Not optimistic in a cheap way. Hopeful in the way that actually sticks.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his body and mind.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
The films that leave you hopeful do so by taking the hard stuff seriously first.
Survival is a form of hope. When it lands, it hits hard.
Works in a group. Generates conversation.
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
It doesn't wrap things up perfectly. It just leaves you believing in the possibility of better.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
The hope at the end of this has been paid for by everything that came before. It's earned.
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.
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.