Successful Indie Films
Return on Investment - Successful Independent Films
**This is solely Box Office Gross and does not include DVD sales revenue.
| Title | Budget | Worldwide Gross | % Return |
| My Big Fat Greek Wedding | $5,000,000 | $353,900,000 | 3,439.00% |
| Juno | $7,500,000 | $227,000,000 | 2926.67% |
| The Full Monty | $3,500,000 | $256,900,000 | 3,570.00% |
| Napolean Dynamite | $400,000 | $45,658,577 | 5,607.32% |
| Little Miss Sunshine | $8,000,000 | $84,400,000 | 955% |
| Sideways | $17,000,000 | $109,502,303 | 544.13% |
| Blair Witch Project | $35,000 | $248,300,000 | 354,614.29% |
| Brokeback Mountain | $14,000,000 | $175,000,000 | 1197.44% |
| Crash | $6,500,000 | $55,400,000 | 1339.95% |
| Pulp Fiction | $8,000,000 | $213,000,000 | 2562.50% |
| Capote | $7,000,000 | $42,500,000 | 507.14% |
| Garden State | $2,500,000 | $26,800,000 | 436% |
| Star Wars | $11,000,000 | $797,900,000 | 3,526.82% |
| Monsters Ball | $4,000,000 | $31,300,000 | 291.25% |
| The Passion of the Christ | $30,000,000 | $604,000,000 | 906.67% |
| Good Will Hunting | $10,000,000 | $226,000,000 | 1030% |
| Saw II | $4,000,000 | $152,000,000 | 1800% |
| Open Water | $500,000 | $52,100,882 | 5110.09% |
| Sling Blade | $1,000,000 | $34,200,000 | 3320% |
| Reservoir Dogs | $1,200,000 | $22,000,000 | 1733.33% |
| Chasing Amy | $300,000 | $14,700,000 | 4800% |
| Clerks | $230,000 | $3,015,000 | 1210.87% |
| Rocky | $1,100,000 | $225,000,000 | 20354.55% |