What's a small, low budget, relatively unknown movie that you loved?

A boy and his dog

You can watch a small trailer of Don Johnson as a teenager I believe in his first movie.

This is a great homegrown indy i saw a while back called ‘American Movie’. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181288/.

The original Wizard of Gore.

Down to the Bone with Vera Farmiga.

@Cruiser I reckon this horny little number may have been his fledgling attempt at acting. Precedes your example by two years, not that i’m counting or anything ;¬}

Hard Eight, budget around $3 mil. It was Paul Thomas Anderson’s directorial debut and it’s a stunner.

I’m not really sure what had hype and what didn’t. I don’t pay attention to stuff like that, so I may be way off base.
Everything Is Illuminated
Sunshine Cleaning
Desperate Living
Rory O’Shea Was Here

I could probably do this all day if I knew which movies actually fit the description better.

I liked Ponette.
I have no idea if it was low budget or not.
I just liked Ponette.
You can’t stop me from liking Ponette either.
XD

Clerks by Kevin Smith was low budget… It was even done in black and white and you can tell that some of the actors messed up a bit. Anyways, great flick!

@lucillelucillelucille That wasn’t very clear. Do you like Ponette or something?

@lucillelucillelucille I second Ponette. The kid was amazing.

Leonard Part 6 starring Bill Cosby

No, there were not 5 other films before it. That’s part of the “joke”.

The Price of Milk which I got because I fancy the Karl Urban. :-D It’s a very low-budget, very surreal New Zealand movie about a herd of cows, a suitcase full of baby shoes, a quilt and a Maori curse. Very strange, very funny.

My Name Is Bruce
Bubba Ho-Tep
Cashback was, I thought, incredible.

Not sure how low budget these are, but there you go.

Bad Taste

Primer was an excellent film with an almost non-existent budget ($7,000). It didn’t get the attention it deserves.
There’s also Boondock Saints, which was kind of a critical flop but a cult success, and that one only had $6m for a budget, which is still relatively low.
Anything Bruce Campbell was in is, by definition, low budget, relatively unknown, and also amazing.

The Gamers: The Dorknexs Rising. Yes, it’s bad and about D&D. I still love it.

I don’t know the budget but, Palindromes was a mind fuck, but amazing.

“Zardoz” because it was really really really weird.
“Cannibal Holocaust” because it is very fun to watch naive idiots get killed and mutilated for going to a place they don’t belong to document something they know nothing about and much less understand.

Dead Mans Shoes

A disaffected soldier (Paddy Considine) returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother (Toby Kebbell) years ago.

I agree with @mrentropy. Both “My Name Is Bruce” and “Bubba Ho-Tep” were great. I also really loved “El Topo”.

Because of Winn Dixie – The dog looks just like mine the story is sentimental but lurverly xx
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317132/

@Mat74UK Good stuff, excellent performances all round.

This was an awesome indy flick with some fab acting, cinematography, writing + sentiment. Check out ‘Nowheresville’ at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0410385/. You won’t regret it if your into indy.

Definately Memento by Christopher Nolan. It was done for $5 Million which is still pretty low. One of the best flicks I’ve ever seen

Whale Rider

The Red Balloon.

Down By Law directed by Jim Jarmusch

Bottle Shock starring Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman.

@mrentropy Good call on Bubba Ho-Tep. they are making a sequel.

I’m gonna go with Cannibal! The musical
Trey Parker and Matt Stone did this while they were in college. It’s genius.

Red Road directed by Andrea Arnold

Does “Clerks” count? That movie was great as was “Clerks 2”

The Corndog Man. Misunderstood, but great.

Cookers. It gave me goosebumps, and I felt uncomfortable.

It’s an awesome movie.