Short Films
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1. 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: 15,199
2. More (1998)
6 min | Sci-Fi, Short, Animation
A worker in a factory learns a lesson about life. When is enough?
Director: Mark Osborne
Votes: 6,117
3. Kiwi! (2006)
TV-Y | 3 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
The story of a Kiwi who spends his whole life working towards achieving his dream.
Director: Dony Permedi | Star: Pierre Coffin
Votes: 8,703
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: 55,747
5. 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: 53,792
6. A Day in the Country (1946)
Not Rated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Sylvia Bataille, Jane Marken, Georges D'Arnoux, André Gabriello
Votes: 7,097
7. The Heart of the World (2000)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Action, Fantasy
A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.
Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Greg Klymkiw
Votes: 3,592
8. The Astronomer's Dream; or, the Man in the Moon (1898)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An astronomer falls asleep and has a strange dream involving a fairy queen and the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,725
10. Safe (2013)
17 min | Short, Fantasy, Romance
In an ambiguous space and time. The city has turned mad, as violence has taken its toll. But, far away in the sounds of silence at the border of the town, a man takes care of all the death ... See full summary »
Director: Rohit Pandey | Stars: Aditi Khanna, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Votes: 61
11. For the Birds (2000)
G | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A group of snooty birds roosting on a telephone wire get their just deserts when a goofy bird drops in.
Director: Ralph Eggleston | Star: Ralph Eggleston
Votes: 33,995
12. Cashback (2004)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Ben is an art college student in London, whose imagination runs wild as he works the late-night shift at the local supermarket. What do he and his colleagues do to pass the long, endless hours of the night?
Director: Sean Ellis | Stars: Sean Biggerstaff, Emilia Fox, Stuart Goodwin, Michael Dixon
Votes: 11,213
13. 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: 8,545
14. 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: 1,163
15. 2+2=5 (2005)
13 min | Short
On a specific class a teacher comes and tells the students 2 + 2 = 5.
Director: Jorge Carrascosa | Stars: Adrió Argullo, Lourdes Castelar, Núria Escutía, Luis Farled
Votes: 165
16. My Name Is Lisa (2007)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Drama
13 year old Lisa deals with her mother's Alzheimer's disease.
Director: Ben Shelton | Stars: Carlie Nettles, Sally Smythe, Jeff Grimm
Votes: 479
17. Lifted (2006)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A teenage alien is trying to abduct a sleeping human, but doesn't know which switch to use.
Director: Gary Rydstrom | Star: Sheb Wooley
Votes: 20,795
18. The Landlord (I) (2007)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Comedy
An angry landlord hassles her behind-in-rent tenant.
Directors: Drew Antzis, Adam McKay | Stars: Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Pearl McKay
Votes: 5,125
19. The Butterfly Circus (2009)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama
A circus troupe brightens the spirits of audiences in Depression-era America and inspires hope in a limbless man from a sideshow.
Director: Joshua Weigel | Stars: Eduardo Verástegui, Nick Vujicic, Doug Jones, Matt Allmen
Votes: 3,607
20. Rejected (2000)
Unrated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A hilarious collection of animated television commercials that were rejected because of their creator's failing grip on sanity.
Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Robert May, Jennifer Nyholm, Don Hertzfeldt
Votes: 8,877
21. Paperman (2012)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
An office worker meets the girl of his dreams and uses a fleet of paper airplanes to get her attention.
Director: John Kahrs | Stars: John Kahrs, Kari Wahlgren, Jack Goldenberg, Jeff Turley
Votes: 35,379
22. 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: 19,034
23. The Bypass (2003)
17 min | Short, Crime
A bypass somewhere in Rajasthan, two violent muggers and a corrupt police officer but it seems there is something more to the story.
Director: Amit Kumar | Stars: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sundar Dan Detha, Irrfan Khan, Manorama Goswami
Votes: 979
24. Alma (I) (2009)
Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow-covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.
Director: Rodrigo Blaas
Votes: 2,967
25. Kali-Katha (2014)
5 min | Short, Drama
A struggling actor and his desperate wife get twisted by society and conceive Kali.
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Rahul Bhat, Tejaswini Kolhapure, Vineet Kumar Singh
Votes: 510
26. Six Men Getting Sick (1967)
TV-PG | 4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
Director: David Lynch
Votes: 6,485
27. Oktapodi (2007)
TV-G | 3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two Octopi fight for their lives with a stubborn restaurant cook in a comical escape through the streets of a small Greek village.
Directors: Julien Bocabeille, François-Xavier Chanioux, Olivier Delabarre, Thierry Marchand, Quentin Marmier, Emud Mokhberi
Votes: 3,551
28. Ahalya (2015)
14 min | Short, Thriller
A police officer searching for the reference of a missing person meets an artist and his wife.
Director: Sujoy Ghosh | Stars: Radhika Apte, Soumitra Chatterjee, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Ayushman Mitra
Votes: 1,367
29. Little Terrorist (2004)
TV-PG | 15 min | Drama, Short
The movie revolves around Jamal, a 10 year old Pakistani Muslim boy. While he was playing cricket near the Indo-Pak border with some of his friends, he crossed the Indian side of the border... See full summary »
Director: Ashvin Kumar | Stars: Julfuqar Ali, Sushil Sharma, Megnaa Mehtta
Votes: 706
30. 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
31. Blood of Man (2013)
20 min | Short, Drama
Charlie, a compulsive liar, and his older brother, Neal, do their best to fend off the boredom that comes with summertime in a sleepy Southern town. One day, they decide to take a shortcut ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Watts | Stars: William J. Harrison, Cooper Guy, Canon Kuipers, Adam Boyer
Votes: 49
32. Aramaki (2010)
26 min | Short, Drama
A man carries out his "last rites" as he becomes one with nature
Director: Isamu Hirabayashi | Star: Keisuke Horibe
Votes: 30
33. Tubelight ka Chaand (2010)
10 min | Short
A boy, eking out a living on Kolkata's streets, falls one day in love with the Moon. This is the story of how he woos her.
Director: Shlok Sharma | Star: Master Mohammad Shariq
Votes: 104
34. Sujata (2011)
18 min | Short, Drama
Director: Shlok Sharma | Stars: Satyakam Anand, Tanveer Singh Bajaj, Aditya Kumar, Huma Qureshi
Votes: 40
35. The Life & Death of a Pumpkin (2007)
5 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A pumpkin tells it's story of shame and humiliation as it is taken from it's carefree life on the patch and savagely prepared for the kids' favourite day of the year, Halloween.
Director: Aaron Yonda | Stars: Matt Sloan, Nick Drake, Aaron Yonda
Votes: 44
36. Love Is All You Need? (2012)
20 min | Short, Drama, Romance
The story of a bullied young teen who lives in a world where heterosexuality is considered immoral.
Director: Kim Rocco Shields | Stars: Louis Bottino, C. Ashleigh Caldwell, Patrick Charles, Brian Deming
Votes: 1,052
37. The 3 Rs (2011)
1 min | Short
One-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).
Director: David Lynch | Star: Mindy Ramaker
Votes: 1,344
38. That Day After Every Day (2013)
21 min | Short, Drama
That day after every day deals with eve teasing , an extremely relevant and sensitive social cause that has been disturbing all of us for quite some time now. The film revolves around three... See full summary »
Director: Anurag Kashyap | Stars: Radhika Apte, Mahesh Balraj, Sandhya Mridul, Alok Pandey
Votes: 709
39. Aashpordha (2011)
14 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
It starts out over a song and ends up where no one could have expected. A thirteen year-old Indian girl has her first real confrontation with authority when her father forbids her to play ... See full summary »
Director: Anirban Roy | Stars: Preeti Singh, Sankar Debnath, Kanchan Mullick, Manasi Sinha
Votes: 49
40. The Epilogue (2012)
15 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
The Epilogue- A depiction of an empty space, a motionless movement, an insipid, an unpalateable flavor, a piercing silence...a colossal vacuum, a discordant cacophonic world of a hollow ... See full summary »
Director: Siddharth Gupt | Stars: Richa Chadha, Murari Kumar, Arjun Shivastava, Arjun Kumar Shrivasttav
Votes: 47
41. Salt N Pepper (2007)
15 min | Short, Drama
Story of an alone girl on the verge of suicide. How a theif's perception of true love changes her meaning of true love.
Director: Mohinder Pratap Singh | Stars: Tejaswini Kolhapure, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Votes: 63
42. One Man Band (2005)
G | 4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Two buskers engage in a petty feud over a child's donation.
Directors: Mark Andrews, Andrew Jimenez
Votes: 17,019
43. Pete (2003)
12 min | Drama, Short
The story of a young boy who, after suffering years of terrible abuse from his mother, decides to kill her.
Director: Tony Hailstone | Stars: James Taylor, Susan Muir, Steve Taylor, Janet Moore
Votes: 17
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