Short Films
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1. Mr Hublot (2013)
11 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mr Hublot is a withdrawn, idiosyncratic character with OCD, scared of change and the outside world. Robot Pet's arrival turns his life upside down: he has to share his home with this very invasive companion.
Directors: Laurent Witz, Alexandre Espigares
Votes: 5,208
2. Signs (I) (2008)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Romance
Where do you find love? Sometimes all you need is a sign.
Director: Patrick Hughes | Stars: Nick Russell, Kestie Morassi
Votes: 4,695
3. The Black Hole (2008)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A sleep-deprived office worker photocopies a "Black Hole" late one night. Suddenly, the possibilities seem endless. Will greed get the better of him?
Directors: Philip Sansom, Olly Williams | Star: Napoleon Ryan
Votes: 4,267
4. The Blue Umbrella (2013)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Amidst the rain in a singing city, two umbrellas - one blue, one not - fall eternally in love.
Director: Saschka Unseld | Star: Sarah Jaffe
Votes: 11,129
5. El empleo (2008)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A man prepares and goes to work in a bizarre world, where the meaning of human workforce is taken to another level.
Directors: Santiago Bou Grasso, Patricio Plaza
Votes: 3,968
6. Next Floor (2008)
TV-PG | 11 min | Short, Comedy
During an opulent banquet, eleven pampered guests participate in what appears to be a ritualistic gastronomic carnage. In this grotesque universe, an unexpected sequence of events destabilizes the endless symphony of abundance.
Director: Denis Villeneuve | Stars: Simone Chevalot, Luc-Martial Dagenais, Kenneth Fernandez, Mathieu Handfield
Votes: 6,510
7. 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: 55,459
9. 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: 6,922
10. Kyanq (1993)
7 min | Short, Documentary
Poetic essay about the beginning of life from labor pains and birth and about its symbolic meaning.
Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 488
11. Presto (2008)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A stage magician's rabbit gets into a magical onstage brawl against his neglectful guardian with two magic hats.
Director: Doug Sweetland
Votes: 25,671
12. 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: 11,624
13. 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
Votes: 8,694
14. Ibarado time (2007 Video)
30 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
A fantastical city portrayed in artful pictures that come to life through animation, music and background sounds.
Director: Naohisa Inoue
Votes: 687
15. Naked Soles (2012)
16 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Hope Spears, a young American Journalist in Paris, is obsessed by a reclusive poet, though she herself is nearly a hermit. When she cannot find him, she is forced to leave Paris. Her last ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Luc Ormières, Aleksandra Szczepanowska | Stars: Aleksandra Szczepanowska, Philippe Laudenbach, Marie Denarnaud, David Atrakchi
Votes: 18
16. An Evil Town (1995)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short
Based on a short story by Charles Bukowski from the collection "Tales of Ordinary Madness."
Director: Richard Sears | Stars: Matt Chesse, John Johnson, Mike Kuchar, Greg Lucey
Votes: 187
17. 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: 24,272
18. Harvie Krumpet (2003)
TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The odd biography of a man who has Tourette's Syndrome, chronic bad luck, menial jobs, nudist tendencies, and a book of "fakts" hung around his neck.
Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kamahl, John Flaus, Julie Forsyth
Votes: 8,998
19. 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: 5,962
20. Boundin' (2003)
G | 5 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A sheep dances proudly in his southwestern landscape, until one day his wool is sheared and he is left naked. He's depressed and shy, until a cheerful jackalope comes along and shows him how to leap proudly and not to be ashamed.
Directors: Bud Luckey, Roger Gould | Star: Bud Luckey
Votes: 14,704
21. Gone Nutty (2002 Video)
5 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Only one sweet, shiny little acorn prevents Scrat, the tireless prehistoric sabre-toothed squirrel, from stashing away the perfect pile of nuts. However, when is enough, enough?
Director: Carlos Saldanha | Star: Chris Wedge
Votes: 4,370
22. Nibbles (2003)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A family goes on a fishing trip, but makes a lot of stops along the way.
Director: Christopher Hinton | Stars: Paul Hinton, Max Hinton, Christopher Hinton
Votes: 387
23. Bigas Luna: The entomologist gaze (2008)
Not Rated | 25 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
An exploration of the world and the work of the most international Catalan filmmaker through the director's entomological vision and his portrayal of the characters and themes he loves and hates.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Bigas Luna, Javier Bardem, Penélope Cruz, Jordi Mollà
Votes: 12
24. Més enllà del riu (2012)
18 min | Short, Drama
This is the story of women from two different generations who find themselves in different phases of their lives.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Paula Arbós, Montse Caminal, Cristina Barbero, Isabel Muntané
25. Silenci (2007)
12 min | Short, Drama, Romance
After thirty years of being a daughter, wife and mother, Dolors decides to see what happens when she tries thinking of herself for the first time. Dolors has to learn how to follow her own ... See full summary »
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Montse Caminal, Xavier Serrat, Jordi Domènech, Josep Maria Bacardit
Votes: 35
26. Madison Class of '64 (2006)
3 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Features the coming of age of classmate teenagers on their last night before college. Those boys and girls are scheduled to leave Madison High School. That night, each has his own doubts ... See full summary »
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Alba Madriles, Jaume Madaula, Gara Roda, Gerard Ballester
Votes: 23
27. A Shadow on My Path (2004)
3 min | Short, Drama, Music
Proignant story of a father-daughter relationship, filmed in Super 8.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Nausicaa Bonnín, Sergi Rubió, Aida Ten, Irina Ten
Votes: 14
28. Torrella, una vida pel cinema (1997)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A brief and revealing account of the life and work of Catalonian filmmaker Josep Torrella. It examines his career as a filmmaker and writer, and also his personal life as a friend, husband, confidant and patriarch.
Director: Sergi Rubió | Stars: Josep Torrella, Josep Ache, Victorio Aguado, Juan Ainaud de Lasarte
29. Ambition (III) (2014)
7 min | Short, History, Mystery
On a remote planet a Master watches his Apprentice carryout tests with nanotechnology as she tries to prove herself worthy of advancement.
Director: Tomasz Baginski | Stars: Aidan Gillen, Aisling Franciosi
Votes: 886
30. Barely Alive (2014)
Short, Drama, Mystery
A day in the life of the last man on earth .
Director: Abdulrahman Almohammadi | Stars: Abdulaziz Alamri, Hassan Alnawwar, Anas Almohammadi
Votes: 35
31. Death of a Shadow (2012)
20 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Stuck in a dark limbo between life and death, a deceased soldier Nathan Rijckx collects shadows of dying men and women to buy back his own second chance at life. Obsessed by a girl he met ... See full summary »
Director: Tom Van Avermaet | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Laura Verlinden, Peter Van den Eede, Benjamin Ramon
Votes: 2,287
32. Curfew (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 19 min | Short, Drama
Having reached the lowest point in his life, a self-destructive man on the brink of demise receives an unexpected call from his estranged sister to look after her young daughter for the night. Could this be the beginning of a new reality?
Director: Shawn Christensen | Stars: Shawn Christensen, Fatima Ptacek, Kim Allen, Dana Segal
Votes: 7,042
33. She and Her Cat: Their Standing Points (1999 Video)
5 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A lonely young woman adopts a cat on a rainy day.
Director: Makoto Shinkai | Stars: Makoto Shinkai, Mika Shinohara
Votes: 3,176
34. Death Billiards (2013)
25 min | Animation, Short, Drama
An old man and a young adult find themselves in a strange bar where the barman forces them to bet their lives in a game of billiards.
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa | Stars: Jun Hazumi, Tomoaki Maeno, Yûichi Nakamura, Asuka Nishi
Votes: 2,032
35. La Luna (2011)
G | 7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A fable of a young boy coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. It's the first time his Papa and Grandpa are taking him to work. Will he be able to find his own way?
Director: Enrico Casarosa | Stars: Tony Fucile, Krista Sheffler, Phil Sheridan
Votes: 16,953
36. Ubornaya istoriya - lyubovnaya istoriya (2007)
TV-G | 10 min | Animation, Short
In the strangest of places, a lonely public lavatory attendant who dreams of romance will find excitement and perhaps love, when a chivalrous secret admirer keeps leaving flowers in her tip jar. But, what good is an invisible lover?
Director: Konstantin Bronzit
Votes: 1,742
37. Day & Night (2010)
G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Day encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods. But their suspicions soon turn to curiosity, and they are delighted to find the joys of their budding friendship.
Director: Teddy Newton | Stars: Muneer Lyati, Wayne Dyer
Votes: 20,001
38. 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: 10,281
39. The Old Lady and the Pigeons (1996)
25 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
In seductive central Paris, an undernourished gendarme willing to go to great lengths to feed himself hatches a desperate, yet utterly cunning plan.
Director: Sylvain Chomet | Stars: James Pidgeon, Michoue Sylvain, Andrea Usher-Jones
Votes: 2,953
40. Walking (1968)
M | 5 min | Animation, Short
A cinematic portrait of people walking in their individual ways.
Director: Ryan Larkin
Votes: 927
41. Lila (2014)
Not Rated | 9 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
Lila is a dreamy girl who can't resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it.
Director: Carlos Lascano | Stars: Alma García, Alejandro Gómez, Luján Capra, Rodolfo Steiner
Votes: 406
42. 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: 31,778
43. Glassy Ocean: Kujira no Chôyaku (1998)
23 min | Animation, Short, Drama
On what apparently is a parallel world, time flows in a much slower pace than normal. The ocean remains on a solid state of matter as the eccentric individuals who inhabit this land casually wander over it.
Director: Shigeru Tamura | Stars: Hiroyuki Aoki, Eric Jacobsen, Noboru Mitani, Ichirô Nagai
Votes: 212
45. Faux contact (2000)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A man phones a hot line to get help beating his video game. However when the police overhear him, things quickly go wrong.
Director: Eric Jameux | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Nasser Zerkoun, Frédéric Leray, Eric Jameux
Votes: 176
46. Sometimes, I Think About Dying (2019)
R | 12 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Fran likes to think about dying. When she makes a guy in the office laugh, he wants more - a movie date, a slice of pie, a conversation. But if dating him means learning to live, she's pretty sure she can't do that.
Director: Stefanie Abel Horowitz | Stars: Katy Wright-Mead, Jim Sarbh, Cody Dugan, Pete Hansen
Votes: 797
47. Visit (2020)
4 min | Short, Drama
A meeting between two work partners reveals the strict care protocols imposed by the new coronavirus: masked, the men only meet after the visitor's temperature is measured, the handshake is... See full summary »
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Zhangke Jia, Yirui Lian, Casper Liang
Votes: 120
48. Canvas (III) (2020)
G | 9 min | Animation, Short, Drama
After suffering a loss, a painter finds his inspiration to create again.
Director: Frank E. Abney III
Votes: 3,232
49. The Present (2020)
24 min | Short, Drama
On his wedding anniversary, Yusef and his young daughter set out in the West Bank to buy his wife a gift. Between soldiers, segregated roads and checkpoints, how easy would it be to go shopping?
Director: Farah Nabulsi | Stars: Saleh Bakri, Maryam Kanj, Mariam Basha, Ameer Khlawe
Votes: 3,940
50. If Anything Happens I Love You (2020)
PG | 13 min | Animation, Short, Drama
In the aftermath of tragedy, two grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child.
Directors: Michael Govier, Will McCormack
Votes: 20,843
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