Movies by Lists - Best Low Budget Movies (37 [37]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 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. | 2011 | Mike Cahill | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (94.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Being John MalkovichA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. | 1999 | Spike Jonze (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.7 (327.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1999 | Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez | Horror, Mystery | 6.5 (248.9K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| BrickA teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. | 2005 | Rian Johnson | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (104.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1994 | Kevin Smith (*) | Comedy | 7.7 (218.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| CoherenceStrange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead. | 2013 | James Ward Byrkit | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (121.2K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| CronosA mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. | 1993 | Guillermo del Toro (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 6.7 (29.4K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| CubeSix complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps. | 1997 | Vincenzo Natali | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (224.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Dead Man's ShoesA disaffected soldier returns to his hometown to get even with the thugs who brutalized his mentally-challenged brother years ago. | 2004 | Shane Meadows | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (52.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| DuelA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. | 1971 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.6 (68.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Duel with the DevilA business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer. | 1971 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.6 (68.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| El MariachiA traveling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal and must hide from a gang bent on killing him. | 1992 | Robert Rodriguez | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.9 (66.1K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2009 | Stuart Hazeldine | Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (111.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2007 | Luis Piedrahita, Rodrigo Sopeña | Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (21.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| FollowingA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing. | 1998 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (91.4K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2010 | Adam Green | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (73.5K votes) | 93 | 20220822 |
| 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? | 2008 | Courtney Hunt | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (26.1K votes) | 97 | 20230806 |
| Hunter PreyA spaceship crashes on a desert planet with 3 survivors besides the escaped prisoner. Extraction's in 110 hours. | 2010 | Sandy Collora | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (6.2K votes) | 88 | 20231109 |
| 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. | 2009 | Jamin Winans | Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.9 (21.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2011 | Ben Wheatley | Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (39.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2009 | Jonathan Liebesman | Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (14.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Last Survivors, TheA teenage girl fights to protect the last working well in a drought-stricken valley from a greedy water baron. | 2014 | Tom Hammock | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.4 (3.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 1998 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime | 8.2 (564.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2007 | Richard Schenkman | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (183.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2010 | Gareth Edwards | Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.4 (91.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2004 | Jared Hess | Comedy | 6.9 (211.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| PiA paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.4 (175.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2004 | Shane Carruth | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (104.1K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| RecA television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying. | 2007 | Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (174.7K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Reservoir DogsWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.3 (976.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| RinguA reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it. | 1998 | Hideo Nakata | Horror, Mystery | 7.2 (68K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Run Lola Run [Lola Rennt]After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (195.6K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2004 | James Wan | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (404.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2011 | Jeff Nichols | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (98.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2014 | Bradley King | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.5 (44.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| 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. | 2010 | André Øvredal | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (74.1K votes) | 103 | 20220822 |