Short Films
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1. 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: 4,945
2. Food (1992)
16+ | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus, Pavel Marek
Votes: 3,588
3. Darkness/Light/Darkness (1989)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,874
4. Gisèle Kérozène (1990)
5 min | Short, Action, Comedy
Across a futuristic city's narrow streets, a coven of modern witches chases a thief on motorized flying brooms.
Director: Jan Kounen | Stars: Abel Aboualiten, Pascal Banos, Bob Fletchard, Jan Kounen
Votes: 740
5. My Wrongs 8245-8249 and 117 (2002)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Disaster after disaster, an already frail man descends into madness after his talking dog announces that he is actually his defence lawyer.
Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Paddy Considine, Miranda Pleasence, Simon Greenall, Richard Lumsden
Votes: 1,246
6. Jabberwocky (1971)
14 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Lewis Carroll's poem is read and followed by a free-form animated depiction of images and toys from childhood, repeatedly overturned by a live cat.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 1,506
7. Dimensions of Dialogue (1983)
12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Three surreal depictions of failures of communication that occur on all levels of human society.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 4,891
8. Bellies (2009)
18 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Things have an interesting turn in a society consisting of snail-eating identical chubby men.
Director: Philippe Grammaticopoulos
Votes: 192
9. Last Words (1968)
13 min | Short
The story of a solitary man who refuses to leave a Greek island (at one time a leper colony) is told by a strange variety of characters who don't have much to say except to repeat their ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Lefteris Daskalakis, Antonis Papadakis
Votes: 977
10. Precautions Against Fanatics (1969)
12 min | Short, Drama
The film features several horse trainers and other track workers talking about their roles at the track, always eventually interrupted by an older man who claims to be the true authority, ... See full summary »
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Petar Radenkovic, Mario Adorf, Hans Tiedemann, Herbert Hisel
Votes: 862
11. 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: 36,124
12. Hell's Club (2015 Video)
10 min | Short
Director: Antonio Maria da Silva | Stars: Kenny Baker, Doug Bradley, Michael Douglas, Michael Jackson
Votes: 30
13. Hell's Club Part 2. Another Night (2017 Video)
18 min | Short
Director: Antonio Maria da Silva | Stars: Aaliyah, Dan Aykroyd, Kenny Baker, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 40
14. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
46 min | Drama
Seven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ... See full summary »
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya, Marina Adzhubei
Votes: 7,139
15. A Short Vision (1956)
TV-MA | 6 min | Animation, Short
The leaders, the wise men, the leopard, the deer, the owl and the rat all look up in the sky in fear as a strange object flies through the sky.
Directors: Joan Foldes, Peter Foldes | Star: James McKechnie
Votes: 429
16. Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness (2003)
14 min | Documentary, Short
It's about everything and one thing: choice.
Director: Tiffany Shlain | Stars: Liz Marks, Sarah Mueller, Marcus Berry, Mark Pauline
Votes: 58
17. 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: 55,840
18. 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: 53,823
19. Zero for Conduct (1933)
Not Rated | 47 min | Drama
In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Louis Lefebvre, Du Verron
Votes: 9,369
20. À Propos de Nice (1930)
Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.
Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo
Votes: 4,634
21. Taris (1931)
Not Rated | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Jean Vigo films the talents of great swimming champion Jean Taris performing different acts. Vigo film technique allied with Taris swimming style are intertwined with grace and effect.
Director: Jean Vigo | Star: Jean Taris
Votes: 2,511
22. 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
23. Living Still Life (2012)
15 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Fièvre, an enigmatic woman, collects dead animals. She brings them to life through animated films. One day, a man comes to see Fièvre: his wife is dead.
Director: Bertrand Mandico | Stars: Elina Löwensohn, Jean-Marc Montmont
Votes: 505
24. 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: 3,711
25. Looking for Langston (1989)
R | 45 min | Biography, Drama
A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with ... See full summary »
Director: Isaac Julien | Stars: Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, John Wilson
Votes: 613
26. The Physics of Sorrow (2019)
27 min | Animation, Short
A saga of childhood reveries and adult regrets that is also the first-ever fully animated film using encaustic painting.
Director: Theodore Ushev | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Manuel Tadros, Theodore Ushev
Votes: 506
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