Blue Velvet (1986)
Lynch's 1986 small-town surrealist thriller. MacLachlan, Rossellini, Hopper as Frank Booth.
IndieLynch's 1986 small-town surrealist thriller. MacLachlan, Rossellini, Hopper as Frank Booth.
Cult Classic
DramaCoens' 1991 Hollywood-hotel drama. Won Palme d'Or, Best Director, Best Actor at Cannes simultaneously.
GangsterCoens' 1990 Prohibition-era gangster film. Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan.
CrimeA Texas neo-noir small-cast murder spiral. Blood Simple is Joel and Ethan Coen's 1984 American indie neo-noir and the directors' debut feature.
CrimeSeven men in suits in a warehouse. Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 American indie crime film and the director's debut feature.
DramaAronofsky's 2000 addiction film. Four people destroyed in parallel tracks.
ExperimentalBlack-and-white paranoid math thriller. The film that announced both Aronofsky and Sean Gullette.
IndieBlack and white, 70 minutes, shot on weekends with available light. The film that proved he could structure non-linear narrative clean.
CrimeTarantino's 1994 anthology crime film. The film that made indie a commercial proposition.
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