15 of the Best Indie Movies of All Time

Indies have been around for as long as filmmaking has been around – an independent film is essentially any movie without one of the big studios backing it. But the indie spirit is remarkably resilient to corporatisation. The dawn of the digital era in the 21st century democratised the movie-making process. With film-makers now able to shoot, distribute and market their films on budgets that would once barely have covered a day's film stock, they're free to experiment in ways once unthinkable. Today, 'indie' is less a genre and more an attitude – an anti-corporate, fiercely independent approach to filmmaking that tells the stories that big studios won't, often in ways they'd never consider. These, then, are 14 of the best indie movies made in the last four decades, and proof that the indie flame burns, somewhere, in anyone who loves cinema.

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Humpday (2009)