My Favorite Short Films
by Rammetje | created - 09 Feb 2015 | updated - 23 Jan 2016 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A wolf convict makes his escape, but is pursued by a diminutive Mountie who seems to be everywhere.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Frank Graham, William Hanna
Votes: 1,313
2. 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: 3,216
3. Powers of Ten (1977)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Beginning with a shot of a couple enjoying a picnic, then zooming out incrementally by powers of ten, the film offers a glimpse of everything from the edge of the known universe to the molecules on a person's hand.
Directors: Charles Eames, Ray Eames | Star: Philip Morrison
Votes: 2,372
4. The Shooting of Dan McGoo (1945)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
This starts off as an adaptation of Robert Service's poem 'The Shooting of Dan McGrew', complete with a literal depiction of a man with one foot in the grave, but when Dan McGoo turns out ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner
Votes: 727
5. Pixels (2010)
2 min | Animation, Short, Action
New York City is invaded by 8-bit creatures.
Director: Patrick Jean
Votes: 2,072
6. Feed the Kitty (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A bulldog, charmed by a kitten, tries to keep her hidden from his human guardian.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc
Votes: 3,549
7. Deputy Droopy (1955)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A jailhouse, a tempting safe, and a sleeping sheriff. Can the two villains make off with the loot without waking him up? Not if deputy Droopy, who is on patrol guarding the safe, has his ... See full summary »
Directors: Tex Avery, Michael Lah | Stars: Bill Thompson, Tex Avery, Daws Butler
Votes: 801
8. 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: 11,647
9. Dumb-Hounded (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Wolf escapes from prison but is hounded by the police dog named Droopy. Wherever The Wolf goes, the little fellow is there, too.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Frank Graham
Votes: 1,216
10. 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
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: 21,453
12. 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: 8,704
13. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
The story of a shepherd's single handed quest to re-forest a barren valley.
Director: Frédéric Back | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 6,113
14. Boobs in the Woods (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
Daffy Duck disguises himself as an old mountain man, as a sheriff, as an executioner, and as Pocahontas to heckle Porky Pig, who has come to what he thought was a secluded woodland to paint pictures of the scenery.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,202
15. Rock-a-Bye Bear (1952)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy
Spike gets a job running the house for a hibernating bear. Only problem is that same bear is VERY noise-sensitive, and Spike's got a rival that wants his job.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Sara Berner, Daws Butler, William Hanna
Votes: 601
16. High Diving Hare (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Yosemite Sam tries to force Bugs Bunny to do a high-diving act when the regular act cancels; but the bullying pipsqueak is no match for our redoubtable rabbit.
Director: Friz Freleng | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 2,000
17. The Black Imp (1905)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
A traveler at an inn is harassed by a mischievous devil in his room.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 2,282
18. Canned Feud (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Sylvester has only canned food available while his people are away. A pesky mouse torments him with the only can opener.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Marian Richman
Votes: 1,253
19. Ask Father (1919)
Passed | 13 min | Comedy, Short
The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 1,232
20. Jerry and Jumbo (1953)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A baby elephant rolls off the circus train and right into Tom's bed. He quickly allies himself with Jerry, and with a rolled-up trunk and some paint, passes himself off as a giant mouse. ... See full summary »
Directors: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: William Hanna, Bob Laztny, Jack Sabel
Votes: 1,076
21. 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: 9,233
22. Baseball Bugs (1946)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs plays every defensive position against the Gashouse Gorillas.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Frank Graham, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 2,276
23. Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Western, Animation
A western showdown of Bugs Bunny versus Yosemite Sam.
Director: Friz Freleng | Stars: Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Michael Maltese, Tedd Pierce
Votes: 1,128
24. 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: 9,432
25. Droopy's Double Trouble (1951)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Droopy and his identical twin brother Drippy are assigned to look after a house, and are told to deal violently with strangers. But Droopy takes pity on his friend Spike, and agrees to put ... See full summary »
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Daws Butler
Votes: 567
26. 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: 55,744
27. Go West (1923)
12 min | Short, Comedy, Western
A short film with an all animal cast about a young chimp who is kicked out of his home by his parents and heads west to make his fortune.
Director: Len Powers
Votes: 292
28. Señor Droopy (1949)
Passed | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A bullfight contest between Droopy and The Wolf, staged in the Chili Bowl.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Bill Thompson, Lina Romay, Tex Avery, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 857
29. 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: 57,382
30. 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: 1,835
31. Never Weaken (1921)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Thriller
A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones
Votes: 2,093
32. 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: 25,729
33. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Comedy
A cute and very tormented kitten is bullied by an incomparably evil bulldog, who lives to know better after a black cat crosses his path.
Director: Tex Avery | Stars: William Hanna, Harry Lang, Pat McGeehan, Tex Avery
Votes: 1,645
34. The Band Concert (1935)
Approved | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Mickey is a frustrated bandleader dealing with obnoxious peanut vendor and flute player Donald, who tries to persuade the band to play "Turkey in the Straw," and a cyclone hits before his concert of "William Tell Overture" is completed.
Director: Wilfred Jackson | Stars: Pinto Colvig, Clarence Nash
Votes: 3,948
35. Three Little Pigs (1933)
Passed | 9 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The Three Little Pigs each build a house of different material. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and blows away the straw and stick homes, but is unable to destroy the house of bricks.
Director: Burt Gillett | Stars: Billy Bletcher, Pinto Colvig, Dorothy Compton, Mary Moder
Votes: 6,711 | Gross: $0.25M
36. Rendezvous (1976)
9 min | Short, Action
A high-speed drive through the streets of Paris.
Director: Claude Lelouch | Stars: Gunilla Friden, Claude Lelouch
Votes: 3,769
37. Hedgehog in the Fog (1975)
11 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A little hedgehog, on the way to visit his friend the bear, gets lost in thick fog, where horses, dogs and even falling leaves take on a terrifying new aspect.
Director: Yuri Norstein | Stars: Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Mariya Vinogradova, Aleksey Batalov
Votes: 8,075
38. The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
16 min | Adventure, Short, Comedy
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sydney Arnold, Guy Bertrand, Andrew Bicknell, Ross Davidson
Votes: 5,376
39. Awful Orphan (1949)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Porky Pig's quiet life in his high-rise apartment building is rudely disrupted when an obnoxious mutt sneaks in and refuses to leave.
Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,099
40. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
Not Rated | 12 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
Director: Winsor McCay | Stars: Winsor McCay, George McManus, Roy L. McCardell, Thomas A. 'Tad' Dorgan
Votes: 3,653
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