Quirky Indies, a list by Riz

8.3

/1077534/

82

/20979/

80

/14273/

4.2

/1486704/

92

/258/

Audience

94

/573019/

89

/41/

4.0

age 16+

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.

83

8.1

/860013/

80

/19936/

78

/10727/

4.1

/730614/

80

/192/

Audience

93

/357341/

71

/46/

4.0

age 17+

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

66

7.2

/202955/

75

/8609/

74

/6319/

3.2

/164238/

55

/172/

Audience

67

/39411/

51

/31/

3.0

age 13+

After 29-year-old Adaline recovers from a nearly lethal accident, she inexplicably stops growing older. As the years stretch on and on, Adaline keeps her secret to herself until she meets a man who changes her life.

86

8.1

/886150/

80

/24095/

81

/14286/

4.2

/1660561/

92

/318/

Audience

86

/99127/

88

/48/

4.0

age 16+

The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

66

7.0

/237679/

70

/4972/

67

/1758/

3.7

/334255/

72

/175/

Audience

74

/790286/

64

/36/

1.5

age 11+

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.

71

6.3

/158130/

60

/5535/

61

/3272/

3.6

/261787/

84

/261/

Audience

55

/37006/

80

/44/

4.0

age 18+

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

77

7.6

/465179/

78

/19055/

74

/7536/

3.9

/1400704/

82

/272/

Audience

84

/143158/

69

/38/

age 14+

As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of ex-boyfriends who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.

10

84

8.0

/669118/

79

/22653/

78

/13815/

4.0

/1303555/

95

/293/

Audience

82

/102638/

91

/47/

3.5

age 16+

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

80

7.7

/557474/

76

/13619/

72

/9715/

3.7

/1103205/

85

/234/

Audience

84

/397657/

76

/36/

4.0

age 14+

Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

10

82

8.1

/657927/

80

/12418/

78

/9247/

3.8

/354507/

83

/202/

Audience

89

/179867/

73

/38/

4.0

age 16+

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

84

7.7

/488602/

76

/10181/

73

/6974/

3.8

/722438/

95

/236/

Audience

85

/338192/

91

/44/

4.0

age 16+

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.

85

7.9

/293271/

78

/5480/

75

/2562/

4.0

/335543/

90

/178/

Audience

92

/325469/

90

/38/

4.0

age 16+

In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.

9

81

7.4

/549047/

73

/11037/

71

/6935/

3.7

/761594/

94

/217/

Audience

88

/549963/

81

/38/

4.0

age 14+

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, sixteen year old high-schooler, Juno MacGuff, makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

10

80

7.9

/547772/

80

/14210/

77

/10134/

3.9

/1267694/

85

/172/

Audience

89

/139682/

67

/36/

3.5

age 15+

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.

82

7.4

/328496/

73

/12470/

73

/8137/

3.9

/1690873/

99

/401/

Audience

79

/23929/

93

/52/

3.5

age 16+

Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

77

7.2

/169113/

73

/3051/

71

/3059/

3.8

/488226/

80

/110/

Audience

81

/192758/

77

/31/

3.5

age 17+

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

71

6.9

/98552/

70

/2585/

67

/1525/

3.4

/73192/

78

/158/

Audience

82

/60602/

63

/39/

3.0

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

83

7.8

/517850/

78

/9940/

76

/6781/

4.2

/974551/

91

/219/

Audience

91

/427902/

80

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.

81

8.0

/250990/

82

/13235/

80

/6365/

3.9

/239412/

84

/270/

Audience

91

/40069/

69

/45/

3.5

age 13+

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

8

64

7.1

/90765/

70

/2426/

69

/1172/

3.2

/22927/

47

/53/

Audience

77

/51350/

54

/17/

2.5

After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.

8

73

7.8

/234985/

79

/12160/

79

/6206/

3.9

/290362/

83

/229/

Audience

85

/1012/

72

/36/

1.5

age 16+

A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.

77

7.3

/211286/

72

/3686/

69

/3094/

3.8

/272797/

86

/214/

Audience

77

/59409/

81

/42/

3.5

age 18+

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

65

7.3

/340785/

75

/13377/

72

/7337/

3.7

/382738/

52

/200/

Audience

71

/5072/

54

/39/

2.0

age 12+

A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.

82

7.4

/52339/

71

/702/

71

/434/

3.8

/26521/

94

/187/

Audience

86

/44621/

90

/42/

4.0

age 15+

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

63

7.0

/112949/

74

/3907/

65

/1032/

3.2

/44909/

36

/90/

Audience

90

/263036/

48

/24/

2.5

age 17+

Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.

79

7.3

/251750/

71

/4153/

68

/2660/

3.6

/97148/

87

/272/

Audience

79

/70168/

84

/43/

4.0

age 16+

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

62

6.4

/186404/

65

/6068/

60

/2343/

2.8

/99699/

64

/213/

Audience

56

/167253/

63

/36/

3.0

age 18+

Four pals are stuck in a rut in adulthood: Adam has just been dumped, Lou is a hopeless party animal, Craig is a henpecked husband, and Jacob does nothing but play video games in his basement. But they get a chance to brighten their future by changing their past after a night of heavy drinking in a ski-resort hot tub results in their waking up in 1986.

73

7.1

/273846/

72

/7176/

68

/3755/

3.6

/177741/

83

/218/

Audience

71

/130382/

66

/43/

3.5

age 17+

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

59

6.8

/383078/

70

/9610/

66

/6541/

3.1

/218144/

46

/155/

Audience

66

/317936/

46

/30/

2.0

age 14+

Carl Allen has stumbled across a way to shake free of post-divorce blues and a dead-end job: embrace life and say yes to everything.

76

6.8

/184081/

66

/3291/

67

/2947/

3.9

/187520/

85

/298/

Audience

60

/61127/

85

/50/

4.0

age 14+

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

57

6.9

/88516/

73

/2141/

65

/616/

3.0

/27194/

15

/61/

Audience

85

/226467/

33

/15/

age 18+

Even though he's 35, Alex acts more like he's 13, spending his days as the world's oldest video game tester and his evenings developing the next big Xbox game. But when he gets kicked out of his apartment, he's forced to move in with his grandmother.

72

7.3

/150288/

74

/2776/

70

/1946/

3.9

/183296/

91

/65/

Audience

85

/89442/

69

/23/

1.5

age 14+

When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

9

74

7.4

/166899/

75

/6232/

72

/3661/

3.5

/160936/

83

/169/

Audience

81

/1755/

62

/39/

3.0

age 14+

Gretta, a budding songwriter, finds herself alone after her boyfriend Dave ditches her. Her life gains purpose when Dan, a record label executive, notices her talent.

76

7.3

/155339/

73

/2818/

71

/1722/

3.8

/164203/

81

/140/

Audience

84

/105916/

70

/32/

3.5

age 16+

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

66

7.0

/151698/

73

/5019/

68

/2584/

3.1

/88531/

65

/175/

Audience

71

/132182/

58

/41/

2.5

age 12+

Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his son is not happy about it. The zoo is in need of renovation and Benjamin sets about the work with the head keeper and the rest of the staff, but, the zoo soon runs into financial trouble.

66

7.1

/58197/

73

/1033/

71

/709/

3.6

/33636/

55

/146/

Audience

81

/68406/

56

/35/

2.0

age 15+

The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.

82

7.8

/366684/

78

/8497/

76

/5641/

4.0

/686929/

93

/270/

Audience

86

/140198/

84

/43/

3.5

age 14+

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

73

7.7

/245770/

78

/7094/

78

/5663/

3.7

/128417/

68

/31/

Audience

76

/26045/

63

/10/

age 16+

Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.

85

7.7

/353269/

76

/6968/

74

/4161/

4.1

/330769/

94

/135/

Audience

87

/263011/

90

/36/

4.0

age 16+

One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

72

6.9

/133532/

70

/7718/

69

/3377/

3.7

/294932/

73

/211/

Audience

72

/17468/

64

/36/

3.5

age 16+

Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new “friend” and an unusual bag of tricks, the duo go on an epic adventure to bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.

83

7.8

/141826/

79

/6521/

76

/1962/

4.1

/256551/

97

/210/

Audience

91

/25461/

81

/30/

3.5

age 12+

Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.

80

7.6

/313064/

75

/5766/

75

/4373/

4.1

/563977/

81

/217/

Audience

89

/256470/

76

/34/

3.5

age 17+

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.

73

7.7

/138249/

77

/4595/

75

/2480/

3.8

/188130/

82

/212/

Audience

86

/25806/

74

/40/

1.5

age 14+

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

75

7.2

/108121/

72

/2929/

72

/2081/

3.8

/143713/

86

/208/

Audience

75

/21573/

79

/41/

3.0

A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

69

7.3

/116049/

76

/2737/

72

/2028/

3.6

/42475/

60

/167/

Audience

71

/267153/

58

/31/

3.0

age 16+

An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".

75

7.4

/60217/

74

/931/

71

/848/

3.9

/144238/

77

/60/

Audience

88

/34221/

69

/19/

3.0

Billy is released after five years in prison. In the next moment, he kidnaps teenage student Layla and visits his parents with her, pretending she is his girlfriend and they will soon marry.

76

7.8

/190731/

78

/7703/

78

/4654/

4.0

/604976/

90

/371/

Audience

87

/9681/

82

/55/