Best Independent Movies of 2024
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Independent Movies of 2024" contains films with the following parameters. Style: independent film, dark comedy, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling and tense. Plot: coming of age, female protagonist, friendship, bare chested male, family relations, violence, death, revenge, female nudity and body horror. Genre: Drama, Comedy and Horror. Country: USA, UK and Canada.
Best Independent Movies of 2024
TOP Movies: Griffin in Summer (2024), Civil War (2024), Timestalker (2024), Flow (2024), The Apprentice (2024), Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Dìdi (2024), I'm Still Here (2024), Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024), Terrifier 3 (2024), Hell Hole (2024), My Old Ass (2024), Hard Truths (2024), I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Los Frikis (2024), The Outrun (2024), Premalu (2024), The Forge (2024), The Unholy Trinity (2024), In a Violent Nature (2024).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Five months following the murders, Christopher Robin tries returning to his regular life while dealing with his PTSD. Deep within the 100-Acre-Wood, a destructive rage grows as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Owl, and Tigger find their home and their lives ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, slasher horror, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
killing spree, winnie the pooh, chainsaw, blood, bloody violence, piglet, murder, massacre, bloodbath, gory, psycho killer, killer animal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Griffin is the most ambitious playwright of his generation. He's also fourteen years old. When his mom hires a handsome 25-year-old handyman, Griffin's life and his new play take an inspired turn.
Style:
independent film, teen comedy, weird, f word
Plot:
coming of age, gay teenager, gay crush, gay interest, teenage boy, smart kid, gay, first love, playwright, summer, inspiration, mother son relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york
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263K
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, Finland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
Style:
epic, thrilling, independent film, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
civil war, war photographer, fictional war, president, photojournalist, dystopia, violence, soldier, photographer, journalist, white house, photograph ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
washington d.c., west virginia, brooklyn new york city, texas, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A karmic journey that sees the hapless heroine Agnes reincarnated every time she makes the same mistake: falling in love with the wrong man.
Style:
independent film, black comedy, emotional, melancholic, poignant ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, reincarnation, fate, doomed love, self discovery, destiny, bittersweet, tragic romance, obsession, retribution, women, star crossed lovers ...
Time:
victorian era, 60s, 1840s, 18th century, 80s ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Latvia, Belgium, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A solitary cat, displaced by a great flood, finds refuge on a boat with various species and must navigate the challenges of adapting to a transformed world together.
Style:
3d animation, independent film, computer animated, ambiguous ending, complex ...
Plot:
cat, dog, flood, lemur, boat, water, whale, rescue from drowning, rabbit, fish, bird, animal ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Canada, Denmark, Ireland, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York, comes under the spell of Roy Cohn, the cutthroat attorney who would help create the Donald Trump we know today. Cohn sees in Trump the perfect ...
Style:
independent film, absurd, controversial, f word, period drama ...
Plot:
lawyer, aids, corruption, marriage, crooked lawyer, father son relationship, politics, mentor protege relationship, based on real people, female nudity, sex scene, real estate ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 70s, year 1986, year 1983 ...
Place:
atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city, florida, north america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Las Vegas in pursuit of her dream. But their love ignites violence, pulling them deep into the web of Lou’s criminal family.
Style:
erotic, independent film, neo noir, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
female bodybuilder, gym, lesbian, lesbian interest, sex scene, bodybuilder, lesbian relationship, desert, fitness, female nudity, lesbianism, brutality ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
las vegas, new mexico, albuquerque new mexico
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7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Style:
semi autobiographical, independent film, freeze frame
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
young boy, coming of age, 13 year old, teenage boy, skateboard, summer, brother sister relationship, slice of life, absent father, teenager, sibling relationship, first love ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, bay area
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, during the dictatorship, former deputy Rubens Paiva was taken from his home by soldiers to be interrogated. He was never found again. The search for truth lasts 30 long years. And when the answers begin to appear, ...
Style:
historical drama, realistic, independent film, hood, factual ...
Plot:
brazilian military dictatorship, dictatorship, military dictatorship, based on real people, loss, missing father, female nudity, loss of husband, widow, husband, wrongful arrest, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, year 2014, year 1996, 70s ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A Black artist on the path to success is derailed by an unexpected visit from his estranged father, a recovering addict desperate to reconcile. Together, they struggle and learn that forgetting might be a greater challenge than forgiving.
Style:
melancholic, independent film
Plot:
father son relationship, forgiveness, family drama, reconciliation, bittersweet, estranged parent, social realism, parenthood, moral ambiguity, african american
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Five years after surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and Jonathan are still struggling to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the ...
Style:
slasher horror, christmas horror, witty, independent film, slasher ...
Plot:
killer clown, christmas, serial killer, clown, brutality, supernatural horror, chainsaw, santa claus, terrorist bombing, hiding, nudity, shopping mall ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Far away, in the desolate Serbian wilderness, a U.S.-led fracking crew uncover a dormant monster gestating inside a centuries-old French soldier. Now awakened and exposed in its most dangerously fragile state, it tears through the men on the grounds ...
Style:
independent film, intense, tense, grim, surreal ...
Plot:
body horror, monster, parasite, isolation, survival, visceral, graphic violence, violent, panic, supernatural, resurrection, confined ...
Place:
serbia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this fresh coming-of-age story, an 18th birthday mushroom trip brings free-spirited Elliott (Maisy Stella) face-to-face with her wisecracking 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza). But when Elliott’s “old ass” starts handing out warnings about ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, feel good, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, teenager, forbidden love, coming of age, lesbian, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, love, love interest, love and romance ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pansy is a woman tormented by anger and depression, hypersensitive to the slightest possible offence and ever ready to fly off the handle. She criticises her husband and their adult son so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She ...
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, witty
Plot:
sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, grief, depression, black woman, bad temper, mother's day, unhappiness, mental illness, misery, cousin cousin relationship, bullying ...
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, mystical, suspenseful, mystic ...
Plot:
teenager, lesbian, transgender, teenage protagonist, paranormal activity, buried alive, problem, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, supernatural horror, supernatural, mysticism ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s, 2000s, 2010s, year 1998
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Gustavo idolizes his older brother Paco and his punk, "Frikis" bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to ...
Style:
emotional, controversial, independent film, art house, tragic ...
Plot:
hiv, coming of age, branding iron, aids, punk music, punk, friendship, subculture, counterculture, brotherhood, desperation, youth culture ...
Time:
90s
Place:
cuba
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and lost love, Rona attempts to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, independent film
Plot:
addiction, young woman, troubled past, alcoholic, skinny dipping, female protagonist, island, confronting the past, tragic past, life is a bitch, homecoming, religion ...
Place:
scotland
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23K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Sachin pursues romance but finds himself caught between two potential partners, leading to amusing complications.
Style:
romantic drama, psychological, independent film, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
love triangle, young adult, problem, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, love, relationship problems, satire ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
19 year old Isaiah Wright lives for basketball and video games. A year out of high school, he has no job, no plans, and no idea how to be a man. At odds with his single mother Cynthia, Isaiah is given an ultimatum – to step up or move out. Feeling ...
Style:
inspirational, uplifting, motivational, biblical, independent film ...
Plot:
self discovery, coming of age, responsibility, mother son relationship, faith based, spiritual journey, personal growth, life lesson, redemption, basketball, identity, christian ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana, in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: murder the man who framed him for a crime he didn’t commit. Intent on fulfilling his ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
bare chested male, false accusation, snow, church, shootout, fictional city, priest, town, horse riding, horse, sheriff, mexican standoff ...
Time:
1870s, 19th century
Place:
montana, north america
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The enigmatic resurrection, rampage, and retribution of an undead monster in a remote wilderness unleashes an iconic new killer after a locket is removed from a collapsed fire tower that entombed its rotting corpse.
Style:
slasher horror, slasher, thrilling, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
backwoods slasher, murder, serial killer, resurrection, forest, homicidal maniac, killing, mysticism, threat, murderer, murder mystery, maniac ...
Place:
ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, independent film
Plot:
father daughter relationship, regret, camping, backpacking, teenage girl, problem, family problems, family relations, friendship between men, lgbt, hiking, divorced father ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A depressed has-been child actor and owner of a dingy laundromat, becomes powerfully vengeful when his collection of lone socks transforms into a protective, cute, murderous monster named Crust.
Style:
dark comedy, horror comedy, independent film, surreal, black and white ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vengeance, depression, obsession, moral ambiguity, supernatural, mental health, isolation, character study, urban, violent, anger, violence ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The infinite playground of forbidden worlds and dangerous lifeforms offered by the sci-fi horror genre will lead to the biggest, maddest, bloodiest V/H/S ever.
Style:
anthology, dark, suspenseful, bloody, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, alien invasion, cosmic horror, body horror, violent, graphic violence, dystopia, claustrophobia, paranormal, ufo, alien, underground ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A group of friends on a rural getaway must fight for their lives against vengeful masked versions of the fairy tale characters.
Style:
independent film, slasher, suspenseful, intense, twisted ...
Plot:
survival, isolated house, home invasion, fear, violent, survival horror, panic, revenge, cat and mouse, group of friends, claustrophobia, gory ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might ...
Style:
independent film, crying, family comedy
Plot:
christmas, holiday, bullying, belief in god, juvenile delinquent, coming of age, dysfunctional family, acceptance, prejudice, christian, religious intolerance, absent mother ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In a world where the inconvenience of human emotion has been eradicated by a single daily vitamin, one young couple skips their dose and discovers love, joy, sex, and all the baggage that comes with it.
Style:
sensual, romantic comedy, thought provoking, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love story, satire, sexually liberated, sexual awakening, dark humor, rebellion, ethical dilemma, irreverent, intimate, coming of age, dystopia, introspection ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When free-spirited Rickey suddenly reappears in father-to-be Glenn’s life, the two former best friends embark on a spontaneous road trip from LA to Sacramento.
Style:
road movie, entertaining, semi serious, captivating, feel good ...
Plot:
road trip, friendship, journey, friend, satire, travel, self discovery, bromance, coming of age, personal growth, escape, identity ...
Place:
los angeles, california, sacramento california
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After the pharmacy in her small town is robbed, a girl who still lives at home with her parents takes matters into her own hands to solve the crime, while at the same time trying to get over her ex-boyfriend and become more of an adult.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, semi serious, psychological, romantic drama ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, pharmacy, amateur sleuth, coming of age, sleuth, uncover truth, crime investigation, grownups, private investigation, crime solving, amateur detective ...
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