Top 250 Short Films
by AssetsonFire | created - 29 Nov 2010 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicMy choice of the best short films, ranked. Continually updated.
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1. Wavelength (1967)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Drama
Claimed by some to be 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.
Director: Michael Snow | Stars: Hollis Frampton, Lyne Grossman, Naoto Nakazawa, Roswell Rudd
Votes: 3,018
2. Dream Work (2001)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 1,165
3. Epilogue (2005 Video)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
A pure Visual Music experience, Belson has distilled 60 years of visionary sound and images into this 12 minute videofilm, synchronized to a symphonic tone poem "Isle of the Dead Opus 29" ... See full summary »
Director: Jordan Belson
Votes: 77
4. Menq (1969)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 460
5. Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,889
6. Verj (1992)
10 min | Documentary, Short
People's struggle through Soviet mechanisation period. The film starts with homage to Peleshian's Armenian roots.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 414
7. Un chien andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Pancho Cossío
Votes: 53,806
9. Samadhi (1967)
6 min | Animation, Short
An experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
Director: Jordan Belson
Votes: 309
10. Allures (1961)
8 min | Short
An experimental short film by Jordan Belson which combines various colors and shapes.
Director: Jordan Belson
Votes: 505
11. Light Is Calling (2004)
8 min | Short
A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon¹s 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an film.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Eddie Phillips, Lola Todd
Votes: 505
12. La femme qui se poudre (1972)
18 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
A study of human anxieties about beauty, youth and objectification.
Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Jean-Jacques Choul, Jacques Delbosc d'Auzon, Claus-Dieter Reents, Nadine Roussial
Votes: 383
13. Kyanq (1993)
7 min | Short, Documentary
Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 490
14. My Name Is Oona (1969)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A 9-year-old girl approaches self-awareness in a hauntingly dreamlike frolic in the great outdoors.
Director: Gunvor Nelson | Star: Oona Nelson
Votes: 255
15. Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (2005)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Western
An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 579
16. Prelude: Dog Star Man (1962)
25 min | Short
The prelude to Dog Star Man (1964), an experimental film wherein a man climbs a mountain along with his dog.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,477
17. Dawn of an Evil Millennium (1988)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Horror
Epic Super-8 short about a demon summoned to Earth who takes command of a souped-up 1970 Oldsmobile and goes on a road-kill rampage.
Director: Damon Packard | Stars: Ronald Lacey, Miles O'Keeffe, Damon Packard
Votes: 174
18. New York, N.Y. (1986)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A contemplative look at New York's dazzling cityscape during the day and at night.
Director: Raymond Depardon | Star: Raymond Depardon
Votes: 105
19. Truth or Dare (1994)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Innocence gives way to experience. Two girls and two boys, probably about 14 or 15 years old, play a game of truth or dare. The questions and the challenges deal with sex; it's innocent and... See full summary »
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Farida Rahmatoullah, Aylin Argun, Fabien Billet, Adrien Pastor
Votes: 866
20. Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Passed | 45 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A 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.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
Votes: 57,014 | Gross: $0.98M
21. Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988 TV Movie)
43 min | Comedy, History
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
Director: Richard Boden | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry
Votes: 13,964
22. Atraksion (2001)
10 min | Short, Fantasy
A group of convicts slowly drag their balls and chains through a desolate landscape. One of them discovers a strange structure and decides to climb it.
Director: Raoul Servais | Star: Marq Rawls
Votes: 231
23. The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
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 adultery?
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 3,217
25. A Movie (1958)
12 min | Short
Clips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Theodore Roosevelt
Votes: 1,455
26. Atama-yama (2002)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
A sad rakugo of a stingy old man experiencing the unforeseen consequences of eating a few cherries whole, without throwing the pits away.
Director: Kôji Yamamura | Stars: Takeharu Kunimoto, Bruno Metzger
Votes: 1,588
27. N.Y., N.Y. (1957)
Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short
A day in the life of the city and citizens of New York as seen through the fantastic eye, and the incredibly distorted optic lenses, of filmmaker Francis Thompson.
Director: Francis Thompson
Votes: 393
28. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
Votes: 2,928
30. Poslední lup (1987)
Not Rated | 21 min | Animation, Short, Crime
A sarcastic story about a thief who becomes the victim of his own victims. His victims come from the other world and take his most precious possession - his blood. The phantasmal atmosphere... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Barta | Stars: Frantisek Husák, Zdenek Martínek, Ivan Vojtek, Martin Safr
Votes: 476
31. Obitateli (1970)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A reflection on the relationship between wildlife and humans.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 379
32. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral, Alfred Macquart, Maurice Griselle
Votes: 2,595
33. Entr'acte (1924)
22 min | Short
An 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.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 4,198
34. Destino (2003)
PG | 7 min | Animation, Short
Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.
Director: Dominique Monfery | Stars: Dora Luz, Jennifer Esposito
Votes: 5,993
35. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,465
36. World of Glory (1991)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart Björklund, Christer Christensen, Bernard Eiger
Votes: 2,821
37. Fallen Art (2004)
6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A volunteer soldier plummets to his death. A photograph is taken and sent by courier to a huge man, who adds it to his macabre collection.
Director: Tomasz Baginski | Stars: Arkadiusz Jakubik, Marcin Kudelka, Dariusz Toczek
Votes: 4,398
38. Still Life (III) (2005)
9 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A pill-popping, over-caffeinated driver accidentally hits something. Panic-stricken, he searches for help in a strange and desolate town that offers very little in the form of human kindness.
Director: Jon Knautz | Stars: Trevor Matthews, Kyle Brydges, Joe Newton, Sam Pollack
Votes: 1,119
39. Carne (1991)
40 min | Short, Crime, Drama
After 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.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Marie Berto
Votes: 7,842
40. Bluebeard (1901)
TV-MA | 12 min | Short, Horror
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy, Bleuette Bernon, Thomas White
Votes: 1,881
41. Pas de deux (1968)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short, Musical
Two ballet dancers perform a dance enhanced with surreal multi and after-image effect visuals.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Margaret Mercier, Vincent Warren
Votes: 1,765
42. The Heart of the World (2000)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Action, Fantasy
A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Greg Klymkiw
Votes: 3,600
43. Asparagus (1979)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.
Director: Suzan Pitt
Votes: 1,463
44. The God (2003)
4 min | Animation, Short
An Indian deity is disturbed by a mere fly.
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 643
45. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,791
46. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
The epic story of one man's encounter with what could be the most relentless murderer of all time.
Director: Richard Gale | Stars: Paul Clemens, Brian Rohan, Melissa Paladino, Michael James Kacey
Votes: 6,655
47. Mindscape (1976)
8 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
An artist creates a painting of the landscape he sees, then finds he can literally climb into the picture to see the fantastic world inside.
Director: Jacques Drouin
Votes: 826
48. Berlin Horse (1970)
7 min | Short
manipulations of stock footage featuring a horse.
Director: Malcolm le Grice
Votes: 212
49. La Jetée (1962)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Étienne Becker, Jean Négroni, Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich
Votes: 37,066
50. 21-87 (1964)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Snippets from discarded footage, and with footage shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, combined to a collage with the underlying argument as to whether man is a complex machine or a creature with a soul.
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Votes: 688
51. Bridges-Go-Round (1958)
8 min | Short, Drama
Essential, integral experimental work from the late 1950s is an incredible dance of montage and super-imposition starring none other than New York City's various bridges, transforming them ... See full summary »
Director: Shirley Clarke
Votes: 433
52. Small Deaths (1996)
11 min | Short, Drama
Captures three occurrences in a young girl's life that leave her with a heavy heart.
Director: Lynne Ramsay | Stars: Anne McLean, James Ramsay, Lynne Ramsay Jr., Genna Gillan
Votes: 990
53. Meikyû-tan (1975)
16 min | Short
Two men carry a portal door which leads to different realms.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Keiko Niitaka, Yoko Ran, Sueshi Sasada, Shigeru Meguro
Votes: 218
54. Light (1974)
8 min | Short
An experimental film which presents a variety of images of the light and color of galaxies, suns, and seas as experienced by individual awareness.
Director: Jordan Belson
Votes: 101
55. Ambition (1992)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A day in the life of a young artist who longs for professional success and the attention of beautiful women, but who encounters only frustration and violence.
Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: George Feaster, Hannah Sullivan, Rick Groel, James McCauley
Votes: 504
56. Kiwi! (2006)
TV-Y | 3 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of a Kiwi who spends his whole life working towards achieving his dream.
Director: Dony Permedi | Star: Pierre Coffin
Votes: 8,704
57. The Chorus (1982)
17 min | Short, Drama
A deaf old man wearing a hearing aid is walking in the streets of Rasht. When the surroundings get too noisy, he turns off his sound. Unfortunately, when he returns home, he can't hear his granddaughter ringing the doorbell.
Director: Abbas Kiarostami | Stars: Yoosef Moghaddam, Ali Asgari, Teymour
Votes: 698
58. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,374
59. The Ash Tree (1975 TV Movie)
32 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Man of leisure Sir Richard (Edward Petherbridge) receives notification that his Uncle has died, bequeathing him his stately country manor and all its lands. On his return to England he ... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, Preston Lockwood, Barbara Ewing, Lalla Ward
Votes: 765
60. Zero for Conduct (1933)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Du Verron
Votes: 9,364
61. La Soufrière (1977)
31 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Herzog takes a film crew to the island of Guadeloupe when he hears that the volcano on the island is going to erupt. Everyone has left, except for one old man who refuses to leave. Herzog ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Werner Herzog, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Edward Lachman
Votes: 2,304
62. Black Ice (1994)
3 min | Short
A lateral descent through the midnight blues and blacks of ice and the refracted colors from absorbed oils.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,089
63. The Big Shave (1967)
Not Rated | 5 min | Short, Drama, Horror
In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Star: Peter Bernuth
Votes: 8,714
64. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
5 min | Short
A father and son ride the rails in their powerful locomotive. Witnessing a crash between two other engines, they rescue the lone survivor, Berenice, and make her a part of their family. All... See full summary »
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Jim Keller, Brandy Bayes, Caelum Vatnsdal, Evan Tyler Richards
Votes: 508
65. Diary of a Male Whore (2001)
15 min | Drama, Short
The painfully brutal tale of the sexual awakening of a young Palestinian man as influenced by the his libido and the violence around him. His encounter with an elderly Jewish man in Tel ... See full summary »
Director: Tawfik Abu Wael
Votes: 28
68. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait 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.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,260
69. Tusalava (1929)
9 min | Short, Animation
With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into chains of cells then more complex images... See full summary »
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 300
70. Lost in the Mountains (2009)
31 min | Short, Drama
On impulse, a young woman drives from Seoul to see her best friend, but also meets up with her older professor, and then a former lover. Drinks ensue, and surprises are revealed for all ... See full summary »
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Star: Jung Yu-mi
Votes: 204
71. The Games of Angels (1964)
Not Rated | 13 min | Animation, Short
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Walerian Borowczyk
Votes: 816
72. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A 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-screen.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,209
73. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen, Stéphane Fey
Votes: 4,260
74. Rejected (2000)
Unrated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Robert May, Jennifer Nyholm, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 8,883
75. A Kiss in the Tunnel (I) (1899)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, George Albert Smith
Votes: 1,697
76. Swing You Sinners! (1930)
8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bimbo is seen late at night, trying to steal a chicken. He runs away from a policeman and enters a haunted cemetery. Various ghosts and monsters tell him that he will be punished for his sin.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Ted Sears | Star: Billy Murray
Votes: 768
77. The Night It Rained (1967)
35 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary which explores what did or did not happen on a rainy night a young boy allegedly saved a train from crashing.
Director: Kamran Shirdel
Votes: 458
78. Déjeuner du matin (1974)
12 min | Short, Animation
Director: Patrick Bokanowski | Stars: Daniel Bard, Thierry Doublet, Jacques Faure, Josette Lassaque
Votes: 128
79. The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (1983)
15 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A horrifying, surrealist version of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" directed by the masterful animator Jan Svankmajer.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Jan Zácek
Votes: 1,040
80. Ghost (1984)
5 min | Short, Horror
Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.
Director: Takashi Itô | Star: Bin Shimada
Votes: 607
81. Song of Love (1950)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
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.
Director: Jean Genet | Stars: Bravo, Jean Genet, Java, Coco Le Martiniquais
Votes: 3,708
82. The Cat with Hands (2001)
16+ | 4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
The dark, surreal story of a cat who wants to be human.
Director: Robert Morgan | Stars: Livy Armstrong, Daniel Hogwood-Kane, Victoria Hayes
Votes: 2,038
83. Zaniklý svet rukavic (1982)
Not Rated | 16 min | Animation, Short
Using an array of gloves in different styles and from different historical periods, the film is a short history of the cinema - from silent movies via pastiches of Buñuel and Fellini and ... See full summary »
Director: Jirí Barta
Votes: 351
84. Ménilmontant (1926)
38 min | Short, Drama
A 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.
Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Stars: Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont, Jean Pasquier
Votes: 2,733
85. H2O (1929)
13 min | Documentary, Short
A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.
Director: Ralph Steiner
Votes: 773
86. Aramaki (2010)
26 min | Short, Drama
A man carries out his "last rites" as he becomes one with nature
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi | Star: Keisuke Horibe
Votes: 30
87. Copy Shop (2001)
12 min | Drama, Short, Comedy
Unknowingly, a copy shop employee sets off a bizarre series of events with utterly unforeseen consequences.
Director: Virgil Widrich | Stars: Johannes Silberschneider, Elisabeth Ebner-Haid
Votes: 1,802
88. Shikasha (2010)
10 min | Short, Drama
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi | Stars: Machiko Ono, Keisuke Horibe, Kanato Tanihata, Naoto Nojima
Votes: 16
89. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,876
90. Rabbit's Moon (1950)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Pierrot 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Claude Revenant, André Soubeyran, Nadine Valence
Votes: 2,001
91. Flood (2003)
15 min | Drama, Short
In a remote village in the country, Polly, her dad and her brother and sister live together without their mother, who has been gone for almost ten years. Polly struggles to get out of the ... See full summary »
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Sam Grey, Dermot Keaney, Rebecca Palmer, Alby Daniels
Votes: 32
92. Emak-Bakia (1926)
18 min | Short
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Votes: 1,408
93. Powers of Ten (1977)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
Directors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames | Star: Philip Morrison
Votes: 2,372
95. Tisza-öszi vázlatok (1963)
17 min | Documentary, Short
The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more eroding. Others are occupied by plowing, ... See full summary »
Director: István Gaál
Votes: 69
96. Skizbe (1967)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Philosophical essay about the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, its influence on the destiny of the world in the 20th century.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian | Stars: Felix Dzerzhinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 341
97.
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965–1973)
Episode:
The News-Benders
(1968)
30 min | Crime, Drama
The News-Benders.
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Nigel Davenport, Sarah Brackett
Votes: 56
98. Pixillation (1970)
4 min | Animation, Short
Pixillation features computer generated abstract animations set to Moog-synthesized sound.
Directors: Ken Knowlton, Lillian Schwartz
Votes: 93
99. Fireworks (1947)
20 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A 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.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Bill Seltzer
Votes: 2,905
100. Flesh (2005)
10 min | Animation, Short
The Empire unveils everything but sees nothing. Its enemies idealize everything but tolerate nothing. For some the earthly orgasm of virtual whores. For others the eternal orgasm of seventy virgins. What if it all came down to flesh?
Director: Edouard Salier
Votes: 160
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