Hope in films works best when it's been earned. These earn it.
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Real hope in film comes from honesty about difficulty. These films know that.
The classic vehicle. Drama that earns its hope is unbeatable.
Works across generations. Safe but not boring.
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
In Fujisawa, Sakuta Azusagawa is in his second year of high school. Blissful days with his girlfriend and upperclassman, Mai Sakurajima, are interrupted by the appearance of his first crush, Shoko Makinohara.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Some films earn their effect. These do.