
Curated by the folks at The Film Stage, below you'll find a master-list of this year's best independent cinema - with links to stream the movies (legally) online. Enjoy - and share!
20,000 Days on Earth (Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard) // Amazon – iTunes
22 Jump Street (Phil Lord and Chris Miller) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
A Most Wanted Man (Anton Corbijn) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Battered Bastards of Baseball (Chapman and Maclain Way) // Netflix
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Camp X-Ray (Peter Sattler) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
Cheap Thrills (E.L. Katz) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
Coherence (James Ward Byrkit) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Cold in July (Jim Mickle) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Congress (Ari Folman) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Double (Richard Ayoade) // Netflix – Amazon - iTunes – Google
Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) // Amazon Prime – iTunes - Google
Frank (Lenny Abrahamson) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
God Help the Girl (Stuart Murdoch) // Amazon - iTunes – Google
Godzilla (Gareth Edwards) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson) // Amazon – iTunes - Google
Grand Piano (Eugenio Mira) // Netflix – Amazon - iTunes – Google
Happy Christmas (Joe Swanberg) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Hellion (Kat Candler) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Hide Your Smiling Faces (Daniel Patrick Carbone) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) // Amazon Prime – iTunes – Google
The Immigrant (James Gray) // Netflix
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (Brian Knappenberger) // YouTube
It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman) // Netflix - Amazon - iTunes – Google
Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Land Ho! (Aaron Katz and Martha Stephens) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Life Itself (Steve James) // iTunes
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Koreeda) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Listen Up Philip (Alex Ross Perry) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Locke (Steven Knight) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
Manakamana (Pacho Velez and Stephanie Spray) // Netflix - iTunes - Google
The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes - Google
Mistaken For Strangers (Tom Berninger) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Noah (Darren Aronofsky) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
Non-Stop (Jaume Collet-Serra) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) // iTunes – Google
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
The One I Love (Charlie McDowell) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) // Amazon - iTunes – Google
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola) // Amazon - iTunes – Google
The Rover (David Michôd) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Snowpiercer (Bon Joon-ho) // Netflix - Amazon – iTunes – Google -- SEE OUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SCREENWRITER HERE!
Starred Up (David Mackenzie) // Amazon - iTunes – Google
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) // Netflix – Amazon
Tim’s Vermeer (Teller) // Amazon – iTunes - Google
They Came Together (David Wain) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) // Amazon - iTunes - Google
Venus in Fur (Roman Polanski) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes - Google
Virunga (Orlando von Einsiedel) // Netflix
We are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes - Google
Why Don’t You Play In Hell? (Sion Sono) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
Young & Beautiful (Francois Ozon) // Netflix – Amazon – iTunes – Google
Young Ones (Jake Paltrow) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
The Zero Theorem (Terry Gilliam) // Amazon – iTunes – Google
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