Top 100 Short Films

The story of a man forced to explore his memories in the wake of World War III's devastation, told through still images.

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.

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness", of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.

A red balloon with a mind of its own follows a little boy around the streets of Paris.

Antoine Doinel is 17, lives in a hotel and works in a factory making records; he loves music. He falls in love with a woman he meets at a concert. She sees him as a friend, but her parents love him.

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.

A law student regularly visits a Paris bakery to flirt with a brunette employee.

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.

A man gets trapped inside a telephone box and nobody is able to free him.

Two prisoners in complete isolation, separated by the thick brick walls, and desperately in need of human contact, devise a most unusual kind of communication.

A young man faces the abrupt loss of his friend.

A scene from The Bells (1926) is optically reprinted and edited to Michael Gordon¹s 7 minute composition. A meditation on the fleeting nature of life and love, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an film.

An amateur photographer watches a beautiful woman emerge from a beach hut and disappear into the sea.

Two friends, one city, one love. Two friends unite so that one isn't deported from the city that brought them together.

A film student casually turns his camera on a female friend, but his disarming questions lead her to open up about a traumatic experience.

Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger, and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it all, he talks about how much of his success and happiness is due to the support of his "friend" Joe. Unfortunately, the only one who blindly believes that Joe is anything close to a friend is Murray himself, because it's obvious to everyone else that Joe not only back-stabs him at every chance, but is also sleeping with his wife.

An isolated air traffic controller in a small island of the Azores archipelago is contacted by a lone pilot cut helplessly adrift over the North Atlantic.

An ordinary man lives in constant motion, in a desperate attempt to escape the passage of time.

Set to a classic Duke Ellington recording of "Daybreak Expresa" this is a five-minute short on the soon-to-be-demolished Third Avenue elevated train line in Manhattan, New York City.

In the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.

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?

A Noh dramatization of the suicides of Lt. Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. After participating in a failed 1936 coup and being ordered to execute his friends, he bids his wife an intimate farewell and commits harakiri.

Kaz, a Japanese college student, is thrown into a world of depression after his best friend is murdered in America. Elsewhere, a girl named Michi stands in front of a grave high in the mountains of Japan. Kaz embarks on a spiritual journey, where he crosses paths with Michi who is trying to escape the influence of Ito, the leader of a suicide club. Will Kaz and Michi go through with their self-destructive plans, or will divine intervention show them a way out?

Two French college girls each meet a boy named Patrick and quickly realize that it is less a coincidence then they think.