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1. Tutto bene (2009)

11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

The election's eve. During the night two friends are still waiting to start their job: a moment to stop and think about a forced living.

Director: Sergio Recchia | Stars: Cataldo Basile, Enrico Castellaneta, Antonio Iandolo, Pippo Indellicati

3. Le prince de Galles (1902)

Documentary, Short

This short documentary is a mini-biography of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales and heir apparent to the throne of England. Because his mother, Queen Victoria, reigned for such an unusually ... See full summary »

Director: Louis Lumière | Star: King Edward VII

Votes: 199

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: 7,555

5. 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: 3,515

6. Jumping the Blanket (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Outdoors, with a nondescript building in the background, four men stand, each holding the corner of a blanket stretched parallel to the ground. They wear the clothes of laborers. By the ... See full summary »

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,050

7. Horse Trick Riders (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

A man tries to get on a horse , but he climbs to one side and falls from the other, until he manages to stay in balance.

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,079

8. Blacksmith Scene (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Two blacksmiths work while the vapors rise in the air. Later, another man arrives and offers a drink.

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,145

9. Fishing for Goldfish (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A baby held by his father dips his little hands into a water jug and he can' t catch the goldfish .

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Andrée Lumière, Auguste Lumière

Votes: 1,137

10. The Photographical Congress Arrives in Lyon (1895)

Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short

The photographers who need to participate in the congress of Lyon get off a boat in Neuville-sur-Saône, dividing to the right and left.

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, P.J.C. Janssen

Votes: 1,964

11. The Sea (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Several little boys run along a pier, then jump into the ocean.

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,508

12. Cordeliers' Square in Lyon (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

A stationary camera looks across the boulevard at a diagonal toward one corner of Lyon's Cordeliers' Square. It's a long shot, with a great deal of depth of focus. We can see the sky and ... See full summary »

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,210

13. Boat Leaving the Port (1895)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Three men in a rowboat are leaving the harbor.

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière

Votes: 1,577

14. 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: 5,846

15. 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: 12,875

16. 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: 2,770

17. The Messers. Lumière at Cards (1896)

1 min | Documentary, Short

Two men play cards, as a third watches and a waiter brings drinks. The third man pours drinks as the waiter laughs.

Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Antoine Féraud, Antoine Lumière, Félicien Trewey, Alphonse Winckler

Votes: 1,609

18. Bataille de neige (1897)

1 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

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

Director: Louis Lumière

Votes: 1,996

19. 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: 55,817

20. A Corner in Wheat (1909)

G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama

An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson

Votes: 2,748

21. The Battle of the Century (1927)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy

A scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Adams, Chester A. Bachman

Votes: 1,477

22. Double Whoopee (1929)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow, John Alban

Votes: 1,314

23. They Go Boom! (1929)

Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short

Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin

Votes: 1,237

24. Below Zero (1930)

Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Family

In winter-time, the boys fail to earn any money by playing their musical instruments in a bad neighborhood but their luck seems to improve when they find a wallet full of money on the street.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Bobby Burns, Baldwin Cooke

Votes: 1,891

25. Another Fine Mess (1930)

Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Two homeless vagabonds hide out in a vacant mansion and pose as the residents when prospective lessees arrive and try to rent it.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Bobby Burns

Votes: 2,613

26. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930)

Approved | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

In order to claim an inheritance, the boys present themselves at a creaky, bat-filled mansion on a stormy night.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Frank Austin, Stanley Blystone

Votes: 2,048

27. Beau Hunks (1931)

Passed | 37 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Jilted by his girlfriend, "Jeanie-Weenie," Oliver joins the Foreign Legion to forget, bringing Stanley along with him. They wilt under the scorching desert sun and under the harsh ... See full summary »

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James W. Horne, Charles Middleton

Votes: 1,953

28. One Good Turn (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy

A kindly old widow serves a free meal to the penniless boys but her greedy landlord wants to evict her for non payment of her mortgage, prompting the boys to come to her rescue.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mary Carr, James Finlayson

Votes: 1,687

29. The Music Box (1932)

Approved | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Like the legendary Sisyphus, deliverymen Laurel and Hardy struggle to push a large crated piano up a seemingly insurmountable flight of stairs.

Director: James Parrott | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dinah, Billy Gilbert

Votes: 8,026

30. Three Little Pigs (1933)

Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.

Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Mary Moder

Votes: 6,720 | Gross: $0.25M

31. Oliver the Eighth (1934)

Passed | 27 min | Short, Comedy, Family

Keen to climb the social ladder by marrying a rich widow, Oliver finds the nerve to cheat on his partner Stanley. What he doesn't know is that her favorite hobby is murder--and it looks like he's next. Who can save Oliver the Eighth?

Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Jack Barty

Votes: 1,672

32. Tit for Tat (1935)

Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Short, Family

After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?

Director: Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Mae Busch, Charlie Hall

Votes: 2,479

33. The Tree in a Test Tube (1942)

6 min | Short

Laurel and Hardy demonstrate the uses of wood in this World War II propaganda film.

Director: Charles McDonald | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Lee Vickers, Pete Smith

Votes: 522

34. Flying Padre (1951)

Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short

Two days in the life of priest Father Fred Stadtmuller whose New Mexico parish is so large he can only spread goodness and light among his flock with the aid of a monoplane. The priestly ... See full summary »

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Fred Stadtmueller, Bob Hite, Pedro

Votes: 4,809

35. Day of the Fight (1951)

Approved | 16 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

After a short study of boxing's history, narrated by newscaster Douglas Edwards, we follow a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Douglas Edwards, Nat Fleischer, Walter Cartier, Vincent Cartier

Votes: 5,140

36. The Seafarers (1953)

Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary, Short

Stanley Kubrick's first film made in color, lost for over forty years. The documentary extols the benefits of membership to the Seafarers International Union.

Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Don Hollenbeck, Paul Hall

Votes: 3,247

37. Sotterranea (1973)

11 min | Animation, Short

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Director: Manfredo Manfredi

Votes: 19

38. Tsaplya i zhuravl (1974)

10 min | Animation, Short

Animated short about a love between a heron and a crane.

Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Votes: 907

39. Nuvole (1975)

13 min | Animation, Short

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Director: Manfredo Manfredi

Votes: 21

40. Four Seasons (1975)

29 min | Documentary, Short

The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

Director: Artavazd Peleshian

Votes: 928

41. 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: 24,323

42. Frankenweenie (1984)

PG | 29 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

A young boy sets out to revive his dead pet using the monstrous power of science.

Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Shelley Duvall, Daniel Stern, Barret Oliver, Joseph Maher

Votes: 13,356

43. André and Wally B. (1984)

G | 2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A brainless android wakes up to be taunted by a large bee.

Director: Alvy Ray Smith

Votes: 6,225

44. Coffee and Cigarettes (1986)

6 min | Comedy, Short

In a vignette called "Strange to meet you," Roberto sits at a small table in a coffee bar. Five cups of coffee and two ashtrays are in front of him; he drinks and smokes. Steven joins him. ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright

Votes: 3,630

45. Luxo Jr. (1986)

G | 2 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.

Director: John Lasseter

Votes: 15,524

46. Red's Dream (1987)

G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Family

With a sale tag hanging from his seat, propped up in the corner of a bicycle store on a rainy night, Red the unicycle dreams about a better place.

Director: John Lasseter

Votes: 7,868

47. Tin Toy (1988)

G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Family

A one-man-band tin toy tries to escape a destructive baby.

Director: John Lasseter

Votes: 11,680

48. Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)

Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

To replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 36,595

49. Knick Knack (1989)

G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A snow globe snowman wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a hot party, but the glass dome that surrounds him gets in his way, despite all his efforts.

Director: John Lasseter

Votes: 15,283

50. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)

TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 57,419

52. Hello, Hello, Hello (1995)

11 min | Short

An artist scavenging for rubbish meets a policeman with very different views on what constitutes "art".

Director: David Thewlis | Stars: Kathy Burke, Robert Pugh

Votes: 54

53. Biscotti (1996)

6 min | Short

A woman tries to enjoy a pack of biscuits - but a young rocker stands in her way.

Directors: Davide Grassetti, Fabrizio Sferra | Stars: Ivan Lucarelli, Stefania Sandrelli

Votes: 18

56. La lettera (1997)

10 min | Comedy, Short

La lettera is the story of a young roman courier, of his encounter with a young lady, addressee of a letter she doesn't want to read, and of the subtle accomplicity that develops between ... See full summary »

Director: Dario Migliardi | Stars: Valerio Mastandrea, Alessandra Acciai, Valeria Cavalli, Manuele Mariani

Votes: 29

57. Geri's Game (1997)

G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Geri sets up a chess game to play his greatest opponent - himself.

Director: Jan Pinkava | Star: Bob Peterson

Votes: 26,929

58. Creampuff (1998)

27 min | Short

Creampuff is an intense and darkly romantic short film about Robert and Jack, two men snared between desperation and disgust and clinging to a destructive, dependent relationship as a last ... See full summary »

Director: Jared Seide | Stars: Scott Harlan, Jared Seide, Kristen Trucksess

Votes: 23

59. En el espejo del cielo (1998)

10 min | Short

A boy plays with a plane's reflection on a pond near his house.

Director: Carlos Salces | Stars: Malcom Vargas, Alicia Laguna

Votes: 144

60. Waiting for Woody (1998)

30 min | Short, Comedy

An unlucky actor named Josh Silver is hopeful when his agent gets him an audition with his idol Woody Allen.

Director: Grant Heslov | Stars: Grant Heslov, Robert Katims, Samantha Mathis, Carol Ann Susi

Votes: 221

63. For the Birds (2000)

G | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A group of snooty birds roosting on a telephone wire get their just deserts when a goofy bird drops in.

Director: Ralph Eggleston | Star: Ralph Eggleston

Votes: 34,008

64. Le réveil (1996)

7 min | Short, Comedy

It's 6:20 a.m. The camera pans a slew of alarm clocks that start to ring simultaneously, all set to awaken a solitary middle-aged man. The alarms are elaborate: in addition to traditional ... See full summary »

Director: Marc-Henri Wajnberg | Star: Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Votes: 99

65. Chasing Heaven (2002)

28 min | Short, Drama

After hearing of his wife's untimely death, Peter cannot find the words to tell the news to his ten-year-old son Jack.

Director: Claudia Solti | Stars: Georgina Chapman, Sean Dromgoole, Oliver Holliday, Alex Hughes

66. Clown (2002)

12 min | Animation, Short

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Director: Irina Evteeva | Star: Vyacheslav Polunin

Votes: 19

69. Little Dickie (2002)

7 min | Comedy, Musical, Short

A woman enters a bar and asks for a bit of conversation, but what she gets in return is a bunch of bad pickup lines sung to her by a cowboy and the bartender singing the cowboy's virtues.

Director: Anita Reilly McGee | Stars: Jeff Smallwood, Brian Downey, Tanya Penney, Belle Hatfield

Votes: 39

70. Redial (2002)

8 min | Short, Drama

Two people, feeling alienated from the world around them, find a chance connection through a mistaken phone call.

Director: Michele Amas | Stars: Tom McCrory, Perry Piercy

71. Red Mud (2002)

12 min | Short

A British soldier in WWI, under siege and overwhelmed, commits an act of compassion that haunts him the rest of his life.

Director: Paolo Ameli | Stars: Alessandro Di Natale, Michelangelo Pulci

Votes: 49

74. Tarjeta roja (2003)

11 min | Short

A woman visits a she-therapist in order to relieve her pain. In spite of her initial confessing mood, she tries not to surrender to the healer. She finally rebels against her, establishing ... See full summary »

Director: Elena Vilallonga

76. Boundin' (2003)

G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A sheep dances proudly in his southwestern landscape, until one day his wool is sheared and he is left naked. He's depressed and shy, until a cheerful jackalope comes along and shows him how to leap proudly and not to be ashamed.

Directors: Bud Luckey, Roger Gould | Star: Bud Luckey

Votes: 14,747

78. One Man Band (2005)

G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Two buskers engage in a petty feud over a child's donation.

Directors: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez

Votes: 17,023

80. Lifted (2006)

G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.

Director: Gary Rydstrom | Star: Sheb Wooley

Votes: 20,804

81. 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: 36,120

82. Presto (2008)

G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.

Director: Doug Sweetland

Votes: 25,736

85. The Cemetery People (2008)

4 min | Documentary, Short

Over 6,000 people make their home among the tombs of Navotas Cemetery, located in the Philippines on the shores of Manila Bay. Serving as a trustworthy guide, the smiling and talkative ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Molatore | Star: Allan Zeta Capili

Votes: 9

87. The Slow Game (2009)

10 min | Short, Sport

A stylistic and unusual exercise by director Paolo Sorrentino capturing a decisive rugby match, with a father and son playing for the same team. It involves the team's preparation, their ... See full summary »

Director: Paolo Sorrentino | Stars: Monica Dugo, Roberto Bernardini, Renato Gnani, Francesco Iacorossi

Votes: 199

90. L'ape e il vento (2009)

12 min | Short, Drama

Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave. The serene atmosphere is interrupted by a bee that lands on his hand. When his car runs off ... See full summary »

Director: Massimiliano Camaiti | Stars: Elio Germano, Philippe Leroy

Votes: 40

91. La pagella (2009)

12 min | Short, Drama

A mother takes her son to visit his father before leaving on vacation. Again this year the man won't be with his family and the child wants to show him his report card. The visiting ... See full summary »

Director: Alessandro Celli | Stars: Marco Giallini, Irene Ferri, Andrea Calligari, Lori Abadi

Votes: 35

92. Ali di cera (2009)

7 min | Short, Drama

The survivor of a shipwreck lands on a beautiful beach. When he comes upon a carry-out pizza box and realizes he is in Italy, his joy is boundless and he starts a wild dance.

Director: Hedy Krissane | Star: Hedy Krissane

93. Allegro compreso (2009)

17 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Bruno is a young composer who's trying to live on his own, out of his family house. He realizes that it's not easy at all, but the situation will change if he finally accept a professional and musical compromise.

Director: Enrico Maria Artale | Stars: Matteo Alemanno, Silvia Luzzi, Andrea Pisauro, Stefano Ronga

94. Banduryst (2009)

15 min | Short, Drama

A day in the life of Vasyl, a young and talented Ukrainian musician who has come to Italy looking for success but has to make a living delivering gas bottles across the city. Though when ... See full summary »

Director: Danilo Caputo | Star: Basilio Momako

97. La preda (2009)

18 min | Short, Drama

Giulio is eleven and his father gives him a shotgun as a birthday present. Far from the city, far from home where they should be, Giulio and his nine year old brother Lorenzo follow their ... See full summary »

Director: Francesco Apice | Stars: Paolo Sassanelli, Valerio Trementozzi, Tommaso Miro Sturno, Cecilia Dazzi

Votes: 7

99. Partly Cloudy (2009)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Babies both human and beast are created up in the stratosphere, by the clouds themselves. One cloud specializes in "dangerous" babies, creating a challenge for his loyal stork that has to deliver them.

Director: Peter Sohn | Stars: Tony Fucile, Lori Richardson

Votes: 23,437

100. Rita (II) (2009)

18 min | Short, Adventure, Drama

Rita, a blind child, shelters a boy on the run who suddenly breaks into her home. It's a mysterious, enigmatic meeting that lets Rita experience a brief moment of freedom.

Directors: Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza | Stars: Marco Correnti, Marta Palermo

Votes: 74



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