 880
153 Down by Law 1986 Jim Jarmusch 881
154 Sounder 1972 Martin Ritt 884
155 El Topo 1970 Alejandro Jodorowsky 889
156 This Sporting Life 1963 Lindsay Anderson 895
157 Re-Animator 1985 Stuart Gordon 896
158 My Dinner with André 1981 Louis Malle 902
159 Shock Corridor 1963 Samuel Fuller 913
160 Salesman 1968 Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin 914
161 Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1965 Russ Meyer 925
162 Roger & Me 1989 Michael Moore 926
163 Sideways 2004 Alexander Payne 941
164 Escape from New York 1981 John Carpenter 944
165 Lost in America 1985 Albert Brooks 945
166 Before Sunset 2004 Richard Linklater 948
167 Barton Fink 1991 Joel Coen 953
168 Straw Dogs 1971 Sam Peckinpah 963
169 Ghost World 2001 Terry Zwigoff 967
170 Return of the Secaucus 7 1980 John Sayles 978
171 Desperately Seeking Susan 1985 Susan Seidelman 992
172 House of Games 1987 David Mamet 993
173 My Own Private Idaho 1991 Gus Van Sant 996
174 An Angel at My Table 1990 Jane Campion 998
175 Distant Voices, Still Lives 1988 Terence Davies 1002
176 From Dusk Till Dawn 1996 Robert Rodriguez 1010
177 The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park 1011
178 Shine 1996 Scott Hicks 1018
179 Carnival of Souls 1962 Herk Harvey 1020
180 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 1021
181 Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett 1022
182 Boys Don't Cry 1999 Kimberly Peirce 1025
183 Hotel Rwanda 2004 Terry George 1028
184 Friday the 13th 1980 Sean S. Cunningham 1034
185 Flirting with Disaster 1996 David O. Russell 1035
186 Repo Man 1984 Alex Cox 1042
187 The Barbarian Invasions 2003 Denys Arcand 1045
188 El Norte 1983 Gregory Nava 1050
189 The Mask 1994 Chuck Russell 1055
190 Waiting for Guffman 1996 Christopher Guest 1057
191 The Commitments 1991 Alan Parker 1058
192 The Harder They Come 1972 Perry Henzell 1061
193 Billy Liar 1963 John Schlesinger 1067
194 The Ice Storm 1997 Ang Lee 1083
195 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 John McNaughton 1084
196 Waking Life 2001 Richard Linklater 1087
197 Koyaanisqatsi 1982 Godfrey Reggio 1088
198 Rollerball 1975 Norman Jewison 1091
199 Papillon 1973 Franklin J. Schaffner 1093
200 Rabbit-Proof Fence 2002 Phillip Noyce 1102
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