Quick, easy ways to make images look better?

What are the best ways to make images look a bit better? I shot my footage using a pretty bad camera, so quality already isn't the greatest, but what is the best way to make images look a bit more "movie-like"? The 3way color correstion is nothing for me, it's too hard to make images look good, they'll quickly turn too yellow or red, etc... Something to improve contrast maybe? Using Image Control: Brightness and contrast (bezier) doesn't seem to help much.

Okay, I took a couple of screenshots:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_1.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_2.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_3.png
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/TheDarkBrickX/Random/film/afbeelding_4.png
Now I don't know alot about image quality or color, but I think there is not enough contrast? It all looks very cold. Luckily, image quality isn't the most important thing in this project, but it would be nice to be able to touch it up a little bit.

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