The best films of this kind don't manipulate you. They just point at something true.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
Films that make you appreciate life usually work by contrast, or by slowing time down enough to see it properly.
Survival cinema. Hard to watch without appreciating what you have.
Suitable across ages. Nobody left out.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
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...
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
You finish it and look up, and whatever room you're in looks slightly different.
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.
This film slows everything down in a way that makes ordinary things look extraordinary.
Some films earn their effect. These do.