Movies by Lists - Top 250 Most-Acclaimed Short Films of All Time (104 [255]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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7 UpA group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. | 1964 | Paul Almond | Documentary, Short, Biography | 8.0 (3.9K votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
À Propos de NiceWhat starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants. | 1930 | Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo | Documentary, Short, Comedy | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
AsparagusAn animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt. | 1979 | Suzan Pitt | Animation, Short | 7.2 (1.1K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
At 3-25 [Paris qui dort]A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility. | 1925 | René Clair (*) | Sci-Fi | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 59 | 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 |
BalanceA group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk. | 1989 | Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein | Animation, Short, Drama | 7.9 (5.3K votes) | 7 | 20220315 |
Big BusinessOllie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner. | 1929 | James W. Horne, Leo McCarey | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (3.1K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Big Snit, TheA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started. | 1985 | Richard Condie | Animation, Short, Comedy | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Cameraman's Revenge, The [Mest kinematograficheskogo operatora]Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adul... | 1912 | Wladyslaw Starewicz | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.7 (3.2K votes) | 12 | 20240605 |
Close Shave, AWallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot. | 1995 | Nick Park | Animation, Short, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery | 8.1 (40.6K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
CopsA series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force. | 1922 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.6 (6.1K votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Corner in Wheat, AAn unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets. | 1909 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Crime, Drama | 6.6 (2.4K votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
Cow, The [Korova]In the outback, on the railway station there lives a family. 4th grade schoolboy Vasya Rubtsov is experiencing the death of his beloved best friend the cow. The boy remembers how they used to have a cow, how this cow fed everyone wit | 1989 | Aleksandr Petrov | Animation, Short, Drama | 7.5 (961 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Cure, TheAn alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos. | 1917 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.2 (3.5K votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
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 |
Dentist, TheAn unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion. | 1932 | Leslie Pearce | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (1.6K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
Diary for Timothy, AThis brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neigh | 1945 | Humphrey Jennings (*) | Documentary, Short | 7.0 (718 votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
Dimensions of Dialogue [Moznosti dialogu]Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society. | 1983 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 8.1 (4.7K votes) | 12 | 20231001 |
Easy StreetA reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner city street. | 1917 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.5 (5.3K votes) | 24 | 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 |
ElephantA depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible. | 1989 | Alan Clarke | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (2.4K votes) | 39 | 20211228 |
Entr'acteAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear. | 1924 | René Clair (*) | Short | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
Fatal Glass Of BeerThe prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast." | 1933 | Clyde Bruckman | Short, Comedy, Western | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 18 | 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 |
Flaming CreaturesAn experimental film that features graphic sexual imagery, an earthquake, and a lipstick commercial. | 1963 | Jack Smith | Comedy, Drama, Horror | 4.7 (1.5K votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
Franz KafkaAnimated scenes from the Kafka's life, as told in his diaries. | 1992 | Piotr Dumala | Animation, Short, Biography | 6.5 (364 votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
Games of Angels, The [Les jeux des anges]A bizarre, semi-abstract animated film, based around the theme of angels being processed by a nightmarish factory. It has been interpreted as an allegory of the concentration camp experience and as a portrait of the industrialisation | 1964 | Walerian Borowczyk | Animation, Short | 5.6 (666 votes) | 13 | 20211228 |
Girl and Her Trust, TheSome tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured. | 1912 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Drama, Thriller, Western | 6.8 (1.2K votes) | 17 | 20211228 |
Girl's Own Story, AThe awkwardness and confusion of burgeoning sexuality in teenage girls in a twisted and repressed suburban culture. | 1984 | Jane Campion (*) | Short, Drama | 6.5 (796 votes) | 27 | 20220731 |
Grandmother, TheA young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother. | 1970 | David Lynch (*) | Animation, Short, Horror | 7.2 (6.7K votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
Great Train Robbery, TheA group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels. | 1903 | Edwin S. Porter | Short, Action, Adventure, Crime, Western | 7.3 (18.7K votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
Hand [Ruka], TheA delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop? | 1965 | Jirí Trnka | Animation, Short, Horror | 8.0 (1.7K votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Harvie KrumpetThe odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck. | 2003 | Adam Elliot | Animation, Comedy, Short, Drama | 8.0 (8.5K votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
Hedgehog in the FogA little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect. | 1975 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short, Drama, Family, Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (8.3K votes) | 11 | 20240930 |
Heron and the Crane, The [Tsaplya i zhuravl]Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane. | 1974 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short | 7.2 (798 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
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 |
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 |
IllusionsAn African American woman rises to prominence in a fictional movie studio in the 1940s by passing as a white woman, affording others some dignity in the business that frequently portrayed movies as an illusion of a purely "white worl | 1982 | Julie Dash | Drama, Short | 6.8 (393 votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
Immigrant, TheCharlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America. | 1917 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (8.2K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
Inauguration of the Pleasure DomeHistorical, biblical, and mythical characters gather in the pleasure dome and become part of a visual feast of superimposed images, hallucinations, and decadence. | 1954 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 38 | 20211228 |
Inspiration [Inspirace]An artist takes inspiration from the rain outside. | 1949 | Karel Zeman | Animation, Short | 7.5 (500 votes) | 11 | 20220723 |
Invocation of My Demon BrotherExperimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger. | 1969 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Horror | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 12 | 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 |
Joy of Life, The [La joie de vivre]A tone poem: two woodland sprites dance about, atop power lines and among flowers and leaves, while being pursued. Everyone spends some time pulling levers to switch trains, too. | 1934 | Anthony Gross, Hector Hoppin | Animation, Short, Musical | 6.7 (409 votes) | 9 | 20241012 |
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 |
Land Beyond the Sunset, TheA young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade. | 1912 | Harold M. Shaw | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 6.9 (796 votes) | 14 | 20220731 |
Land Without BreadA surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills. | 1933 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Documentary, Short | 7.4 (5.7K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
Listen to BritainA depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration. | 1942 | Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Documentary, Short | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Looking for LangstonA black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is | 1989 | Isaac Julien | Biography, Drama | 6.6 (520 votes) | 45 | 20220414 |
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 |
Mad Masters, The [Les maîtres fous]A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers. | 1955 | Jean Rouch (*) | Documentary, Short, Horror | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 36 | 20211228 |
Man Who Planted Trees, The [L'homme qui plantait des arbres]The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley. | 1987 | Frédéric Back | Animation, Short, Drama, Family | 8.5 (5.7K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
ManhattaThis groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors. | 1921 | Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand | Documentary, Short | 6.6 (1.5K votes) | 11 | 20211228 |
MénilmontantA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways. | 1926 | Dimitri Kirsanoff | Short, Drama | 7.8 (2.5K votes) | 38 | 20220731 |
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 |
Metamorphosis of Mr. Samsa, TheA traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like creature. | 1977 | Caroline Leaf | Animation, Short | 6.7 (336 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Mothering Heart, TheA young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with another woman. His wife leaves him, returning | 1913 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Short, Drama | 6.4 (787 votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
Music Box, TheLike the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs. | 1932 | James Parrott | Short, Comedy, Family | 8.0 (7.3K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
My ChildhoodThe second part (My ain folk) of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he paid for it with the money he made from returning empty jam jars ... | 1972 | Bill Douglas | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (1.4K votes) | 46 | 20221116 |
NeighboursA young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families. | 1920 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Short, Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Night And FogThe history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside. | 1956 | Alain Resnais (*) | Documentary, Short, History, War | 8.6 (18.8K votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
Night on Bald Mountain [Une nuit sur le mont chauve]Mussorgsky's composition is the soundtrack for this pin-screen animated take on night and wild things. A scarecrow blows down, clouds move by quickly. Beings take shape; a town appears, animals flee, and a horse gallops by. A child l | 1933 | Alexander Alexeieff, Claire Parker | Animation, Short, Fantasy | 6.9 (798 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
Now You Tell OneThe Liars Club is holding their contest to see who can tell the most unbelievable story, with a gold medallion waiting to be awarded to the winner. Disappointed with the other members' bland efforts, one member brings in Charley B... | 1926 | Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller | Short, Comedy | 7.1 (335 votes) | 20 | 20220731 |
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 |
Old Lady and the Pigeons, TheIn seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan. | 1997 | Sylvain Chomet | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (2.8K votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
Old Man and the Sea, TheAn old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. | 1999 | Aleksandr Petrov | Animation, Short, Adventure, Drama | 8.1 (4.1K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
One A.M.A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Family, Short | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
Oriental Elegy [Vostochnaya elegiya]A short film by Aleksandr Sokurov which provides a surreal visual experience. | 1996 | Aleksandr Sokurov (*) | Drama, Short | 7.3 (296 votes) | 43 | 20211228 |
Outer and Inner SpaceAn experimental short film in which a copy of an interview is shown on a monitor next to the live interview creating the illusion that the two are talking to each other. | 1966 | Andy Warhol (*) | Short | 5.3 (200 votes) | 33 | 20211228 |
Passionless MomentsA collection of everyday awkward and embarrassing moments, each with an uneasy familiarity. | 1985 | Jane Campion, Gerard Lee | Short, Drama | 7.1 (929 votes) | 13 | 20211228 |
Play House, TheAfter waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works. | 1921 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
Puce MomentA soundtrack plays folk rock as a woman prepares, at noon, to take her Borzois for a walk. She goes through her dresses, all 1920s style flapper gowns, holding them one at a time, shaking them as if they are dancing. She picks one - | 1949 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short | 6.3 (1.7K votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
Quiet Week in the House, A [Tichý týden v dome]A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision... | 1969 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Short | 6.6 (803 votes) | 20 | 20231001 |
Quiet Week in the House, A [Tichý týden v dome]A man, apparently on the run, takes shelter in a dilapidated house. Every day, he drills a hole through a wall and looks into one of the rooms, each time seeing a different surreal vision... | 1971 | Jan Svankmajer (*) | Animation, Short | 6.6 (761 votes) | 20 | 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 |
Ritual in Transfigured TimeAn experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image. | 1946 | Maya Deren (*) | Short | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 15 | 20211228 |
Rose HobartFootage selected from 'East of Borneo' and other films is arranged and edited so as to highlight actress Rose Hobart. | 1936 | Joseph Cornell | Short | 5.6 (1K votes) | 19 | 20241012 |
RyanThe movie talks about the life of Ryan Larkin, a gifted Canadian animator of the late '60s and the early '70s. | 2004 | Chris Landreth | Documentary, Animation, Short, Biography, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 (2.9K votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
San Pietro [The Battle of San Pietro]Director John Huston documents the Battle of San Pietro Infine in December 1943. | 1945 | John Huston (*) | Documentary, Short, War | 6.7 (2.2K votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
SatiemaniaA short film which documents the animator's satirical outlook on life using only music and images to convey the message. | 1978 | Zdenko Gasparovic | Animation, Short | 6.5 (379 votes) | 14 | 20230806 |
Scorpio RisingA gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together. | 1963 | Kenneth Anger (*) | Short, Music | 6.9 (5K votes) | 28 | 20211228 |
Sherlock JrA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. | 1924 | Buster Keaton (*) | Action, Comedy, Romance | 8.2 (47.4K votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
Simon of the DesertSimon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him. | 1965 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (10K votes) | 43 | 20211228 |
Snowman, TheOn Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas. | 1982 | Jimmy T. Murakami, Dianne Jackson | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music | 8.2 (16K votes) | 26 | 20231128 |
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 |
Spider and the Tulip, The [Kumo to chûrippu]A spider attempts to lure a ladybug into his web. When she manages to escape and hide in a tulip, a storm comes that batters the spider, while the ladybug remains safe. | 1943 | Kenzô Masaoka | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 6.7 (189 votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
Street of CrocodilesInside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls. | 1986 | Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Animation, Short | 7.7 (2.8K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Street, TheThis film deals with a Jewish family in Montreal, Canada as they care for a dying grandmother and the young boy who is impatient to get the room he was promised as soon as she kicks the bucket. | 1976 | Caroline Leaf | Animation, Comedy, Drama, Short | 6.6 (763 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Substitute, The [Surogat]Simple story about the man who comes to the beach and uses inflatable objects for all of his needs. | 1961 | Dusan Vukotic | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.2 (1.2K votes) | 10 | 20230328 |
Superstar - The Karen Carpenter StoryKaren Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s. | 1987 | Todd Haynes (*) | Short, Biography, Drama, Music | 7.7 (3.2K votes) | 43 | 20231114 |
Tale of Tales [Skazka skazok]Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted. | 1979 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short | 7.9 (3.6K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
Tale of Tales, The [Skazka skazok]Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted. | 1979 | Yuri Norstein | Animation, Short | 7.8 (4K votes) | 29 | 20240105 |
Tales of a Street Corner [Aru machikado no monogatari]In a small and colourful town, a little girl, a tiny grey mouse, a plentiful sycamore tree, a troublesome moth and a vivid community of posters coexist in a forgotten street corner. | 1962 | Yusaku Sakamoto, Eiichi Yamamoto | Animation, Short, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 7.1 (243 votes) | 38 | 20220723 |
Tell-Tale Heart, TheA madman tells his tale of murder, and how a strange beating sound haunted him afterward. | 1953 | Ted Parmelee | Animation, Short, Crime, Horror | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 8 | 20240110 |
Trip to the Moon, AA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon. | 1902 | Georges Méliès | Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.2 (47.7K votes) | 13 | 20211228 |
Two TarsAt a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists. | 1928 | James Parrott | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.3 (1.4K votes) | 21 | 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 |
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 |
WavelengthSome claim that it's one of the most unconventional and experimental films ever made, Wavelength is a structural film of a 45-minute long zoom in on a window over a period of a week. Very unconventional and experimental indeed. | 1967 | Michael Snow (*) | Drama | 5.6 (2.5K votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
White Mane [Crin blanc - Le cheval sauvage]In the Camargue, France, a young boy bonds with a white haired horse that escaped from ranchers. | 1953 | Albert Lamorisse | Drama, Family | 7.3 (2.1K votes) | 47 | 20211228 |
Wrong AgainAmong the horses stable hands Stanley and Oliver are tending is a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being t | 1929 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (918 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Wrong Trousers, TheWallace lets out his spare room to a penguin. The penguin and Gromit, Wallace's dog, immediately don't see eye-to-eye. Meanwhile, Wallace has invented a giant pair of robotic trousers, designed to take Gromit for walks. | 1993 | Nick Park | Animation, Short, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (53.4K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
Zero De ConduiteIn a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day. | 1933 | Jean Vigo (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
Zero for Conduct [Zéro de conduite - Jeunes diables au collège]In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day. | 1933 | Jean Vigo (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
Duck Amuck | 1953 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
What's Opera, Doc? | 1957 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Crac | 1980 | Frédéric Back | Animation, Short, Drama, Family, History | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
King-Size Canary | 1947 | Tex Avery | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le sang des bêtes | 1949 | Georges Franju | Documentary, Short | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Gertie the Dinosaur | 1914 | Winsor McCay | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Father and Daughter | 2000 | Michael Dudok de Wit | Animation, Short, Drama | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Tango | 1981 | Zbigniew Rybczynski | Animation, Short | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Pas de deux | 1968 | Norman McLaren | Animation, Short, Musical | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Neighbours | 1952 | Norman McLaren | Animation, Short, Comedy | 7.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Bad Luck Blackie | 1949 | Tex Avery | Family, Animation, Comedy, Short | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Harpya | 1979 | Raoul Servais | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat | 1896 | Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Documentary, Short | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Old Mill | 1937 | Graham Heid, Wilfred Jackson | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Red Hot Riding Hood | 1943 | Tex Avery | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Blinkity Blank | 1955 | Norman McLaren | Animation, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Band Concert | 1935 | Wilfred Jackson | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Dôjôji | 1976 | Kihachirô Kawamoto | Animation, Short | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Cat Concerto | 1947 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 8.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
When the Day Breaks | 1999 | Wendy Tilby, Amanda Forbis | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Music, Musical | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le château de sable | 1977 | Co Hoedeman | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
One Froggy Evening | 1955 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Steamboat Willie | 1928 | Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes | 1971 | Stan Brakhage | Documentary, Short, Horror | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Creature Comforts | 1989 | Nick Park | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Begone Dull Care | 1950 | Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren | Animation, Short, Music | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Méditerranée | 1963 | Jean-Daniel Pollet | Documentary, Short | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Snow-White | 1933 | Roland Crandall, Dave Fleischer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Porky in Wackyland | 1938 | Robert Clampett | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Gerald McBoing-Boing | 1950 | John Hubley, Robert Cannon | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Song of Ceylon | 1934 | Basil Wright | Short, Documentary | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia | 1971 | Hollis Frampton | Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Atama-yama | 2002 | Kôji Yamamura | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Short | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Heart of the World | 2000 | Guy Maddin | Short, Action, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Eine murul | 1987 | Priit Pärn | Animation, Short | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
A Colour Box | 1935 | Len Lye | Animation, Short | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Minnie the Moocher | 1932 | Willard Bowsky, Dave Fleischer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Horror, Music, Musical | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
La traversée de l'Atlantique à la rame | 1978 | Jean-François Laguionie | Animation, Short | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Luxo Jr. | 1986 | John Lasseter | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
A Movie | 1958 | Bruce Conner | Short | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Report | 1967 | Bruce Conner | Short | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Hunger | 1974 | Peter Foldes | Animation, Short, Comedy, Horror | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le nez | 1963 | Claire Parker, Alexander Alexeieff | Animation, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Jumping | 1984 | Osamu Tezuka | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Motion Painting No. 1 | 1947 | Oskar Fischinger | Animation, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Frank Film | 1973 | Caroline Mouris, Frank Mouris | Animation, Short, Biography | 6.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Mothlight | 1963 | Stan Brakhage | Short | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Hôtel des Invalides | 1952 | Georges Franju | Documentary, Short | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Repete | 1995 | Michaela Pavlátová | Animation, Short | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
L'idée | 1932 | Berthold Bartosch | Short, Animation | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Powers of Ten | 1977 | Ray Eames, Charles Eames | Documentary, Short | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le paysagiste | 1976 | Jacques Drouin | Animation, Short, Fantasy | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Moonbird | 1959 | John Hubley | Animation, Comedy, Short, Family | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen | 1983 | Trinh T. Minh-ha | Documentary, Short | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor | 1936 | Willard Bowsky, Dave Fleischer | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century | 1953 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Anticipation of the Night | 1958 | Stan Brakhage | Short | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Blonde Cobra | 1963 | Ken Jacobs | Short | 3.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Fantasmagorie | 1908 | Ãmile Cohl | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 6.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Skeleton Dance | 1929 | Walt Disney | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Musical | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Der Fuehrer's Face | 1942 | Ben Sharpsteen, Jack Kinney | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, War | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Toot Whistle Plunk and Boom | 1953 | Ward Kimball, Charles Nichols | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Three Little Pigs | 1933 | Burt Gillett | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Colloque de chiens | 1977 | Raúl Ruiz | Short | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Ubu | 1978 | Geoff Dunbar | Short, Animation | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Broken Down Film | 1985 | Osamu Tezuka | Animation, Short, Comedy, Western | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Superman | 1941 | Steve Muffati, Dave Fleischer | Animation, Short, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Strojenie instrumentów | 2000 | Jerzy Kucia | Short, Animation | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Allegretto | 1936 | Oskar Fischinger | Animation, Short | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Window Water Baby Moving | 1959 | Stan Brakhage | Documentary, Short | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Rabbit of Seville | 1950 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Die groÃe Ekstase des Bildschnitzers Steiner | 1974 | Werner Herzog | Documentary, Biography, Sport | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Adebar | 1957 | Peter Kubelka | Short | 4.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Unsere Afrikareise | 1966 | Peter Kubelka | Short | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Little Rural Riding Hood | 1949 | Tex Avery | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Ego zhena kuritsa | 1990 | Igor Kovalyov | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Free Radicals | 1958 | Len Lye | Animation, Short, Music | 6.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs | 1943 | Robert Clampett | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
A Unicorn in the Garden | 1953 | William T. Hurtz | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Schwechater | 1958 | Peter Kubelka | Short | 5.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Entre deux soeurs | 1991 | Caroline Leaf | Animation, Short, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Great Piggy Bank Robbery | 1946 | Robert Clampett | Animation, Short, Comedy, Crime, Family, Horror, Mystery | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Clock Cleaners | 1937 | Ben Sharpsteen | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Zapruder Film of Kennedy Assassination | 1970 | Abraham Zapruder | Documentary, Short, Crime, History | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
O Dreamland | 1953 | Lindsay Anderson | Documentary, Short, Comedy | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy | 1990 | Tracey Moffatt | Short, Drama | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
La coquille et le clergyman | 1928 | Germaine Dulac | Short, Drama, Fantasy | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Hill Farm | 1992 | Mark Baker | Animation, Short | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Kataku | 1979 | Kihachirô Kawamoto | Animation, Short | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Fétiche | 1933 | Wladyslaw Starewicz | Animation, Short, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The End | 1953 | Christopher Maclaine | Short | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le petit soldat | 1948 | Paul Grimault | Animation, Short, Family, Romance | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le voyage à travers l'impossible | 1904 | Georges Méliès | Short, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
An Exercise in Discipline: Peel | 1982 | Jane Campion | Short, Comedy, Drama | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
79 primaveras | 1969 | Santiago Ãlvarez | Short, Documentary | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Oni | 1972 | Kihachirô Kawamoto | Animation, Short, Fantasy | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Girls Night Out | 1987 | Joanna Quinn | Animation, Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Lmno | 1978 | Robert Breer | Animation, Short | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Puissance de la parole | 1988 | Jean-Luc Godard | Drama, Short, Romance | 5.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Little Stabs at Happiness | 1960 | Ken Jacobs | Short | 4.9 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Heavenly Puss | 1949 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics | 1965 | Maurice Noble, Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Romance | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
La course à l'abîme | 1992 | Georges Schwizgebel | Animation, Short | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Flying Man | 1962 | George Dunning | Animation, Short | 4.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Lapis | 1966 | James Whitney | Animation, Short | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
La gazza ladra | 1964 | Giulio Gianini, Emanuele Luzzati | Animation, Short | 6.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Toute la mémoire du monde | 1956 | Alain Resnais | Documentary, Short | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Little Orphan | 1948 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Milch | 2005 | Igor Kovalyov | Animation, Short | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Great (Isambard Kingdom Brunel) | 1975 | Bob Godfrey | Documentary, Animation, Short, Musical | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy | 1998 | Martin Arnold | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Johann Mouse | 1953 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 7.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le mélomane | 1903 | Georges Méliès | Short, Comedy, Music | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Apel | 1971 | Ryszard Czekala | Animation, Short, War | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Shan shui qing | 1988 | Wei Te | Animation, Short, Drama, Music | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Labirynt | 1963 | Jan Lenica | Animation, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Rooty Toot Toot | 1951 | John Hubley | Animation, Short, Musical, Comedy | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le fleuve aux grandes eaux | 1993 | Frédéric Back | Documentary, Animation, Short, Family, History | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Felix in Exile | 1994 | William Kentridge | Animation, Short | 6.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Black and Tan | 1929 | Dudley Murphy | Short, Drama, Music | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Arnulf Rainer | 1960 | Peter Kubelka | Short | 4.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
When It Rains | 1995 | Charles Burnett | Short, Drama, Music | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Old Actor | 1912 | D.W. Griffith | Short, Drama | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Dead | 1960 | Stan Brakhage | Short | 5.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Terminus | 1961 | John Schlesinger | Short, Documentary | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Night Mail | 1936 | Basil Wright, Harry Watt | Short, Documentary | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Le tunnel sous La Manche ou Le cauchemar franco-anglais | 1907 | Georges Méliès | Short, Adventure, Fantasy | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Hapax Legomena II: Poetic Justice | 1972 | Hollis Frampton | Short | 5.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Two Mouseketeers | 1952 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Quiet Please! | 1945 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Mouse Trouble | 1944 | William Hanna, Joseph Barbera | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Rainbow Dance | 1936 | Len Lye | Short, Musical, Animation | 6.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Les statues meurent aussi | 1953 | Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Documentary, Short | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Au bout du fil | 1974 | Paul Driessen | Animation, Short | 5.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Den offentlige røst | 1988 | Lejf Marcussen | Animation, Short | 6.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
The Nazis Strike | 1943 | Anatole Litvak, Frank Capra | Documentary, Short, History, War | 7.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Zhil-byl pyos | 1982 | Eduard Nazarov | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 8.4 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Beginnings | 1980 | Lina Gagnon, Clorinda Warny, Suzanne Gervais | Animation, Short | 6.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Vremena goda | 1975 | Artavazd Peleshian | Documentary, Short | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Out of the Inkwell | 1938 | Thomas Johnson, Dave Fleischer | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 5.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
By Night with Torch and Spear | 1942 | Joseph Cornell | Short | 6.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Damon the Mower | 1972 | George Dunning | Animation, Short | 5.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Omnibus | 1992 | Sam Karmann | Comedy, Short | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
J'attendrai le suivant... | 2002 | Philippe Orreindy | Comedy, Short, Romance | 7.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Brave Little Tailor | 1938 | Burt Gillett, Bill Roberts | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Feed the Kitty | 1952 | Chuck Jones | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
A légy | 1980 | Ferenc Rofusz | Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Barres | 1984 | Luc Moullet | Short, Comedy | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | 1906 | Edwin S. Porter, Wallace McCutcheon | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
Northwest Hounded Police | 1946 | Tex Avery | Animation, Short, Comedy, Crime, Family | 7.6 (Unkn) | | Excluded |