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+ 001- Juno + Facing an unplanned pregnancy, teenage Juno (Ellen Page) devises a plan to locate the proverbial perfect parents to adopt her [...] of affluent yuppies anxious for a child in this offbeat coming-of-age comedy, which won the 2008 Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

+ 002- Garden State + Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, who also directed) returns to his hometown in New Jersey after a decade away to attend his [...] Holm) and forge a connection with a new friend (Natalie Portman). This whimsical comedy premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

+ 003- Friends with Money + Set in Los Angeles, Nicole Holofcener's bittersweet tale examines the evolving lives of four women friends: married and [...] event to the next, the complexity of married life for Jane, Franny and Christine is revealed, while Olivia struggles to find herself.

+ 004- The Darjeeling Limited + Following the death of their father, three brothers (Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson and Jason Schwartzman) embark on a journey on [...] sibling rivalry can never be completely erased. Natalie Portman and Anjelica Huston co-star in Wes Anderson's lyrical comic drama.

+ 005- Once + In this charming contemporary musical helmed by John Carney, a street musician (Glen Hansard) in Dublin, Ireland, strikes up a [...] and help the young busker release his musical passions. The actors wrote the tunes they perform, winning an Oscar for their efforts.

+ 006- Secretary + Recently released from a mental hospital after treatment for self-mutilating tendencies, a young woman (Maggie Gyllenhaal) gets [...] relationship charged with sadomasochism. This twisted, humorous tale of repressed passion marks Gyllenhaal's first starring role.

+ 007- The Station Agent + When his only friend dies, a young dwarf named Finbar McBride (Peter Dinklage) relocates to an abandoned train station in rural [...] artist (Patricia Clarkson) coping with the recent death of her young son and a talkative Cuban hot dog vendor (Bobby Cannavale).

+ 008- The Squid and the Whale + Jeff Daniels makes for a haunting Brooklyn professor who's well past his prime, and Laura Linney is his writer wife on the [...] be acrimonious about their impending separation. Unfortunately, their two children are stuck in the middle of the emotional warfare.

+ 009- Broken Flowers + After being dumped by yet another girlfriend (Julie Delpy), Don Johnston (Bill Murray) vows he'll be alone forever. But when a [...] to confront his past, surprising a series of old flames (Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone and Tilda Swinton) along the way.

+ 010- Junebug + When Madeleine (Embeth Davidtz), a big-city art dealer from Chicago, makes a trip to North Carolina with her new husband, [...] brother Johnny (Ben McKenzie) and immature sister-in-law Ashley (Amy Adams). Looks like a family with more problems than meet the eye!

+ 011- Happy Endings + Lisa Kudrow, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Laura Dern and Jason Ritter star in this unusual comedy, written and directed by Don Roos, that [...] they're both seeing the same woman; a gay man discovers his partner may (or may not) be the father of their friend's baby; and more.

+ 012- The Good Girl + Justine (Jennifer Aniston) longs to start a family, but she and loving husband Phil (John C. Reilly) seem unable to conceive. [...] world of emotional and sexual awakening … unaware that the affair could quickly move from liberation to poisonous obsession.

+ 013- 2 Days in Paris + On their way home from an ill-fated Venice vacation, Marion (Julie Delpy, who also directs) and Jack (Adam Goldberg) stop in [...] and uncomfortable encounters with her belligerent parents conspire to make Jack feel even more estranged from his worldly paramour.

+ 014- American Splendor + Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) was a working-class stiff, a file clerk who found an outlet for his creativity by chronicling [...] Splendor. This revealing biopic co-stars Hope Davis and tells Pekar's story through two-dimensional images, archival footage and more.

+ 015- Me and You and Everyone We Know + Today's world of technology and convenience makes it increasingly difficult to find a real connection with another person. In [...] who's waiting for great things to happen in his life. When his path crosses with Christine's, he's both entranced and panic-stricken.

+ 016- I'm Not There + Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages in the musician's life. [...] Marcus Carl Franklin, Ben Whishaw, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett (in an Oscar-nominated role) star.

+ 017- Margot at the Wedding + When acid-tongued writer Margot (Nicole Kidman) arrives to attend estranged sister Pauline's (Jennifer Jason Leigh) wedding, [...] writer-director Noah Baumbach helms this wry comedy exploring the often infuriating but enduring connections of family.

+ 018- Real Women Have Curves + Set in East Los Angeles, this is the story of Ana, a Mexican-American teenager struggling to break free from the [...] in Estela's sewing sweatshop, where women labor to make dresses that are then sold for many times what the shop is paid to make them.

+ 019- Shortbus + Director John Cameron Mitchell delivers an unbridled look at the New York City underground, focusing on a group of hipsters who [...] largely of first-time actors -- the film chronicles each character's erotic journey of self-discovery in a raw and riveting fashion.

+ 020- Bella + Two lost souls, Nina (Tammy Blanchard), a pregnant, unmarried waitress, and Jose (Eduardo Verástegui), an [...] day. An uplifting story of love, hope and forgiveness, this remarkable tale is co-written and directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde.

+ 021- Clerks + Made on a shoestring budget by director Kevin Smith, this classic indie comedy won awards at both the Sundance and Cannes film [...] nonstop shoppers, the overworked counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their offbeat love lives.

+ 022- Sweet Land + In Ali Selim's Independent Spirit Award-winning tale of how love triumphs over ignorance, German immigrant Inge tells her life [...] Inge's heritage is actually German, both Olaf and the community struggle to overcome years of anti-German propaganda and prejudice.

+ 023- Grace Is Gone + Director James C. Strouse's indie drama stars John Cusack as Stanley Phillips, an ex-military man trying to find the courage to [...] his girls the truth, instead taking them on an excursion to a theme park. The film won the Dramatic Audience Award at Sundance 2007.

+ 024- King of California + This quirky Sundance comedy chronicles the journey of a delusional father (Michael Douglas) who's convinced that a fabled [...] institution, only to be abandoned by her dysfunctional mother -- resists his ravings at first. But, eventually, she starts to believe.

+ 025- Quinceañera + This sensitive coming-of-age drama, a 2006 Sundance Film Festival award winner, tells the story of Magdalena (Emily Rios), who, [...] a great-granduncle and a gay cousin (Jesse Garcia) who introduce her to a world far different from her gentrified middle-class life.