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Movies by Lists - Best Low Budget Movies (37 [37])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
Another EarthOn the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident.2011Mike CahillDrama, Romance, Sci-Fi6.9 (94.3K votes)9220211228
Being John MalkovichA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.1999Spike Jonze (*)Comedy, Drama, Fantasy7.7 (327.1K votes)11320211228
Blair Witch Project, TheThree film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.1999Daniel Myrick, Eduardo SánchezHorror, Mystery6.5 (248.9K votes)8120211228
BrickA teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.2005Rian JohnsonAction, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller7.2 (104.7K votes)11020211228
ClerksA day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.1994Kevin Smith (*)Comedy7.7 (218.4K votes)9220211228
CoherenceStrange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.2013James Ward ByrkitDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller7.2 (121.2K votes)8920211228
CronosA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path.1993Guillermo del Toro (*)Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller6.7 (29.4K votes)9420211228
CubeSix complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.1997Vincenzo NataliDrama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi7.2 (224.2K votes)9020211228
Dead Man's ShoesA disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago.2004Shane MeadowsCrime, Drama, Thriller7.6 (52.5K votes)9020211228
DuelA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.1971Steven Spielberg (*)Action, Thriller7.6 (68.8K votes)9020211228
Duel with the DevilA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.1971Steven Spielberg (*)Action, Thriller7.6 (68.8K votes)9020211228
El MariachiA traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him.1992Robert RodriguezAction, Crime, Thriller6.9 (66.1K votes)8120211228
ExamEight candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a final test with just one seemingly simple question. However, it doesn't take long for confusion to ensue and tensions to unravel.2009Stuart HazeldineMystery, Thriller6.8 (111.5K votes)10120211228
Fermat's Room4 mathematicians are invited to solve an enigma. Once there, they're locked in a mechanically shrinking room and given 1 minute to solve each puzzle via cellphone while also figuring out why they're there.2007Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo SopeñaMystery, Thriller6.7 (21.1K votes)8920211228
FollowingA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.1998Christopher Nolan (*)Crime, Mystery, Thriller7.5 (91.4K votes)6920211228
French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.1971William Friedkin (*)Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (118.5K votes)10420211228
FrozenThree skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.2010Adam GreenAdventure, Drama, Thriller6.2 (73.5K votes)9320220822
Frozen RiverA mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Smuggling?2008Courtney HuntCrime, Drama7.1 (26.1K votes)9720230806
Hunter PreyA spaceship crashes on a desert planet with 3 survivors besides the escaped prisoner. Extraction's in 110 hours.2010Sandy ColloraSci-Fi, Thriller5.8 (6.2K votes)8820231109
InkA mysterious creature, known as Ink, steals a child's soul in hopes of using it as a bargaining chip to join the Incubi - the group of supernatural beings responsible for creating nightmares.2009Jamin WinansAction, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi6.9 (21.6K votes)10720211228
Kill ListNearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.2011Ben WheatleyAction, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller6.4 (39.6K votes)9520211228
Killing Room, TheFour individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program.2009Jonathan LiebesmanMystery, Thriller5.7 (14.3K votes)9320211228
Last Survivors, TheA teenage girl fights to protect the last working well in a drought-stricken valley from a greedy water baron.2014Tom HammockAction, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller5.4 (3.6K votes)9520211228
Lock, Stock And Two Smoking BarrelsEddy persuades his three pals to pool money for a vital poker game against a powerful local mobster, Hatchet Harry. Eddy loses, after which Harry gives him a week to pay back 500,000 pounds.1998Guy Ritchie (*)Action, Comedy, Crime8.2 (564.7K votes)10720211228
Man From Earth, TheAn impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine.2007Richard SchenkmanDrama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi7.9 (183.1K votes)8720211228
MonstersSix years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.2010Gareth EdwardsAdventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.4 (91.1K votes)9420211228
Napoleon DynamiteA listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.2004Jared HessComedy6.9 (211.1K votes)9620211228
PiA paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature.1998Darren Aronofsky (*)Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller7.4 (175.8K votes)8420211228
PrimerFour friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.2004Shane CarruthDrama, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.9 (104.1K votes)7720211228
RecA television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.2007Jaume Balagueró, Paco PlazaHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.4 (174.7K votes)7820211228
Reservoir DogsWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.1992Quentin Tarantino (*)Crime, Drama, Thriller8.3 (976.6K votes)9920211228
RinguA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.1998Hideo NakataHorror, Mystery7.2 (68K votes)9620211228
Run Lola Run [Lola Rennt]After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.1998Tom TykwerCrime, Drama, Thriller7.7 (195.6K votes)8020211228
SawTwo strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.2004James WanHorror, Mystery, Thriller7.6 (404.7K votes)10320211228
Take ShelterPlagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.2011Jeff NicholsDrama, Sci-Fi, Thriller7.3 (98.7K votes)12020211228
Time LapseThree friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.2014Bradley KingHorror, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.5 (44.5K votes)10420211228
Trollhunter [Trolljegeren]A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.2010André ØvredalDrama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller6.9 (74.1K votes)10320220822