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1. An Act of Love (2018)
11 min | Short, Drama
A close bond between two identical twins is tested when one sister rebels against their shared sense of oneness.
Director: Lucy Knox | Stars: Rachael Awonusi, Rebekah Awonusi, Lloyd Grounds, Trudy Hellier
Votes: 65
2. A Dog's Life (1918)
Not Rated | 33 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Dave Anderson, Bert Appling
Votes: 9,674
3. An Exercise in Discipline: Peel (1982)
9 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A family get into a battle of wills on the side of the highway when their boy defiantly throws orange peels out the window.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Tim Pye, Katie Pye, Ben Martin
Votes: 1,454
4. A Test of Violence (1969)
M | 17 min | Documentary, Short
A short subject on the paintings of artist Juan Genoves.
Director: Stuart Cooper
Votes: 107
5. Bath House (2014)
15 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Six animals meet at the swimming pool. The horse the pools manager is a dedicated, conscientious friend of order. Over the years the premises have become her whole world. Two wolves come to... See full summary »
Director: Niki Lindroth von Bahr | Stars: Hugo Carlén, Carl Johan De Geer, Inga-Lill Fridberg, Johannes Nyholm
Votes: 313
6. 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
7. Black Something (2016)
3 min | Short, Fantasy
A young girl playing in an idyllic field soon gives way to bears, fighting dogs and bugs. Spiraling into a nightmarish, surreal fever dream.
Directors: David Zellner, Nathan Zellner
Votes: 44
8. Cailleach (2015)
14 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Morag, 86, shares her unique love of life out on the edge, on Scotland's Western Isles.
Director: Rosie Reed Hillman
Votes: 27
9. Sacrilège (2017)
14 min | Short, Drama
Saoud is the king of his neighborhood in Saint Etienne, France. A rumor comes up that he might have stolen money from the local mosque. Saoud faces a violent series of accusations which will lead to his fall and exile.
Director: Christophe M. Saber | Stars: Mehdi Djaadi, Jérémie Saber, Nassim Kheroufi, Kamel Kheroufi
Votes: 97
10. 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: 37,078
11. Night and Fog (1956)
TV-14 | 32 min | Documentary, Short, History
The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Michel Bouquet, Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 21,476
12. Fauve (2018)
17 min | Short, Drama
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer.
Director: Jérémy Comte | Stars: Félix Grenier, Alexandre Perreault, Louise Bombardier
Votes: 3,579
13. The Chicken (I) (2014)
15 min | Short, Drama, Family
As a present for her 6th birthday, Selma gets a live chicken. When she realises the animal is going to be killed to feed the family, she decides to save it and set it free, unaware of the high stakes such action will lead to.
Director: Una Gunjak | Stars: Iman Alibalic, Esma Alic, Mirela Lambic, Mario Knezovic
Votes: 203
14. A Well-Spent Life (1971)
Not Rated | 44 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Mance Lipscomb, Elnora Lipscomb, Hattie Franklin, Alfred Franklin
Votes: 542
15. Begone Dull Care (1950)
Not Rated | 8 min | Animation, Short, Music
Abstract images drawn directly onto the film are accompanied by three pieces of jazz performed by the Oscar Peterson trio.
Directors: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren
Votes: 1,731
16. The Silence (2016)
15 min | Short, Drama
Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees in Italy. On their visit to the doctor, Fatma has to translate what the doctor tells to her mother but she keeps silent.
Directors: Ali Asgari, Farnoosh Samadi | Stars: Valentina Carnelutti, Cahide Ozel, Fatma Alakus
Votes: 170
17. Sink or Swim (1990)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary
In a series of 26 short autobiographical vignettes, Su Friedrich methodically analyzes and reflects on her childhood and the emotional scars left by her detached and self-involved father.
Director: Su Friedrich | Star: Jessica Meyerson
Votes: 450
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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: 11,658
23. Asparagus (1979)
Not Rated | 20 min | Animation, Short
An animated, surreal, visually stunning as well as rather uniquely imaginative candy-colored nightmare from indie artist Suzan Pitt.
Director: Suzan Pitt
Votes: 1,470
24. Tarantella (1940)
Not Rated | 4 min | Animation, Short
Colorful abstract shapes and lines move exuberantly to the syncopated modernistic piano music of Edwin Gershefsky.
Directors: Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth
Votes: 521
25. An Eyeful of Sound (2010)
10 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
'I don't know if you've ever heard a goat eating carrots? It's almost too much, it's so lovely' An Eyeful of Sound conjures up the fascinating visually complex internal world of ... See full summary »
Director: Samantha Moore | Stars: Julie Roxburgh, Emma Suddaby, Tessa Verrecchia
Votes: 10
26. Did I Say Hairdressing? I Meant Astrophysics (1998)
14 min | Animation, Short
Star: Alan Bennett
27. Boles (2013)
13 min | Animation, Short, Romance
Filip lives in a poor neighbourhood. He dreams of writer's glory and luxurious lifestyle in a more prosperous part of town. One day Filip gets a knock on the door. His neighbour Tereza, an ... See full summary »
Director: Spela Cadez | Stars: Katja Levstik, Grega Zorc
Votes: 177
28. Bujaeui gieok (2018)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Documents the sinking of a South Korean Ferry. As a result of the ineptitude of the first response to the emerging situation, hundreds of people, mostly children lost their lives.
Director: Seung-jun Yi
Votes: 1,349
29. Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019)
TV-MA | 39 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You're A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul.
Director: Carol Dysinger | Stars: Fatima, Kashida
Votes: 1,091
30. Saria (2019)
22 min | Short, Drama
SARIA explores the unimaginable hardships faced by young female orphans at the Virgen de La Asuncion Safe Home in Guatemala, leading up to the tragic fire which claimed 41 of their lives in... See full summary »
Director: Bryan Buckley | Stars: Estefanía Tellez, Gabriela Ramírez, Verónica Zúñiga, Leticia Zúñiga
Votes: 1,073
31. Life Overtakes Me (2019)
TV-PG | 39 min | Documentary, Short
In the grip of trauma, hundreds of refugee children in Sweden withdraw from life's uncertainties into a coma-like illness called Resignation Syndrome.
Directors: John Haptas, Kristine Samuelson | Stars: Henry Ascher, Nadja Hatem, Mikael Billing, Karl Sallin
Votes: 2,163
32. The Janitor (1995)
4 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A mildly-irreverent reinterpretation of bible events, with God's janitor claiming, by virtue of covering up his own lapses, credit for everything from the Flood to the Ascension!
Director: Vanessa Schwartz | Star: Geoffrey Lewis
Votes: 151
33. 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
34. Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951)
6 min | Short
Maya Deren's unfinished short film from 1951, "Ensemble for Somnambulists", set to DeVotchKa's "How It Ends".
Director: Maya Deren | Stars: Cynthia Barret, Terry Chapman, Frank Ionson, Brian MacDonald
Votes: 245
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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
39. Milk (1998)
10 min | Short, Drama
From the get-go, Arnold was fascinated by the careless, seemingly simple choices people make in their day-to-day lives that lead to unintended, complicated consequences.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Lynda Steadman, Stephen McGann, Lee Oakes
Votes: 1,105
40. I'm Not from Here (2016)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Josebe (88) lives in a retirement home in Chile. She thinks she has only just arrived from the Basque Country, and every day must learn, again and again, that she's been in that home for over a year - and in Chile for 70 years.
Directors: Maite Alberdi, Giedre Zickyte | Stars: Josebe Echaveguren, Mario Rosselot, Oscar Sotomayor
Votes: 89
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