Favorite Short Films
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1. 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: 20,134
2. Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1961)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
In 1862, during the American Civil War, a Southern civilian is about to be hanged for attempting to sabotage a railway bridge. When the execution takes place from the bridge, the rope breaks and he begins his escape toward home.
Director: Robert Enrico | Stars: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly, Anker-Spang Larsen, Stéphane Fey
Votes: 4,261
3. 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
4. All Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
21 min | Short, Comedy
Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Nicole Berger, Anne Collette, Jean-Claude Brialy
Votes: 2,552
5. 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
6. Bara prata lite (1997)
14 min | Drama, Short
Birger is old and retired from work. Still, he goes back to work since he has nothing else to do. Back home he gets a rare visitor: a girl from Hare Krishna recruiting new members. But his ... See full summary »
Director: Lukas Moodysson | Stars: Sten Ljunggren, Cecilia Frode, Erich Hörtnagl, Sara Ragnarsson
Votes: 1,046
7. George Lucas in Love (1999)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
1967 film student George Lucas has writer's block trying to finish his "Space Wheat" script, until a beautiful fellow student with a familiar hairstyle teaches him that the best stories are in plain sight.
Director: Joe Nussbaum | Stars: Martin Hynes, Lisa Jakub, Jason Peck, Jeff Wiens
Votes: 4,407
8. La culpa (2010)
14 min | Short, Thriller
Since his wife was murdered, Léo has only one idea in his head, spinning as an endless loop: revenge.
Director: David Victori | Stars: Carlus Fàbrega, Cesc Gómez, Mar Ulldemolins, Pol Estadella
Votes: 318
9. Mei (2006)
11 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Mei is the story of a young man, who works on a noodles stall run by a father and daughter. He is, of course, in love with the daughter, but the eponymous girl in question plans to use her ... See full summary »
Director: Arvin Chen | Stars: Chun-Yao Yao, Char-Wei Wu, Zr-Gang Bi, Helen Chalmers
Votes: 96
10. Two & Two (2011)
8 min | Short, Drama
What happens when in an attempt to re-educate the masses everything you have been taught is proclaimed false and your whole universe of values crumbles violently before your eyes?
Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Bijan Daneshmand, Ravi Karimi, Pouyan Lotfi, Kourosh Shirazi
Votes: 1,125
11. The Door (2008)
Not Rated | 17 min | Short, Drama
After stealing an old door, a man reflects on the desperate circumstances that led him to do so.
Director: Juanita Wilson | Stars: Igor Sigov, Dzhuletta Gering, Liliyn Grechk, Vahtang Techhaitze
Votes: 663
12. New Boy (I) (2007)
11 min | Short, Drama
Captures the experience of being the new kid in school through the eyes of Joseph, a nine year-old African boy.
Director: Steph Green | Stars: Olutunji Ebun-Cole, Simon O'Driscoll, Fionn O'Shea, Sinead Maguire
Votes: 1,214
13. Healthy People for Fun (1971)
10 min | Documentary, Short
"Healthy People for Fun" portrays the ethnic minorities living in the multicultural Yugoslavian province of Vojvodina (today part of Serbia). Nations and ethnic groups in the province of ... See full summary »
Director: Karpo Acimovic-Godina
Votes: 149
14. Mirta uci statistiku (1991)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A law student lives at home with her mother and father. She is fascinated by statistical information and therefore often lists interesting information about everything and anything.
Director: Goran Dukic | Stars: Natasa Dorcic, Ljubica Jovic, Sven Medvesek, Boris Miholjevic
Votes: 151
15. 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
16. Le batteur du boléro (1992)
8 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Keeping the rhythm for twenty or so minutes in Ravel's Boléro can be an arduous and excruciatingly tedious task for the orchestra's unsung hero: the drummer.
Director: Patrice Leconte | Stars: Jacques Villeret, Laurent Petitgirard
Votes: 574
17. The Natural Route (2004)
11 min | Short, Drama
Soon a man will find out that his destiny is already written and that he can't do anything to change it.
Director: Àlex Pastor | Stars: Pere Ventura, Albert López-Murtra, Albert Capdevila, Carlota Ribes
Votes: 742
18. Pametnice (2010)
24 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
While Marija is set with her boyfriend, her roommate Nikolina is still a virgin. But, after realizing that the social practices have changed, she has to follow her duties and restructure her beliefs.
Directors: Hana Jusic, Sonja Tarokic | Stars: Marina Vodenicar, Karla Brbic, Edhem Husic, Enes Salkovic
Votes: 71
19. To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A collective film of 33 shorts directed by different directors about their feelings about Cinema.
Directors: Theodoros Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Kaige Chen, Michael Cimino, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrey Konchalovskiy, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Tsai Ming-liang, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Kar-Wai Wong, Yimou Zhang | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Pegah Ahangarani, Anouk Aimée, Leonid Alexeenko
Votes: 5,459
20. Daybreak Express (1953)
5 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Votes: 1,336
21. Six Shooter (2004)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A black and bloody Irish comedy about a sad train journey where an older man, whose wife has died that morning, encounters a strange and possibly psychotic young oddball....
Director: Martin McDonagh | Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Rúaidhrí Conroy, David Wilmot, Aisling O'Sullivan
Votes: 14,322
22. Spielzeugland (2007)
TV-PG | 14 min | Short, Drama, War
A German mother lies to her son about where the Nazis are sending their Jewish neighbors.
Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank | Stars: Julia Jäger, Cedric Eich, Tamay Bulut Özvatan, Torsten Michaelis
Votes: 3,168
23. Miracle Fish (2009)
TV-PG | 17 min | Short, Drama
8-year-old Joe has a birthday he will never forget. After friends bully him, he sneaks off to the infirmary, wishing everyone in the world would go away. He wakes up to find his dream may have become a reality.
Director: Luke Doolan | Stars: Karl Beattie, Brendan Donoghue, Angus Russo, Jason Doric
Votes: 936
24. 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
25. North Atlantic (2010)
15 min | Short, Drama
An isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.
Director: Bernardo Nascimento | Stars: Clive Russell, Baltazar, Grant Masters, Guilherme Mendonça
Votes: 356
26. The Piano Tuner (2010)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama, Music
A pianist finds himself once again facing the performance anxiety demons that he so desperately tries to evade.
Director: Olivier Treiner | Stars: Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Danièle Lebrun, Grégory Gadebois, Emeline Gue
Votes: 2,327
27. 10 minuta (2002)
10 min | Short, Drama, War
It's 1994. How different can ten minutes of a tourist in Rome and a family in the besieged Sarajevo be?
Director: Ahmed Imamovic | Stars: Almedin Leleta, Satoshi Yahata, Milan Pavlovic, Jasna Zalica
Votes: 1,236
28. Rubbish (2007)
13 min | Short, Comedy
A man dumps the garbage of his neighbours. Little does he know that this is going to affect his relationship to a woman.
Directors: Ed Roe, Dougal Wilson | Stars: Martin Freeman, James Lance, Anna Friel
Votes: 78
29. Powder Keg (2001)
Not Rated | 8 min | Action, Short
January 13, 2001. Times war photographer Harvey Jacobs is wounded while witnessing a massacre at Nuevo Colon by terrorists. In a desperate effort, the United Nations sends a vehicle to get him out, a BMW driven by the mysterious Driver.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Clive Owen, Stellan Skarsgård, Lois Smith, Javier Zaragoza
Votes: 5,239
30. Szél (1996)
Not Rated | 6 min | Drama, Short
During a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they... See full summary »
Director: Marcell Iványi | Stars: Szilvia Czobor, Ilona Somogyi, Margit Gyovai
Votes: 1,191
31. Your Lucky Day (2010)
18 min | Short, Action, Comedy
When an elderly man discovers he's won $156 million in the lottery while shopping at a convenience store, a young man decides to make his own odds. The store manager and a married couple ... See full summary »
Director: Dan Brown | Stars: Rider Strong, Philip Davidson, Tony Doupe, Michael Lewis Hudson
Votes: 287
32. The Bloody Olive (1997)
12 min | Crime, Short, Comedy
Mylene and Werner are going to make their flat up for Christmas. Then Sam comes with a bottle of Veuve Cliqot. Sam tells Werner that he knows Werner has stolen money at work. Werner murders... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Bal | Stars: Veerle van Overloop, Frank Focketyn, Gene Bervoets, Guy Dermul
Votes: 572
33. Rare Exports Inc. (2003)
8 min | Short, Action, Comedy
An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.
Director: Jalmari Helander | Stars: Otso Tarkela, Tommi Korpela, Jorma Tommila, Tazu Ovaska
Votes: 2,393
34. A Game with No Rules (1994)
17 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
For Kane Harris and Vera Smith, what starts as an easy task of murder becomes a tangled web of deception and betrayal. Their target, Kane's wife, is no easy victim.
Director: Scott Reynolds | Stars: Danielle Cormack, Marton Csokas, Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Votes: 65
35. Cigarettes & Coffee (1993)
24 min | Drama, Short
In a desert diner, five people are connected through a twenty-dollar bill.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Kirk Baltz, Philip Baker Hall, Scott Coffey, Kim Gillingham
Votes: 2,060
36. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,374
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