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These aren't going to be everybody's top 10 indie lists, of course. They're here to get you started on your own. You can also find a few Web sites and local video and DVD rental stores that will help you find these and many more such titles.
Pulp Fiction, 1994. What can we say? In this crime movie, Quentin Tarantino hits every high note. Without a doubt the most popular cult hit of its generation. A classic.
Memento, 2000. A movie that progresses back to front as a man (Guy Pearce) tries to recover his memory, this flashback of a story is brilliantly told.
Clerks, 1994. Kevin Smith's debut, featuring some of the rudest convenience-store workers in existence, is ribald, original and terrifically liberating.
Amores Perros, 2000. This extraordinary film from Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu shows the fatalistic intersection of several characters in Mexico who are all connected by a road accident. Entrancing and memorable.
City of God , 2002. Fernando Meireilles's film about ghetto kid gangsters in Brazil is a junior "Godfather," an unnervingly inspired film.
Trainspotting, 1996. Danny Boyle's outstanding adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel turns Scottish heroin addicts into amazingly lovable rogues. A superbly edited and acted film.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998. Old-time British gangsters and cocky young poseurs combine to make this a riveting crime fantasy from Guy Ritchie.
Being John Malkovich, 1999. This weird journey into the heart (or brain) of actor Malkovich's darkness marked the exclamation-point arrival of director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.
Sling B lade, 1996. Billy Bob Thornton's character, Karl Childers, is a biblical wonder, a man with a shady past who seems to keep on living after the movie. After you watch this, you just want to imitate his guttural " Mmm-hhhm ."
Magnolia, 1999. "Boogie Nights" was brilliant enough. But Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" is high art. A magnificent movie set in Los Angeles about fate, love and tragedy with an all-star cast.
PRE-'PULP' FAVORITES
Yes, there was life before 1994's "Pulp Fiction." Here is a list of 10 great independent movies that goes back as far as the 1970s. In no particular order:
