Best 11-15 Minute Long Films
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1. It's Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it all, he talks about how much of his ... See full summary »
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Ira Rubin, Sam DeFazio, Andrea Martin, Catherine Scorsese
Votes: 2,187
2. 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
3. A Straightforward Boy (1929)
38 min | Short, Comedy
A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Tatsuo Saitô, Tomio Aoki, Takeshi Sakamoto
Votes: 642
4. 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: 55,826
5. 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: 4,890
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. Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983 Music Video)
PG | 13 min | Horror, Music
A night at the movies turns into a nightmare when Michael and his date are attacked by a hoard of bloodthirsty zombies - only a "Thriller" can save them now.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Michael Jackson, Ola Ray, Forrest J. Ackerman, Reed Armstrong
Votes: 18,563
8. Window Water Baby Moving (1959)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Stan Brakhage films the birth of his first child, Myrrena.
Director: Stan Brakhage | Stars: Stan Brakhage, Myrrena Schwegmann, Jane Wodening
Votes: 2,460
9. The Lunch Date (1989)
12 min | Short, Drama
A woman misses her train and buys lunch in a café. When she returns to her table, a man is eating her salad.
Director: Adam Davidson | Stars: Scotty Bloch, Clebert Ford, Bernard Johnson, Paul Sarnoff
Votes: 1,783
10. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Rita Christiani, Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook
Votes: 1,832
11. The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy
The plot is a satire derived from Hugh Antoine D'Arcy's poem of the same title. The painter courts Madeleine but loses to the wealthy client who sits for his portrait. The despairing artist... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Cecile Arnold, Jess Dandy, Vivian Edwards
Votes: 1,183
12. A Movie (1958)
12 min | Short
Clips of atomic explosions, pornography, and B-movies are spliced together to evoke certain emotions.
Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Theodore Roosevelt
Votes: 1,455
13. In the Park (1915)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy
An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Leona Anderson, Billy Armstrong, Lloyd Bacon
Votes: 1,745
14. A Story of Water (1961)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
A young woman is going to Paris by bus, but when she steps out of her house she discovers that her garden and the whole village is flooded with water. With a boat and a bike she succeeds to... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Caroline Dim, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 1,688
15. The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House (1922)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Fultah Fisher runs a boarding house catering to seamen passing through the port. A girl known as Anne of Austria has had many lovers amongst the sailors, but presently she's known to be the... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Mildred Owens, Olaf Skavlan, Ethan Allen, Gerald Griffin
Votes: 206
16. 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
17. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short
After eating a rarebit, a man has an odd dream in which his wife takes in a strange-looking animal that eats everything in sight and keeps growing until it threatens the entire city.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 474
18. Nadja in Paris (1964)
13 min | Short, Drama
Nadja is a guest student, who stays at Cité Universitaire and visits the Sorbonne, while preparing a thesis on Proust. Besides her student life she likes to stroll about Paris, to explore the variety of this wide and open city.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Nadja Tesich, Jean-Pierre Léaud
Votes: 1,528
19. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey, Adriane Marsh
Votes: 1,426
20. Manly Games (1988)
Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man sits down to watch a football match, which seems to consist of the players being violently mutilated in various inventive ways.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Miroslav Kuchar
Votes: 1,377
21. The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Unrated | 13 min | Short, Horror
An avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.
Directors: James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Stars: Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak
Votes: 1,435
22. Bottle Rocket (1993)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Dysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Elissa Sommerfield
Votes: 7,357
23. 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
24. The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1982)
Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In Prague, a professorial puppet, with metal pincers for hands and an open book for a hat, takes a boy as a pupil. First, the professor empties fluff and toys from the child's head, leaving... See full summary »
Directors: Keith Griffiths, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Votes: 1,067
25. Kitchen Sink (1989)
14 min | Short, Horror
A woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.
Director: Alison Maclean | Stars: Theresa Healey, Peter Tait, Annagretta Christian
Votes: 1,184
26. The Flat (1968)
13 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A nondescript man is trapped in a sinister flat, where nothing seems to obey the laws of nature.
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Ivan Kraus, Juraj Herz
Votes: 1,852
27. Making a Living (1914)
G | 11 min | Short, Comedy
An out-of-work swindler takes a job as a reporter. After witnessing a car go over cliff, he grabs a rival reporter's camera and races to the newspaper office to enter the photo as his own. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Lehrman | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Emma Clifton, Chester Conklin, Alice Davenport
Votes: 2,300
28. I Love Sarah Jane (2008)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Horror, Romance
Jimbo is 13 and can think of only one girl -- Sarah Jane. And no matter what stands in his way-bullies, violence, chaos, or zombies-nothing will stop him from finding a way into her world.
Director: Spencer Susser | Stars: Brad Ashby, Mia Wasikowska, Vladimir Matovic, Beau South
Votes: 1,393
29. The Image (1969)
13 min | Short, Horror, Mystery
An artist's painting comes to life, and haunts him.
Director: Michael Armstrong | Stars: Michael Byrne, David Bowie
Votes: 297
30. The Sinking of the 'Lusitania' (1918)
TV-PG | 12 min | Animation, Short, War
An animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
Director: Winsor McCay | Star: Winsor McCay
Votes: 1,273
31. Ask Father (1919)
Passed | 13 min | Comedy, Short
The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 1,232
32. Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919)
Passed | 12 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Billy Blazes confronts Crooked Charley, who has been ruling the town of Peaceful Vale through fear and violence.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 957
33. T2 3-D: Battle Across Time (1996 Video)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Action, Sci-Fi
Three freedom fighters attack a large corporation to prevent a future apocalypse.
Directors: John Bruno, James Cameron, Keith Melton, Stan Winston | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Edward Furlong, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Votes: 8,493
34. Bluebeard (1901)
TV-MA | 12 min | Short, Horror
A young woman becomes the eighth wife of the wealthy Bluebeard, whose first seven wives have died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Jehanne d'Alcy, Bleuette Bernon, Thomas White
Votes: 1,884
35. Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2012 Video)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Action, Adventure
S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sitwell is assigned to recover an abandoned Chitauri weapon being used by a young couple robbing a bank.
Director: Louis D'Esposito | Stars: Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Bradford, Maximiliano Hernández, Titus Welliver
Votes: 11,733
36. O Dreamland (1953)
13 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy
Documentary on a famous amusement park, showing the irony of its manufactured fun.
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Votes: 594
37. Lick the Star (1998)
14 min | Drama, Short
Kate has been absent from high school for a week due to a broken foot. Upon returning, she learns her clique of girlfriends have devised a new secret plan based around the codename "Lick the Star".
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Christina Turley, Audrey Kelly, Julia Vanderham, Lindsy Drummer
Votes: 2,156
38. Fighting Friends (1929)
14 min | Short, Comedy
A simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life, until they gallantly rescue a woman injured in a road accident.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu | Stars: Atsushi Watanabe, Hisao Yoshitani, Eiko Takamatsu, Tomoko Naniwa
Votes: 331
39. Alice's Wonderland (1923)
12 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
Alice visits an animation studio, where the animators show her various scenes on their drawing boards. A few of them: a cat dancing to a cat band; a mouse poking at a (live) cat until it ... See full summary »
Directors: Walt Disney, Hugh Harman, Carman Maxwell | Stars: Virginia Davis, Walt Disney, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising
Votes: 829
40. Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1960)
12 min | Comedy, Short, Romance
Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After ... See full summary »
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Stéphane Audran, Anna Karina, Andrée Bertrand
Votes: 1,363
41. Nyarlathotep (2001)
13 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the early 1920s a traveling show comes to Arkham led by the mysterious Nyarlathotep. Like much of the population of Arkham young Dr Burke goes to see the show - but finds neither the show nor the showman are what they seem.
Director: Christian Matzke | Stars: Dan Harrod, Christian Matzke, Michael Kristan, James Cagney IV
Votes: 141
42. Picnic with Weissmann (1969)
11 min | Animation, Short
Various objects are having a sunny outing together in the nature.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 890
43. Two Men and a Wardrobe (1958)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Two men emerge from the sea onto the beach carrying a large wooden wardrobe with a mirror on its front. After the two men clean up and rejoice being in this new environment, they proceed to... See full summary »
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jakub Goldberg, Henryk Kluba, Andrzej Kondratiuk, Barbara Lass
Votes: 2,753
44. Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915)
TV-G | 14 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty and Mabel, a married couple, visit the San Diego Exposition. After watching the parade, they rent a motorized cart. While Mabel makes a quick shopping foray, Fatty can't keep from ... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Joe Bordeaux, Billie Brockwell
Votes: 259
45. Submit to Me (1985)
Unrated | 12 min | Short
A No-Wave erotic horror exploring the aesthetics of kink, sadism, mutilation and suicide.
Director: Richard Kern | Stars: Adrienne Altenhaus, Magot Damian, Cruella De Ville, Richard Kern
Votes: 330
46. His New Mamma (1924)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A jealous father thinks his son is after Dad's fiancee and kicks the son out. Working in California, he falls for a girl and runs into his new Mamma with another man. Will our farm boy and his sweetie stop injustice from happening again?
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Harry Langdon, Madeline Hurlock, Andy Clyde, Tiny Ward
Votes: 114
47. Bluebeard (1936)
13 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Perrault's fairy tale presented in claymation with choral voices. Bluebeard goes courting, all six of his wives having died. He arrives at the house of a widow with two daughters. He's ... See full summary »
Directors: René Bertrand, Jean Painlevé
Votes: 386
48. So You Think You're Not Guilty (1950)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
Joe McDoakes (George O'Hanlon) pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine quickly pyramids to a 10-year jail sentence.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Phyllis Coates, Douglas Fowley, Don C. Harvey
Votes: 449
49. A Modern Coed (1966)
13 min | Documentary, Short
An examination of the lifestyles of female college students in 1966.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Star: Antoine Vitez
Votes: 661
50. Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013 Video)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Action, Adventure
Frustrated at being marginalized at work, Peggy Carter goes on an unauthorized solo field mission.
Director: Louis D'Esposito | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Bradley Whitford, Dominic Cooper, Shane Black
Votes: 13,176
51. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2011)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Morris Lessmore, a young writer, wanders into a mysterious library after a storm devastates his city. The library is home to magical flying books that literally come to life.
Directors: William Joyce, Brandon Oldenburg
Votes: 5,806
52. Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014 Video)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A documentary filmmaker interviews the now-famous Trevor Slattery from behind bars.
Director: Drew Pearce | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Scoot McNairy, Lester Speight, Sam Rockwell
Votes: 12,903
53. A Corner in Wheat (1909)
G | 14 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 2,748
54. Pony Glass (1998)
15 min | Animation, Short, Romance
Superman's pal Jimmy Olsen gets his own story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy meets boy!
Director: Lewis Klahr
Votes: 79
55. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Stars: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Votes: 8,082
56. The Incredible Stranger (1942)
Unrated | 11 min | Short
In 1893, an odd stranger arrives in a small town and keeps a promise he made to his wife.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Sam Ash, Walter Bacon, Walter Baldwin
Votes: 203
57. The Sealed Room (1909)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, History
A king exacts vengeance upon his faithless mistress and her lover.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Linda Arvidson
Votes: 962
58. The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Votes: 3,217
59. The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)
Unrated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin, Ethel Jewett
Votes: 876
60. Too Many Cooks (2014 TV Short)
TV-MA | 11 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A series of montages that parodies the introductory title sequences of generic 70s, 80s and 90s TV shows of various genres slowly turns into an absurdist meta slasher and then the parody becomes even weirder.
Director: Casper Kelly | Stars: Ken DeLozier, Tara Ochs, Katelyn Nacon, Justin Scott
Votes: 5,235
61. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: Lucius Henderson | Stars: James Cruze, Florence La Badie, Marie Eline, Jane Gail
Votes: 771
62. Shot in the Excitement (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy
A girl and her suitor are interrupted by the pranks of a rival (who rigs a booby trap which fires a cannon). Music composed and performed by Donald Sosin. Presented by CineMuseum (on behalf of Keystone Films).
Director: Rube Miller | Stars: Al St. John, Alice Howell, Rube Miller, Josef Swickard
Votes: 165
63. 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: 2,826
64. Leading Lizzie Astray (1914)
12 min | Comedy, Short
A city slicker is driving through a small town when his car has a flat. A local boy and his girlfriend walk by and the boy volunteers to fix the man's tire. While he's doing that, the city ... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Ed Brady, Mack Swain
Votes: 224
65. The Fall of the House of Usher (1982)
15 min | Animation, Short, Horror
In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's ... See full summary »
Director: Jan Svankmajer | Star: Petr Cepek
Votes: 794
66. The Doctor's Secret (1910)
13 min | Short
Doctors blow to pieces a patient in a hydrotherapy machine and re-assemble him.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 289
67. 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
68. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes, Justus D. Barnes
Votes: 21,004
69. Tango Tangle (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Comedy
Out of costume, Charlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, somewhat drunk, visits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admirers: the band leader, one of the musicians, and now Charlie.
Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Ford Sterling, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Chester Conklin
Votes: 1,408
70. The City Slicker (1918)
Not Rated | 12 min | Comedy, Short
Our hero gets a job at a hotel in the country and proceeds to introduce some changes, installing gadgets and time-saving devices.
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Helen Gilmore
Votes: 260
71. Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
TV-G | 13 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Al St. John, Frank Hayes
Votes: 270
72. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
Votes: 3,656
73. Invocation of My Demon Brother (1969)
12 min | Short, Horror
Experimental short, featuring strobe-like erotic imagery with several shots of the Rolling Stones in performance and an original synthesizer score by Mick Jagger.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Bill Beutel, Harvey Bialy
Votes: 2,042
74. The Song of Styrene (1958)
13 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Poetic and aesthetic visit of a large polystyrene factory.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Pierre Dux, Sacha Vierny
Votes: 1,114
75. People of the Po Valley (1947)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary short detailing the life of Italians living on the Po River in the 1940s.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Votes: 965
76. The Tempest (1908)
12 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Prospero and his daughter Miranda must take refuge on an enchanted island. There Prospero, who himself has magical powers, releases the spirit Ariel from a spell, and also meets the savage ... See full summary »
Director: Percy Stow
Votes: 286
77. Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
12 min | Comedy, Short
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charley Chase, Minta Durfee, Harry McCoy
Votes: 207
78. The Very Eye of Night (1955)
15 min | Short, Drama
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing... See full summary »
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Patricia Ferrier, Bud Bready
Votes: 1,114
79. Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
Not Rated | 14 min | Animation, Short
Oscillating hands each hold a pen; a man made of wire has a malevolent look and an oscillating eye as he pokes at a bump on his forehead
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Weiser Quay
Votes: 768
80. Peter and the Wolf (1946)
TV-G | 15 min | Animation, Short, Family
Animated version of the fairy tale of the Russian boy Peter and his hunt for a raiding wolf, presented to the music of Sergei Prokofiev.
Director: Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Sterling Holloway, Ivan, Mischa, Peter
Votes: 3,250
81. Leonardo's Diary (1974)
12 min | Animation, Short
Animated drawings inspired by Leonardo da Vinci are intercut with seemingly unrelated (but in fact strangely similar) live-action scenes.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 552
82. Fatty's New Role (1915)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty plays a hobo who is denied service at a bar. Bar patrons play a practical joke with a fake bomb threat causing a panic, leaving Fatty with the bar to himself.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Swain, Slim Summerville, Joe Bordeaux
Votes: 321
83. The Last Trick (1964)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two magicians, Mr. Schwarzwald and Mr. Edgar, try to outdo each other in performing elaborate magic tricks, leading to a violent ending.
Director: Jan Svankmajer
Votes: 1,051
84. Eaux d'artifice (1953)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short
A woman dressed in an elegant period dress wanders through the water gardens at the Villa d'Este.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Star: Carmilla Salvatorelli
Votes: 1,787
85. La voix du rossignol (1925)
13 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and ... See full summary »
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Star: Nina Star
Votes: 457
86. 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
87. The Witch (1906)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Fantasy
A penniless troubadour consults the Fairy Carabosse about his future but offends her by paying with a bag of sand.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 763
88. Lichtspiel Opus 1. (1921)
13 min | Animation, Short, Music
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Votes: 968
89. The Crush (I) (2010)
15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An 8 year old schoolboy is so besotted with his teacher that he challenges her boyfriend to a duel...to the death.
Director: Michael Creagh | Stars: Olga Wehrly, Rory Keenan, Oran Creagh, Charlie Bonner
Votes: 1,749
90. Rain (1929)
12 min | Documentary, Short
Regen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
Directors: Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Votes: 1,914
91. Mabel's Wilful Way (1915)
TV-G | 11 min | Short, Comedy
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
Directors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Sennett | Stars: Mabel Normand, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Alice Davenport
Votes: 263
92. Falling Leaves (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Mace Greenleaf, Blanche Cornwall, Marian Swayne, Magda Foy
Votes: 1,653
93. Necrology (1971)
12 min | Short
People ascending into darkness.
Director: Standish Lawder | Stars: Louise P. Adams, Jack Alpern, Prescott Anderson, Daniel Babbage
Votes: 487
94. The Country Doctor (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce
Votes: 764
95. Hardware Wars (1978)
Not Rated | 13 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
This is a short parody of the movie Star Wars.
Director: Ernie Fosselius | Stars: Frank Robertson, Scott Mathews, Jeff Hale, Artie Deco
Votes: 2,070 | Gross: $0.50M
96. A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire (1906)
Not Rated | 12 min | Documentary, Short
From the front of a cable car, a motion picture camera records a trip down Market Street, San Francisco, California, from a point between 8th & 9th Streets, Eastward to the cable car turnaround at the Ferry Building.
Votes: 686
97. The House of Small Cubes (2008)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Drama
To save his house from rising flood waters, an old man uses bricks to build it higher, then he relives events from his past while searching for his dropped pipe.
Director: Kunio Kato | Star: Masami Nagasawa
Votes: 11,657
98. For His Son (1912)
Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Drama
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Charles Hill Mailes, Charles West, Blanche Sweet, Dorothy Bernard
Votes: 424
99. The Painted Lady (1912)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Madge Kirby, Charles Hill Mailes, Kate Bruce
Votes: 644
100. La chambre (1972)
11 min | Short
In a 360° circular panoramic shot the camera slowly pans an entire apartment (or house). When it first passes the bedroom there is nobody there but each time it shows the room again Chantal... See full summary »
Director: Chantal Akerman | Star: Chantal Akerman
Votes: 1,024
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