- lost in translation (air, my bloody valentine, kevin shielRAB..)
- good will hunting (elliott smith and more elliott smith)
- the life aquatic (bowie, mark mothersbaugh, seu jorge)
- the royal tennenbaums (mark mothersbaugh, bob dylan, nick drake, paul simon, elliott smith, nico)
- american splendor (TONS of great jazz you and I have never heard of before)
- friday night lights (almost the whole soundtrack is Explosions in the Sky.. havent seen the movie but I want to just to see how they used their songs in the film)
- wicker park (mogwai, broken social scene, mum, mates of state, shins... definitely the "indie" soundtrack of 2004... too bad everyone is busy swinging from garden states nuts to realize this.)