My favourite Short Films
by nanch | created - 06 Jul 2014 | updated - 6 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
Not Rated | 43 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s.
Director: Todd Haynes | Stars: Merrill Gruver, Michael Edwards, Melissa Brown, Rob LaBelle
Votes: 3,331
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rACJWPd3VnI
2. Rendezvous (1976)
9 min | Short, Action
A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Gunilla Friden, Claude Lelouch
Votes: 3,770
http://vimeo.com/24998987
3. George Lucas in Love (1999)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
Director: Joe Nussbaum | Stars: Martin Hynes, Lisa Jakub, Jason Peck, Jeff Wiens
Votes: 4,403
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il7ROZzvqUU
4. Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986 Video)
Not Rated | 17 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A look at the wild scene outside a Judas Priest concert.
Directors: John Heyn, Jeff Krulik | Stars: John Cloud Jr., Judas Priest
Votes: 1,547
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whZuz5Dwtw8
5. La cabina (1972 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Horror
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Agustín González, Goyo Lebrero, Tito García
Votes: 4,571
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABpfvOgbjw
6. Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (2000)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Short film depicting a fictional educational film about fork lift truck operational safety. The dangers of unsafe operation are presented in gory details.
Directors: Stefan Prehn, Jörg Wagner | Stars: Konstantin Graudus, Gustav Adolph Artz, Jürgen Kittel, Sönke Korries
Votes: 4,943
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo
7. The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1996)
25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: James Pidgeon, Michoue Sylvain, Andrea Usher-Jones
Votes: 2,961
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pa0pBfrev8
8. Aftermath (1994)
Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Horror
A short film wherein a man working in a morgue mutilates and defiles one of the corpses.
Director: Nacho Cerdá | Stars: Pep Tosar, Jordi Tarrida, Ángel Tarris, Xevi Collellmir
Votes: 5,710
9. 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: 1,457
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfxd1k_asparagus_creation
Apparently they showed this before Eraserhead midnight screenings at the Elgin Theater NYC back in the 70s. Suitably weird.
10. Elephant (1989 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 39 min | Crime, Drama
A depiction of a series of violent killings in Northern Ireland with no clue as to exactly who is responsible.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Gary Walker, Bill Hamilton, Michael Foyle, Danny Small
Votes: 2,927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyRL73HIvqg
11. 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: 6,653
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y
12. 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: 37,056
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKW8kLGJYXg
13. Charade (1984)
5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.
Director: John Minnis | Star: John Minnis
Votes: 803
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewycFpTcdE
14. The Secret Cinema (1966)
27 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.
Director: Paul Bartel | Stars: Amy Vane, Philip Carlson, Barry Dennen, Connie Ellison
Votes: 438
15. Time Piece (1965)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A surreal stream of consciousness montage about time and related bizarreness.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: Jim Henson, Enid Cafritz, Dennis Paget, Jim Hutchison
Votes: 943
16. Universe (1960)
29 min | Documentary, Short
A journey through the universe as it would appear to a space traveler beginning at the David Dunlap Observatory on Earth.
Directors: Roman Kroitor, Colin Low | Stars: Donald MacRae, Douglas Rain
Votes: 373
17. The Hand (1965)
18 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?
Director: Jirí Trnka
Votes: 2,046
18. Between the Towers (2005)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short
This animated film tells the story of Phillipe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers in 1974.
Director: Michael Sporn | Star: Jake Gyllenhaal
Votes: 472
19. Suspicious Circumstances (1985)
10 min | Short
Director: Jim Blashfield | Star: Jim Cuevas
Votes: 9
20. Runaway Brain (1995)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Action
In an attempt to convince Minnie that he hasn't forgotten to buy her an anniversary present, Mickey Mouse ends up promising to take her to Hawaii. Funds being short, he applies for a job as... See full summary »
Director: Chris Bailey | Stars: Wayne Allwine, Russi Taylor, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Cummings
Votes: 1,308
22. Very Nice, Very Nice (1961)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
Through an unconventional use of concise narrative, a conceptual collage of sounds and images, and a rapid-fire montage, Arthur Lipsett's first film vividly portrays the urban estrangement in the times of social erosion and materialism.
Director: Arthur Lipsett
Votes: 883
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