Not naive. Not sentimental. Just honestly good at showing what humans are capable of.
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 people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
It shows people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
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 people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
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.
There's a moment in this that restores something. You'll know it when you see 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.
It shows people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
Films that restore faith in people don't do it through sentimentality. They do it through honesty. These are honest.
Rare but possible. Sacrifice and solidarity appear even here.
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.
There's a moment in this that restores something. You'll know it when you see 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...
It shows people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
There's a moment in this that restores something. You'll know it when you see it.
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
There's a moment in this that restores something. You'll know it when you see it.
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 people at their best without pretending the world is easy. That's the specific thing.
Some films earn their effect. These do.