Best movies with budgets under $1,000,000

[PhysicalMediaMaestro]

Originally Posted by salz4life

Not sure if this counts as it is technically a documentary... but Hoop Dreams was made for $700,000. Still fuming that didn't even get a best doc nomination at the Oscars. It is one of my favorite films/documentaries of all time.

Documentaries never get the respect they deserve, so thank you for telling people about "Hoop Dreams".

[mechamacbeth]

Can't believe I forgot about Primer. $7,000 budget and a great hard sci fi film.

[scarletlion]

This thread is very Americanized. There are hundreds if not thousands of international films that have low budgets that er brilliant.

Check out 'Angst'. Which was made for $400,000 and is more real, terrifying, insane and scary than any blockbuster horror film ever made.

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True, there's a massive amount of films from outside the US that are made with much tighter budgets.
Take for instance last year's Count of Monte-Cristo. It had a budget of €42.9 million, a fracture of what a movie of that scale would have cost in the US. That budget is absolutely huge for a French film and it's not like French workers in movie productions are badly paid. They're also usually covered by better insurances and have more rights imposed by European and national laws.

There's definitely a problem of financial efficiency in Hollywood and in the US in general.