Cheerful Movies

Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely...

A wild journey into the origins of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the biggest cult film of all time, its impact on popular culture and...

Ben McGrath had major league potential playing professional baseball, but his hopes to play ball literally get crushed. Down on his luck, Ben gets...

The first all women climbing film. Lynn Hill and Beth Bennet make the first female free ascent of the Naked Edge, Eldorado Canyon, Colorado. A film...

A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated...

John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is...

A man dealing with a breakup meets a woman during a night out in 2021, leading to an unexpected connection amidst the pandemic.

A restaurant in Moscow is forced to shut shop after they end up ruining a crucial political dinner involving the president. The entire team then...

Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties....

A thirteen-year-old boy battling severe chronic asthma refuses to abandon his ambitions of joining the Indonesian National Youth Football Team,...

Self-centered and moody careerist Yana accidentally casts a spell on herself — all the men she sleeps with turn into dogs. How can Yana keep...

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. ...

Keely is aghast when her brother sells his half of their family-owned, upscale candy shop to his best friend from high school orcing a sudden urgency...

In a new take on the classic 1985 film of the same name, six teens accidentally witness a horrible crime and must work to piece together clues they...

In the seedy part of Los Angeles, a man who writes poetry has spent six months without leaving his apartment because of his paranoid delusions...

Two filmmakers have their film's hard drive stolen, which they need to finish in two days, so they go to great lengths to find it.

When their family restaurant is on the verge of closing, two cousins release rats in an attempt to set themselves up as pest control experts. That...

In the not-too-distant future, we have solved all the world’s problems, mitigated climate change, eradicated poverty, and achieved true...

Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, in the shadow of her more successfully-attached...