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Top Short Films

This list contains films that are under 60 minutes long. The Decalogue (1988), Flash Gordon (1936), and Les Vampires (1915) are not on this list because the collections are much longer than 60 minutes even though the individual segments are under 60 minutes.

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Sherlock, Jr. 1924 Buster Keaton 257
2 Un chien andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel 414
3 Voyage to the Moon 1902 Georges Méliès 505
4 La Jetée 1962 Chris Marker 522
5 Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo 549
6 A Day in the Country 1936 Jean Renoir 624
7 Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais 819
8 Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid 972
9 The Wrong Trousers 1993 Nick Park 1201
10 The Navigator 1924 Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton 1234
11 The Red Balloon 1956 Albert Lamorisse 1259
12 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 1364
13 The Great Train Robbery 1903 Edwin S. Porter 1451
14 The Blood of a Poet 1930 Jean Cocteau 1464
15 Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister 1497
16 The War Game 1965 Peter Watkins 1659
17 The Music Box 1932 James Parrott 1835
18 Fantomas 1913 Louis Feuillade 1842
19 The Cheat 1915 Cecil B. DeMille 1886
20 Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story 1987 Todd Haynes 1892
21 A Close Shave 1995 Nick Park 1923
22 Land without Bread 1933 Luis Buñuel 1955
23 A Grand Day Out 1989 Nick Park 1977
24 Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 1896 Auguste and Louis Lumière 2000
25 Seven Chances 1925 Buster Keaton 2044
26 Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War 1943 Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak 2217
27 Flaming Creatures 1963 Jack Smith 2236
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