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1. Notes on the Popular Arts (1978)
20 min | Short
This series of light-hearted episodes by Saul Bass illuminates the fantasy lives of those who daily watch, listen and dream in the worlds of television, movies, popular music and print. By ... See full summary »
Directors: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass | Star: Beans Morocco
Votes: 88
2. Quest (1984)
30 min | Short, Adventure, Mystery
A child has only an 8 day life-span to complete a mysterious journey from the dim cave-dwelling society where he is born to a final gateway, the object of folklore. The abstract ... See full summary »
Directors: Elaine Bass, Saul Bass | Stars: John Abbott, Noah Hathaway, David Comfort, Michael Mancini
Votes: 453
3. Why Man Creates (1968)
29 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Mixing animation with live-action, Saul Bass' "Why Man Creates" is an eight-part meditation on the nature and struggle of creativity.
Director: Saul Bass | Stars: Peter Hansen, Paul Saltman
Votes: 839
4. The Cathedral (2002)
7 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
A space fantasy about an explorer who pays a visit to an unusual cathedral built with organic materials.
Director: Tomasz Baginski | Stars: Jola Rzebuska, Maria Kucharska, Marcin Jaskowski, Piotr Widlarz
Votes: 4,910
5. 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
6. Scorpio Rising (1963)
28 min | Short, Music
A gang of Nazi bikers prepares for a race as sexual, sadistic, and occult images are cut together.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Ernie Allo, Bruce Byron, Frank Carifi, Steve Crandell
Votes: 5,711
7. 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
8. Street of Crocodiles (1986)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
Inside a box full of curio, a puppet who is recently freed from his strings explores a dusty and forlorn commercial area. The explorer becomes ensnared into miniature tailor shop by baby-faced dolls.
Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Feliks Stawinski
Votes: 3,086
9. Fireworks (1947)
20 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Gordon Gray, Bill Seltzer
Votes: 2,905
10. The Teeth Beneath (2005)
45 min | Comedy, Horror
A monster it's unleashed in the basement of a skate shop, forcing the shop employees to do battle with the beast, in order to recover their money and their merchandise before they have to open the store at 11am.
Directors: Jason Eisener, Zach Tovey | Stars: Jermaine Arsenault, Greg Baller, Rob Bell, Owen Bonnar
Votes: 34
11. The Grandmother (1970)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
Votes: 7,364
12. Sparks (I) (2009)
24 min | Short, Drama
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt | Stars: Carla Gugino, Eric Stoltz, Xander Berkeley, Elizabeth Clemmons
Votes: 146
13. Han (2007)
12 min | Short, Drama
Who's your daddy? or Who is stronger.
Director: Na Hong-jin | Star: Jung-Man Seok
Votes: 70
14. Wanbyeoghan domiyoli (2005)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
Isolated in his kitchen, a young cook is trying to make the perfect red snapper dish.
Director: Na Hong-jin
Votes: 136
15. Incoherence (1994)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Three seemingly unrelated men commit petty crimes on the eve of an important televised discourse on social disorder in Korea.
Director: Bong Joon Ho | Stars: Yeon-su Yu, Sang-hyo Lim, Yun Il-ju, Dong-hwan Shin
Votes: 584
16. Influenza (2004)
30 min | Short
Bong's disturbingly humorous mockumentary traces the downward spiral of an unemployed 31 year-old man as he is captured on Seoul's omnipresent CCTVs and observation cameras.
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Votes: 361
17. The Root of the Problem (2012)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Set in the candy-colored world of 1950s suburbia, a reluctant young housewife suspects that the friendly neighborhood dentist is hiding a horrible secret, but is it just the anesthesia at ... See full summary »
Director: Ryan Spindell | Stars: Alison Gallaher, Brea Grant, Chad Jamian, Ptolemy Slocum
Votes: 117
18. Kimi Kabuki (2014)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Madeline, a devoted house wife discovers her husband is attending an Adult Industry Expo behind her back. Resolving to confront him about his deceit, she follows him to the convention. When... See full summary »
Director: Yoko Okumura | Stars: Teresa Hegji, Jo Mei, Robert Dominick Jones, Justin Michael Terry
Votes: 18
19. Tailypo (2015)
15 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Tailypo is simplistic thriller where a common man accidently antagonizes a beast of nature. Afterwards multiple warnings haunt the man and his best friend until one night the battle leads to a frenzied showdown.
Director: Cameron McCasland | Stars: David Chattam, Ranger, Joseph Aguon Drake, Danielle Gelehrter
Votes: 42
20. Within the Woods (1978)
Not Rated | 31 min | Horror, Short
While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends.
Director: Sam Raimi | Stars: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Mary Valenti, Scott Spiegel
Votes: 2,662
21. Gator Green (2013)
15 min | Short, Horror
A demented Vietnam veteran and his pals run amok at an alligator farm in 1973 Florida.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Jim Van Bebber, Scott Gabbey, Betanya Grant, Maureen Allisse
Votes: 142
22. Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994)
15 min | Short, Horror
A man named John Martin offers a couple with a broken-down car a ride to the nearest gas station, little do they know he's actually taking them back to his place for dinner.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Mark Gillespie, Marc Pitman, Maureen Allisse
Votes: 442
23. Through Eyes of the Dead (1999 Video)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Horror, Music
Contains five songs. 1. Blood Freak, 2. Burning Moon Sickness, 3. Embalmed, Yet I Breathe, 4. Deep Inside, I Plant the Devil's Seed, and 5. And You Will Live in Terror.
Director: Jim Van Bebber | Stars: Killjoy, Phil Anselmo, Wayne Fabra, Dustin Havnen
Votes: 141
24. Call from Space (1989)
29 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi, Short
World's first drama shot with the revolutionary Showscan (TM) process. the movie tells a journey through time which allows to approach styles as varied as romance, peplum, gangster film, historic war and science fiction
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Sherrié Austin, Brandon Stirling Baker, Richard Brestoff, J.P. Burns
Votes: 83
25. Doggie Heaven (2008 Video)
10 min | Short, Comedy
A man who died accidently goes to the heaven of dogs.
Director: James Wan | Stars: Leigh Whannell, Lin Shaye, Megahn Perry, Heather Tocquigny
Votes: 373
26. Alone (XIX) (2020)
19 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Kaya Torres, an engineer with a sailor's mouth and a stubborn spirit, barely escaped her research ship when a calamity broke it in half. Now she's circling a black hole in a pod, with no one coming, no one to help. She's Alone.
Director: William Hellmuth | Stars: Steph Barkley, Thomas Wilson Brown
Votes: 113
27. Bainne (2019)
18 min | Short, Horror
During the last year of The Great Famine in Ireland, a farmhand working for the local landlord has hardened his heart against his countrymen to ensure his own survival. But when he ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Reynor | Stars: Will Poulter, Kelly Thornton, Toni O'Rourke, Steve Wall
Votes: 51
28. Manifold (2013)
8 min | Short, Sci-Fi
While a small-town sheriff investigates a mysterious multiple murder scene, a brilliant young software engineer is bizarrely linked to the crime and to a much bigger conspiracy.
Director: Anthony Scott Burns | Stars: Gregory Ambrose Calderone, Rafael Kalamat, Stephen McHattie, Sky Paley
Votes: 71
29. Blood of the Beasts (1949)
22 min | Documentary, Short
Bucolic scenes from the outskirts of Paris are contrasted with stark footage from slaughterhouses.
Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Georges Hubert, Nicole Ladmiral, Alfred Macquart, Maurice Griselle
Votes: 2,596
30. Arden los juegos (1985)
12 min | Short, Sci-Fi
About the five minute after war: the thought, the sensation, the idea, the questions - our questions.
Director: Gustavo Mosquera R. | Stars: Mario Pasik, Alejandrina Restano
Votes: 18
31. Zygote (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
Stranded in an Arctic mine, two lone survivors are forced to fight for their lives, evading and hiding from a new kind of terror.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Jose Pablo Cantillo
Votes: 5,907
32. A Gun for George (2011)
17 min | Short, Drama
An author of a book series called "The Reprisaliser", lives a lonely life which he can't seem to seperate from from his fiction. At the end of his tether, he comes into the possession of a gun.
Director: Matthew Holness | Stars: Matthew Holness, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Edward Halsted, Veronica Roberts
Votes: 315
33. The Haunted Swordsman (2019)
16 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A ronin travels on a quest for vengeance against a supernatural entity.
Director: Kevin McTurk | Stars: Jason Scott Lee, James Hong, Franka Potente, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 83
34. The Return (1980)
10 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Science fiction parable about deep connection between Univers and Earth, human and his native land.
Director: Vladimir Tarasov | Stars: Viktor Balashov, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Vasiliy Livanov
Votes: 94
35. Contract (1985)
10 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
Bearded contract employee goes on a "giant bouquet of flowers" planet and prefers friendship with the robot because all inhabitants are creepy psychos.
Director: Vladimir Tarasov | Stars: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Evgeniy Steblov, Boris Ivanov, Vasiliy Livanov
Votes: 128
36. Firebase (2017)
Not Rated | 27 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
While fighting the Vietnam war, both sides face a new kind of threat that neither of them were prepared for.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Steve Boyle, Nic Rhind, Robert Hobbs, Chris William Martin
Votes: 5,222
37. Rakka (2017)
Not Rated | 22 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
A tale of a dystopian future where an unknown alien group have colonised the earth and humans struggle to fight back.
Director: Neill Blomkamp | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Eugene Khumbanyiwa, Robert Hobbs, Carly Pope
Votes: 9,171
38. The River (I) (2013)
12 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy
On a sweltering hot day, a very pregnant Maria, desperate for a cooling swim, encounters obstacles on her path to the river.
Director: Sam Handel | Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Adam Driver, Vincent Amorosi, Anthony M. Corbett
Votes: 147
39. 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
40. The Music of Erich Zann (1980)
17 min | Short, Horror, Music
This story revolves around a student of metaphysics, Charles Dexter Ward who befriends Erich Zann an aging violinist who lives on the floor above him. Charles is fascinated and then drawn ... See full summary »
Director: John Strysik | Stars: Robert Rothman, Robert Alexander, Darryl Warren, Barbara Snapp
Votes: 211
41. 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
42. The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Romance
A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.
Director: Éric Rohmer | Stars: Barbet Schroeder, Claudine Soubrier, Michèle Girardon, Fred Junck
Votes: 5,439
43. La cabina (1972 TV Movie)
35 min | Drama, Horror
A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.
Director: Antonio Mercero | Stars: José Luis López Vázquez, Agustín González, Goyo Lebrero, Tito García
Votes: 4,579
44. 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
45. Time Piece (1965)
Not Rated | 9 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A surreal stream of consciousness montage about time and related bizarreness.
Director: Jim Henson | Stars: Jim Henson, Enid Cafritz, Dennis Paget, Jim Hutchison
Votes: 946
46. Wasp (2003)
26 min | Short, Drama
A struggling single mother is determined not to let her four young children be an obstacle in the pursuit of starting a relationship with an old acquaintance.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Natalie Press, Danny Dyer, Jodie Mitchell, Molly Griffiths
Votes: 5,567
47. Foutaises (1989)
8 min | Short, Comedy
A 9 minute comedy starring Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). Featuring muted colors with a sepia black and white, Pinon takes the viewer through various examples of what he "likes and ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Stars: Dominique Pinon, Chick Ortega, Marie-Laure Dougnac, Diane Bertrand
Votes: 2,331
48. Rabbit's Moon (1950)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Pierrot waxes romantic, entranced by the moon. Harlequin appears and bullies him, then uses a magic lantern to project an image of Columbine. Pierrot tries to court the illusory Columbine ... See full summary »
Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Claude Revenant, André Soubeyran, Nadine Valence
Votes: 2,003
49. Multi-Facial (1995)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A short film about the problems that accompany an actor as he auditions, due to his multi-ethnic appearance.
Director: Vin Diesel | Stars: Vin Diesel, Lewis Steidl, Cara Gaffen, Phillip Jones
Votes: 1,700
50. Doodlebug (1997)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Star: Jeremy Theobald
Votes: 19,044
51. 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
52. 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: 8,554
53. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1972)
G | 13 min | Animation, Short
John Carradine narrates the Washington Irving story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman.
Director: Sam Weiss | Star: John Carradine
Votes: 155
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