underground movie

American  

noun

1. a movie produced independently on a low budget and often using experimental techniques and avant-garde themes.

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Etymology

Origin of underground movie

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

KYIV, Ukraine — On a gray and rainy afternoon, about 35 people settled into velvety red seats in a small and stuffy underground movie theater.

From New York Times

In South Africa in the nineteen-seventies, during apartheid, I went to an underground movie club that showed “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner”—a film about an interracial couple struggling to convince their racist parents to let them wed.

From The New Yorker

“Honey, I told everyone I was the heiress of Woodlawn Cemetery,” she once remarked to me between takes in some mercifully long-forgotten underground movie.

From New York Times

The film critic J. Hoberman called Mr. Mead “the first underground movie star.”

From New York Times

It was an underground movie about underground musicians challenging the regime's cultural restrictions.

From BBC