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1. 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: 15,258
2. 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: 37,165
3. 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: 53,927
4. Possibly in Michigan (1983)
TV-14 | 12 min | Short, Horror, Musical
Two women are chased through a shopping mall by a stalker named Arthur.
Director: Cecelia Condit | Stars: Jill Sands, Karen Skladany, Bill Blume, Cecelia Condit
Votes: 1,534
5. F.U.B.A.R - The banned movie (2022)
4 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
This film was banned due to its shocking content.
Director: Sergey A. | Stars: Sergey A., Ethan Frazer
Votes: 75
6. Rabbits (2002)
43 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a nameless city deluged by continuous rain, three rabbits live with a fearful mystery.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Scott Coffey, Rebekah Del Rio, Laura Harring, Naomi Watts
Votes: 8,280
7. 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: 7,385
8. Little Gay Boy, chrisT is Dead (2012)
30 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Jean Christophe lives with his mother, an English prostitute in Paris. He dreams of becoming a model. Over the course of a day, JC endures a series of abusive encounters that will change ... See full summary »
Directors: Antony Hickling, Amaury Grisel | Stars: Gaëtan Vettier, Amanda Dawson, François Brunet, Alvaro Lombard
Votes: 205
9. Our Gay Brothers (1993)
9 min | Short
This collage of found film footage, assembles porn movie, children's instructional film, sports coverage and 50s Hollywood musicals to construct an investigation of gay men's differing ... See full summary »
Director: Greta Snider
10. The Alphabet (1969)
TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey
Votes: 8,572
11. Hansel & Gretel (2007 Video)
27 min | Short, Drama, Family
Based on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale, Hansel and Gretel is a dark and stylized, black and white, German Expressionistic silent picture featuring detailed design and an eerie musical score.
Director: Robert Eggers | Stars: Luke Allison, Kelly Eggers, Isabella Pease
Votes: 324
12. 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: 3,720
13. Islands (2017)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Characters wander through an erotic maze of love and desire.
Director: Yann Gonzalez | Stars: Sarah-Megan Allouch, Mathilde Mennetrier, Alphonse Maîtrepierre, Romain Merle
Votes: 495
14. Flower (IV) (2017)
17 min | Short
Five models and friends from Helix Studios are filmed over the course of a real evening being themselves and enjoying each other's company both emotionally and physically.
Director: Matt Lambert | Stars: Blake Mitchell, Sean Ford, Joey Mills, Corbin Colby
Votes: 52
15. Return to Reason (1923)
3 min | Short
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 2,219
16. Darkened Room (2002)
8 min | Short
John's struggle to get out of a locked room with a sinister secret inside.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Jordan Ladd, Etsuko Shikata, Cerina Vincent
Votes: 2,642
17. Six Men Getting Sick (1967)
TV-PG | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
Director: David Lynch
Votes: 6,503
18. Black Sheep Boy (1995)
Unrated | 37 min | Short, Fantasy
The psychological and emotional motivations of gay sexual fetish, especially relating to gay male teens maturing into men and their sexual exploits.
Director: Michael Wallin | Stars: Stuart Cataldo, Drew Daniel, Peter Dunaj, Andrew Durham
Votes: 97
19. Apocalypse After (2018)
Not Rated | 37 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An abandoned seaside resort. The shooting for a fantasy film about the end of an era wraps up. Two women, both members of the film crew, one an actress, the other a director, Apocalypse and... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Mandico | Stars: Pauline Jacquard, Elina Löwensohn, Anne Lise Maulin, Lola Créton
Votes: 699
20. 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: 3,618
21. Beauty and the Beast (2021)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Our program for the evening has been composed by and for grown-ups, who haven't lost their child soul. Eternal history, the tale of Belle-Rose. As known as Beauty and the beast. Warning, ... See full summary »
Director: Mathieu Morel | Stars: Pascale Faure, Aurélien Deniel, Léolo
Votes: 39
22. Ballet mécanique (1924)
19 min | Short
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, ... See full summary »
Directors: Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy, Katherine Murphy
Votes: 3,307
23. The Amputee (1974)
TV-MA | 9 min | Short, Comedy
A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
Votes: 4,835
25. Blow Job (1963)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Andy Warhol directs a single 35-minute shot of a man's face to capture his facial expressions as he receives the sexual act depicted in the title.
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: DeVeren Bookwalter, Willard Maas
Votes: 1,163
26. Emotion (1966)
39 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Sari Akasaka, Sakio Hirata, Jinichi Ishizaki, Jusin Kitamura
Votes: 855
27. 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: 2,736
28. À Propos de Nice (1930)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
What 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.
Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Votes: 4,648
29. 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: 4,909
30. 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: 2,829
31. 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: 2,290
32. L'étoile de mer (1928)
21 min | Short, Romance
Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Votes: 1,582
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: 4,207
34. Ei blot til lyst (2020)
16 min | Short, Drama
Marc is exposed to a hate crime. It embarks a personal journey where he dives into toxic masculinity and its consequences. He creates an intimate space with a group of men who together cultivate vulnerability and eroticism as an antidote.
Director: Marco Franklin Stoltze | Stars: Marc Helt, Kid Enotea, Bjarke Due Gunslev, Nael Lean
Votes: 43
35. GUO4 (2019)
3 min | Short, Drama
A confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Csaba Molnár, Gyula Muskovics
Votes: 848
36. Tricia's Wedding (1971)
Unrated | 33 min | Short, Comedy
Spoofs the wedding of President Nixon's daughter, Tricia. The high jinks start when Eartha Kitt adds LSD to the punch bowl.
Director: Milton Miron | Stars: Goldie Glitters, Steven Arnold, Frank Bourquin, Bobby Cameron
Votes: 64
37. Where Do You Stand Now, João Pedro Rodrigues? (2017)
21 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Following the migration of the Monarch butterfly, fleeing the North American's cold to spend Winter in the pleasant mountains of Michoacán in Mexico.
Director: João Pedro Rodrigues | Stars: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata, Ricardo Meneses, Fernando Godinho
Votes: 72
38. Fireflies (2021)
19 min | Short, Drama
The night side of a modernist icon. The fauna and flora of Roberto Burle Marx's gardens inhabited by visitors to Parque do Flamengo while the city of Rio de Janeiro falls asleep.
Director: Leo Bittencourt | Stars: Daniel Dos Santos de Andrade, Elisa Lucinda, Gabriel Fernando de Castro, Gleiton Matheus Bonfante
Votes: 36
39. La cravate (1957)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
Directors: Saul Gilbert, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ruth Michelly | Stars: Denise Brossot, Rolande Polya, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Saul Gilbert
Votes: 2,003
40. The Hedonistic Tendencies of the Modern Person (2017)
2 min | Short
Director: David Cash | Stars: Jenna LaRose, Adam Gowan, Prasanna
41. Rubber Johnny (2005)
6 min | Animation, Short, Horror
An experimental music video about a wheelchair-bound boy who morphs and moves to an Aphex Twin song. The experience gets weirder when he takes cocaine and everything gets out of control.
Director: Chris Cunningham | Stars: Shelly Weiss, Elvis Fetic, Percy Rutterford, Chris Cunningham
Votes: 3,102
42. 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: 3,360
43. Anti Reproductive Mating Ritual (2011)
6 min | Short
Two young men skateboarding on the dock as they undress. A beautiful and intimate courtship ritual.
Director: Vebjorn Guttørmsgaard Møllberg | Stars: Tor Erik Bøe, Sjur Nyvold
Votes: 37
44. Ghost from ship (2022)
4 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
The ghost lives on the ship and does not want to leave it.
Director: Sergey A. | Star: Sergey A.
Votes: 19
45. Limanakia (2014)
11 min | Short
Limanakia is a wild rocky area located on Leoforos Poseidonos South of Athens. At those three distinct steep coves, gay Greeks and tourists of all ages and body types find escape away from ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio da Silva
Votes: 62
46. Cruising Poetry (2018)
15 min | Short
Cruising is usually associated to dark, dirty and hidden places where men meet for casual sex. There is a lot of prejudice against cruising. In this film the participants burn sage to do a ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio da Silva | Stars: Valentin Braun, Vincent Dupré, Colby Keller, Raffaele Laterza
Votes: 14
47. Uranus (2013)
7 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Daniel Nolasco | Stars: Junior Dantas, Eudes Freire, Flávio Meira, Geovaldo Souza
Votes: 56
48. 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: 2,469
49. Meditation on Violence (1949)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short
The setting with the low walls and river views is located in a private area of The Cloisters museum.
Director: Maya Deren | Star: Chao Li Chi
Votes: 1,087
50. 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: 602