Right now there’s a big Indie Movie Sale going on in Amazon’s Instant Video store. The sale includes such movies as:
(All descriptions are from IMDB.com)
The Duchess (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
After a careless youth, Georgiana Spencer is delighted to be married off at 17 by her parents in 1774 to the Duke of Devonshire, one of England’s richest and most influential peers. Although his grace enables a lavish life-style in grand homes and privileged introduction to to the highest society circles, it comes at a price. The duke only cares for her as future mother of a male heir, and punishes her failing in that respect severely, while enjoying serial adultery and ordering her to help raise his illegitimate offspring, without omitting her sole confident Bess Foster. Even after the birth of a son, her indiscreet affair with rising politician Charles Grey is intolerable.
– Written by KGF Vissers
Into The Wild (R, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
Based on a true story.
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
– Written by Lisa Kelley
Rolling Stones – Shine A Light (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese and the world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band, The Rolling Stones, unite to bring audiences the year’s most extraordinary film event, “Shine A Light.”
With special appearances by Christina Aguilera, Jack White and Buddy Guy, and four Rolling Stones performances not seen in theaters, Shine A Light is a must-own for rock ‘n’ roll fans across generations.
– Written by Amazon editors
Exit Through The Gift Shop (R, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurricane New Orleans to the separation barrier on the Palestinian West Bank.
He fiercely guards his anonymity to avoid prosecution. An eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempts to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Includes footage of Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Invader and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work, on walls and in interview.
As Banksy describes it, “It’s basically the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed.”
– Written by Paranoid Pictures
Requiem For A Dream (NR, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you’re hooked, you’re hooked.
Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions.
Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.
– Written by Jeff Mellinger
Down By Law (R, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $6.99)
In Louisiana, Laurette has an argument with her boyfriend, DJ Zack a.k.a. Lee Baby Simms, and breaks up with him. The upset Zack drinks alcohol on the street and his acquaintance Preston offers him US$ 1,500 to drive a Jaguar to the other side of the city. However, there is one problem – a man is locked up in the trunk of the car.
Zack is arrested and sent to the Orleans Parish Prison. Meanwhile the pimp Jack is framed by his acquaintance, arrested and put in the same cell as Zack. When an Italian Roberto, a.k.a. Bob, who does not speak English very well joins them in the same cell, the trio develops a strange friendship. Bob proposes a means of escape from prison.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Metropolitan (PG-13, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $3.99)
In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier’s socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and austenite Audrey.
They are joined by Tom. His background is much simpler and he is critical of their way of life. But he finds a soul mate in Audrey, who without his knowledge falls in love with him.
– Written by Mattias Thuresson
Control (R, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $5.99)
Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful.
Even though Debbie and he become parents, their relationship is going downhill rapidly and Ian starts an affair with Belgium Annik whom he met after one of the gigs and he’s almost never at home. Ian also suffers from epilepsy and has no-good medication for it. He doesn’t know how to handle the feelings he has for Debbie and Annik and the pressure the popularity of Joy Division and the energy performing costs him.
– Written by Marco van Hoof
There are many, MANY more indie movies included in this sale. Click here to browse the full listings for the Indie Movie Sale.