low-budget
idiom
: involving a small amount of money : involving a relatively small cost
a low-budget movie
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Part gangster thriller, part love story, the low-budget feature from Godard starring Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo galvanized a movement of New Wave filmmakers in France with its experimental filmmaking, from chaotic jumpshots to the actors who learned their lines on the fly.
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Directing a new Asylum production — the low-budget lost world dinosaur movie, The Land That Time Forgot, shot over six days in suburban Adelaide — while simultaneously documenting the absurdist, pressure-cooker environment surrounding the making of the mockbuster.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
The passions of this Christ have not been told quite this way before as this is low-budget horror posing as a not-quite-biblical epic.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
The low-budget, high-speed production model gave directors unprecedented creative freedom, birthing a generation of filmmakers who went on to define modern Japanese cinema — including Miike Takashi, Nakata Hideo, Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Aoyama Shinji.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 14 Nov. 2025
Directing a new Asylum production — the low-budget lost world dinosaur movie, The Land That Time Forgot, shot over six days in suburban Adelaide — while simultaneously documenting the absurdist, pressure-cooker environment surrounding the making of the mockbuster.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 13 Nov. 2025
The passions of this Christ have not been told quite this way before as this is low-budget horror posing as a not-quite-biblical epic.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 11 Nov. 2025
The low-budget, high-speed production model gave directors unprecedented creative freedom, birthing a generation of filmmakers who went on to define modern Japanese cinema — including Miike Takashi, Nakata Hideo, Kurosawa Kiyoshi and Aoyama Shinji.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Nov. 2025
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“Low-budget.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-budget. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.
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