Arizona Dream (1992), Zombie Honeymoon (2004), Crumb (1994), Stretch and Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives (2015), What We Do in the Shadows (2014), And Now for Something Completely Different (1971), Awesome; I F... Shot That! (2006), Benjamin Smoke (2000) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Alternative movies.
Storyline: When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage through Louisville, Kentucky seeking their favorite food, brains.
Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, comedy, science fiction, undead, b-movie, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first thing's first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to watch called, "This Island Earth." He is convinced that this movie will drive them insane. And since the guys cannot control when the movie begins or ends, they are forced to witness the true horror that is this awful movie that has a lobster creature dressed in slacks. But will this be the ultimate cheese that breaks the boys' spirits? It's up to one test subject's quick wit, sharp sense of humor, and utter intolerance for cinematic garbage to foil the plans of the scientist and to save the Earth.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, comedy, parody, cult film, robots, b-movie, humor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: David Byrne of Talking Heads fame visits a typical (and fictional) Texas town, on the eve of the town's celebration of the state's sesquicentennial. He meets various colorful local characters, most notably Lewis Fyne, a big-hearted bachelor in search of matrimony.—Tim Horrigan <horrigan@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: musical, comedy, usa, 1980s, texas, small town life, surrealism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bitter about being double-crossed by the women he loved, (and with the police after him to boot), Bill vows to seduce the next woman he sees, then throw her away. His brother Dennis, meanwhile, is equally determined to track down their long lost father, a revolutionary who has been in hiding for 20 years. For different reasons, both leave New York and head for Long Island, out of money, and short on ideas. D:"Long Island is a a terminal moraine." B:"What's that?" D:"It's the material left behind when a glacier recedes." D:"Gee, then what the hell are we waiting for?"—Stuart Criley <scriley@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu>
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, independent film, black comedy, american film, 1990s, brotherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Spokane, Washington, Juniper Pearl - Joon to those that know her - is an artist. She is also a mentally challenged young woman who requires around the clock care, as she could cause harm to herself or others. Her brother Benny Pearl, who owns and operates a garage and who is her only living relative since their parents died twelve years ago in a car accident, has made the decision that she would live at home with him, in the process sacrificing being able to have a personal life of his own. He has hired full-time housekeepers to provide that care when he isn't around. However, he has exhausted the list of housekeepers, who keep quitting because Joon is too much to handle. As such, Benny makes the decision that perhaps it would be best for all concerned if Joon were to live in a group home, something he is hesitating telling her for fear of her reaction. Into their lives comes Sam, the eccentric cousin of Benny's friend Mike, Sam who they obtained from Mike in a losing hand of poker...
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, psychological, family, independent film, romantic comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francine Fishpaw is an upper middle class suburban housewife in Baltimore. Unfortunately, the money to support her lifestyle comes from her husband's porno theater, the neighbors are protesting, her son is a "stomper", her daughter is knocked up by a local hoodlum, and her husband is having an affair.—Stephen J. LeBlanc <sjl@townsend.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, absurd, satire, black comedy, cult film, exaggeration, family drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A neurotic nebbish lives in 2 worlds: the fantasy of winning his dream-girl via a hit movie, and the meager existence he scrapes out from very odd jobs, such as thesping in an arty no-budget flick. His beautiful object is his next-door neighbor Angelica, who's understandably preoccupied with her own life, as an illegal immigrant and single mom. Aldolpho Rollo's writing his unending masterpiece screenplay from a walk-up NYC flat, in-between peering at debtors through his peephole. AR's hopes to win her love take wing via another angel, a shady high-roller who definitely has the self-confidence, and promises the cash Aldolpho craves, to produce the auteur's vision.—David Stevens
Plot Keywords: independent film, comedy, black comedy, drama, new york, filmmaking, dreams ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from an unidentified illness. Rather than going to hospital, and letting the authorities foster her children, she opens a bank account for them so they can be financially self-sufficient and will be able to avoid being taken into care by the authorities. After she dies, the 2 older siblings decide to hide her body in the basement. Soon they begin to suffer, both the emotional strains and pressures of their situation, as well as the changes which happen during adolescence.—Jagged-11
Plot Keywords: drama, coming of age, family, taboo, psychological, indie film, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jane White (Kim Little) is a disturbed young woman living in her own bizarre TV fantasy land. For Jane, life itself is a television program, and she dreams of becoming a star on the small screen. Convincing herself that Gerry King (David L. Lander), a popular talk show host, is her birth father, she sets out on an adventurous road trip -- aided by her equally looney boyfriend, Dick (Wil Wheaton) -- to confront her "father" on the air, and, just maybe, make a splash on reality television.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, independent film, psychological thriller, crime, violence, female protagonist, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mrs. Julie Wardh returns to Vienna with her husband Neil Wardh, who is an investor in Wall Street. Julie and Neil have been married for one year but they do not love each other. Julie has a trauma from her former boyfriend Jean, who was a sadistic man. While Neil has meetings in Austria, Julie spends the vacation with her friend Carol Brandt. They go to a party where Carol introduces her handsome cousin George Corro, who has just inherited a fortune with her. When Julie sees Jean in the party, she decides to leave the place. Soon Julie, who is neglected by Neil, has a love affair with George. Meanwhile a serial-killer that kills women with a razor blade is terrifying Vienna and the inspector has no lead to follow. When Julie is blackmailed because of her love affair with George, she suspects Jean might be the blackmailer. Carol decides to go to the meeting with the blackmailer and is killed. Julie believes that Jean might be the wanted killer and decides to leave Vienna and Neil to go to Spain. Will she be safe and loved?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: western, comedy, adventure, crime, action, outlaw, gold rush ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Johnny Twennies, a newspaper columnist in present-day New York, is a jauntily cheerful, very friendly, totally honest and upstanding young man who happens to be completely oblivious to any technological or social changes in the past 70 years. He routinely uses telegrams, a manual typewriter, and a manual toaster, and to the pleasure and despair of his girlfriend conducts his personal life in correspondingly anachronistic style. One day he's threatened by criminals who want to plant a false news story. But they've never met anyone like him before...—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, black and white, nostalgia, retro, humorous, independent film, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rollicking rock and roll road trip that will take you to the starving edge of the independent music scene. Charlie, Eric, Tony, and Wynn hardly know each other, but here they are in the most ridiculous, volatile and tenuous of unions: a band. Four young men find themselves hurtling through an exhilarating, sometimes painful adventure that puts them on a collision course with self discovery, or self destruction.
Plot Keywords: musical, independent film, comedy, american film, 1990s, black and white, road movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Darius is a young intern at a Seattle-based magazine and jumps at the chance to investigate the author of a classified ad seeking someone to travel back in time with. Along with Jeff, the staff writer, and Arnau, a fellow intern, the three go on a road trip to a coastal town. While Jeff just wants to chase after his high school crush and Arnau wants some kind of life experience, Darius spends her time with Kenneth, a man who believes that he has built a time machine. The closer they become and the more they understand about each other, the less clear it becomes if Kenneth is just crazy or if he actually is going to successfully travel back in time.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, comedy, romance, adventure, time travel, independent film, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Jon, a young wanna-be musician, discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins an eccentric pop band led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank.
Plot Keywords: music, comedy, drama, indie film, band, art, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: T.J., a high school freshman, lost his mother two months before in a car accident: his father pops pills and sits on the couch; his grandmother holds things together, chatting and cooking. T.J. wants the car back from the salvage yard where the owner's son is a bully. By happenstance, Hesher, a foul-mouthed squatter, moves in with T.J's family. T.J. also meets Nicole, a grocery clerk near poverty who helps him once. Hesher involves T.J. in crime, the bully is omnipresent, mom's car is slipping away, dad has checked out, T.J. watches Nicole at work, and his grandma invites him to join her morning walk: the odds are long that T.J. can assemble a family to help him thrive.
Plot Keywords: independent film, drama, black comedy, coming of age, family, rebellion, grief ...
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