If you’re still feeling nauseated from the post-Oscar hangover, there’s a simple cure. MGM delivers it’s 18-title Independent Spirit Awards Collection—a faux collection of innovative indie classics (each available for individual purchase) that’s sure to alleviate some of those pangs and headaches brought on by the mainstream marketing machine.

Remember when Katie Holmes was just a girl trying to make her way in the world and not the zombie on Cruise’s arm? In Pieces Of April, a young woman (Katie Holmes) attempts to reconnect with her estranged, dysfunctional family—including her dying mother (Patricia Clarkson)—by preparing Thanksgiving dinner for them. What could be more simple, honest and wholesome?

Alfonso Cuarón was shut out of contention for the über-awards for his Children of Men, but he was the critics’ darling back in 2001 with Y Tu Mamá También. That’s where we also got our first look at Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna as fun-loving, hormonal teens Julio and Tenoch as they explore their sexuality with an older woman (Maribel Verdu). It’s a road trip film that will make you forget all that Little Miss Sunshine madness and have you longing for a tour through the Mexican countryside to a paradise beach of your own.

The Safety Of Objects stars Glenn Close, Patricia Clarkson and Dermot Mulroney as suburbanites with life-shattering personal problems they can’t resolve until they own up to their mutual past. And speaking of threesomes, in XX/XY, Mark Ruffalo, Maya Stange and Kathleen Robertson form a ménage a trois that goes awry. And since sex seems to be one of the few reasons people will watch an indie these days, When Will I Be Loved, directed by James Toback, stars Neve Campbell, Dominic Chianese and Fred Weller in an erotic, exotic thriller about sexual power and politics.And, before we forget that the doc craze got started well before global warming, Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine about the 1999 massacre at Columbine High and America’s obsession with guns and media’s reign of terror. Something we’re all reminded of every year when the Academy Awards are televised.