Shelter (2007), Snow Cake (2006), Congorama (2006), The Revenant (2009), Welcome to Happiness (2015), Above the Shadows (2019), Scrapbook (1999), Bark! (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Niche movies.
Storyline: Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach spends his days working a dead-end job and helping his needy sister care for her son. In his free time he surfs, draws and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe, who lives on the wealthy side of town. When Gabe's older brother, Shaun, returns home, he is drawn to Zach's selflessness and talent. Zach falls in love with Shaun while struggling to reconcile his own desires with the needs of his family.
Plot Keywords: romance, homosexual, drama, american, indie film, youth, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manages to bum a ride with him. Just as he begins to warm to this eccentric girl, Alex's vehicle is in a serious automobile accident that kills Vivienne. After his meeting with the police, Alex decides to speak with Vivienne's mother. Upon arrival at her home, Alex discovers that the mother, Linda, is a highly functional autistic woman who convinces him to stay long to take out the garbage the day after the funeral he agrees to arrange. In those few days, Alex discovers new friends and learns more about the uniqueness of Linda even as he struggles to come to terms with his own grief.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, autism, healing, canada, uk, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michel, the Belgian son of a paralyzed writer, husband of a Congolese refugee, and father of a future tennis champion, is an erratic inventor misunderstood by his employer. At age 41, he learns that he was born secretly in a barn in Québec, in the town of Sainte-Cécile, and given up for adoption shortly afterward. In the summer of 2000, Michel goes there and finds a sleepy village that soon makes him want to run back home. There, he meets a man who drives a car with a technologically advanced hybrid engine. On their way back to Montréal, an accident changes their lives forever, and what is uncovered will challenge the very future of the automotive industry. Welcome to "Congorama."—Philippe Falardeau
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, adventure, family, mystery, fantasy, africa ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The night after his funeral, Bart, a soldier killed in Iraq gets up out of his grave and seeks out his best friend Joey. At dawn Bart's body falls to the floor, only to reawaken the following dusk. He and his buddy decide that he is a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, black comedy, zombie, independent film, low budget, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Woody (Kyle Gallner), a children's author, rents a strange apartment from his landlord, Moses (Nick Offerman). There's a magical door in Woody's closet that allows those who go through it to erase mistakes from their past. While he was once happy to facilitate the passage of the random strangers summoned to his apartment, Woody soon begins to question why he himself is not allowed to go through.—FilmBuff
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, drama, coming of age, supernatural, healing, urban ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman who has faded to the point of becoming invisible must find her way back with the help of the one man who can see her.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, drama, invisibility, supernatural, loneliness, journalist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sibling rivalry is the focus of this film. A younger, less secure boy falls in the shadow of his older, more popular brother. At his brother's urging he tries out for a school musical and wins the lead. But then he hears his brother bragging about he had gotten the younger brother the role. This causes the boy to drop out of the play, but continuing as the piano accompanist. In that role, he develops a crush on the female lead and love blossoms until the girl comes over to the house. The older brother belittles his brother and the girl shifts her affections. This drive the younger brother into a gang and eventually culminates in an act of revenge.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, psychological, indie film, experimental, violence, gore ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A comedy about misfits in which a veterinarian becomes involved with a client, whose wife has begun acting like a dog. Darla is the vet while Peter is the frazzled husband, whose marriage is going to the dogs.
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, musical, absurd, dogs, surreal, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trevor is 'between jobs'. He spends his days avoiding his overbearing wife by hiding out in his allotment shed and painting figurines for his wargames with his agoraphobic friend, Graham, and dreaming of his heroic alter-ego, the battle mage Casimir the Destroyer. When Mr Parsons, one of the other allotment tenants, petitions to have Trevor removed from his disgrace of a plot (he's not there to grow stuff!) an argument ensues that leaves Trevor with a corpse to hide. Unfortunately, this untimely accident coincides with the zombie apocalypse and Mr Parsons' return is just the beginnings of Trevor's problems. More pressing is whether or not he should try and save his wife and her beautiful best friend, who both he and Graham have a thing for.—James Fisher
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, zombie, b-movie, independent film, gore, dark comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Work, family, relationships, deadlines, terrorism, information overload... When modern life is getting crazier and crazier, day by day, who wouldn't think about getting out? Leaving it all behind? Wouldn't that be the only sane response to this mad world? "Asylum Seekers" is about escapism, about feeling the pressure and deciding on a radical solution. Our six characters can't take their various stresses any more and are heading for the door marked EXIT. It leads to a deluxe, exclusive, luxuriously-appointed mental asylum, an adult funfair where they can let it all go and be waited on hand and foot for the rest of their carefree lives. Or so it seems... The first twist is that there are limited places. Only one free bed remains. The competition is on. And there are many other surprises lying in wait for the unwary, would-be-insane patient... The ride out of the world they know has only just begun!—Rania Ajami
Plot Keywords: comedy, horror, absurd, black comedy, surreal, independent film, low budget ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A road trip comedy about three friends who travel across the country in a Wiener Wagon to beat up a popular daytime talk show therapist.
Plot Keywords: comedy, teen, adventure, road movie, humor, coming of age, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An adventurer (Bill Paxton) frees a prisoner (Bob Peck) from a lawman (Mark Hamill) of the future, on an Earth washed by a river of wind.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, action, adventure, dystopian, futuristic, mystery, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After his work partner is murdered, a gung-ho insurance claims investigator teams with a new female investigator to uncover a massive, homicidal fraud the company seems to be perpetrating on its biggest clients.
Plot Keywords: comedy, action, crime, detective, humor, american movie, 2000s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Irreverent as ever, Larry The Cable Guy plays a big city health inspector who's happy with his usual beat of greasy spoon diners and low-rent ethnic restaurants. His easygoing life is turned upside-down when he's saddled with a straight-arrow rookie partner (Iris Bahr) and assigned the biggest case of his career: investigating an outbreak of mysterious food poisonings at the city's swankiest restaurants. Infuriating restaurateurs with his bad manners, Larry still manages to charm a sweet, shy waitress (Megyn Price) into a budding romance. But when his unorthodox methods cost him his job, Larry has to go undercover to bring the conspirators to justice and 'Git-R-Done!'—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, spoof, lowbrow, american, blue-collar, crude humor, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Samuel Peters once an ordinary man, dabbles within the laws of voodoo to bring his wife back from the grave, he soon encounters the God of malevolence 'Kalfu', where he makes a pact with him to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to earth; in return he will become 'The Zombie King' and walk the earth for eternity with his departed wife. Seven days before the rise of the Dark Moon, Samuel Peters (The Zombie King) calls upon Kalfu to raise seven of the recently departed, where their souls must be held on earth for seven days. With the ever growing horde of zombies, they begin to completely wipe out a countryside town. Once the Government get wind of what is going on, they set a perimeter around the town area and employ a shoot on sight policy. Trapped within the town, the locals and unlikely bunch of misfits fight for their lives, and the remaining humans soon realise that they have to unite in order to survive. Seeking sanctuary in a local church, they discover a bizarre disturbed priest where he gives them the knowledge of 'The Zombie King'. Can our hero's unravel the clues in time and survive or will The Zombie King and his horde of zombies rise on the night of the dark moon?—Rebecca-Clare Evans
Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, comedy, british film, low budget, indie film, supernatural ...
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