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1. Begotten (1989)
Unrated | 72 min | Fantasy, Horror
Presented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia
Votes: 11,766
2. The Thief and the Cobbler (1993)
G | 99 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A lonely princess and a poor cobbler fall in love while trying to retrieve three magical orbs that were stolen by a bumbling thief, all while outwitting a powerful sorcerer as adventure and comedic pop culture references abound.
Director: Richard Williams | Stars: Vincent Price, Matthew Broderick, Jennifer Beals, Bobbi Page
Votes: 4,625 | Gross: $0.67M
3. Doodlebug (1997)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Star: Jeremy Theobald
Votes: 19,045
4. Down River (2018)
70 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires while finding a way back to their battalion.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Alexander Raye Pimentel, Zachary Greene, Cody Poirot, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 589
5. The Catcher in the Rye (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama
This is 75 minutes and 6 seconds of pure blue screen. Nothing less and nothing more. New movie by Nigel Tomm demolishes the boundaries of new absurdism. In 1951, a novel 'The Catcher in the... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 695
6. Joy of Learning (1969)
95 min | Drama
How do we learn? What do we know? Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Juliet Berto, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,164
7. Life Lessons (2013 Video)
27 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
In this Story by Richard Price, Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed artist who finds himself unable to paint before a gallery exhibition and uses his messy lifestyle to create artwork.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: David Fichtenmayer, Kellie Marie McGhee, Hayley Pendergrass, Alexander Raye Pimentel
Votes: 55
8. Decasia (2002)
Not Rated | 70 min | Documentary
A meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
Director: Bill Morrison | Stars: Tsuru Aoki, Julia Calhoun, Margaret Cullington, William S. Hart
Votes: 1,059
9. Gray House (2017)
75 min | Documentary
An experimental journey through 5 different places, filled with powerfull scenary and blended with outstanding sound effects, where each place is considered a "home" for the people that is shown in it, whether it is chosen or enforced.
Directors: Matthew Booth, Austin Jack Lynch | Stars: Aurore Clément, Denis Lavant, Dianna Molzan
Votes: 26
10. Gumbasia (1953)
3 min | Animation, Short
Clay objects of all sizes, shapes and colors contort and reshape themselves to a jazz music score.
Director: Art Clokey
Votes: 185
11. 4 (2004)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat ... See full summary »
Director: Ilya Khrzhanovskiy | Stars: Yuriy Laguta, Marina Vovchenko, Sergey Shnurov, Andrei Kudriashov
Votes: 2,259
12. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Robert Morley
Votes: 1,641
13. The Directive (2019)
113 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
One year after a catastrophic pandemic wipes out most of humanity, a lone survivor embarks on a journey to find Safe Zone 57 with the help of a broken robot.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Kyle Abraham, Paul Askedall, Nicholas Winand, Hashim Gari
Votes: 1,315
14. Aprili (1961)
45 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young happy couple moves from a poor district to a new housing estate. Their relationship gets progressively worse as their comfort and possessions increase.
Director: Otar Iosseliani | Stars: Tatyana Chanturia, Gia Chiraqadze, Akakiy Chikvaidze, V. Maisuradze
Votes: 506
15. I Call First (2015)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A touching love story about a couple unable to bridge the gap between their divergent worlds.
Director: Alexander Raye Pimentel | Stars: Hannah Richter, Mazen Abdelkareem, Nikkolas Soto, Nicholas Winand
Votes: 69
16. Waiting for Death (2020)
50 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
To the sorcerer, who believes that he has gained immortality, death itself suddenly comes and informs him that he has only a few hours left to live. Expecting a quick death, the sorcerer ... See full summary »
Directors: Sergey A., Ivan Lachance, Mike Lachance | Stars: Sergey A., Mike Lachance, Ivan Lachance, Mykola Yeriomin
Votes: 1,164
17. Anemic Cinema (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Duchamp
Votes: 1,843
18. An Optical Poem (1938)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Music
Mental imagery of music is visualized with two-dimensional shapes dancing to the rhythm of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 754
19. A Dance in the Rain (1961)
100 min | Drama
Peter is the dark brooding type. Leading a vacuous, shapeless life, he longs for the ideal woman, while at the same time, half heartedly continuing with his habitual girlfriend, Marusa , ... See full summary »
Director: Bostjan Hladnik | Stars: Dusa Pockaj, Miha Baloh, Rado Nakrst, Ali Raner
Votes: 410
20. Castro Street (1966)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short
A visual documentary inspired by Erik Satie, showcasing the sights and sounds of the industrialized Castro Street in Richmond, California.
Director: Bruce Baillie
Votes: 600
21. Rhythmus 23 (1923)
2 min | Animation, Short
Rhythm 23 (Rhythmus 23, 1923) is an extension of the same film but with more angles and overlays added, and adding lines rather than adhering to the squares of the original. It looks so ... See full summary »
Director: Hans Richter
Votes: 465
22. Night Music (1986)
1 min | Short
An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 935
23. Rainbow Dance (1936)
4 min | Short, Musical, Animation
The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General ... See full summary »
Director: Len Lye | Star: Rupert Doone
Votes: 774
24. Fiddle-de-dee (1947)
3 min | Animation, Musical, Short
A film made without a camera, made by painting directly on the film.
Director: Norman McLaren
Votes: 240
25. Hamlet (I) (2008 Video)
63 min
The Prince of Denmark sees a ghost.
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 168
26. Glassy Ocean: Kujira no Chôyaku (1998)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Director: Shigeru Tamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Aoki, Eric Jacobsen, Noboru Mitani, Ichirô Nagai
Votes: 215
27. Komposition in Blau (1935)
4 min | Animation, Short, Music
This is an abstract film in which every motion is in strict synchronization with music, so the description must be read in terms of the overall impression it gives. Within a deep blue ... See full summary »
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 594
28. The Dante Quartet (1987)
6 min | Animation, Short
Dante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.
Director: Stan Brakhage
Votes: 1,201
29. ...ere erera baleibu izik subua aruaren... (1970)
75 min | Animation
A set of words without any meaning, forms the title of the first and only feature film in the history of Spanish cinema made entirely by hand-painting directly on celluloid.
Director: José Antonio Sistiaga
Votes: 151
30. Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse (1925)
8 min | Short
A black and white short film which documents a trip through Paris by train.
Director: Henri Chomette
Votes: 246
32. 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: 1,090
34. Tarantella (1940)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky.
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Votes: 521
36. Pony Glass (1998)
15 min | Animation, Short, Romance
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!
Director: Lewis Klahr
Votes: 79
37. I Saw a Little Bird Flying Over a Psychiatric Hospital Near Milan 2 Days Ago and Now it Became So Good that I Drank the Bordeaux Champagne of the Sample in 1771 So That My Soul Would Experience an Incredible Life in This Brutal and Gray World (2018 Video)
239 min | Drama
The surreal director's view at the world of psychiatric hospital unnamed patient.
Director: Marco Romano
Votes: 36
38. Transmissions (2004)
91 min | Drama
"Transmissions" is a compilation of short films directed by Wash Rogers and Brian Greer, either individually or together. Genres include drama, abstract art, documentary, experimental, ... See full summary »
Directors: Brian Greer, Wash Rogers | Stars: Rob Bennett, Kenneth Stephens, Jessica Smith, Brittany Eldridge
39. Kreise (1933)
3 min | Animation, Short
Early abstract colour animation
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 208
41. Qur'an (2008 Video)
74 min
Seventy-four minutes of an unchanging yellow screen; nothing more, nothing less.
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 95
42. Escape (1937)
4 min | Animation, Short, Music
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground. Behind the lines, a ... See full summary »
Director: Mary Ellen Bute
Votes: 198
43. CoCo (2015)
7 min | Short, Drama
This short dramatic film takes an unique look at addiction via an examination of the relationship between a young woman, Donna, and her best friend, CoCo. The darkness of the opening ... See full summary »
Director: Joanna White Oldham | Stars: Lucy Dolly Caires, Jarvis D. Matthews, Joanna White Oldham
44. Allegretto (1936)
3 min | Animation, Short
Short colour animated film showing shapes moving and set to a musical score. The shapes are coloured and primarily geometric in nature.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 444
45. A Million Little Pieces (2008 Video)
70 min | Animation
With no sound, with no dialogue, monologue or action, Nigel Tomm's film adaptation of James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces" is the transfer of the story to the space of art. Somebody ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 158
46. Colour Flight (1939)
4 min | Animation, Short
Using the Gasparcolor film system, abstract shapes and patterns are painted directly on the film strip itself to create an animation set to upbeat music.
Director: Len Lye
Votes: 160
47. Lucid (I) (2009)
95 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A man begins to lose his grip upon reality and all he holds dear, when he discovers a box of lost possessions in his attic.
Director: Brandon Garet Roth Anderson | Stars: Kelsey Crane, Susannah Eldridge, Greg Hill, Garet Roth
48. The Brothers Karamazov (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 73 min
Felt to feel. Enigmatic. Twisted. Absolute morph and absolutely on the edge Nigel Tomm's film version of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov" lasts 73 minutes and 5 seconds. ... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Tomm
Votes: 127
49. Lattie (2016)
Unrated | 66 min | Comedy, Drama
A struggling laborer is diagnosed with a terminal illness and finds himself being pulled in different directions.
Director: Kevin Chenault | Stars: Kevin Chenault, Audrey Hillyer, Eric Huskisson
50. I Watched TV Show and Died from Blood (2019 Video)
719 min | Drama
An arthouse film consisting of a spinning red triangle in 2019 San Marino.
Director: Marco Romano
Votes: 24