Not preachy. Not instructive. Just films that quietly raise the bar.
While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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 someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
The films that inspire you to be better never set out to do that. They just get close enough to something true that the comparison lands.
Survival ethics. Not the obvious choice but occasionally powerful.
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.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
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...
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
It shows someone doing something quietly right. No announcement. No reward. Just doing it.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
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.
You finish this and feel a vague, good pressure to be more considered. That's the right feeling.
Some films earn their effect. These do.