TOP INDEPENDENT FILMS OF THE 90S

An idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.

A young transgender man named Brandon navigates love, life, and trying to pass as a boy in rural Nebraska.

A 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives.

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.

The emotive journey of a former schoolteacher who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew.

A comedy-drama about a bereaved mother, an overwrought actress, her jealous lover, and a pregnant nun.

A masked killer targets a past victim's daughter.

Conjoined twins have their relationship tested when a woman takes interest in one of them.

A young man, his wife, and his incompetent case worker travel across country to find his birth parents.

A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.

Living a life marked by violence, neo-Nazi Derek finally goes to prison after killing two black youths. Upon his release, Derek vows to change; he hopes to prevent his brother, Danny, who idolizes Derek, from following in his footsteps.

In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

A twisted take on "Little Red Riding Hood", with a teenage juvenile delinquent on the run from a social worker travelling to her grandmother's house and being hounded by a charming, but sadistic, serial killer and pedophile.

A coming of age story set in the south of the U.S. when Elvis was King.

Desperation drives four inner-city women to bank robbery in Los Angeles, then they start mistrusting each other.

A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.

An epic mosaic of interrelated characters in search of love, forgiveness and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

An aspiring director and the marginally talented amateur cast of a hokey small-town Missouri musical production go overboard when they learn that someone from Broadway will be in attendance.

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.

A 20-something, irresponsible party girl is bailed out of jail by her librarian godmother. To repay the loan, she starts working at the library and gradually turns her life around.