Great short films (fiction)

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1. 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: 53,763

2. A Trip to the Moon (1902)

TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet

Votes: 55,675

3. The Devilish Tenant (1909)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Charles Claudel, Octavie Huvier, François Lallement, André Méliès

Votes: 1,976

4. Leaving the Factory (1895)

Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short

Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 7,542

5. One Week (1920)

TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts

Votes: 9,219

6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)

Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama, Horror

Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: James Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Jane Gail

Votes: 767

7. El Sueño de Luisa (2010)

10 min | Short, Drama

Luisas seventh birthday celebration promises to last into the next day because her grandparents are coming from afar to visit her.

Director: Carlos Dávila Yéo | Star: Valentina Giron

8. The Waterer Watered (1895)

Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy

An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: François Clerc, Benoît Duval

Votes: 5,833

9. Bataille de neige (1897)

1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

People start a snowball fight on a street in Lyons, France.

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,990

10. Danse serpentine (1897)

1 min | Short

Angelic and demonic serpentine dances from dawn of cinema by the Lumière Brothers film, called the Serpentine Dance. The dancer is Loie Fuller; the pioneer modern dancer. Recorded in 1896 in Paris, and hand-colored frame by frame.

Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Loie Fuller

Votes: 969

13. The Natural Route (2004)

11 min | Short, Drama

Soon a man will find out that his destiny is already written and that he can't do anything to change it.

Director: Àlex Pastor | Stars: Pere Ventura, Albert López-Murtra, Albert Capdevila, Carlota Ribes

Votes: 740

14. El tren de la bruja (2003)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror

A man volunteers to take part in an experiment that attempts to analyse human behaviour under extreme conditions of terror. His mission is to remain seated inside a dark room for a length ... See full summary »

Director: Koldo Serra | Stars: Manolo Solo, Jon Ariño, Héctor Alterio, Nacho Marcos

Votes: 542

15. La destrucción de Oaxaca (1931)

12 min | Documentary, Short

Footage of the aftermath of the January 14 1931 Earthquake in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Votes: 201

17. The Butterfly Circus (2009)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama

A circus troupe brightens the spirits of audiences in Depression-era America and inspires hope in a limbless man from a sideshow.

Director: Joshua Weigel | Stars: Eduardo Verástegui, Nick Vujicic, Doug Jones, Matt Allmen

Votes: 3,604

18. Simon of the Desert (1965)

Not Rated | 45 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him to come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.

Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña

Votes: 10,823

19. Isle of Flowers (1989)

13 min | Documentary, Short

The ironic, heartbreaking and acid "saga" of a spoiled tomato: from the plantation of a "Nisei" (Brazilian with Japanese origins); to a supermarket; to a consumer's kitchen to become sauce ... See full summary »

Director: Jorge Furtado | Stars: Paulo José, Ciça Reckziegel, Douglas Trainini, Júlia Barth

Votes: 6,514

20. G. (2010)

6 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

G. remembers how he came up with an idea, and devoted his life to make it happen. Now he is making progress and achieves an extraordinary act, only with the power of his mind.

Director: J. Xavier Velasco | Stars: Arturo Farfán, Yekk Muzik

Votes: 26

21. Star in the Night (1945)

Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Drama, Family

Three cowboys riding across the desert with gifts for no particular recipient see a distant bright light, and find it comes from the Star Auto Court sign where the owners and guests work together to help a young expectant couple.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Donald Woods, Rosina Galli, Richard Erdman

Votes: 1,217

22. The Sealed Room (1909)

Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, History

A king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Linda Arvidson

Votes: 959

23. Partie de cartes (1897)

1 min | Short

A card game over drinks with three men, including Antoine Lumiere and Felicien Trewey.

Director: Leopoldo Fregoli | Star: Leopoldo Fregoli

Votes: 514

24. Baby's Meal (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière

Votes: 3,512

25. The Arrival of a Train (1896)

Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short

A train arrives at La Ciotat station.

Directors: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Stars: Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière

Votes: 12,857

26. Ellis (2015)

15 min | Short, Drama

A short film that evokes the early years of Ellis Island through the experience of one immigrant.

Director: JR | Star: Robert De Niro

Votes: 2,143

27. Victoria para chino (2004)

13 min | Drama, Short

In May 2003 a refrigerated truck carrying more than 80 illegal immigrants from the Mexican border drove into the heartland of Texas. A deadly combination of heat and overcrowding lead to tragedy. This is a story of that journey.

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Nicolas Calzada, Domingo Jose Cruz Delgado, Oliver Cruzdaza, Aldo de Anda

Votes: 230

29. Sirenas de fondo (2007)

10 min | Short

The hysterical singing of a siren, repetitive as a Mantra. A prayer that asks for a miracle: to regain faith.

Director: Arcadi Palerm-Artis | Stars: Magda Vizcaíno, Paloma Woolrich, José Carlos Rodríguez, Ilse Salas

Votes: 24

32. The Great Train Robbery (1903)

TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Adventure

A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.

Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes, Justus D. Barnes

Votes: 20,974

33. September 11 (2002)

Unrated | 134 min | Drama

61 Metascore

The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told from different points of view around the world.

Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai, Shôhei Imamura, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf, Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Sean Penn, Danis Tanovic | Stars: Maryam Karimi, Mohamad Dolati, Agelem Habibi, Esmat Vahedi

Votes: 5,920

34. Luna (1995)

14 min | Thriller, Short

A young man hitchhikes on a full-moon night and a young woman picks him up. The woman is a little crazy and gets angry. She takes a gun and shoots him. Next night she picks up another ... See full synopsis »

Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Nieves Herranz, Eduardo Noriega, Alejandro Amenábar, Mateo Gil

Votes: 343

35. La historia de siempre (2009)

11 min | Short, Drama

A man does everything in his power to get his wife back and put an end to his crisis.

Director: José Luis Montesinos | Stars: Miguel Ángel Jenner, Ángel de la Guarda, Chus Leiva, Roger Batalla

Votes: 103

36. El columpio (1993)

9 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

Late at night, a boy and a girl are waiting for the last train in a subway station, which is deserted but for them. They are thinking to themselves about their problems, and we hear their ... See full summary »

Director: Álvaro Fernández Armero | Stars: Ariadna Gil, Coque Malla

Votes: 291

37. The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon (2008)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

The epic story of one man's encounter with what could be the most relentless murderer of all time.

Director: Richard Gale | Stars: Paul Clemens, Brian Rohan, Melissa Paladino, Michael James Kacey

Votes: 6,648

38. Mamá (2008)

3 min | Short, Horror

A young girl wakes up and tells her sister that their mother has returned home.

Director: Andy Muschietti | Stars: Victoria Harris, Berta Ros, Irma Monroig

Votes: 3,300

39. Roma (2008)

26 min | Short

A young girl stows away on a train that stops at a factory, where she arrives exhausted, dirty and hungry. A worker discovers her and helps her. There is only one motivation for the man: a smile.

Director: Elisa Miller | Stars: Marcela Cuevas, Jaime Estrada

Votes: 29

40. Spoon Wars (2011)

8 min | Short, Action, Comedy

A sequel to the 2008 short: The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon. With the theme of a Star Wars movie.

Director: Richard Gale | Stars: Paul Clemens, Brian Rohan

Votes: 189

42. Revolución (2010)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

Made up of 10 short films, 'Revolucion' analyzes through the eyes of the directors what is the revolution today and what it means to the young minds of Mexico.

Directors: Mariana Chenillo, Fernando Eimbcke, Amat Escalante, Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo García, Diego Luna, Gerardo Naranjo, Rodrigo Plá, Carlos Reygadas, Patricia Riggen | Stars: Yolanda Abbud L., Adriana Barraza, Mónica Bejarano, Ari Brickman

Votes: 397

44. La suerte de la fea... a la bonita no le importa (2002)

10 min | Short, Fantasy

Known in English at Festivals as "Weightwatch," this title captures the essence of the film. Susie is obsessed about losing weight, thus being "bonita" and not "gorda" - the two keywords in... See full summary »

Director: Fernando Eimbcke | Stars: Alejandra Gollas, Alma Wilheleme, Evelyn Gonzalez, Dulce Guerrero

Votes: 98

47. El horno (2009)

10 min | Short, Drama

Juana, at her mother's behest, has to stop her sister Citlalli from running away from home, while she tries to teach her little sister the secret of making bricks.

Director: Raúl Caballero | Stars: Dolores Heredia, Tenoch Huerta, Fernanda Luna, Daniela Mariana

Votes: 9

48. Los Invisibles (2010)

24 min | Documentary, Short

Short documentary about experiences, testimonials, and perceptions of migration of migrants from Mexico and Central America.

Directors: Gael García Bernal, Marc Silver | Star: Gael García Bernal

Votes: 21

51. Una caja de botones (2010)

23 min | Short, Drama

Faced with the fact he cannot afford the present his daughter Irene wants for King's Day, Andrés has no choice but to tell her the truth behind this tradition. It will be an emotional journey for them both.

Director: María Reyes Arias | Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Sara Mantxola, Cristina Andreu, Paco Catalá

Votes: 30

52. The Devil's Castle (1897)

3 min | Short, Horror

A man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the ... See full summary »

Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 1,422

53. The Black Imp (1905)

Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.

Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 2,275

54. Demolition of a Wall (1896)

Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short

Auguste Lumière directs four workers in the demolition of an old wall at the Lumière factory. One worker is pressing the wall inwards with a jackscrew, while another is pushing it with a ... See full summary »

Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Auguste Lumière

Votes: 2,767

55. Le déjeuner du chat (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A medium closeup of a large cat, washing itself. A boy brings him/her a plate of milk.

Director: Louis Lumière | Star: Marcel Koehler

Votes: 488

57. 7:35 de la mañana (2003)

8 min | Musical, Short

A woman enters a restaurant one morning - only to be met with silence instead of people talking.

Director: Nacho Vigalondo | Stars: Marta Belenguer, Nacho Vigalondo, Antonio Tato, Borja Cobeaga

Votes: 2,599

58. Mirindas asesinas (1990)

12 min | Short, Horror, Thriller

A man comes into a bar in which there's only one other customer and asks the bartender to serve him a Mirinda (a Spanish orange drink). But then he refuses to pay for it, saying that the ... See full summary »

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Álex Angulo, Saturnino García, José Antonio Álvarez, Ramón Barea

Votes: 1,106

59. El Pozo (2010)

8 min | Short, Drama

An old couple is left behind living in the Coahuila desert with four young grandkids to care for during the Mexican revolution in 1914, and Quique falls down an abandoned well...

Director: Guillermo Arriaga | Stars: Humberto Berlanga, Julian Bucio, Axel Cabello, Armando Durán

Votes: 38

60. De tripas, corazón (1996)

16 min | Comedy, Short

The coming-of-age story of young milk-boy Martín. While his friends Jesús and Roberto are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, and boast about their supposed sexual ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Urrutia | Stars: Elpidia Carrillo, Gael García Bernal, Martín Altomaro, Regina Orozco

Votes: 185

62. Juan y la Borrega (2011)

11 min | Short, Crime, Drama

Juan works in a uniforms store. A safe, mundane life without ambition. Until one day, La Borrega came along.

Director: J. Xavier Velasco | Stars: Manuel Domínguez, Carlos Aragón, Edgar Vivar

Votes: 33

63. Ver llover (2006)

14 min | Short, Drama

Jonah and Sofia, two inseparable friends, spend their days wandering through the small town where they were born; However, when Sofia decides to leave that small world, Jonah will have to struggle between familiarity and the unknown.

Director: Elisa Miller | Stars: Diego Cataño, Miriam Chi Chim, Sofía Espinosa, Claudia Rios

Votes: 212

65. Historia de un letrero (2007)

6 min | Short

One stranger on his way to an important meeting will transform the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film.

Director: Alonso Alvarez | Stars: Amilcar Carrascosa, Mauricio Garcia Muela

Votes: 110

67. The Human Voice (2020)

R | 30 min | Short, Drama

88 Metascore

A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.

Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Almodóvar, Pablo Almodóvar

Votes: 8,610

69. Huevos (2004)

10 min | Drama, Short

Rodolfo and his friends, students at an exclusive private school, amuse themselves by roaming the city in a luxury car throwing eggs at people. One day, they plan a outing to a brothel, but... See full summary »

Director: Rene Penaloza Galvan | Stars: Omar Arroyo, Luis M. Calvillo, Armando Cortinas, Norma Delgadillo

Votes: 8

71. Charros (2004)

14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

As in the golden years of Mexican movies, a charro tries to win the daughter of a powerful landowner with flowers. But, if flowers are not enough, maybe a field of marijuana will help him leave poverty behind.

Director: Jorge Riggen | Stars: Miguel Ángel Fuentes, Laura Gonzalez, Jesús Ochoa, Silverio Palacios

Votes: 14

72. Espiritu deportivo (2004)

11 min | Drama, Fantasy, Short

At the wake for a previous star of Mexican soccer, a street gang steals the ball with which the deceased's team defeated Brazil. In order to recover the relic, the dead player's teammates ... See full summary »

Director: Javier Bourges | Stars: Max Kerlow, María Elena Olivares, Jose Urcelay, Farnesio de Bernal

Votes: 11

73. E pur si muove (2003)

4 min | Drama, Short

In his very own way, a boy discovers what faith means in the Catholic religion. However, what he finds out is not exactly what his grandmother had in mind.

Director: Agustín Calderón | Stars: Mario Bueno, Evangelina Elizondo

Votes: 9

75. Rogelio (2000)

5 min | Drama, Short

Rogelio, is a man who has already died ten days ago but refuses to die and every night out of his grave to go to visit friends and relatives, who asked him to stay longer once and for all in his grave.

Director: Guillermo Arriaga | Stars: Hugo Albores, Odiseo Bichir, Edith González, Ignacio Guadalupe

Votes: 76

76. Ponchada (1994)

14 min | Short, Crime, Thriller

A car with a flat tire in the middle of a lonely road. A chain-smoking woman is waiting in the driver's seat. Suddenly, a car approaches. The driver (a somber menacing man) offers to help ... See full summary »

Director: Alejandra Moya | Stars: Lisa Owen, Jesús Ochoa, Adriana Olivera, Jesús Pérez

Votes: 49

77. El héroe (1994)

5 min | Short, Animation, Drama

In a subway station, a man watch a girl acting strange. He realizes that she may be attempting to commit suicide and tries to stop her, but the girl accuses him of being a molester.

Director: Carlos Carrera

Votes: 584

78. Down to the Bone (2002)

10 min | Animation, Short

A dead man follows the path from his burial site to the underworld. Refuses his status until he embraces his own death.

Director: René Castillo | Stars: Bruno Bichir, Daniel Cubillo, Eugenia León, Claudia Prado

Votes: 415

79. De raíz (2004)

8 min | Animation, Short

A confrontation between creation and intolerance...

Director: Carlos Carrera

Votes: 29

80. El muro (1998)

6 min | Animation, Short

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Director: Sergio Arau

Votes: 52

81. 7 Days in Havana (2011)

129 min | Drama

A lesbian, an aspiring actor, an aspiring singer, a low-class marriage, a neighborhood community and 2 renowned directors have memorable less-than-24-hour-long experiences while living in/visiting the capital of Cuba.

Directors: Laurent Cantet, Benicio Del Toro, Julio Medem, Gaspar Noé, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabío, Pablo Trapero | Stars: Josh Hutcherson, Vladimir Cruz, Magali Wilson, Daisy Granados

Votes: 4,277

83. New York, I Love You (2008)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

49 Metascore

Eleven love stories set in one of the most loved and hated cities of the world, New York City.

Directors: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randall Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Wen Jiang, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner | Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Natalie Portman, Bradley Cooper, Hayden Christensen

Votes: 47,781 | Gross: $1.59M

84. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (I) (2022)

TV-14 | 13 min | Short, Drama

Targeted by Nazis as they hunt down and murder people with disabilities, a boy with a limb difference makes a daring decision while running for his life.

Director: Ashley Eakin | Stars: Knox Gibson, Hanneke Talbot, Justin Mader, Nathaniel McParland

Votes: 2,418

85. The Present (2020)

24 min | Short, Drama

On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?

Director: Farah Nabulsi | Stars: Saleh Bakri, Maryam Kanj, Mariam Basha, Ameer Khlawe

Votes: 3,952

86. Like Twenty Impossibles (2003)

17 min | Drama, Short

Occupied Palestine: A serene landscape now pockmarked by military checkpoints. When a Palestinian film crew decides to avert a closed checkpoint by taking a remote side road, the political ... See full summary »

Director: Annemarie Jacir | Stars: Tarek Abu Assab, Ashraf Abu Moch, Reem Abu-Sbaih, Ismael Dabbag

Votes: 219

87. The Crossing (IV) (2017)

11 min | Short, Drama, Family

When Shady and his Sister Maryam are very excited to visit their sick grandfather on the other side of the wall, their elder brother Mohammed, arrives in a hurry with the permit to cross. ... See full summary »

Director: Ameen Nayfeh | Stars: Motaz Malhees, Yara Elham Jarrar, Nicholas Jarad, Bashar Hassuneh

Votes: 137

88. Condom Lead (2013)

15 min | Short, Drama, War

A dream of the hope for intimacy and love in a brutal, divisive world.

Directors: Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser | Stars: Rashid Abdelhamid, Maria Mohammedi, Eloise van van Vollenstein

Votes: 130

89. Ave Maria (I) (2015)

15 min | Short, Comedy

The silent routine of 5 Nuns living in the West Bank wilderness is disturbed when an Israeli settler family breaks down right outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect.

Director: Basil Khalil | Stars: Maria Zreik, Huda Al Imam, Shady Srour, Ruth Farhi

Votes: 1,368

90. Two Distant Strangers (2020)

Not Rated | 32 min | Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

A man trying to get home to his dog gets stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop.

Directors: Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe | Stars: Joey Bada$$, Zaria, Vincent Mordente, Ana González

Votes: 20,147

91. 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: 20,951

92. Music Box (1980)

28 min | Short, Musical

A story of a man who lives in a cold lifeless city with a boring job and a boring family. Everything changes when he receives a magical music box in a cold alley.

Director: James F. Robinson | Stars: Douglas Alan-Mann, Roslyn Alexander, J. Neil Boyle, John Fitzgerald

Votes: 10

93. Fe, esperanza y caridad (1974)

113 min | Comedy, Drama

The movie consists of three separate segments, each dealing with faith, hope, and charity.

Directors: Luis Alcoriza, Alberto Bojórquez, Jorge Fons | Stars: Fabiola Falcón, Armando Silvestre, David Silva, Roberto Ramírez Garza

Votes: 213



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