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1. Hua yang de nian hua (2000)
3 min | Short, Romance, War
Archival footage from classic Hong Kong films set to music.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Votes: 1,662
2. Paperman (2012)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An office worker meets the girl of his dreams and uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention.
Director: John Kahrs | Stars: John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley
Votes: 35,394
3. Diarchy (2010)
20 min | Short
Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.
Director: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino | Stars: Louis Garrel, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher
Votes: 166
4. Bear (I) (2011)
11 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Follows the continuing adventures of Jack, who always takes things too far. This time he is organizing a surprise for his girlfriend, with unintended consequences.
Director: Nash Edgerton | Stars: Nash Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Warwick Thornton
Votes: 1,375
5. 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: 53,821
6. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,215
7. Gala (1961)
20 min | Short
Director: Jean-Daniel Pollet | Stars: Claude Melki, Gésip Légitimus, Dolly Bell, Benoît Videuil
Votes: 42
8. 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: 36,123
9. Six Days (2002 Video)
12 min | Short
DJ Shadow video directed by Wong Kar Wai. A man tries to erase all traces of his former lover only to realize the futility of the attempt.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Chang Chen, Danielle Graham
Votes: 816
10. There's Only One Sun (2007)
9 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A woman is haunted by memories of a dangerous mission she undertook while working as a secret agent. Advertisement for Philips' Aurea LCD technology.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Amélie Daure, Gianpaolo Lupori, Stefan Morawietz
Votes: 771
11. Castello Cavalcanti (2013)
Not Rated | 8 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Italy, September 1955. A Formula One driver crashes his car during a race, leaving him stuck in a small village but good surprises will come his way.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Giada Colagrande, Giorgio Zancolla, Paolo Coluccio
Votes: 8,987
12. Mask (II) (2011)
1 min | Short
An advertisement for Shu Uemura beauty products.
Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Star: Sandrine Pinna
Votes: 67
13. The Smile Man (2013)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
After a car accident, a man has to live the rest of his life with a smile on his face because of the nerve damage.
Director: Anton Lanshakov | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Camille Guaty, Jeremy Luke, Damien D. Smith
Votes: 1,717
14. 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: 3,610
15. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,476
16. The Perfect Human (1968)
13 min | Short
An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.
Director: Jørgen Leth | Stars: Majken Algren Nielsen, Claus Nissen, Jørgen Leth
Votes: 2,561
17. 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: 6,113
18. L'alchimia del gusto (2008)
7 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Director: Edo Tagliavini | Stars: Alessandro Preziosi, Clive Griffith, Asuka Ishiguro
Votes: 5
19. The Blue Umbrella (2013)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Amidst the rain in a singing city, two umbrellas - one blue, one not - fall eternally in love.
Director: Saschka Unseld | Star: Sarah Jaffe
Votes: 11,179
20. The Maker (2011)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family
A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.
Director: Christopher Kezelos
Votes: 3,162
21. 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: 24,322
22. More (1998)
6 min | Sci-Fi, Short, Animation
A worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough?
Director: Mark Osborne
Votes: 6,117
23. Room 8 (2013)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A prisoner discovers a magical box with a baneful secret that he falls foul to.
Director: James W. Griffiths | Stars: Tom Cullen, Michael Gould, Yuri Klimov, Franc Zalewski
Votes: 3,199
24. The Red Balloon (1956)
Not Rated | 34 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.
Director: Albert Lamorisse | Stars: Pascal Lamorisse, Sabine Lamorisse, Georges Sellier, Vladimir Popov
Votes: 20,132
25. 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: 55,823
26. The Mermaid (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy
A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 1,275
27. The Route V50 (2004)
13 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A man looking for "confidence" finds himself stranded in a desert town populated by himself and a Volvo station wagon. This short film is the long form of a commercial made during a time when "story ads" were in vogue.
Director: Stephen Frears | Star: Robert Downey Jr.
Votes: 142
28. Two Lights: Relumino (2017)
31 min | Short, Romance
A sweet, mellow romance about a woman with a visual impairment and the man who grows to love her after they meet in a photography club.
Director: Jin-ho Heo | Stars: Park Hyung-sik, Han Ji-min, Kim Ki-chun, Nam Tae-boo
Votes: 442
29. Emilie Muller (1994)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Emilie Muller a young petite woman goes to her first audition, the director asks her to talk about what is inside her handbag. Then she shows many objects (photographs, book...) and tells what those things remind her.
Director: Yvon Marciano | Stars: Veronika Varga, Olivier Ramon, Marie David, Lise Bèraha
Votes: 811
30. Someone's Gaze (2013)
7 min | Animation, Short
A futuristic story about a newly independent female and her maturation into independence. The narrator details the effect her development is having on her relationship with her father.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Fumi Hirano, Satomi Hanamura, Shinji Ogawa, Rina Endô
Votes: 1,970
31. Other Worlds (1999)
2 min | Animation, Short
A man and a woman, talking over their relationship.
Director: Makoto Shinkai
Votes: 530
32. Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (2007 Video)
313 min | Animation
A collection of short films directed by Jan Svankmajer released by the BFI.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 66
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