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1. The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer: The Later Years Vol. 2 (2003 Video)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Compilation of animated and other shorts by Jan Svankmajer, a Czech surrealist filmmaker and artist whose work often inspired filmmakers, including Terry Gilliam and the Brothers Quay.
Directors: James Marsh, Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Monika Belo-Cabanová, Olga Vronská, Aleksandr Letko, Jan Zácek
Votes: 159
2. Food (1992)
16+ | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek
Votes: 3,588
3.
Visions (1982–1985)
Episode:
Film in the Philippines
(1983)
39 min | Documentary
Film critic Tony Rayns interviews Lino Brocka and other prominent Filipino filmmakers.
Director: Ron Orders | Stars: Tony Rayns, Manuel Conde, Agustin Sotto, Ishmael Bernal
Votes: 8
4. Negative Space (2000 TV Movie)
39 min | Documentary
A portrait of film critic Manny Farber, featuring interviews with Farber and art critic Dave Hickey, as well as inventively displayed clips of the films that Farber discusses.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Manny Farber, Dave Hickey, Christopher Petit
Votes: 16
5. 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
6. In the Forest (1978)
80 min | Drama
Director: Phil Mulloy | Stars: Barrie Houghton, Anthony O'Donnell, Ellen Sheean, Joby Blanshard
Votes: 14
7. Konec stalinismu v Cechách (1991)
10 min | Animation, Short
A bust of Stalin is cut open on an operating table, leading to an elaborate animated depiction of Czech history from 1948 (the Communist takeover) to 1989 (the Velvet Revolution). Some ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 1,318
8. Doodlin': Impressions of Len Lye (1987 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Director: Keith Griffiths
Votes: 7
9. Alice (1988)
Not Rated | 86 min | Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Kristýna Kohoutová, Camilla Power
Votes: 13,993
10. Faust (1994)
97 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
An ordinary man is lured into a strange puppet theatre by a map and finds himself embroiled in a production of the Faustian legend.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Cepek, Jan Kraus, Vladimír Kudla, Antonin Zacpal
Votes: 4,297
11. The Last Machine (1995– )
200 min | History
Stars: Terry Gilliam, Allan Corduner, Peter Eyre, Bryan Pringle
Votes: 16
12.
Visions (1982–1985)
Episode:
Film as a Way of Life: Hong Kong Cinema
(1983)
52 min | Documentary
Tony Rayns presents a look at the new generation of Hong Kong film makers and the pressures they face from censorship, traditional Cantonese filmmaking and the need to be commercially successful.
Director: Ron Orders | Stars: Tony Rayns, Michael Hui, Shing-Hon Lau, Lam Chua
Votes: 5
13. Little Otik (2000)
TV-14 | 132 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A childless couple passes off an anthropomorphous tree stump as their baby, but things get out of hand when the monstrosity comes to life and demands to be fed.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový
Votes: 6,877 | Gross: $0.12M
14. Conspirators of Pleasure (1996)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Six people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Petr Meissel, Gabriela Wilhelmová, Barbora Hrzánová, Anna Wetlinská
Votes: 3,685
15. Syndromes and a Century (2006)
105 min | Drama
Story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents, who were both doctors, and the director's memories about growing up in the hospital environment.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok, Jenjira Pongpas
Votes: 4,600 | Gross: $0.02M
16. Surviving Life (2010)
109 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
The film uses a mix of cut-out animation from photographs and live-action segments, and tells the story of a married man who lives a double life in his dreams, where he is married to another woman.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Krónerová, Daniela Bakerová
Votes: 1,481
17. London (1994)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major, Dennis Skinner
Votes: 760
18. Half Moon (2006)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Mamo, an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran, plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons, he... See full summary »
Director: Bahman Ghobadi | Stars: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, Farzin Sabooni, Kambiz Arshi
Votes: 3,089 | Gross: $0.00M
19. Innocence of Memories (2015)
97 min | Documentary, Drama
Base on a novel of the Nobel Prize writer Orhan Pamuk 'The Museum of Innocence'. Set in Istanbul during 1975 to 1984, a story of a man who collects various objects of a woman as memory during their love period.
Director: Grant Gee | Stars: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen, Ara Güler, Süleyman Fidaye
Votes: 406
20. The Comb (1991)
Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Animation
A porcelain doll and a sleeping woman. How will they interact through her dreams?
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Stars: Joy Constaninides, Witold Schejbal
Votes: 1,034
21. De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
15 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Uses animation to explore anamorphosis, a method to put hidden images within an artwork, by distorting it using the rules of perspective.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Star: Witold Schejbal
Votes: 593
22. Abstract Cinema (1993 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their own experiments in the field of visionary filmmaking.
Director: Keith Griffiths | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Jules Engel, Malcolm le Grice, Len Lye
Votes: 11
23. Robinson in Space (1997)
82 min | Documentary
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield
Votes: 390
24. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1982)
Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving... See full summary »
Directors: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Votes: 1,067
25. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short
Oscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Weiser Quay
Votes: 768
26. Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989 TV Movie)
64 min | Documentary
Director: Keith Griffiths | Stars: Brigid Berlin, Henry Geldzahler, J. Hoberman, Stephen Koch
Votes: 17
27. Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life (1995)
105 min | Drama
A young man goes to a school for servants run by a brother and sister. In the dreamlike and surreal world that he enters, how will his presence impact the people there and possibly even the school itself?
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay | Stars: Mark Rylance, Alice Krige, Gottfried John, Daniel Smith
Votes: 2,047
28. Patience (2012)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Using the late WG Sebald's book "The Rings of Saturn" as its template, this documentary traces the immensely respected author's account of a walk through Suffolk; a tour which prompted tangential musings.
Director: Grant Gee | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Tacita Dean, William Firebrace, Dan Gretton
Votes: 313
29. In Absentia (2000)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Animation
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes ... See full summary »
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Marlene Kaminsky
Votes: 806
30. This Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Loosely based on the Mesopotamian "Epic of Gilgamesh", here Gilgamesh is portrayed as a grotesque, Picasso-esque being who uses a tricycle to patrol his box-shaped kingdom that hovers above a dark abyss.
Directors: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Votes: 844
31. Dance of the Wind (1997)
85 min | Drama, Music
A classical Indian singer (Kitu Gidwani) loses her voice but regains it after copying a child's intonation.
Director: Rajan Khosa | Stars: Ami Arora, Roshan Bano, Kitu Gidwani, Bhaveen Gosain
Votes: 147
32. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)
5 min | Short
A father and son ride the rails in their powerful locomotive. Witnessing a crash between two other engines, they rescue the lone survivor, Berenice, and make her a part of their family. All... See full summary »
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Jim Keller, Brandy Bayes, Caelum Vatnsdal, Evan Tyler Richards
Votes: 508
33. The Sandman (2000 TV Movie)
41 min | Animation
As a young boy is send to bed by his mother, a creature seemingly out to get him called The Sandman, lurks in the shadows.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, William Tuckett | Stars: Irek Mukhamedov, Heathcote Williams, Zenaida Yanowsky
Votes: 35
34. The Falconer (1998 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Fictional documentary goes on the trail of sixties cultural renegade Peter Whitehead, underground filmmaker, writer, occultist and sometime falconer.
Directors: Christopher Petit, Iain Sinclair | Stars: Kathy Acker, Steven Dilworth, Stewart Home, Françoise Lacroix
Votes: 22
35. Are We Still Married? (1992)
Not Rated | 3 min | Animation, Short
A tear falls from the eyes of a veiled face. A white ball whips around a heart-shaped paddle. A mournful voice sings, "Are we still married?" A child's stuffed rabbit watches, sees ... See full summary »
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Votes: 728
36. Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
11 min | Short
A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly ... See full summary »
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Phetmongkol Chantawong, Kumgieng Jittamaat, Miti Jittamaat, Nuttapon Kemthong
Votes: 286
37. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
115 min | Drama, Romance
A day laborer is badly beaten, and a young man nurses him back to health.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen, Norman Atun, Pearlly Chua
Votes: 2,417 | Gross: $0.02M
38. Dry Season (2006)
96 min | Drama
Chad, 2006. After a forty-year civil war, the radio announces the government has just amnestied the war criminals. Outraged by the news, Gumar Abatcha orders his grandson Atim, a ... See full summary »
Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | Stars: Ali Barkai, Youssouf Djaoro, Aziza Hisseine, Khayar Oumar Defallah
Votes: 982
39. Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
Not Rated | 1 min | Animation, Short
A doll interacts with lifeless objects like screws, magnets, spoons and a cereal bowl filled with similar metal objects.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Votes: 899
40. The Secret Life of Sergei Eisenstein (1987)
60 min | Documentary, Biography
A biographical film, in English throughout, telling the story of film director Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) from his childhood in Riga, Latvia to receiving the 'Stalin Prize' in Moscow. ... See full summary »
Director: Gian Carlo Bertelli | Stars: Juan Antonio Gálvez, Paul Vaughan, Josephine Baker, Charles Chaplin
Votes: 48
41. Asylum (2000 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
A mix of both documentary and fiction, where in the future a group of people are looking back at the twentieth century. A virus has wiped out most of the culture.
Directors: Christopher Petit, Iain Sinclair | Stars: Michael Moorcock, Ed Dorn, James Sallis, Marina Warner
Votes: 21
42.
Without Walls (1990–1996)
Episode:
The Cardinal and the Corpse
(1992)
39 min | Documentary, Biography
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Alexander Baron, Robin Cook, Drif Field, Gerry Goldstein
Votes: 10
43. Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi, Jarinpattra Rueangram, Petcharat Chaiburi
Votes: 5,426 | Gross: $0.05M
44. Forty Minutes (1981–1994)
40 min | Documentary
Documentaries on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes.
Stars: John Pitman, Michael Dean, Lucinda Lambton, Roger Mills
Votes: 31
45. A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
17 min | Short
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Stars: Kumgieng Jittamaat, Miti Jittamaat, Phetmongkol Chantawong, Nuttapon Kemthong
Votes: 539
46. Content (2010 TV Movie)
76 min | Documentary
Between a deceased father and a young boy, Chris Petit wonders and wanders through concepts of the past and self-identity.
Director: Christopher Petit | Stars: Hanns Zischler, Matthew Evans, Lun-Xue Mai, Laurin Berresheim
Votes: 57
47. London Orbital (2002)
77 min | Documentary
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway from several points, drive endlessly ... See full summary »
Directors: Christopher Petit, Iain Sinclair | Star: J.G. Ballard
Votes: 70
48. Scénario du film 'Passion' (1982)
54 min | Documentary
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Pierre Binggeli, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Bernard Menoud, Anne-Marie Miéville
Votes: 190
49. Punch & Judy: Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy (1981)
52 min | Documentary
An unusual documentary from the Brothers Quay and Keith Griffiths about the history of the Punch and Judy puppet show.
Directors: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Larry Sider | Star: Joe Melia
Votes: 25
50. Wind Water (1995)
5 min | Short
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Jean Badin, Chin Cheung, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jacinto Soriano
Votes: 24