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Top Short Films

A personal archive of every short film I’ve ever seen — ranked from my all-time favorites to the ones I enjoyed the least. This list is my ongoing attempt to capture my personal encounter with short-form cinema, as part diary and part ranking.

I'm expecting to limit this list to 100 films, so this is still a work in progress.

  • A Trip to the Moon

    1

  • Meshes of the Afternoon

    2

  • The House Is Black

    3

  • Night and Fog

    4

  • Asparagus

    5

  • The Little Mermaid

    6

  • Dante's Inferno

    7

  • Two People Exchanging Saliva

    8

  • Un Chien Andalou

    9

  • Beast

    10

  • Food

    11

  • The Great Train Robbery

    12

  • Report

    13

  • Black Panthers

    14

  • Paperman

    15

  • The African Tale

    16

  • The Cameraman's Revenge

    17

  • The Unchanging Sea

    18

  • Falling Leaves

    19

  • Joan of Arc

    20

  • La Jetée

    21

  • Scorpio Rising

    22

  • Frankenstein

    23

  • You Hide Me

    24

  • The Mad Masters

    25

  • The Immigrant

    26

  • The Big Swallow

    27

  • The Girl Who Cried Pearls

    28

  • A Friend of Dorothy

    29

  • Tango

    30

  • Eye Two Times Mouth

    31

  • The Abyss

    32

  • Reality+

    33

  • The Kingdom of the Fairies

    34

  • Steamboat Willie

    35

  • Toomas Beneath the Valley of the Wild Wolves

    36

  • 27

    37

  • Bug Diner

    38

  • Pussy

    39

  • The Snails

    40

  • Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

    41

  • Maurice's Bar

    42

  • The Ugly Duckling

    43

  • Nun or Never!

    44

  • A Dog's Life

    45

  • Perfectly a Strangeness

    46

  • Bear Story

    47

  • Lot in Sodom

    48

  • All the Empty Rooms

    49

  • Butterfly

    50

  • Solar Eclipse

    51

  • The Man with the Rubber Head

    52

  • Serpentine Dance

    53

  • Going to Bed Under Difficulties

    54

  • The Little Match Seller

    55

  • Atlantiques

    56

  • Flowers and Trees

    57

  • Tilly the Tomboy Visits the Poor

    58

  • Butcher's Stain

    59

  • Jane Austen's Period Drama

    60

  • Children No More: Were and Are Gone

    61

  • The Melomaniac

    62

  • Living Sculptures: Film Study for Screen Artist

    63

  • Grandma's Reading Glass

    64

  • Bluebeard

    65

  • Broadway by Light

    66

  • Sentinels of Silence

    67

  • Blank Narcissus (Passion of the Swamp)

    68

  • Retirement Plan

    69

  • The Human Voice

    70

  • The Devil Is Busy

    71

  • The Mark of Lilith

    72

  • Forevergreen

    73

  • Fire!

    74

  • The Flying Train

    75

  • Birth of the Pearl

    76

  • History of a Crime

    77

  • Skate Story: Shortplay Depth I

    78

  • The Singers

    79

  • Hotheads

    80

  • Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud

    81

  • The Three Sisters

    82

  • The Skeleton Dance

    83

  • Gayniggers from Outer Space

    84

  • Fragments for Venus

    85

  • Apocalypse 1900

    86

  • Hold Me While I'm Naked

    87

  • Beauty Is Not a Sin

    88

  • The Sick Kitten

    89

  • Body Beautiful

    90

  • An Odd Turn

    91

  • Dead Knot

    92

  • Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria

    93

  • Looking for Langston

    94

  • The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

    95