About Killers of the Flower Moon
In 1920s Osage County, Oklahoma, the Osage Nation is the wealthiest people per capita in the world thanks to the oil under their land — and they are being murdered one by one. Martin Scorsese, working from David Grann’s book, centers the long film on the marriage between an Osage woman and the white man courting her, and lets that single relationship carry the weight of the conspiracy.
Released in 2023 and running a tight 3h 26m, Killers of the Flower Moon sits firmly in the crime tradition that American art-house cinemas have spent the last two decades quietly defending. The film is rated R and presented in English.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese belongs to the cohort of directors whose work tends to land first at festivals — Sundance, Locarno, the New York Film Festival, SXSW — before opening on a small handful of screens in New York and Los Angeles and then rolling out, week by week, to the independent circuit elsewhere in the country. Killers of the Flower Moon is part of that pipeline. It is the only title from Martin Scorsese currently in our directory; if you want to keep tabs on the director's other work, follow festival-circuit coverage from the outlets that track independent distribution.
Cast
The principal cast — Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons — is the kind of ensemble that art-house audiences will recognize from adjacent festival titles. Independent casting tends to favor performers who can carry a long take, hold a quiet scene, and trust a director's control of pace; this film is no exception.
Where to watch Killers of the Flower Moon
Our seasonal catalog — an editorial sample of the circuit, not a live ticketing feed — places it at independent cinemas in 12 US cities. Coverage is deepest in:
- Milwaukee, WI — listed at 2 independent cinemas.
- New York, NY — listed at 2 independent cinemas.
- Rochester, NY — listed at 2 independent cinemas.
- Oklahoma City, OK — listed at 2 independent cinemas.
- Marble Falls, TX — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Marion, IA — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Brunswick, ME — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Chapel Hill, NC — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Tempe, AZ — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Seattle, WA — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Campbell, CA — listed at 1 independent cinema.
- Woodstock, NY — listed at 1 independent cinema.
If your city isn't on the list, the film may still surface on a future repertory week or festival weekend; check our full cinema directory.
Why it belongs on the indie circuit
The independent and art-house exhibition circuit exists to surface films like this one — work that doesn't fit the wide-release calendar, doesn't have the marketing budget of a studio tentpole, and depends instead on programmers, critics, and word-of-mouth to find an audience. Killers of the Flower Moon is a clean fit for that model: a 3h 26m crime work, made outside the studio system, that benefits from being seen on a real screen with a real audience rather than queued up on a streaming dashboard. The cinemas in the cities listed above are the venues doing that work for this title.
Cross-references
If you are building a viewing schedule around this film, our Crime genre hub indexes adjacent work in the same tradition.