Shorts
by arrrzrrr9 | created - 07 Apr 2017 | updated - 05 Sep 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
- Genres
- Movies or TV
- IMDb Rating
- In Theaters
- Release Year
- Keywords
1. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)
Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,665
2. Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Votes: 2,458
3. Mothlight (1963)
4 min | Short
A "found foliage" film composed of insects, leaves, and other detritus sandwiched between two strips of perforated tape.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 2,857
4. Anticipation of the Night (1958)
42 min | Short
Notes of journey life of Stan Brakhage like a befits of a diary book in a very strong sense of experimentation, romantic, modernist and abstract.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 450
5. Dog Star Man (1964)
78 min
An experimental film from Stan Brakhage in which a man and his dog ascend a wooded mountain.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jane Wodening
Votes: 1,220
6. 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: 2,822
7. Something Happened (1987)
24 min | Short, Drama
An educational film about AIDS contracted by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, later to be withdrawn due to its controversial content.
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Anne Tubin, Lennart Björklund, Sandy Mansson
Votes: 730
8. The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1996)
25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: James Pidgeon, Michoue Sylvain, Andrea Usher-Jones
Votes: 2,961
9. Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
Inside 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.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Feliks Stawinski
Votes: 3,083
10. Six Shooter (2004)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A 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....
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, David Wilmot, Aisling O'Sullivan
Votes: 14,319
11. Cocoon (1995)
20 min | Short
A short, silent, black and white story about life, survival, death; animals, objects, trees; young and old. It is mostly an aggregation of a bunch of good photos, which is not surprising, as Ceylan is also a photographer.
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan | Stars: Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Turgut Toprak
Votes: 2,885
12. Statues also Die (1953)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary of black art.
Directors: Ghislain Cloquet, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais | Stars: Jean Négroni, François Mitterrand, Pope Pius XII, Sugar Ray Robinson
Votes: 1,374
13. All the Memory in the World (1956)
21 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 1,582
14. 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: 3,604
15. The Grandmother (1970)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
Votes: 7,360
16. Piper (2016)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
A hungry sandpiper hatchling ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The problem is, the food is buried in the sand where scary waves roll up.
Director: Alan Barillaro
Votes: 31,879
17. World of Tomorrow (2015)
G | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Julia Pott, Winona Mae, Sara Cushman
Votes: 10,326
18. 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: 2,930
19. The Dark of Night (2017)
10 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
The night turns deadly when a woman seeking refuge from a storm takes matters into her own hands when she encounters a drifter and a waitress at an isolated diner where everyone has a secret and nothing is what it seems.
Director: Robin Wright | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Michael Godere, Nini Le Huynh, Keith Jackson
Votes: 69
20. 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: 3,709
21. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,707
22. Unsere Afrikareise (1966)
13 min | Short
A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.
Director: Peter Kubelka
Votes: 771
23. Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia (1971)
36 min | Short
Frampton slowly burning his black and white photographs as he describes and tells the story behind them.
Director: Hollis Frampton | Star: Michael Snow
Votes: 730
24. Listen to Britain (1942)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
A 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.
Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Stars: Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen
Votes: 1,855
25. Death of a Shadow (2012)
20 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Stuck in a dark limbo between life and death, a deceased soldier Nathan Rijckx collects shadows of dying men and women to buy back his own second chance at life. Obsessed by a girl he met ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Van Avermaet | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Laura Verlinden, Peter Van den Eede, Benjamin Ramon
Votes: 2,291
26. La morte rouge (2006)
32 min | Short, Drama
Spanish director Victor Erice discusses the first film he saw as a 5 year old and the impact it had on his life.
Director: Víctor Erice | Star: Víctor Erice
Votes: 349
27. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook
Votes: 1,830
28. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, 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.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,343
29. School for Postmen (1947)
16 min | Short, Comedy
School for Postmen" is a 1947 short film directed and starring Jacques Tati, playing a French postman adamant to prove he can be just as fast as American postmen at delivering mail.
Director: Jacques Tati | Stars: Jacques Tati, Paul Demange
Votes: 2,389
30. 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: 6,261
31. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
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.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,567
32. Room 8 (2013)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A prisoner discovers a magical box with a baneful secret that he falls foul to.
Director: James W. Griffiths | Stars: Tom Cullen, Michael Gould, Yuri Klimov, Franc Zalewski
Votes: 3,197
33. 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
34. Rain (1929)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Regen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
Directors: Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Votes: 1,915
35. The Mysteries of the Chateau de De (1929)
27 min | Documentary, Short
Two masked men playing dice in a bar leave, get in a car, and drive to the ruins of a castle on a hill. There. they find a modern chateau filled with contemporary furniture and abstract art. Time to roll the dice.
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Auric, Le Comte de Beaumont
Votes: 725
36. 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
37. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,285
38. Interesting Ball (2014)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A red ball bounces past a cafe and a couple folks' houses and then goes to the beach.
Directors: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert | Stars: Bryan Condon, Ani Raya-Flores, Waymond Lee, Rosa Handelman
Votes: 458
39. Herman Slobbe/Blind Child 2 (1966)
29 min | Documentary, Short
This second film about blind children especially follows a young boy. At the age of puberty, Herman Slobbe must struggle with his environment to make his way. Herman grabs the microphone; he becomes the reporter of the film.
Director: Johan van der Keuken | Star: Herman Slobbe
Votes: 55
40. 2081 (2009)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
A 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Chandler Tuttle | Stars: James Cosmo, Julie Hagerty, Armie Hammer, Patricia Clarkson
Votes: 2,688
41. Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)
6 min | Short
Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
Director: Hans Richter | Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud
Votes: 1,977
42. 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
43. Mabel's Blunder (1914)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel is engaged to Harry, the boss's son. The boss has an eye for Mabel too, in this gender-bending comedy of errors and mistaken identities.
Director: Mabel Normand | Stars: Mabel Normand, Harry McCoy, Charley Chase, Charles Bennett
Votes: 447
44. Suspense (1913)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Votes: 2,188
45. 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: 15,210
46. 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
47. Keshigomu (1977)
20 min | Short, Fantasy
Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.
Director: Shûji Terayama | Stars: Setsuko Fujino, Yoko Ran, Megumi Tanaka, Takeshi Wakamatsu
Votes: 123
48. The Dancing Pig (1907)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.
Director: Millard Mercury | Stars: Ewing Tordella, Edith Trublanchet
Votes: 1,406
49. Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1993)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Biography, Comedy
While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka's constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.
Director: Peter Capaldi | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Crispin Letts, Ken Stott, Elaine Collins
Votes: 1,204
50. Spielzeugland (2007)
TV-PG | 14 min | Short, Drama, War
A German mother lies to her son about where the Nazis are sending their Jewish neighbors.
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank | Stars: Julia Jäger, Cedric Eich, Tamay Bulut Özvatan, Torsten Michaelis
Votes: 3,166
51. The Red Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Votes: 20,131
52. The Path (1988)
31 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
People survive on an alien planet in the hope of returning to Earth. Fantastic cartoon based on Kir Bulychyov's novel.
Director: Vladimir Tarasov | Stars: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Livanov, Aleksandr Pashutin, Alla Pokrovskaya
Votes: 467
53. Przekladaniec (1968 TV Short)
35 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.
Director: Andrzej Wajda | Stars: Bogumil Kobiela, Ryszard Filipski, Anna Prucnal, Jerzy Zelnik
Votes: 385
54. Atman (1975)
12 min | Short
A lone figure sitting outdoors and wearing a Hannya mask is seen from different angles in a succession of crash zooms and encircling jump cuts.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto
Votes: 594
55. Three Transitions (1973)
5 min | Short
A philosophical seminal video experiment.
Director: Peter Campus | Star: Peter Campus
Votes: 128
56. The Tell-Tale Heart (I) (2008)
21 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Within the chambers of a desolate house, a solitary servant tends to his invalid master. Tangibly detailed period design and hauntingly lifelike puppetry unearth the dreamworld of Poe.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Carrington Vilmont, Richard Easton, Dan Charlton, Nathan Allison
Votes: 490
57. Outer Space (1999)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror
Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky | Star: Barbara Hershey
Votes: 2,807
58. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)
22 min | Documentary, Short
A short documentary in which directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog being forced to eat his own shoe.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Werner Herzog, Tom Luddy, Michael Goodwin, Alice Waters
Votes: 2,731
59. Anima Mundi (1991)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's ... See full summary »
Director: Godfrey Reggio
Votes: 1,356
60. I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale (2009)
Not Rated | 39 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
A portrait of the acting craft of John Cazale and a tour through the movies that defined a generation.
Director: Richard Shepard | Stars: John Cazale, Steve Buscemi, Sam Rockwell, Al Pacino
Votes: 1,961
61. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)
20 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Star: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,224
62. Cipka (2016)
8 min | Animation, Short
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
Director: Renata Gasiorowska
Votes: 690
64. Inspiration (1949)
11 min | Animation, Short
An artist takes inspiration from the rain outside.
Director: Karel Zeman | Star: Karel Zeman
Votes: 609
65. 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
66. Lucifer Rising (1972)
29 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Donald Cammell, Haydn Couts
Votes: 3,422
67. Skhizein (2008)
13 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Having been struck by a 150-ton meteorite, Henry has to adapt to living precisely ninety-one centimeters from himself.
Director: Jérémy Clapin | Stars: Julien Boisselier, Théo Grimmeisen, Mado Debrus
Votes: 4,323
68. My Love (2006)
26 min | Animation, Short, Drama
In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Stars: Aleksandr Palamishev, Aleksandra Zhivova, Evgeniya Kryukova, Nina Ruslanova
Votes: 1,641
69. The House of Small Cubes (2008)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Drama
To save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.
Director: Kunio Kato | Star: Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 11,655
70. Neighbours (1952)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A surreal story of two neighbours' destructive feud over a flower.
Director: Norman McLaren | Stars: Grant Munro, Jean Paul Ladouceur
Votes: 3,884
71. Anima (I) (2019)
15 min | Short, Music
In a short musical film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Thom Yorke of Radiohead scores and stars in a mind-bending visual piece. Best played loud.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Thom Yorke, Dajana Roncione, Frida Dam Seidel, Joseba Yerro Izaguirre
Votes: 13,347
72. The Burden (2017)
15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A dark musical enacted in a market place, situated next to a freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Stars: Sven Björklund, Mattias Fransson, Carl Englén, Olof Wretling
Votes: 681
73. The Web (2013)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates has implanted computer chips into asteroids in a diabolical scheme, and one hacker must stop him.
Director: Nathan Fielder | Stars: Nathan Fielder, Jessee Foudray, Ronnie Rodriguez, John Kim
Votes: 3,126
74. Ofrenda (1978)
2 min | Documentary, Short
A short film depicting daisies throughout the course of a day with drone music as accompaniment.
Director: Claudio Caldini
Votes: 171
75. Nimic (2019)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Matt Dillon, Daphné Patakia, Susan Elle, Sara Lee
Votes: 8,565
76. 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir (1984)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A computer generates conflicting hypotheses about the future of trade unions.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: François Périer, Sophie Garnier, Bibiane Kirby, Atika Tahiri
Votes: 280
77. My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 (2002)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Disaster after disaster, an already frail man descends into madness after his talking dog announces that he is actually his defence lawyer.
Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Paddy Considine, Miranda Pleasence, Simon Greenall, Richard Lumsden
Votes: 1,246
78. 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
79. Tulnukas ehk Valdise pääsemine 11 osas (2006)
22 min | Short, Action, Comedy
After getting hit on the head with a shovel during a fight, Valdis forgets everything that was normal in his daily life as a jerk.
Director: Rasmus Merivoo | Stars: Märt Avandi, Ott Sepp, Vallo Kirs, Uku Uusberg
Votes: 898
Tell Your Friends