I've seen almost every film on this list. Not a big fan of the first two, but I recently saw La Haine for the first time and that is an intense film in every sense of the word intense. I would love to see what kind of discussion would result from us watching that film.
I adore La Haine. It's a great film and would be a very timely watch with recent events
Word on the street is that Mathieu Kassovits (le Director) wants to remake La Haine in modern times. I think it would be really interesting given the recent CHarlie Hebdo incident in Paris and could even find success in the US with our own racial tensions exploding the past year or so. Although, I don't know if La Haine qualifies as indie, per se. It was distributed by Canal+, the biggest film distributor in France, and had a budget of 2.5 million Euro, although it does look low-budget so props to the cinematographer there. Then again I might just be a little pedantic with what qualifies as indie as well :/
"Distributed" is pretty meaningless as to whether a movie was made independently. The distributor buys an equity stake after the fact for the right to disseminate the movie. Any movie that's going to get seen has to have someone with some deep pockets distributing it. Don't let that bother you.