Short films
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1. Sintel (2010)
14 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The film follows a girl named Sintel who is searching for a baby dragon she calls Scales.
Director: Colin Levy | Stars: Halina Reijn, Thom Hoffman
Votes: 3,608
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: 37,072
3. Fragile Machine (2005)
34 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Leda Nea stares into the void that surrounds her and asks the ancient question "Who am I?" The words echo ceaselessly until the world she believes to exist has been destroyed.
Director: Ben Steele | Stars: Molly Pinckney, Xi
Votes: 78
4. Where's the Money, Ronnie? (1996)
12 min | Drama, Short
Director: Shane Meadows | Stars: Shane Meadows, Jimmy Hynd, Paul Anderson, Mat Hand
Votes: 266
5. Budet laskovyy dozhd (1984)
10 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Animated Film based on Ray Bradbury's novel "The Martian Chronicles", on the short story called "There Will Come Soft Rains..."
Director: Nazim Tulyahodzhayev | Star: Aleksandr Lenkov
Votes: 619
6. 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
7. 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
9. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,112
10. 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: 53,815
11. The Snowman (1982 TV Movie)
G | 26 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.
Directors: Jimmy T. Murakami, Dianne Jackson | Stars: David Bowie, Raymond Briggs, Mel Smith
Votes: 16,844
12. 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: 3,084
13. 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: 3,100
14. The Tramp (1915)
TV-G | 26 min | Short, Comedy
The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Billy Armstrong, Lloyd Bacon, Bud Jamison
Votes: 3,733
15. The Pawnshop (1916)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand
Votes: 3,701
16. The Rink (1916)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Short
After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, James T. Kelley, Eric Campbell
Votes: 4,284
17. Easy Street (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
A reformed tramp becomes a police constable who must fight a huge thug who dominates an inner-city street.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 5,821
18. The Cure (1917)
Unrated | 24 min | Short, Comedy
An alcoholic checks into a health spa and his antics promptly throw the establishment into chaos.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Votes: 3,885
19. The Immigrant (1917)
Unrated | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 9,207
20. A Dog's Life (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Votes: 9,666
21. Burn-E (2008 Video)
G | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
If BURN-E (a welding robot) had known how much trouble he'd be caused by WALL-E's pursuit of EVE, then he'd have taken the day off.
Director: Angus MacLane | Stars: Angus MacLane, Tessa Swigart
Votes: 12,584
22. The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004 Video)
Not Rated | 35 min | Animation, Short, Action
Acting as a bridgepoint between "Pitch Black (2000)" and "The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)", this short film explains why Riddick decides to go into hiding and deliver Jack and Imam Abu al-Walid to New Mecca.
Director: Peter Chung | Stars: Vin Diesel, Rhiana Griffith, Keith David, Roger Jackson
Votes: 12,097
23. Tales of the Black Freighter (2009 Video)
R | 26 min | Animation, Short, Action
A mariner survives an attack from the dreaded pirates of the Black Freighter, but his struggle to return home to warn it has a horrific cost.
Directors: Daniel DelPurgatorio, Mike Smith | Stars: Gerard Butler, Jared Harris, Lori Tritel, Siobhan Flynn
Votes: 7,126
24. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Romance
A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junck
Votes: 5,440
25. Nadja in Paris (1964)
13 min | Short, Drama
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Nadja Tesich, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,528
26. Hotel Chevalier (2007)
R | 13 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A prologue of one heart-breaking history of love and the prologue of the travel told in The Darjeeling Limited (2007).
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, Waris Ahluwalia, Michel Castejon
Votes: 36,118
27. Antoine and Colette (1962)
32 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam
Votes: 6,355
28. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
PG | 40 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
Chronicles a variety of stories, but the main one follows Henry Sugar, who is able to see through objects and predict the future with the help of a book he stole.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 69,893
29. Poison (II) (2023)
PG | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
When a poisonous snake slithers onto an Englishman's stomach in India, his associate and a doctor race to save him.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Dev Patel, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 21,251
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