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1. 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: 55,820
2. An Impossible Voyage (1904)
Not Rated | 24 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy, May de Lavergne
Votes: 4,003
3. 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: 15,214
4. At Land (1944)
15 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: John Cage, Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman
Votes: 3,345
5. Brutalia, ergasimes meres (2021)
25 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Perfectly identical girls, dressed in military uniforms, work day and night. A matriarchal family. An oligarchic society. What would happen if we replace bees with humans?
Director: Manolis Mavris | Stars: Antonis Antonopoulos, Haris Attonis, Chara Mata Giannatou, Kora Karvouni
Votes: 123
6. Red Shoes (2021)
14 min | Short, Animation
A story of desire, which turns into obsession, based on European folk tales. The village dance has begun and Róza hasn't been invited to dance. Suddenly, an unknown stranger appears, inviting Róza to dance, giving her a pair of red shoes.
Director: Anna Podskalská
Votes: 13
7. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou
Votes: 2,287
8. Electric Swan (2019)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
On Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani | Stars: Juan Carlos Aduviri, Nelly Prince, Elisa Massino, Nikita Zuckerberg
Votes: 352
9. I Am Afraid to Forget Your Face (2020)
15 min | Short, Drama
After an 82-day separation, Adam travels a rough road to be reunited with the one he loves, whatever it takes.
Director: Sameh Alaa | Stars: Nourhan Ahmed, Yousef Elrashidy, Seif Hemeda
Votes: 343
10. The Salamander Child (2021)
26 min | Short
At the age of 15, Florian thinks he can communicate with the dead through fire. That belief makes him the weirdo in the village where he lives. One day, by dint of being called a monster - he becomes one.
Director: Théo Degen | Stars: Elsa Blero, Florian Villez, Vincent Villez
Votes: 26
11. 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
12. Moxina (2012)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy
In the winter of 2008, two climbers encountered the Taiwanese legendary monster Moxina (a.k.a. Mô-sîn-á) at the evil mountain Wuzhishan. Ryota Nakanishi presents sixteen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Ryota Nakanishi | Stars: Mario Bava, Pengquang Chen, Shunji Chen, Sean S. Cunningham
Votes: 766
13. Talking Heads (1980)
16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
People of different age, profession and social status answer two simple questions: who they are and what they want from life.
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Votes: 3,771
14. Las Hurdes (1933)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Abel Jacquin, Alexandre O'Neill
Votes: 6,264
15. Carne (1991)
40 min | Short, Crime, Drama
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankie Pain, Marie Berto
Votes: 7,845
16. The Distance Between Us and the Sky (2019)
9 min | Short, Drama
Two strangers meet for the first time at an old gas station. One has stopped to gas up his bike, while the other is just stranded. Lacking money to get home, he will try to sell him the distance that separates them from the sky.
Director: Vasilis Kekatos | Stars: Ioko Ioannis Kotidis, Nikos Zeginoglou
Votes: 913
17. Washingtonia (2014)
24 min | Short, Drama
Washingtonia is the only palm tree that its heart is not devoured by the red beetle. Because it's heart is small and dry and no one likes small and dry hearts.
Director: Konstantina Kotzamani | Stars: Mamadou Diallo, Eftychia Stefanidou, Katerina Iliadi, Nikos Christofidis
Votes: 179
18. 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: 37,076
19. Most (2003)
29 min | Short, Drama
A poetic and powerful story of a father forced to choose between love and duty.
Director: Bobby Garabedian | Stars: Vladimír Javorský, Ladislav Ondrej, Linda Rybová, Brad Heller
Votes: 1,965
20. Shok (2015)
21 min | Short, Drama, History
The friendship of two boys is tested to its limits as they battle for survival during the Kosovo war.
Director: Jamie Donoughue | Stars: Lum Veseli, Andi Bajgora, Melihate Qena, Luan Kryeziu
Votes: 2,836
21. 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
22. When We Listen (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama
Director: Amr Moustafa Alexandrian | Stars: Amr Moustafa Alexandrian, Kassidee Campbell, Trysten Luck, Sam Quinn
23. Giselle (2017)
27 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Giselle is a modern adaptation of the ballet.
Director: Severine Reisp | Stars: Gundula Schulze, Camila Schäefer Rodrigues, Judith Waldhorn, Victor Wisehart
24. Non Serviam (2011)
25 min | Short, Action, Crime
Jack made a living pushing coke on college students until his terminally ill girlfriend, Anna received a new lease on life. Wanting to get out of his chosen profession and help pay for his ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Mansfield | Stars: Robert Gardner, Gina Martino, Kenneth McGregor, Steve Saturn
Votes: 17
25. Amen (I) (2018)
14 min | Short, Drama
Director: Amr Moustafa Alexandrian | Stars: Kassidee Campbell, Sarah Hoffart, Jakob Xavier Lawlor, Jason Steele
26. Homotopia (2007)
27 min | Short, Drama
Set sometime in the future-present Homotopia chronicles a group of radical queer's dedicated to exposing the trouble with gay marriage, dismantling the State, undoing Empire, while looking ... See full summary »
Directors: Eric Stanley, Chris Vargas | Stars: Ralowe T. Ampu, Kentaro Kaneko, Mattilda, Jason Fritz Michael
Votes: 21
27. Obitateli (1970)
9 min | Documentary, Short
A reflection on the relationship between wildlife and humans.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 379
28. Whack (2015)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
In the - near future- decadent metropolis of Athens suicide is illegal, while citizens have no other desire but to die.
Director: Syni Pappa | Stars: Stathis Apostolou, Iris Baglanea, Aris Balis, Pavlos Iordanopoulos
Votes: 39
29. With a Little Patience (2007)
14 min | Short, Drama
An office clerk as seen during her daily routine - all the little vibrations of her face. And a man, impatiently waiting for her, beyond the windows.
Director: László Nemes | Stars: Virág Marjai, Attila Menszátor-Héresz, Éva Kelényi, Kálmán Kovács
Votes: 543
30. Listen (2014)
13 min | Short, Drama
Copenhagen. A police station. A foreign woman, wearing a burqa, is there with her young son to file a complaint. Yet, it seems the translator is not willing to report what she is telling.
Directors: Rungano Nyoni, Hamy Ramezan | Stars: Yusuf Kamal El-Ali, Zeinab Rahal, Amira Helene Larsen, Nanna Bøttcher
Votes: 321
31. Les escargots (1966)
10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In a distant planetoid, an industrious but hapless old farmer strives to make his vegetables flourish, however, to no avail.
Director: René Laloux
Votes: 1,989
32. Les temps morts (1965)
10 min | Animation, Short
What is man ? Man makes war, man kills man, man hunts, man is executed. A montage mixing original drawings by Topor, original shots and stock shots that ironically analyze what man is.
Director: René Laloux | Star: Roland Dubillard
Votes: 871
33. Thunderbirds (2014)
22 min | Short, Drama
Antonin and Leonor are hunting the lark. He is as submissive as his sister is voracious. One day, a dog attacks them.
Director: Léa Mysius | Stars: Christian Holle, Bertrand Duvallet, Anne Charneau, Valentine Cadic
Votes: 16
34. Incident by a Bank (2010)
12 min | Short, Action, Comedy
An attempted bank robbery. Follows the thought process of two confused witnesses, the filmographer and the producer.
Director: Ruben Östlund | Stars: Bahador Foladi, Ramtin Parvaneh, Leif Edlund, Rasmus Lindgren
Votes: 2,257
35. Letter (2013)
Not Rated | 21 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
A remote village in the North-West of Russia. A mental asylum is located in an old wooden house. The place and its inhabitants seem to be untouched by civilization. In this pristine setting... See full summary »
Director: Sergey Loznitsa
Votes: 195
36. Lampa cu caciula (2006)
25 min | Short, Drama
A boy convinces his father to go into town and fix their TV.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Marian Bratu, Gabriel Spahiu, Natalia Calin, Alexandru Georgescu
Votes: 583
37. Diagonal Symphony (1924)
7 min | Animation, Short, Music
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The ... See full summary »
Director: Viking Eggeling
Votes: 1,479
38. L'île jaune (2016)
30 min | Short, Drama
11-year-old Ena meets a young fisherman in a port. He gives her an eel and they arrange to meet the following Sunday on the other side of the lake. She has to be there.
Directors: Paul Guilhaume, Léa Mysius | Stars: Ena Letourneux, Alexandre Branco, Isabelle Coste, Denis Wallon
Votes: 28
39. Film (1965)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »
Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed
Votes: 2,291
40. Patriotism (1966)
Not Rated | 30 min | Drama, Short
A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.
Director: Yukio Mishima | Stars: Yukio Mishima, Yoshiko Tsuruoka
Votes: 2,038
41. Song of Love (1950)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.
Director: Jean Genet | Stars: Bravo, Jean Genet, Java, Coco Le Martiniquais
Votes: 3,710
42. Pull My Daisy (1959)
30 min | Short
A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.
Directors: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie | Stars: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers
Votes: 815
43. 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: 2,144
44. The House Is Black (1963)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
Director: Forugh Farrokhzad | Stars: Forugh Farrokhzad, Ebrahim Golestan, Hossein Mansouri
Votes: 5,568
45. 4.1 Miles (2016)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea.
Director: Daphne Matziaraki | Stars: DJ Express, Christos Sapounas, Giorgos Tsagarellis
Votes: 972
46. L'étoile de mer (1928)
21 min | Short, Romance
Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in ... See full summary »
Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Votes: 1,565
47. My Josephine (2003)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Aadid tells us his life in seven minutes. He's an Arabic-speaking young man working the night shift at a laundromat and dry cleaners somewhere in the United States. In the aftermath of 9/11... See full summary »
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Basel Hamdan, Saba Shariat, Marc Levi, Karl Cooke
Votes: 433
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