Low-budget movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant low-budget movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out independent film, suspenseful, cult classic, serious, suspense and weird films and TV shows about / with danger, blood, death, murder, psychopath, deadly, exploitation, gore, gory and female nudity plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Italy, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as low-budget: Following (1998), The House by the Cemetery (1981), The New York Ripper (1982), Shadow (1982), The House on Sorority Row (1982), Streets of Fire (1984), Demons (1985), The New Kids (1985), Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1985), Bad Taste (1987).

List of low-budget movies

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Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Style: brutal, bloody, disturbing, controversial, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cannibalism, torture, jungle, rape, gory, cannibal, found footage, amazon rainforest, animal cruelty, sadism, violence, african tribe ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century
Place: south america, latin america, north america, usa, new york
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 7.5
 101K
Following (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspense, black and white, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: plot twist, manipulation, voyeurism, character study, breaking and entering, stranger, friendship, framed for murder, whodunit, buddies, dishonesty, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: england, persia, london, europe
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The House by the Cemetery (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, gory, serial killer, ghost, monster, violent, insanity, undead, blood, psychopath, house ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, boston
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The New York Ripper (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Style: slasher, disturbing, grindhouse, detective, dark ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, torture, nudity, sex, gory, massacre, violence against women, sexual cruelty, brutality, fondling, psycho ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 7.0
 27K
Shadow (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, lesbian, dog attack, female nudity, obsession, investigation, blood, writers, plot twist, murderer, misogynist ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, new york, rhode island ...
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The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style: slasher, independent film, bloody, creepy, retro ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, prank, college, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, voyeur, dead woman, old woman, childbirth, accidental death ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa
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Streets of Fire (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires ...
Style: stylized, atmospheric, neo noir, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rescue, kidnapping, abduction, singer, motorcycle, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, street gang, rock and roll, music, fan, rivalry, greaser ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 26K
Demons (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style: demonic, scary, suspense, splatter, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, demon, plague, gory, body horror, supernatural, demonic possession, death, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, west germany, germany, italy, rome italy
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 6.0
 4K
The New Kids (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
Style: disturbing, slasher, captivating, tense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, kidnapping, bullying, amusement park, dog attack, violence, sexual harassment, teenager, school bully, orphan, small town, gang ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: florida, usa
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Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend ...
Style: hood, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, gang, messiah, war trauma, cult leader, guru, gangster, ghetto, soldier, heroes, battles, psychopath ...
Time: 20th century
Place: vietnam
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 6.5
 49K
Bad Taste (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style: splatter, bloody, grindhouse, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, alien invasion, violent, zombie, space and aliens, alien, extreme, exploitation, small town, ufo, chainsaw, underground ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place: new zealand, oceania, pacific ocean
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 5.9
 1K
Retribution (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A Manic depressive artist survives a suicidal fall only to be possessed by a murdered gangster, who uses the artist to seek vengeance on those that ended his life.
Style: slasher, cult classic, atmospheric, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: nightmare, supernatural, psychiatry, serial killer, american horror, psychic, revenge, terror, supernatural being, apartment building, investigation, city ...
Place: los angeles
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 7.0
 23K
Slacker (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits, predominantly the twenty-something set, using a series of linear vignettes. These characters, who in some manner just don't fit into the establishment norms, ...
Style: independent film, philosophical, surreal, cult classic, entirely dialogue ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, philosophy, slacker, loser, one day, dream, existentialism, anarchism, subculture, twenty something, teenager ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, barcelona ...
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 6.8
 71K
El Mariachi (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi ...
Style: grindhouse, action packed, cult classic, stylized, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mistaken identity, gangster, revenge, vigilante, violence, gunfight, guitarist, modern western, assassin, hitman, small town, machine gun ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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Necronomicon: Book of Dead (1993)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Japan, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following ...
Style: lovecraft, anthology, atmospheric, scary, psychological ...
Plot: legends and myths, cthulhu, cosmic horror, book, occult ritual, serial killer, motel, creature, monster, body horror, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 90s, year 1932, 1930s, 21st century
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 7.7
 232K
Clerks (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
Style: black and white, funny, dark comedy, humorous, clever ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: friendship, workplace, jay and silent bob, everyday life, weed, slacker, sarcasm, loser, stoner, one day, hipster, redemption ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century, year 1993
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
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 4.8
 3K
Mosquito (1994)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An alien starship crashes in a swamp in a U.S. National Park. Some mosquitos begin to feed from the alien's corpses, causing them to grow to the size of a vulture. These mutant insects became very agressive, killing every human being they find. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, absurd, suspense, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mosquito, mutant, park ranger, monster, creature feature, deadly creature, danger, chaos, mutation, space and aliens, battles, creature ...
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Tremors II: Aftershocks (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Those supersucking desert creatures are back --- and this time they're south of the border. As the creatures worm their way through the oil fields of Mexico, the only people who can wrangle them are veteran Earl Bassett and survivalist Burt ...
Style: scary, humorous, suspense, semi serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, small town, monster, creature feature, oil refinery, survival, giant monster, chase, metamorphosis, stranded, danger, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: mexico, usa, latin america, nevada
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 7.6
 17K
The Castle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight ...
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot: justice, family relations, fighting the system, family in crisis, family life, against the odds, misfit, single parent, parents and children, prejudice, law, airport ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: australia, melbourne, beirut lebanon
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 7.2
 143K
Chasing Amy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Style: funny, talky, independent film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: bisexuality, lesbian, jealousy, friendship, sexuality, jay and silent bob, comic book, twists and turns, philosophy, superhero, happy ending, bisexual ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
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In the Company of Men (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, controversial, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: secretary, battle of the sexes, betrayal, misogynist, love, relationships, greed, rivalry, dark humor, brutality, friends, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: usa, indiana
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The Last Broadcast (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Bristling with equipment, two enthusiastic local access cable TV producers recruit an assistant and venture into a forest in search of the mythical and horrifying Jersey Devil. Days later, only one of the trio emerges. He becomes the prime suspect ...
Style: mockumentary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, danger, murder, forest, uncover truth, supernatural, amateur detective, ghost, obsessive quest, satellite, psycho, filmmaking ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
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 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
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 7.3
 186K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 6.4
 63K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, psychology, mental illness, twists and turns, lobotomy, macabre, ghost, insanity, transformation, hospital, obsession ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
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George Washington (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style: bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
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 4.6
 653
Home Sick (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A maniac with a suitcase full of razorblades unleashes a super human killer upon a group of kids in a small Alabama town. They must take up arms with a insane Chili enthusiast if they want to survive.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, afterlife, psychopath, survival, gory, danger, ghost, superhuman powers, supernatural ability, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, uninvited guest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa
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Satan's Little Helper (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A naïve young boy unknowingly becomes the pawn of a serial killer.
Style: slasher, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, horror comedy ...
Plot: halloween, serial killer, halloween party, psychopath, dark humor, danger, gory, guts, blood, occult, plot twist, ghost ...
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 6.7
 114K
Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
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 6.3
 97K
Monsters (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was ...
Style: suspense, road movie, stylized, meditative, apocalyptic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: monster, alien, alien invasion, alien encounter, end of the world, ufo, survival, jungle, post apocalypse, invasion, post apocalyptic, quarantine ...
Time: future, year 2010, 2010s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, central america, austin texas
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