false hope and disillusionment

The Iceman Cometh

1973 · John Frankenheimer

Easy Money: Hard to Kill

2012 · Babak Najafi

Requiem for a Dream

2000 · Darren Aronofsky

A Child of the Ghetto

1910 · D.W. Griffith

Le notti di Cabiria

1957 · Federico Fellini

Manhattan Cocktail

1928 · Dorothy Arzner

Mannequin

1938 · Frank Borzage

Runaway

1958 · Ritwik Ghatak

Stage Struck

1958 · Sidney Lumet

Great World of Sound

2007 · Craig Zobel

Miracle in Milan

1951 · Vittorio De Sica

The Shawshank Redemption

1994 · Frank Darabont