My favorite indie films after 2000

A disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.

An art auctioneer mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.

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

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son's custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

A look at the lives of a group of teenagers who ride the same bus route and how their relationships change and evolve on the last day of school.

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.

Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. Do the scars of the past hide differences that will tear them apart, or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions?

Rachel, a teenager born and raised in her Mormon community, believes that she has been inpregnated by listening to music and must get to Vegas to find the "father" of her miracle baby.

Daniela, raised in the bosom of a strict Evangelical family and recently unmasked as a fornicator by her shocked parents, struggles to find her own path to spiritual harmony.

American journalist Paul Kemp takes on a freelance job in Puerto Rico for a local newspaper during the 1960s and struggles to find a balance between island culture and the expatriates who live there.

An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary.

Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

A young man returns to his hometown to look for his missing sister.

Will the 30 y.o. Hlynur ever move out of his mother's apartment in Reykjavík? Social welfare keeps him passive but things change when his mother's Spanish friend, Lola, arrives and stays through Xmas and New Year's Eve.

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.

This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.

A seventeen-year-old navigates his survival amongst an explosive criminal family and the detective who thinks he can save him.

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

A small-town sheriff sets out to find the two kids who have taken his car on a joy ride.

An underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé.

A hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.

A teenage orphan spends ten years traveling cross-country experiencing life, love and heartbreak.