An indie list reveals the best gems viewers might have missed the first time around.

If nothing else, year-end list-making offers a chance for readers to revisit movies they might have missed, or reach beyond the box-office champs to find new stuff for a Netflix queue.

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10. Listen Up Philip Jason Schwartzman hilariously embodies the self-loathing and self-absorption of a moderately successful young writer in Alex Ross Perry’s caustic comedy about “genius” as an excuse for being an a-hole.

9. Mistaken for Strangers Mistaken for “The National concert movie,” it’s actually a funny, emotional portrait of sibling rivalry, as still-living-with-mom Tom chronicles his time on tour with his brother, The National lead singer Matt.

8. Only Lovers Left Alive Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are centuries-old vampires living in the modern world in Jim Jarmusch’s dreamy, sometimes hilarious paean to the eternal beauty of art.

7. The LEGO Movie If you’re going to craft a narrative out of a toy that allows you to turn colorful pieces into nearly anything, this is exactly what you should make. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller manage a smart, imaginative manifesto on how to find joy in any creative endeavor.

6. Force Majeure All it takes is one crucial moment during a ski holiday for the marriage of Tomas (Johannes Kuhnke) and Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli) to change forever, in Ruben Östlund’s darkly satirical portrait of traditional roles called into question.

5. We Are the Best! Lukas Moodysson adapts his wife’s autobiographical graphic novel about life as an early-’80s punker girl in Stockholm, and the result is an exuberant, entertaining study of girlhood.

4. Inherent Vice It’s a rambling shaggy dog of a detective movie, adapted by P.T. Anderson from Thomas Pynchon’s novel just the way it should’ve been. And there’s no finer recent example of physical comedy than Joaquin Phoenix’s.

3. Under the Skin Jonathan Glazer upended the source novel for this sci-fi tale of a unique predatory visitor (Scarlett Johansson). But his haunting visual style made it one of the year’s creepiest, most hypnotic trips.

2. Two Days, One Night The gut-punching humanism of Belgium’s Dardennes brothers continues in this stunning story of a depression-plagued woman (Marion Cotillard) forced to beg co-workers for a chance to keep her job. It’s a potent economic horror story.

1. The Babadook Jennifer Kent’s stunning debut feature is pitched as a horror movie, and there’s genuinely unsettling stuff in this tale of a single mother haunted by a figure from a pop-up book. But it’s also so much deeper and richer, with Essie Davis’s performance bringing terrifying immediacy to a single mother’s guilt, grief, bone-weary exhaustion and a possibly homicidal inability to cope.