An exception is the brief, exquisitely animated and exceptionally bleak "Dog," which won a Bafta award, the British equivalent of an Oscar, in 2002.
Fox, rapidly adjusting to the wild, catches rabbits and other small prey as master and dog traverse the bleak topography.
In other scenes, Kip ritually kills his dog, Sean has bleak sex, Seth plays loud music on a guitar and, in one of many allusions to popular horror movies, Kathleen gets sucked into a hole in her bed.
In another of its bleak ads, a young girl's dog bites a man who has been stalking her he seems a particularly menacing figure in the world of Japanese advertising.
It's brutal in its particulars, with dreary streets, bleak houses, stray and (maddeningly) barking dogs and the grim, hard faces of men and women wearing masks bequeathed to them by Ceausescu.
The bleak undertaking wound down Wednesday after cadaver dogs helped with one last sweep of the ruins.
Responding to his 2001 fiction-feature debut, the critic Scott Foundas wrote, "What some detect as cruelty in 'Dog Days' is in fact a bleak but deeply felt humanism".
Traveling across a harsh, cold, snow-covered terrain filled with wild packs of dogs, Willo heads into the city, a bleak realm of starvation and violence.
The first-time directorial effort of British actor Tim Roth ("Reservoir Dogs," "Pulp Fiction"), "War Zone" is a bleak, harrowing tale of incest and domestic disturbance, adapted by Alexander Stuart from his own novel.
On a bleak winter afternoon like today, the cats stay indoors, but the dog lies outside looking for the children.
In fact the artist carefully digitally removed any intrusive features – dog walkers, cyclists, a factory building – until it was bleak enough to satisfy him.
