Watch something that makes you feel like you're not working hard enough. In a good way.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
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.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
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.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
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 shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
The films that inspire action are usually not the ones trying to. They just show someone doing something hard really well.
Less obvious fit, but survival-driven stories carry their own kind of drive.
The mixed-room test. These pass it.
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 one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
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 one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
This one ends and you immediately think about something you've been putting off.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
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.
It shows what sustained effort looks like without making it feel impossible. That sticks.
Some films earn their effect. These do.