Movies by Lists - Top 100 Short Films (52 [102]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12-01 PMPoor Myron Castleman is stuck reliving the same 59 minutes of his lunch break. | 1991 | Jonathan Heap | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (1.4K votes) | 25 | 20220723 |
| 2081A short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone | 2009 | Chandler Tuttle | Short, Action, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (2.5K votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
| All Boys Are Called Patrick [Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick] Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think. | 1959 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.0 (2.6K votes) | 21 | 20240910 |
| AmbushA mysterious BMW driver must protect an eccentric old foreigner from criminals. | 2001 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Action, Short | 7.0 (4.7K votes) | 6 | 20240630 |
| Antoine and ColetteAntoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him. | 1962 | François Truffaut (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (5K votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
| At LandSilently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back. | 1944 | Maya Deren (*) | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 (3.1K votes) | 15 | 20230126 |
| Bakery girl of Monceau [La Boulangère de Monceau]A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee. | 1963 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Short, Romance | 7.3 (4.6K votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
| Bakery Girl Of Monceau, The [La boulangère de Monceau]A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee. | 1963 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Short, Romance | 7.3 (4.6K votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
| Beat the DevilDecades ago, the legendary James Brown sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune. Now he wishes to renegotiate. Hired to take Mr. Brown to a rendezvous with the devil, the driver soon finds himself entangled in fiendish plans. | 2002 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Short, Adventure, Comedy | 7.3 (6K votes) | 9 | 20230830 |
| Beat the DevilDecades ago, the legendary James Brown sold his soul to the devil for fame and fortune. Now he wishes to renegotiate. Hired to take Mr. Brown to a rendezvous with the devil, the driver soon finds himself entangled in fiendish plans. | 2002 | Tony Scott (*) | Action, Short, Adventure, Comedy | 7.3 (6.1K votes) | 9 | 20240630 |
| Big Shave, TheIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot. | 1967 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Short, Drama, Horror | 7.0 (6.9K votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
| CarneAfter a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him. | 1991 | Gaspar Noé (*) | Short, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (7K votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| Charlotte and Her Boyfriend [Charlotte et son Jules]A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette). | 1958 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Short, Drama | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| ChosenThe Driver is carrying an East Asian child who has been chosen for a strange rite. He must drive him through the city to get to a monk's house, while eluding several cars out to get the child. | 2001 | Ang Lee (*) | Action, Short | 6.8 (4.9K votes) | 6 | 20240630 |
| Curtain Raiser, A [Un lever de rideau]A young Frenchman is determined to dump his girlfriend due to her invariable excessive tardiness. | 2006 | François Ozon | Short, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (784 votes) | 30 | 20220531 |
| Day in the Country, A [Partie de campagne]The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day. | 1946 | Jean Renoir (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (6.3K votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| Eaux d'ArtificeA man dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este. | 1953 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short | 6.9 (1.6K votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| FireworksA dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before. | 1947 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Drama, Horror | 7.0 (2.5K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Follow, TheThe Driver is now spying on a celebrity's wife suspected of adultery. | 2001 | Kar-Wai Wong | Action, Short, Mystery, Romance | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 8 | 20240630 |
| Hold Me While I'm NakedA independent director is faced with artistic difficulty when he asks his actresses to show nudity. | 1966 | George Kuchar | Short, Comedy, Drama | 5.4 (1.6K votes) | 17 | 20211228 |
| HostageThe driver races to locate a kidnapped victim locked in the trunk of an abandoned car somewhere on the water's edge. Linked to her only by cell phone, the driver narrows in on her location in a desperate race against time and tide. | 2002 | John Woo (*) | Short, Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller | 7.2 (5.2K votes) | 9 | 20240630 |
| House Is Black, The [Khaneh siah ast]Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude. | 1963 | Forugh Farrokhzad | Documentary, Short | 7.9 (4.6K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| It's Not Just You, Murray!Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his | 1964 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Short, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.5 (1.7K votes) | 15 | 20211228 |
| Jetée, LaThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images. | 1962 | Chris Marker (*) | Short, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.2 (32.8K votes) | 28 | 20220315 |
| Key to ReservaFinding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have. | 2007 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Short | 7.9 (3K votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Killers, The [Ubiytsy]Two men besiege a lunch bar looking for a third man they must kill. | 1956 | Marika Beiku, Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky | Short, Drama | 6.6 (3.7K votes) | 19 | 20240210 |
| Kustom Kar KommandosA man in tight jeans buffs his car to the strains of "Dream Lover". | 1965 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Music | 6.3 (1.6K votes) | 3 | 20211228 |
| La JetéeThe story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images. | 1962 | Chris Marker (*) | Short, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (32.4K votes) | 28 | 20211228 |
| Les Mistons [The Brats]A group of five boys, the brats of the title, are all in love with an unbearably beautiful woman and so they spend their summer jealously harassing her and her boyfriend. | 1957 | François Truffaut (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.1 (3.6K votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| Lucifer RisingEgyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age. | 1972 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Fantasy | 7.2 (3K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
| Meshes of the AfternoonA woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-scre | 1943 | Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Short, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.9 (12.7K votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
| MoreA worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough? | 1998 | Mark Osborne | Sci-Fi, Short, Animation | 8.1 (5.8K votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
| Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge [La rivière du hibou]In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home. | 1961 | Robert Enrico | Short, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, War, Western | 8.1 (3.9K votes) | 28 | 20211228 |
| Picnic [Pikunikku]Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to v | 1996 | Shunji Iwai | Drama, Fantasy | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Powder KegJanuary 13, 2001. Times war photographer Harvey Jacobs is wounded while witnessing a massacre at Nuevo Colon by terrorists. In a desperate effort, the United Nations sends a vehicle to get him out, a BMW driven by the mysterious D... | 2001 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Action, Short | 7.5 (5.3K votes) | 8 | 20240630 |
| Rabbit's MoonPierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine unsuccessfully, then enters a mystical moon-r | 1950 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 7 | 20211228 |
| Red Balloon, The [Le ballon roug]A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris. | 1956 | Albert Lamorisse | Short, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.1 (18.3K votes) | 34 | 20220723 |
| Rendezvous [C'était un rendez-vous]A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris. | 1976 | Claude Lelouch (*) | Short, Action | 7.9 (3.5K votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
| Scenes from the SuburbsA resident of a suburban dystopia tries to reassemble his fragmented memories of life as a teen. | 2011 | Spike Jonze (*) | Short, Drama, Music | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 28 | 20211228 |
| SignsWhere do you find love? Sometimes all you need is a sign. | 2008 | Patrick Hughes | Short, Romance | 8.1 (4.5K votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
| Six ShooterA black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball.... | 2004 | Martin McDonagh | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (12.1K votes) | 27 | 20211228 |
| Song of Love [Un chant d'amour]Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication. | 1950 | Jean Genet | Short, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 (3.8K votes) | 26 | 20240722 |
| StarThe Driver carries an arrogant rock star who wants to get away from her bodyguards in the Driver's BMW. | 2001 | Guy Ritchie (*) | Action, Short, Comedy | 7.6 (7.6K votes) | 7 | 20240630 |
| Telephone Box, The [La cabina]A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him. | 1972 | Antonio Mercero | Drama, Horror | 7.9 (3.8K votes) | 35 | 20211228 |
| TickerThe Driver finds himself in a dangerous, yet highly political situation; this time being pursued by a helicopter gunship while carrying a passenger with a suitcase, the contents of which will decide the fate of a nation. | 2002 | Joe Carnahan | Short, Action, Adventure | 7.5 (4.7K votes) | 8 | 20240630 |
| Time PieceAn ordinary man lives in constant motion, in a desperate attempt to escape the passage of time. | 1965 | Jim Henson | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.7 (978 votes) | 9 | 20240810 |
| Turning, TheA collection of short films based on stories by Australian writer Tim Winton. | 2013 | Jonathan auf der Heide, Tony Ayres, Jub Clerc, Robert Connolly, Shaun Gladwell | Drama | 5.9 (1.4K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| ValidationA fable about a parking attendant who gives his customers REAL validation -- dispensing both free parking and free compliments. | 2007 | Kurt Kuenne | Short, Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (4.5K votes) | 16 | 20240412 |
| WaspZoë is a single mother who lives with her four young children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy them food. One day an old friend she secretly fancied years ago drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared th | 2003 | Andrea Arnold | Short, Drama | 7.6 (3.6K votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
| Wave, TheAn experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story. | 1981 | Alexander Grasshoff | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 44 | 20231207 |
| When Twilight Draws Near [Yoiyami semareba]When faced with an accidental gas leak, four bored students turn the situation into a game. The last one to leave the apartment gets a small sum of money. | 1969 | Akio Jissôji | Short, Drama | 6.7 (71 votes) | 43 | 20211228 |
| I'm Here | 2010 | Spike Jonze | Short, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Light Is Calling | 2004 | Bill Morrison | Short | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La cabina | 1973 | Bruno Bozzetto | Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| L.A. Bros | 2011 | Addison Sandoval | Short, Adventure, Drama, History | 9.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| ...No Lies | 1973 | Mitchell Block | Short, Drama | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| North Atlantic | 2010 | Bernardo Nascimento | Short, Drama | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Daybreak Express | 1953 | D.A. Pennebaker | Documentary, Short, Music | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Curfew | 2012 | Shawn Christensen | Short, Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Yûkoku | 1966 | Yukio Mishima | Drama, Short | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mujo no kaze: The wind of impermanence | 2008 | Dean Yamada | Short, Drama | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| 10 minuta | 2002 | Ahmed Imamovic | Short, Drama, War | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Foutaises | 1989 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Short, Comedy | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Recife Frio | 2009 | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Short, Comedy | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Chronos | 1985 | Ron Fricke | Documentary, Short | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Confession | 2006 | Elle Schneider | Short, Action, Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Smile Pinki | 2008 | Megan Mylan | Documentary, Short | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| I Am So Proud of You | 2008 | Don Hertzfeldt | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Day We Disappear | 2001 | Carl Savillo | Short | 8.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tulnukas ehk Valdise pääsemine 11 osas | 2006 | Rasmus Merivoo | Short, Action, Comedy | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Aquel no era yo | 2012 | Esteban Crespo | Short, Drama, War | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Eu Não Quero Voltar Sozinho | 2010 | Daniel Ribeiro | Short, Drama, Romance | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Pitch Black Heist | 2011 | John Maclean | Short, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Saddest Boy in the World | 2006 | Jamie Travis | Short, Comedy | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Le sabotier du Val de Loire | 1956 | Jacques Demy | Documentary, Short, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cashback | 2004 | Sean Ellis | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| SÃðasti bærinn | 2004 | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Short, Drama | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Aningaaq | 2013 | Jonás Cuarón | Short, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Volume | 2012 | Mahalia Belo | Short, Drama | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Briefcase | 2012 | Andre Welsh | Short, Thriller | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Ellie Lumme | 2014 | Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | Short, Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 3.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Tian qiao bu jian le | 2002 | Tsai Ming-liang | Short, Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Spin | 2005 | Jamin Winans | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Jorge | 1998 | Joel Hopkins | Short | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Some Boys Don't Leave | 2009 | Maggie Kiley | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| A Case of Egg | 2013 | Yuri Kanchiku | Short, Drama | nan (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Lulu | 2014 | Caroline Sascha Cogez | Drama | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Avant que de tout perdre | 2013 | Xavier Legrand | Short, Drama, Family, Thriller | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Needle | 2013 | Anahita Ghazvinizadeh | Short, Drama | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Endorphin | 2013 | Reza Gamini | Short, Drama | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Helium | 2013 | Anders Walter | Short, Drama, Family | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| La strada di Raffael | 2013 | Alessandro Falco | Documentary, Short, Drama | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Dwaj ludzie z szafa | 1958 | Roman Polanski | Short, Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| True | 2004 | Tom Tykwer | Short, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Redemption | 2013 | Miguel Gomes | Documentary, Short | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Multi-Facial | 1995 | Vin Diesel | Short, Drama | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Aemorraghe | 2014 | Patrick Devaney | Short, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| The Punisher: Dirty Laundry | 2012 | Phil Joanou | Short, Action, Crime, Drama | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mamá | 2008 | Andy Muschietti | Short, Horror | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Cigarettes & Coffee | 1993 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Drama, Short | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Envelope | 2012 | Alexey Nuzhny | Short, Drama | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Bullet in the Brain | 2001 | David Von Ancken | Short | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |