TOP INDEPENDENT FILMS OF 2000'S (2000-09)

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.

A gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs.

A behind-the-scenes look into the highly competitive and cut-throat world of dog shows through the eyes of a group of ruthless dog owners.

A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.

A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.

Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.

A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.

Three actors learn that their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard re-examines his attitudes while falling in love with the African-American wife of the last prisoner he executed.

Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of people who make their living at a strip club.

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.

A TV program selects people at random to kill one another for fame and their freedom.

A young man's peculiar upbringing renders him unable to competently cope with the struggle of growing up.

A fading movie star falls for a lonely young woman in Tokyo.

The story of American gay activist Harvey Milk, who fought for gay rights and was elected as California's first openly gay official.

A pack of naïve teenagers conspire to murder a mutual friend, whose aggressive demeanour has proven too much.