My Favorite Short Films
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1. 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: 55,812
2. Day 73 with Sarah (2007)
17 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Day 73 With Sarah tells the story of a little girl, who with the help of her dead father hatches a plan to save herself and her mother from her abusive stepfather, but the plan has unexpected consequences.
Director: Brent Hanley | Stars: Elle Fanning, Amber Heard, Geoff Stults, Jonathan Tucker
Votes: 397
3. 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: 37,072
4. 12:01 PM (1990)
25 min | Short, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Poor Myron Castleman is stuck reliving the same 59 minutes of his lunch break.
Director: Jonathan Heap | Stars: Jane Alden, Don Amendolia, John Bachelder, Laura Harrington
Votes: 1,511
5. Pay Day (I) (1922)
TV-G | 21 min | Comedy, Short
After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance
Votes: 4,863 | Gross: $0.13M
6. The Suburbanite (1904)
9 min | Comedy, Short
A family moves out to the 'peaceful' suburbs where everything goes wrong, including the mother-in-law moving in.
Votes: 260
7. The Country Doctor (1909)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Drama
While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, Florence Lawrence, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce
Votes: 762
8. What the Daisy Said (1910)
16 min | Romance, Short
Two sisters want to know whether there is romance in their future. One sister pulls the petals off of a flower, while the other has her fortune told by a gypsy. When the gypsy tells the ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Robinson, Joseph Graybill, Verner Clarges
Votes: 230
9. Algie, the Miner (1912)
TV-G | 10 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
Directors: Alice Guy, Harry Schenck, Edward Warren | Stars: Billy Quirk, Mary Foy
Votes: 596
10. Fatty's Faithful Fido (1915)
TV-G | 13 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Minta Durfee, Al St. John, Frank Hayes
Votes: 270
11. Fatty's New Role (1915)
13 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty plays a hobo who is denied service at a bar. Bar patrons play a practical joke with a fake bomb threat causing a panic, leaving Fatty with the bar to himself.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mack Swain, Slim Summerville, Joe Bordeaux
Votes: 321
12. Fatty's Plucky Pup (1915)
TV-G | 27 min | Comedy, Short
While Fatty is talking with his girlfriend over the fence, two dogcatchers chase Fatty's dog. Though they finally catch him, Fatty is able to rescue his dog (and four others). Later, four ... See full summary »
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Phyllis Allen, Edgar Kennedy, Joe Bordeaux
Votes: 262
13. Cockeyed: Gems from the Memory of a Nutty Cameraman (1925)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short
Director: Alvin Knechtel
Votes: 82
14. Inklings, Issue 12 (1925)
6 min | Animation, Short
Series of animated vignettes linked by a disembodied hand which appears to be drawing the illustrations. In the first segment, the hand turns around a drawing of an old man and canine-hero ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Fleischer
Votes: 84
15. The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
Approved | 20 min | Crime, Mystery, Short
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Roman Bohnen, Oscar O'Shea, Will Wright
Votes: 987
16. 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: 2,280
17. The Foghorn Leghorn (1948)
Approved | 7 min | Family, Animation, Short
Foghorn Leghorn tries indignantly to prove he is a chicken to Little Henry the Chicken Hawk who longs to prove himself.
Director: Robert McKimson | Star: Mel Blanc
Votes: 1,666
18. Rabbit of Seville (1950)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Bugs Bunny gives Elmer Fudd a close shave as they sing and act out Rossini's opera.
Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Votes: 5,650
19. 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: 10,507
20. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
46 min | Drama
Seven-year-old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally ... See full summary »
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamanskiy, Natalya Arkhangelskaya, Marina Adzhubei
Votes: 7,139
21. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1965)
Approved | 10 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
A simple line attempts to woo his true love, a dot, away from the unkempt squiggle she prefers. But he'll have to learn to bend before she'll notice him.
Directors: Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Robert Morley
Votes: 1,641
22. Mr. Krueger's Christmas (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 26 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An elderly widower relies on his daydreams and faith to get through a lonely Christmas.
Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: James Stewart, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square, Beverly Rowland, Kamee Aliessa
Votes: 1,159
23. The Woman in the Room (1984)
Unrated | 30 min | Short, Drama
She is incurably ill, but she cannot die. Only her son, a lawyer, could bring her relief. When he decides to do so, it starts his personal nightmare. The short story by Stephen King from ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Michael Cornelison, Dee Croxton, Brian Libby, Bob Brunson
Votes: 701
24. Bottle Rocket (1993)
13 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
Dysfunctional friends Dignan and Anthony plan and execute a robbery with their pot-growing friend, Bob.
Director: Wes Anderson | Stars: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Elissa Sommerfield
Votes: 7,354
25. Some Folks Call It a Sling Blade (1994)
Not Rated | 25 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Twenty-five years after commiting a double murder, Karl Childers is going to be released from an institution for the criminally insane. A local reporter comes to talk to him, and after some... See full summary »
Director: George Hickenlooper | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Molly Ringwald, J.T. Walsh, Jefferson Mays
Votes: 1,778
26. The Pretty Girl (2002)
7 min | Short
In a reverie, a young woman (the pretty girl) puzzles out why no one is smiling at her the way they did, except for some women, and those smiles seem different. A male voice narrates. She ... See full summary »
Director: Gorman Bechard | Stars: Irina Gorb, Patrick Nicholas
Votes: 54
27. Objects in the Mirror Are Further Than They Appear (2003)
15 min | Drama, Short
To supplement her scholarship to Yale, 19-year-old Midori works as an escort one night a week. But on one sweltering night, things go horribly wrong in a sleazy New Haven motel room as her ... See full summary »
Director: Gorman Bechard | Stars: Darielle Gilad, Mary Remington
Votes: 45
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