underground movie

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of underground movie¹

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

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

The grindhouse-style underground movie depicts a real event — that father feeding his children’s pet rabbit to them for dinner.

From New York Times

Norman Mailer made the news when he covered an antiwar march on the Pentagon and wrote "The Armies of the Night," when he picked a fight with fellow novelist Gore Vidal on the Cavett show, when he wrote a magazine cover story on the Ali-Foreman fight in Kinshasa, Zaire, when he bit off a chunk of actor Rip Torn's ear in a fight during the filming of his underground movie,"Maidstone," in the Hamptons.

From Salon

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