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1. Women Reply (1975)
Not Rated | 8 min | Documentary, Short
What does being a woman really mean? How do women live the status society reserves for them? A group of women, beautiful or not, young or not, gifted with motherly instinct or not, answer before Agnès Varda's camera.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Caroline Baudry, Catherine, Agnès Varda, Maryline Even
Votes: 1,533
2. The Pleasure of Love in Iran (1976)
Not Rated | 6 min | Documentary, Short, Romance
A couple find their erotic love mirrored perfectly in the architecture and mosaics of Iran.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Valérie Mairesse, Ali Rafie, Thérèse Liotard
Votes: 1,180
3. 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: 37,079
4. 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: 3,778
5. Mit mir will niemand spielen (1976)
14 min | Short, Drama
A children with domestic issues and despised by his classmates develops a bond with one of them thanks to his speaking crow.
Director: Werner Herzog
Votes: 606
6. Antoine and Colette (1962)
32 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.
Director: François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Jean-François Adam
Votes: 6,357
7. World of Glory (1991)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
After witnessing an act of unprecedented violence without even flinching, an emotionally numb real-estate agent visits his ailing mother at the hospital, and then, the graveyard. Is there a speck of happiness in this cruel and short life?
Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Klas-Gösta Olsson, Lennart Björklund, Christer Christensen, Bernard Eiger
Votes: 2,827
8. The Saddest Boy in the World (2006)
13 min | Short, Comedy
Timothy Higgins, the saddest boy in the world, prepares to hang himself at his ninth birthday party.
Director: Jamie Travis | Stars: Benjamin B. Smith, Lauren K. Robek, Babs Chula, Hailey Conner
Votes: 609
9. 78 Tours (1985)
4 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A waltz played with an accordion starts a short story about the running time.
Director: Georges Schwizgebel
Votes: 603
10. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)
20 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.
Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Star: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy
Votes: 1,224
11. Walker (I) (2012)
27 min | Short
Kang-sheng Lee is dressed in a red robe and walks slowly and patiently through a lively city.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Star: Kang-sheng Lee
Votes: 564
12. The Alphabet (1969)
TV-MA | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Reavey
Votes: 8,555
14. Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1958)
20 min | Short, Drama
A jilted man (Jean-Paul Belmondo) rants at his mostly silent former lover (Anne Collette).
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anne Collette, Gérard Blain
Votes: 1,765
15. Saute ma ville (1971)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A young girl shuts herself away in her apartment and goes about her business in a strange way, as she wastes the night in her apartment.
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 1,225
16. 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
17. J.S. Bach - Fantasy in G Minor (1965)
Not Rated | 10 min | Animation, Short, Music
A man plays the Bach piece of the title on the organ, accompanied by images of stone walls with cracks and holes that grow and shrink, intercut with images of doors and wire-meshed windows.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 859
18. Ah, L'Amour (1995)
Unrated | 2 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A bitter self-parody featuring a guy going through a series of excruciating rejections.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 1,704
19. Junkopia (1981)
6 min | Documentary, Short
A short film that shows Boundless, Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant city in the distance - all that shrouds ... See full summary »
Directors: John Chapman, Chris Marker, Frank Simeone | Star: Arielle Dombasle
Votes: 971
20. En blomst (1971)
7 min | Short
Lars Von Trier. 15 years old. This short film show us where life begins (oxygen). Without trees we couldn't live. The industry is destroying our ecosystem.
Director: Lars von Trier | Star: Ole Benzon
Votes: 323
21. Cat Listening to Music (1988)
3 min | Documentary, Short
Chris Marker films a cat reacting to the sound of a piano playing.
Director: Chris Marker | Star: Guillaume-en-Egypte
Votes: 357
22. The Deaths of Chet Baker (2009)
8 min | Short, Biography
An exploration of the mysteries surrounding the death of jazz legend Chet Baker who was found dead below an Amsterdam hotel window in 1988.
Director: Robert Budreau | Stars: Stephen McHattie, Ted Dykstra, Sten Eirik
Votes: 72
23. Phantom Limb (2005)
28 min | Documentary, Short
The death of my seven-year-old brother when I was nine remains a painful and haunting memory. My parents did not know how to cope with the loss of their child and the entire family ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Rosenblatt | Stars: Tyler Cassity, Chris Cornet, John Lambert, George Dalzell
Votes: 200
24. Barn Rushes (1971)
36 min | Short
Eight camera passes across the barn, each the length of roll of film, the light and the relationship to the foreground changing with each pass.
Director: Larry Gottheim
Votes: 48
25. Four Shadows (1978)
Not Rated | 67 min
Like constellations wheeling round, a double chain of four image segments and four sound segments wheel past each other in sixteen combinations.
Director: Larry Gottheim
Votes: 9
26. 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: 7,846
27. Outer Space (1999)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror
Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky | Star: Barbara Hershey
Votes: 2,810
28. Dream Work (2001)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short
A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 1,167
29. The Exquisite Corpus (2015)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A sunbathing woman has a phantasmagoric vision of ecstasy, derived from various found footage sources.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 374
30. Étude cinégraphique sur une arabesque (1929)
5 min | Short, Fantasy
Visual structure composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman's smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Star: Marie-Anne Malleville
Votes: 236
31. Record 957 (1928)
6 min | Short, Music
In this avant garde short subject, the director gives us her visual impressions from listening to two pieces by Chopin: the 4tn and 6tn preludes.
Director: Germaine Dulac
Votes: 138
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