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1. 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: 37,090
2. 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: 53,839
3. 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: 204
4. Mates (2011)
5 min | Short
Mates is a short film about anonymous bodies using online flirting, spontaneous random brief encounters, social media, hyper-connectivity, etc. We are part of a generation who will, for ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio da Silva
Votes: 84
5. 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: 1,513
6. Rated R for Nudity (2011)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short
A unique triptych comprised of three autonomous, yet inextricable acts unfold in front of our very eyes, through an experimental session of attempted mass hypnosis.
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Votes: 753
7. Red 3 (2016)
2 min | Animation, Short
Final chapter. Symbolic rise and fall of the ruler of the planet Earth.
Director: Marco Romano
Votes: 124
8. 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: 8,263
9. 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: 8,721
10. 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: 15,221
11. 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: 72
12. This House Has People in It (2016 TV Short)
TV-14 | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Security camera footage of a birthday party reveals the unexplained events of a family, a strange disease, and a mysterious pink woman who stalks the family.
Director: Alan Resnick | Stars: Naomi Kline, Robby Rackleff, Rory Ogden, Jackson Manning
Votes: 1,600
13. 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: 9,371
14. Vincent (1982)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.
Director: Tim Burton | Star: Vincent Price
Votes: 24,325
15. Progressive Touch (2020)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Progressive Touch depicts three futuristic, absurdist love scenes in which the goal is to "improve" sex by complicating its rhythm and choreography. Sex as dance as comedy - with every move synchronized to the propulsive electronic score.
Director: Michael Portnoy | Stars: Tizo All, Ilona Bankiraj, Marc Philipp Gabriel, Juan Felipe Amaya González
Votes: 69
17. Rainsford: Love Me Like You Hate Me (2020 Music Video)
10 min | Short, Drama, Music
Official music video for "Love Me Like You Hate Me" by Rainsford.
Director: Luke Turner | Stars: Margaret Qualley, Shia LaBeouf
Votes: 305
18. Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince | Stars: Annie Hartley, Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley
Votes: 6,808
19. Amblin' (1968)
R | 26 min | Short, Drama, Romance
They were both wanderers but to be more specific...Hippies.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Levin, Pamela McMyler, Henry Axelrod
Votes: 1,387
20. Breakaway (1966)
5 min | Short, Music
Bruce Conner's 1966 dazzling dance short, "Breakaway", a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Toni Basil
Votes: 430
21. Pensées et visions d'une tête coupée (1991)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Portrait of an imaginary painter from the life and work of Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865).
Directors: Olivier Smolders, Johan van den Driessche | Stars: Christian Courtois, Alexandre von Sivers, Lémi Cétol, Barbara De Jonghe
Votes: 128
23. 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: 7,366
24. 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
26. Passage de Venus (1874)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874.
Director: P.J.C. Janssen
Votes: 2,089
27. The Forbidden (1978)
Unrated | 36 min | Horror, Short
A nightmare vision in which a man is transformed into a living artwork.
Director: Clive Barker | Stars: Peter Atkins, Clive Barker, Doug Bradley, Phil Rimmer
Votes: 475
28. 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: 3,714
29. Film (1965)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »
Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Votes: 2,292
30. 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: 3,087
31. 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: 493
32. The Old Mill (1937)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a thunderstorm approaches, birds, mice and other creatures try to stay safe and dry in an old mill.
Directors: Graham Heid, Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Elvia Allman, Marie Arbuckle, Barbara Brewster, Gloria Brewster
Votes: 4,869
33. 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: 322
34. 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: 1,477
35. Childporn (2015)
4 min | Short, Music, Mystery
Tempted by treats which we know that they are not good for us. Packed, pent up feelings. A volcano which is about to erupt, an addiction that makes havoc to you and your surroundings. Before you know it you walk into the trap.
Director: Sjoerd Martens
Votes: 51
36. The Capsule (I) (2012)
Not Rated | 35 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Seven girls, a mansion perched on a Cycladic rock, a cycle of lessons on discipline, desire and demise-infinitely.
Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | Stars: Ariane Labed, Clémence Poésy, Isolda Dychauk, Evangelia Randou
Votes: 592
37. Les escargots (1966)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
Director: René Laloux
Votes: 1,989
38. 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: 3,610
39. 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
40. 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: 8,558
41. 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
42. The Society: Endangered Species (2023)
122 min | Drama
"The Society: Endangered Species" is a surrealist feature length film, produced as part of The Kryptonian Epic is a multi-media art project based on published DC Comics
Director: Max Landis | Stars: Cree Armstead, Riley Bowes, Oliver De Armes, Rocío de la Grana
Votes: 13
43. Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB (1967)
15 min | Sci-Fi, Short
While monitored and pursued, a man races to escape through a futuristic labyrinth.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Dan Nachtsheim, Joy Carmichael, David Munson, Marvin Bennett
Votes: 2,682
44. 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: 8,886
45. Punch-Drunk Love: Deleted Scenes - Blossoms & Blood (2003 Video)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A collection of alternate takes and deleted material from the Paul Thomas Anderson film Punch-Drunk Love (2002) are compiled and matched with the Jon Brion song "Here We Go" in this ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Salvador Curiel, Sissy Lake
Votes: 1,366
46. 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: 4,634
47. 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: 3,019
48. 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
49. 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: 696
50. 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: 3,887