My top 101 favorite shorts

by tobias_681 | created - 23 Jul 2013 | updated - 13 Feb 2018 | Public

My top 101 favorite shorts in order.

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1. 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: 37,018

2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1949)

Approved | 34 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night.

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney | Stars: Bing Crosby, Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires

Votes: 5,816

3. 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: 53,756

4. 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: 15,185

5. Dog's Dialogue (1977)

22 min | Short

A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Eva Simonet, Robert Darmel, Silke Humel, Frank Lesne

Votes: 524

6. Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993)

TV-PG | 29 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Gromit butts heads with a mysterious penguin lodger, who hatches a sinister scheme involving the ex-NASA Techno Trousers that have been modified by Wallace for walkies.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 57,356

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: 3,587

8. 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: 5,423

9. Destino (2003)

PG | 7 min | Animation, Short

Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney's Destino features the tragic love story of Chronos, the personification of time, and a mortal woman as they seek each other out across surreal landscapes.

Director: Dominique Monfery | Stars: Dora Luz, Jennifer Esposito

Votes: 5,981

10. 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: 2,557

11. Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995)

TV-PG | 30 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Wallace's whirlwind romance with the owner of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin; Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Anne Reid, Justin Fletcher, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 43,386

12. Outer Space (1999)

Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Horror

Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.

Director: Peter Tscherkassky | Star: Barbara Hershey

Votes: 2,797

13. Water-Mirror of Granada (1955)

21 min | Documentary, Short

As stated in the film, Jose Val del Omar presents a brief audiovisual essay of lyrical plastic art.

Director: José Val del Omar | Stars: Pepe Albaicín, Juan Gómez Leal, Señorita Chon, Julián Goya

Votes: 394

14. Lucifer Rising (1972)

29 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy

Egyptian gods summons the angel Lucifer - in order to usher in a new occult age.

Director: Kenneth Anger | Stars: Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Donald Cammell, Haydn Couts

Votes: 3,411

15. 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: 4,882

16. 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: 1,912

17. The Mascot (1933)

37 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A stuffed animal goes on a journey through frightening streets to get its kid an orange.

Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Star: Wladyslaw Starewicz

Votes: 1,611

18. À Propos de Nice (1930)

Not Rated | 24 min | Documentary, Short, Comedy

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Cote d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Directors: Boris Kaufman, Jean Vigo

Votes: 4,622

19. The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes (1971)

Not Rated | 32 min | Documentary, Short, Horror

At a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.

Director: Stan Brakhage

Votes: 1,658

20. Blight (1996)

15 min | Short

The destruction of a home for the building of a road is captured and contrasted with quotations from the residents.

Director: John Smith

Votes: 362

21. World of Tomorrow (2015)

G | 17 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future.

Director: Don Hertzfeldt | Stars: Julia Pott, Winona Mae, Sara Cushman

Votes: 10,311

22. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan

Votes: 10,497

23. Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989)

Not Rated | 23 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

To replenish their depleted supply of cheese, inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit travel to the moon in a homemade rocket-ship.

Director: Nick Park | Stars: Peter Sallis, Peter Hawkins

Votes: 36,528

24. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam | Stars: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon

Votes: 58,985

25. Cops (1922)

Unrated | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Family

A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox, Steve Murphy

Votes: 6,935

26. Punch and Judy (1966)

10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Two puppets, Punch and Judy, do battle to the death over the custody of a live guinea pig.

Director: Jan Svankmajer | Stars: Nad'a Munzarová, Jirí Procházka, Bohuslav Srámek

Votes: 1,155

27. La Seine a rencontré Paris (1957)

30 min | Documentary, Short

Quotidian scenes of Paris along the quays beside the River Seine. Fishing, snoozing, cutting hair, washing clothes. Lovers embrace as nuns gaze. Students sketch, models pose. A diver ... See full summary »

Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Serge Reggiani

Votes: 337

28. Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)

G | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Seymour Kneitel | Stars: Everett Clark, Jack Mercer, Mae Questel

Votes: 778

29. One Week (1920)

TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts

Votes: 9,217

30. 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: 4,873

31. Rabbit Fire (1951)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan

Votes: 4,251

[The Hunting Trilogy]

Also consisting of: Rabbit Seasoning (1952) Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)

32. Brumes d'automne (1929)

15 min | Short, Drama

A woman--a pained expression on her face--burns letters in a stove.

Director: Dimitri Kirsanoff | Star: Nadia Sibirskaïa

Votes: 698

33. The Dante Quartet (1987)

6 min | Animation, Short

Dante's Divine Comedy depicted as thousands of abstract paintings by Stan Brakhage himself.

Director: Stan Brakhage

Votes: 1,197

34. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1992)

20 min | Animation, Short, Drama

The man decides to die, but falls asleep at the last moment. He dreams that he died and ended up on another planet, very similar to the Earth, but the people living here do not know sin.

Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Star: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy

Votes: 1,222

35. Duck Amuck (1953)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 9,421

36. The Tale of Tales (1979)

29 min | Animation, Short

Distant, well-worn memories of childhood are inhabited by a little gray wolf. Through astonishing imagery, the memory of all of Russia is depicted.

Director: Yuri Norstein | Star: Aleksandr Kalyagin

Votes: 4,123

37. Valparaiso (1963)

27 min | Documentary, Short

A travelogue of Valparaiso, Chile, a city built on steep hills. Life is a constant struggle against geography. Neighbourhoods are reached by series of ramps, staircases, and funicular ... See full summary »

Director: Joris Ivens | Star: Roger Pigaut

Votes: 1,316

38. My Love (2006)

26 min | Animation, Short, Drama

In nineteenth-century Russia, a teenage boy in search of love is drawn to two very different women.

Director: Aleksandr Petrov | Stars: Aleksandr Palamishev, Aleksandra Zhivova, Evgeniya Kryukova, Nina Ruslanova

Votes: 1,640

39. Clair de Lune (2000)

6 min | Animation, Short

An animation of two egrets flying through the moonlit sky set to Debussy's composition "Clair de Lune".

Director: Samuel Armstrong | Star: Leopold Stokowski

Votes: 65

40. 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: 1,456

41. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966 TV Movie)

TV-G | 25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

The Peanuts gang celebrates Halloween while Linus waits for the Great Pumpkin.

Director: Bill Melendez | Stars: Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Sally Dryer, Cathy Steinberg

Votes: 21,983

42. Vincent (1982)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family

Young Vincent Malloy dreams of being just like Vincent Price and loses himself in macabre daydreams which annoys his mother.

Director: Tim Burton | Star: Vincent Price

Votes: 24,308

43. 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: 55,659

44. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)

Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Music

The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two ... See full summary »

Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson

Votes: 2,559

45. L'étoile de mer (1928)

21 min | Short, Romance

Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in ... See full summary »

Director: Man Ray | Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos

Votes: 1,559

46. The Mermaid (1904)

Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Fantasy

A magician conjures up a mermaid while fishing.

Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès

Votes: 1,271

47. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

The characters of the traditional fairy tale demand a new approach to the story as a sexy urban comedy with Red as a nightclub singer.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Sara Berner, Daws Butler, Pinto Colvig

Votes: 2,750

48. 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: 3,212

49. The Hand (1965)

18 min | Animation, Short, Horror

A delicate and secluded ceramist sees his orderly life turn upside down, when a gigantic hand in a white glove invades his space, demanding that a sculpture of itself is made. When will the hand's obstinate demands stop?

Director: Jirí Trnka

Votes: 2,044

50. Donald's Lucky Day (1938)

8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald Duck, delivery boy, is hired to deliver a mysterious package on Friday the Thirteenth. He is hindered by a bothersome black cat -- and by the fact that the package contains a live ... See full summary »

Director: Jack King | Stars: Aurora McCall, David Kerman, Dorothy Lloyd, Clarence Nash

Votes: 862

51. Beastie Boys: Sabotage (1994 Music Video)

3 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Set to the song, Sabotage, the Beastie Boys appear in a condensed parody of a 1970s cop show.

Director: Spike Jonze | Stars: Beastie Boys, Adam Yauch, Adam Horovitz, Mike D

Votes: 3,371

52. Film (1965)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Drama

A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based ... See full summary »

Directors: Samuel Beckett, Alan Schneider | Stars: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed

Votes: 2,286

53. The Goat (1921)

Not Rated | 23 min | Comedy, Short

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.

Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair

Votes: 4,946

54. Neighbors (1920)

18 min | Short, Comedy, Romance

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jack Duffy, The Flying Escalantes

Votes: 4,681

55. Sia: Elastic Heart (2015 Music Video)

5 min | Music, Musical

A dance performed by Shia LaBeouf and Maddie Ziegler.

Directors: Daniel Askill, Sia | Stars: Sia, Shia LaBeouf, Maddie Ziegler

Votes: 2,582

56. Listen to Britain (1942)

Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short

A depiction of life in wartime England during the Second World War. Director Humphrey Jennings visits many aspects of civilian life and of the turmoil and privation caused by the war, all without narration.

Directors: Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister | Stars: Leonard Brockington, Joseph Macleod, Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen

Votes: 1,852

57. 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: 3,338

58. The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)

40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Alex Allin, Lucien Bataille, Genica Athanasiou

Votes: 2,283

59. Breakaway (1966)

5 min | Short, Music

Bruce Conner's 1966 dazzling dance short, "Breakaway", a film poem marrying the rhythm of the editing, movement of the body and the camera to a beautiful effect.

Director: Bruce Conner | Star: Toni Basil

Votes: 429

60. 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: 21,423

61. The 'High Sign' (1921)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, Comedy

A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett

Votes: 3,558

62. Donald's Snow Fight (1942)

TV-G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald Duck, in a battleship made of ice, goes to war against his three nephews, who fight back from their ice fort.

Director: Jack King | Star: Clarence Nash

Votes: 2,256

63. A Robbery In... Style (1978)

20 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A cartoon composed of four parts, parodying "classical" gangster and criminal movies of four countries: robbery American style, French style, Italian style and Russian style. All cartoon characters resemble real movie stars of 50th and 60th.

Director: Efim Gamburg | Stars: Eduard Nazarov, Gleb Morozov, Vsevolod Larionov, Aleksandr Baranov

Votes: 539

64. Motor Mania (1950)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mild-mannered average guy Mr. Walker (Goofy) turns into violent Mr. Wheeler when he starts driving. Back on his feet, Mr. Walker finds it nearly impossible to cross the street.

Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Bob Jackman, James MacDonald, John McLeish

Votes: 863

65. Beach Picnic (1939)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald Duck is at the beach and tries to ride a rubber horse. He notices Pluto sleeping at the shore and decides to have some fun with him by sending the rubber horse over to Pluto which ... See full summary »

Directors: Clyde Geronimi, Burt Gillett | Stars: Lee Millar, Clarence Nash

Votes: 1,292

66. 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: 8,875

67. Donald's Crime (1945)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Donald has a date with Daisy, but no money. He raids his nephews' piggy bank, but his guilty conscience catches up with him.

Director: Jack King | Stars: Gloria Blondell, Harry Lang, Clarence Nash

Votes: 901

68. On Ice (1935)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Mickey and friends have various levels of enjoyment skating on a frozen river. As Mickey and Minnie glide romantically, Donald plays tricks on Pluto and ends up in trouble himself with a kite, from which Mickey must save him.

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner, Clarence Nash

Votes: 1,854

69. 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: 2,591

70. The Play House (1921)

23 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Monte Collins, Virginia Fox

Votes: 4,586

71. 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: 2,456

72. Unsere Afrikareise (1966)

13 min | Short

A trip to Africa is edited into a brief documentary without continuity between sound and image or story and time.

Director: Peter Kubelka

Votes: 771

73. 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: 1,373

74. Snakes and Ladders (1980 TV Movie)

30 min | Mystery

A man awakens to find himself immersed in a real-life scenario of a board game with an ever expanding cartography.

Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Loup Rivière

Votes: 169

75. King-Size Canary (1947)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

A mangy cat on the verge of starvation finds a tiny canary and a bottle of 'Jumbo-Gro' fertilizer, which gives him an idea that leads to giant cats, dogs, mice and canaries chasing each other round Lilliputian towns and cities...

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Pinto Colvig, Frank Graham

Votes: 1,834

76. Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995)

5 min | Short

A father and son ride the rails in their powerful locomotive. Witnessing a crash between two other engines, they rescue the lone survivor, Berenice, and make her a part of their family. All... See full summary »

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Jim Keller, Brandy Bayes, Caelum Vatnsdal, Evan Tyler Richards

Votes: 508

77. Black Angel (1980)

PG | 25 min | Short, Adventure, Fantasy

A knight finds his village destroyed and abandoned. He tries to track the attackers down and avenge his family, but almost drowns. A maiden, prisoner of Black Knight, saves him, so he vows to free her, even though she warns him not to.

Director: Roger Christian | Stars: Tony Vogel, James Gibb, John Young, Patricia Christian

Votes: 683

78. Ghosts Before Breakfast (1928)

6 min | Short

Hans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.

Director: Hans Richter | Stars: Werner Graeff, Walter Gronostay, Paul Hindemith, Darius Milhaud

Votes: 1,975

79. Snow-White (1933)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Trouble starts when the queen's magic mirror says Betty Boop is fairest. Cab Calloway sings "St. James Infirmary Blues."

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall | Stars: Cab Calloway, Billy Murray, Mae Questel

Votes: 2,213

80. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

G | 26 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.

Director: Burny Mattinson | Stars: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan

Votes: 15,347 | Gross: $21.00M

81. Bimbo's Initiation (1931)

Not Rated | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Bimbo the dog is initiated into a secret society in a sadistic 'fun house'; then Betty Boop (with dog's ears) takes a hand.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Grim Natwick | Stars: Margie Hines, Billy Murray, William Pennell, Mae Questel

Votes: 1,703

82. 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: 3,079

83. The Scarecrow (1920)

Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short, Family

Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Luke the Dog, Joe Keaton

Votes: 4,742

84. The Skeleton Dance (1929)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

Director: Walt Disney | Stars: Walt Disney, Carl W. Stalling

Votes: 6,282

85. Long-Haired Hare (1949)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Bugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Nicolai Shutorev

Votes: 3,117

86. The Devilish Tenant (1909)

6 min | Short, Comedy

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Charles Claudel, Octavie Huvier, François Lallement, André Méliès

Votes: 1,975

87. 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: 1,430

88. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

After reading a Dick Tracy comic, Daffy Duck has a surreal dream in which he is a P.I. pursuing an army of grotesque villains who stole every piggy bank in town, including his own.

Director: Robert Clampett | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 2,280

89. Moving Day (1936)

Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, with the help of Goofy the iceman, try to move out before the sheriff can sell off their furniture.

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney, Clarence Nash

Votes: 1,053

90. Mickey's Fire Brigade (1935)

Approved | 8 min | Comedy, Family, Animation

Mickey, Donald and Goofy are firefighters. As you might expect, their attempts at fighting a boarding house fire are not particularly effective. They hear Clarabelle singing in the bathtub ... See full summary »

Director: Ben Sharpsteen | Stars: Beatrice Hagen, Elvia Allman, Pinto Colvig, Walt Disney

Votes: 1,209

91. Steamboat Willie (1928)

Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Mickey Mouse is a mischievous deckhand on a riverboat that is under the command of the tyrannical Captain Pete.

Directors: Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney | Star: Walt Disney

Votes: 11,230

92. Dinner for One (1963 TV Short)

Not Rated | 18 min | Short, Comedy

At Miss Sophie's 90th birthday dinner, her butler James must fill in for her four departed friends - and that includes lots of drinks before every course.

Directors: Heinz Dunkhase, Franco Marazzi | Stars: Freddie Frinton, May Warden, Heinz Piper

Votes: 7,949

93. Piper (2016)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Family

A hungry sandpiper hatchling ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The problem is, the food is buried in the sand where scary waves roll up.

Director: Alan Barillaro

Votes: 31,848

94. My Dad Is 100 Years Old (2005)

16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

A short film in which Isabella Rossellini discusses the life and work of her father: Roberto Rossellini.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Isabella Rossellini, Isaac Paz Sr., Anna Magnani

Votes: 858

95. Sissy-Boy Slap-Party (2004)

2 min | Short, Comedy

Musical mantra derived from machine-gun micro-montage.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Noam Gonick, Caelum Vatnsdal, Simon Hughes, Michael Powell

Votes: 857

96. The Goddess of Spring (1934)

Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Family

The lovely goddess of spring, Persephone, is kidnapped by Hades, thus bringing about the winter season.

Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Kenny Baker, Jessica Dragonette, Tudor Williams

Votes: 1,340

97. 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: 2,547

98. In Absentia (2000)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Animation

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes ... See full summary »

Directors: Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay | Star: Marlene Kaminsky

Votes: 805

99. 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: 36,087

100. 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: 35,353



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